Which Voiceover Casting Sites Do You Actually Need to Be On?

Short answer: You only need two: Voices.com and Voice123. Start on Voices.com because it is forgiving for beginners and everything, including payment, happens on the platform. Move to Voice123 once you have bookings and real demos, because that is where you keep the client and build a list that pays you for years. Everything else is optional.

I have made over $285,000 on Voices.com and built most of my direct client list through Voice123. Here is how I rank the casting sites, why, and the two myths that keep people from ever getting on them.

What counts as a casting site?

A casting site is a platform where clients and agencies post real voiceover jobs, you audition, and they cast a voice actor for the project. That is different from a gig site like Fiverr or Upwork, where you list a service and wait for someone to buy it. I made money on Fiverr early on and I am not going to tell you it cannot be done, but I make far more on casting sites and I stopped paying attention to gig sites years ago. This list is casting sites only.

I rank them by one thing: how much money you can make. That is why you are on them.

Number 1: Voice123

My favorite platform, and the one I would not give up. Three reasons.

You keep the client. When you book on Voice123 you talk to the client directly and you can work with them off the platform afterward. Most of my repeat clients, the ones who send me jobs I never audition for, found me on Voice123 first. That is the difference between a platform that pays you once and a platform that builds a business.

Visibility. Voice123 has membership tiers, and the higher you buy in, the earlier you see auditions and the more clients find you and message you with offers instead of you auditioning. The minimum tier I recommend is the $888 level. Higher if you can afford it. I am at the top tier and it pays for itself many times over.

Unlimited demos. I have around 60 up. The more demos, the more ways a client can find you in search.

What is not perfect: Voice123 grades you on how many of your proposals get liked. If you audition for everything and get few thumbs up, you land in the bottom 40%, and then auditions come to you later, after 40 or 50 people have already submitted. That is why the higher tier matters, and why I tell beginners to get some bookings and real demos before they get on Voice123. You are up against the best on the platform from day one.

Think of the membership like rent. If you opened a store, would you pay more for a busy street in downtown Manhattan than a quiet side street? Of course. Same thing.

Number 2: Voices.com

The best place for a brand new voice actor to start. You can audition for every job without being penalized, you get your daily reps in, you never invoice anyone, and payment is handled on the platform. It is cheap to get on and you get professional auditions right away. The downside is that clients have to stay on the platform, so you are not building a direct list the way you do on Voice123.

The platform has been through changes over the years, and it will go through more. The setup that works does not change: max out a free profile, upload 30 demos, buy the membership, and do every audition you are sent. I wrote the whole thing up in how Voices.com works.

Number 3: V-Planet

Newer, smaller, and worth the membership. Not a lot of jobs, but the jobs that come in are good quality, and the customer service is excellent. When a questionable job slipped through, they pulled it fast. The main gap is filtering: you get every job for every voice type and have to sort out which ones fit you. I have made well beyond my membership fee back and I hope it grows.

Honorable mention: Bodalgo

Based in Germany, great interface, real jobs. I gave it a solid month of doing every audition that fit me and did not book, which is my cutoff for any platform. But if you are in Europe, or you have a European accent, there are jobs on Bodalgo that the North American sites do not have. It is cheap. Try it if that is you.

Are casting sites dead?

No. You will hear this on every voiceover forum. It is not true. Is it harder than it was? Yes, anything worth doing is. But I still make a full-time income on these platforms and so do my students.

Do you have to train for a year before you are ready?

Also no. I started booking three months into voiceover with no classes and was making over $5,000 a month. My student Ross set up his Voice123 profile the way I showed him, and on his fourth audition on the platform he beat me for a car commercial. We were both shortlisted. He won. He had done two one on one sessions and my online course.

There is no gatekeeper and no cookie cutter path. Coaching gets you there faster, but a year of weekly classes while you are not trying to book is worthless. Start auditioning now, get coached while you do it, and nothing bad happens if an early audition is rough. Nobody blacklists you. You just get better.

The plan

• Voices.com first: free profile maxed out, 30 demos, then membership, then every audition
• After your first bookings: Voice123 at the $888 tier or higher, with your best demos and job samples
• Optional: V-Planet for quality over volume, Bodalgo if you are in Europe
• Skip the forums, find people who think it is possible, and start before you feel ready

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