How Do You Crush It on Voice123? Membership Tiers, Rankings and Which Jobs to Audition For

Short answer: You crush it on Voice123 by doing three things most people skip: buying in at the $888 tier or higher so you see auditions early, being selective about which jobs you audition for so your like rate stays high and you stay in the top ranks, and building your profile with playlists of short, tagged single demos. Voice123 is less forgiving than Voices.com, but it is where you build a client list that pays you for years.

Most of my repeat clients found me on Voice123 first. It is my favorite platform and the hardest one. Here is how it actually works and how to stay on the right side of its ranking system. If you are brand new, start with Voices.com and come back here once you are booking.

How is Voice123 different from Voices.com?

Two big ways. First, on Voices.com every member is on a level playing field and you can audition for everything without penalty. On Voice123, your membership tier and your performance both decide when you see auditions. Second, Voices.com keeps every job on the platform and takes a commission. Voice123 takes no commission at all, just your membership, and you work directly with the client: their email, your email, an invoice, and a relationship you keep.

That second difference is why I love it. It is also why it is harder. The competition is stiff because the prize is bigger.

How does the Voice123 ranking work?

Every audition you submit can get a like or a shortlist from the client. Your ratio of likes to submissions puts you in a rank: top 10%, top 20%, top 30%, the middle, and down to the bottom 40%. The lower your rank, the later you see new auditions. If you are in the bottom 40%, by the time a job reaches you the client wanted 50 proposals and 70 people have already submitted. Your audition is buried before you record it.

So on Voice123, auditioning for everything is a mistake. Every unliked audition drags your rank down, and a lower rank means later auditions, which means more unliked auditions. It is a spiral, and it is the reason I tell people to get some bookings and real demos before they join.

Which Voice123 membership should you buy?

The tiers run from very cheap up to Platinum. Do not buy the cheap ones. You start in the bottom 40%, get auditions late, and never climb out.

$888 a year is the minimum I recommend. At that level you get around 800 project invitations a month, which is enough to make a full-time income if your booking ratio is decent, and you appear in far more client searches than the lower tiers.

$2,200 a year, billed quarterly, is better if you can afford it. More invitations, earlier, and more visibility.

Platinum is around $5,000 a year and you have to apply and wait for a spot. It does not send many more auditions than the $2,200 tier, but Platinum actors show up first in every client search, thousands of times more often. That is why it pays for itself: clients find you and send offers without an audition. I am on it, and I make far more than the fee in unsolicited jobs. Get there later. Start at $888.

How do you set up a Voice123 profile?

Same principle as Voices.com, with more freedom. You can add your website, contact info, social media, and whether you have Source Connect. If you have a following anywhere, put it on there.

For the About section, look at Platinum profiles (mine is one) and use the structure. Not the words, the structure. Make it about you.

The feature that matters most is playlists. Instead of one long scroll of demos, you group them: commercial, e-learning, animation, video game, documentary. A client looking for commercial clicks the commercial playlist and hears one spot after another. Keep each demo short so the next one plays before they get bored: 15 to 30 seconds for commercial, a little longer for e-learning. Single spots, not compilations. Tag them with the words clients search for, the same way you would on Voices.com.

How do you decide which jobs to audition for?

This is the whole game on Voice123. Open the job and look at two numbers: how many proposals the client wanted versus how many they have received, and the client's listen rate, which is how many of the proposals they have received across all their projects they actually played.

A client who wanted 50 proposals, already has 58, and listens to about half: decline. There is a high chance you will not be heard, and an unheard audition is an unliked audition.

A client who wanted 50, already has 70, and has listened to 99% of everything ever submitted to them: audition. It looks oversubscribed but they listen to everyone. That is safe.

A client with one project posted and zero proposals reviewed: decline. No track record.

The rule: audition where the listen rate is 70% or higher, or where you can be in the first ten submissions. Decline anything that clearly is not for you (a job asking for a specific regional accent or ethnicity you do not have slips past the filters constantly). Being disciplined about this is how you stay in the top 10% and keep seeing auditions first.

What do you put in a Voice123 proposal?

The opposite of Voices.com. There you cannot share contact info. Here you are expected to: email, phone, website if you have one. Keep it short, include your turnaround time, and if it is a quote job, use the GVAA rate guide as your starting point so you are not underpricing. Read the whole script for your audition but consider leaving off the final line of a short spot so nobody can use your audition as the finished product. In years on the platform nobody has stolen my audio, but it costs nothing to be careful.

Do you have to invoice clients yourself?

Usually, yes. Escrow exists on Voice123 but most work is direct, so you send an invoice through something like FreshBooks or QuickBooks. If that worries you: in all my years on the platform, including clients across Europe, not a single one has failed to pay me. Do good work, invoice promptly, and it takes care of itself.

The checklist

• Get some bookings and real demos first; do not start here
• Buy in at $888 minimum, $2,200 if you can
• Profile complete, website and contact info on, playlists by category
• Short single demos, 15 to 30 seconds, tagged with search terms
• Audition only where the listen rate is high or you can be early; decline the rest
• Proposals with contact info and turnaround, rates from the GVAA guide
• Invoice directly, keep every client, market to them warmly forever

Buy in high, audition carefully, and Voice123 becomes the platform that builds a sustainable client list. That is how I built mine.

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