Any freelancer these days goes to find work on the Internet and particularly to freelance job websites. Voice-over freelancers are no exception. The freelancers go for VO jobs to the general freelancer portals, where a wide variety of trades mixed up. And they look for jobs at voice-over specific job platforms. Both places serve the purpose of helping beginner voice talent with job opportunities. I overview the best websites to find voice-over work from the perspective of new talent who just starting the voice-over career path.
| Marketplace | Cost | Recommendation for beginner |
| voices.com | Free to join Premium $499/year | Register for a free account and complete a profile for exposure. Do not pay for a premium subscription. |
| voice123.com | Free to join Bronze $325/year Premium $395/year Platinum $600/year | Register for a free account and complete a profile for exposure. Do not pay for a premium subscription. |
| thevoicerealm.com | Free to join Premium $100/year | Register for a free account and complete a profile for exposure. Do not pay for a premium subscription. |
| bodalgo.com | Free to join Premium $245 | Register for a free account and complete a profile for exposure. Do not pay for a premium subscription. |
| voplanet.com | Free to join Premium $199 | Register for a free account and complete a profile for exposure. Do not pay for a premium subscription. |
| fiverr.com | Free to use | Register and use all the features for free without limitations |
| voicebunny.com | Free to use | Not recommended based on voice talent community opinions |
| voiver.com | Free to use | Register and use all the features for free without limitations |
| voicecrew.com | Free to use | Register and use all the features for free without limitations |
| castingcall.club | Free to use Silver $24 Gold $80 | Register for a free account and complete a profile for exposure. Pay for Silver or Gold subscription if you find the website useful. |
voices
Let’s start with www.voices.com, this voice acting jobs platform with headquarters in London, Canada. This site covers North American accents as well as European accents. It has a wide range of voice jobs available, from game work to corporate videos. It also has an Escrow system, so you don’t have the hassle of invoicing people.
In other words, the client pays Voices before you do the work. You automatically get paid if you do a good job. If you don’t, the client receives their m back.
The platform allows registration for free. You can create a profile and post demos to get better exposure. If you are not using their Premium subscription only, which is $499 per year, you see very few invitations to auditions.
Generally speaking, voices.com is not very suitable for beginners. Wait until you have some proof of your success before joining a paid subscription. But go ahead and register on the platform for free as soon as you have a demo and few jobs done.
voice123
Next, I would call www.voice123.com. It has an awful lot of North American accent jobs, but a decent amount of British accent jobs are posted here as well. So it’s worth Brits subscribing. The site doesn’t have an escrow system, it merely puts you in touch with the client direct, and after that, you’re on your own.
So it’s a bit of a pain that you have to invoice. However, you do get the full contact details of the client, to make more money from them afterward!
It is good, and it is risky. You should know that it is not recommended to deliver your completed work without some sort of payment or written agreement.
You can register for free on this site and use it as is. The algorithm on the website finds you in the client’s search if your profile is complete. So it is worth to keep it up to date and provide as much information as possible.
Through their free version, you can get more audition invitations than through the free subscription on voices.com.
the voice realm
www.thevoicerealm.com There is an American and a British version of this website, and again, it has an escrow system. You don’t even have to bid when auditioning, because they have an excellent professional price list for the type of work that you’re asked to do.
You can actively look for auditions to do, or you can click the “in-studio” button, so people who find your profile know you’re available right now. It is crucial to make sure you are filling out your profile as accurately as possible to get the auditions the best matching your voice profile.
That will determine a lot of your success.
The Voice Realm is yet another freelance platform that has over 5,000 registered voice-over artists. You need to fill the online form with all the details and submit them along with a demo. Once submitted, it can take some time to hear from them as they have a waiting period. If you get through, you will hear back and publish your profile on the site. That is something different from the other websites where no gatekeepers on registration.
This platform compared to some others, does not expose so much information about clients. And the jobs are more suitable for the narration style of voice. There and not many of a character type jobs. Consider this when joining. But do register there, because it is another place where you can get exposure for your talent.
Create your profile and use all the space and word count allowed to promote yourself. It is free!
bodalgo
Next on the list, bodalgo.com is based in Germany. There are many, mostly industrial film producers, who need to make their German language productions in English. They also could ask for a British accent, or more likely a “neutral” accent, which is a light North American accent!
There is no escrow, so you get the advantage of creating a relationship with the client direct once you get the job. Some nice variety of roles can come up on this site, and outstanding value projects as well.
Even it is free to use the website, you take it seriously. Please pay attention to their requirement for voice talents to have some kind of a formal voice training. Free membership allows you to have a profile and be searchable by the clients.
However, the design of the website made, so clients are posting the auditions, and only those talents who paid for premium can go and actively participate in these auditions. It is a very similar model to voice123.com does, but mostly for European clients.
Even the number of auditions is smaller than on voices.com, it is worth to set up and complete account there to get free exposure and potentially some clients.
vo planet
Adding one more pay-2-play website to the bucket www.voplanet.com, this was a massive site in the first part of the century, until it went into decline and closed. But with a new owner, the owner is really on the raising up and has some excellent high-value network jobs to audition for.
This website functioning on a similar model as voices123 and bodalgo. You can register for free and get contacted by the customer if they choose to browse through the database of the clients. Or you pay a yearly subscription for a premium account.
Voplanet also practices the same approach as thevoicerealm.com; they declare to accept only professionally trained and experienced voice actors. So it is worth to gain some experience and perhaps voice-over training before approaching them. But it is definitely worth it because it is yet another place to market your talent for free.
summary on pay-2-play platforms
There are more pay-2-play sites with voice-over jobs, but for the purpose of this article, let’s limit the list for a few. You can see these sites working in one of the two models. They either put together clients and talent. It is a strategically more preferable model because you can build direct relationships with the customer. But those sites leave you on your own to deal with disputes, payments, etc. For the beginner, it could be too much to deal with until you develop a procedure of how to avoid sticky situations. And there will rise some, as you meet bargainers who often target such platforms.
The second model is what voices.com and thevoicerealm.com implemented. These platforms do not disclose much about the client and the original price they paid. So you are not growing your client base but their. On the positive side, your earned money being protected by the escrow system.
I do not recommend paying a subscription on either of these websites for a newbie in the voice-over business. Almost all of them require year membership paid upfront so that you won’t get a sense of the usefulness of these sites to your business, but as a beginner, you need to come up with a hefty amount.
Not all of these sites will have a satisfying number of jobs for your profile. You may be wanting to do more type of character voice works, but most of the projects on the site could be narration type of work. Or you may not see a sufficient amount of auditions posted for your age, but you still require to pay the same membership fee as the others who are in a more demanded category.
What I do recommend you is to do register on these websites for free and use them as a staging to exposure yourself. And you should use it at maximum. They all allow the customers to browse their database for free, so there is a chance to be discovered and eventually hired.
Obviously, it would be best if you didn’t rely on them from the start of your career. Further on, as an intermediate voice talent, you decide to try using their paid memberships, and see if that makes financial sense. From the start, look at free to use freelancer marketplaces with the strong presence of voice clients.
fiverr
So what about the free sites? The www.fiverr.com freelance jobs portal is essential for all voice-overs to enroll on. In the early days, you literally had to produce a voice-over for only five dollars, but the system is now such that you can add on all sorts of extras, that people will often want more than simple recording so that an average job will be more like $50. You can make a fortune on Fiverr if you play its game right! This is no brainer, you must be on this platform, and even more, you should start your voice-over freelance on this platform. I do a profound dive guide on how to use and succeed on Fiverr in my course Blueprint To Voice-Over Freelance
voice bunny
Moving onto www.voicebunny.com. Voicebunny is free to enroll, but it is a rather strange voice site. They have what is called “Speedys,” where they send an email out, the first three people who reply get the work!
They don’t have very big jobs on there, but when working regularly, it all adds up! The site is acting as a middle man. They do not let you communicate directly with the clients. Instead, voicebunny team members manage communication and pass everything through their employees.
No client base grows for you, no building your brand, no exposure. I would think twice before I go spend my time on their site.
voiver
www.voiver.com is worth enrolling in; it’s based in Spain but accepts North American, African, and European and Australian accents, and if you’re lucky, you could get quite a few regular jobs from this one. You are setting rates in Euros.
The website makes money on added small amounts to your quote. Your prices are final to you. Like most of the free sites, you simply create your profile, fill up all required fields and questionnaires, describe your voice and services using words as a client would use when searching for a matching talent, upload your best showreels, and hope for the best!
Also, the voiver uses an escrow system, so customers pay upfront, so you need not worry about getting paid for your job.
voice crew
And the last of my favorite free sites has to be the www.voicecrew.com, based in the USA. They don’t usually have huge jobs, but they have an awful big database of clients who return to them again and again, and with all this kind of thing, the little tasks add up over the month. It is nice to have such a website in your voice-over map of work.
casting call club
castingcall.club is a free website for voice-over talents with the option of using paid membership. I didn’t include it between big pay-2-play sites as they at castingcall.club have a slightly different business model. They do allow you to use their website for free and have a profile page with a demo reel; it even searches engine optimized, which works great for your exposure. And their membership is far smaller than the others. It is worth to use their platform at least for free for a start, and then move on as you build trust.
wrapping up the review
The list can go on; there are many more websites you can find a job or a client. But I need to stop somewhere, and maybe in the future, I will update this list.
I definitely going to be doing an in-depth review for each of these sites, so stay tuned.
Being informed and prepared saves time and money. And it would be best if you had both of them. And I understand, working on that number of websites can be a bit overwhelming for the beginner. The good news is you don’t need to be on all of them. At least not from the start.
I recommend starting with the easiest one, which will give you an experience, where you test your skills and learn to work in voice-over with the clients without being afraid that any early mistakes can affect your career.
I have a step-by-step guide on how to build a voice-over business on Fiverr to attract customers, how to price your work to make customers order from you, and how to build-up 5-star ratings consistently.
Start with Fiverr to gain experience and build skills while serving customers from across the globe.