Voice123

So, once again Voice123 sent me their weekly sample page, and, once again, I've received an invitation for 1% of the projects listed.
I am so beyond unhappy with my current membership. I am barely getting any auditions this year, when I got plenty of auditions last year under the same plan. Also, SO many auditions seem to "become available" in the middle of the night and are closed for booking before 6am. This smells like total bull$#*! to me. As for their recent email about sample projects for the week, only ONE of those opportunities was given to me, and it didn't even make sense because I cannot do a New Zealand accent, nor do I have it listed in my skills. I paid almost $1000 for what feels like NOTHING! Every time I get these summary emails from you, showing me what I am NOT getting for my $888, it makes me sick to my stomach. My membership was a positive experience until my membership renewed on January 5th, and now, the few opportunities from Voice123 have been pure garbage. I am so upset and feel so ripped off. The last communication I had from them basically told me that I had to change my settings to allow projects requesting quotes. Again, I had the same tier membership in 2023 and received plenty of quality leads. This year, the leads are so poor, it's as if I only have a level 1 plan. Total rip off.

Been a subscriber for years and they removed my good reviews! Three years after they were posted they said they were unable to verify them, despite finding the original posting for the bookings and me showing them the finished work. What company would actively work against their clients? Terrible terrible customer service - no resolution. I won't be renewing.

I only received invitations between 12am and 6am. When I reached out to their customer support, they claim this is when the auditions are being posted. This is absolutely not true. I've been in the industry over a decade and nobody wakes up in the middle of the night to post casting calls. The customer service agent Mariana argued with me and said this is indeed what is going on, casting agents wake up in the middle of the night to post auditions.

Since I am not okay with being lied to in this degree, I opted to receive a full refund. I'll be joining a more professional VO website. Stay away from voice123 if you are a professional.

V123 punishes talent that can't afford the higher, exorbitantly priced subscriptions. The copious, cream of the crop auditions are showered upon them. The offerings get less and less the lower down the financial totem pole you are. Auditions should be accessible to all voice talent. The "other", arguably more popular and professional big name P2P site is fantastic with one yearly fee and tons of listings daily. Everyone has a fair shot. Never any bugs with their site either. V123 will often crash when I'm in the middle of update my profile info or samples. It also has a bad habit of sending me laughable matches which often are not even in the correct gender or language! The few times I have contacted the help line (after fighting with the bot), I get a response that makes almost no sense and skirts over my issue. Did they even read my concern? I could kick myself for subscribing for another year (I'm in the mid-range subscription.) The jobs that are right for me are few and far between, but the 5 to 10 or so jobs I do land per year are good ones. Is it worth it? I'm not so sure. I find plenty of voice work on my own without paying to audition. I think this might be my last year with V123. It just always seems to be more trouble than its worth. My money is better spent on education or equipment.

I have been active on voice123 for many years, and it has proven fruitful for me as a voice artist to build up my client list, with many returning customers having come of it. The site went through some major updates recently and is still constantly evolving and improving upon its functionality and user interface, but I visit it almost daily. Recommended!

I bought a cheaper plan to give this a try. Got plenty of auditions for first six weeks then ironically right after my 30 day refund window the auditions completely dried up. When I spoke with to Voice123 customer service "it was because I needed to upgrade" and they literally said, "you won't be happy with us unless you buy the $395 plan." I will never find out because i'm not interested. Lol. Just thought you all should be informed!

They take your money then you cant audition for jobs. You have to hope they invite you. Then they send you invites that dont fit your spec. If you complain they cancel you. Dont join!

I was an active paid subscriber to Voice123 for a few years around 2015 - 2020. I auditioned regularly and got many meaningful VO gigs. Around 2020 I let my subscription lapse and stopped doing VO briefly. About a year ago I inquired about re-upping my subscripttion and messaged customer service for guidance. No response. I attempted again a few months ago because I wanted to know if they were still actively in business before I gave them my CC info for the $395 subscription price. Once again, crickets. I went out into the VO community to see if Voice123 was still a viable option for work. No one responded. These experiences, along with the multitude of negative reviews here, lead me to conclude that Voice123 is a ghost town. It's a shame because I wish to resume my VO career but these sites are all I know (Voice.com doesn't seem to have any better reviews). Not buying under these circumstances.

I got my start here, but... it's not what it once was. Voice123 used to be good in the mid 2010s but there are now too many pricing tiers to choose from and it seems even the $888/year tier is pointless to continue. From over-auditioned opportunities where the client asks for 50 auditions and gets back over 100 by the time I'm invited, to the incessant need to beg for Likes and Hearts (to satisfy the ranking algorithm), the platform has figured out the perfect way to hoodwink you into thinking you have a chance. The harsh reality is that the Non-Union VO market is oversaturated, they know it, and are raking in the dough from anyone who doesn't already know the game has already been played--and those at the top (e.g. Those who pay multiple thousands of dollars per year) will remain at the top, with early access to the best auditions.

So long.

I had some success on Voices.com with some hired jobs, enough to quadruple what I had spent for the premium membership. So I decided to check out Voices123.com as well to see if I could have some success there as well. Boy, was I mistaken. The site's UI is absolutely atrocious, MUCH worse than Voices.com's site. The jobs that actually pay money are few and far between, and even when there are jobs like those, by the time they trickle down to you (as there are paid membership tiers), your audition won't even matter. All this with the caveat that there's a 30 day money back guarantee UNLESS you get in during a discount, which I did. Then they refuse to refund you. Ridiculous. Stay far away from this platform if you know what's good for you.

As a former tv producer and casting person (who has cast and directed hundreds of voice actors over the years) and now as a full-time vo artist and V123 member, this site is definitely playing some games. Now, to be fair, I've gotten some really amazing gigs on this site... most of which I had to hunt down payments from, over the course of 2 to 4 months, but I digress.

The ranking system? Just silly. Most casting people are way too busy to worry about hitting the Like button on auditions or the heart icon on profiles... they have a job to do and fast. Which, of course, hurts Talent and forces them to "beg" for reviews/ratings, which can be annoying to clients. So, why does V123 bother with it if no one seems to really want/need it? To create a sense of insecurity so that when it goes down Talent become worried enough about their reputations (motivated) to spend more money on the next tier up that promises more auditions and earlier delivery. Until you do that and discover that you only get a handful more auditions an hour or two sooner than before. Pretty gamey.

But, I'm here to tell you that it's all about the audition, regardless of what tier you're on. If you're the right fit for the job and have great sounding audio quality, that's all that matters. Just choose your auditions wisely for the best chance. All this ranking business is just a distraction and a manipulation. Focus on your performance and you should see some progress.

That being said, however...my biggest issues with this site are: the economically discriminatory tiers, the fact that all clients aren't required to pay the money up front to guarantee payment as soon as the job is complete, and way too many mismatched audition opportunities (again, most likely by design... to get us to pay more money for more expensive tiers).

Also, V123 encourages offsite client/talent relationship building, which on the surface, looks great, even generous. However, if the client doesn't pay up and you reach out to V123 for help, they'll tell you they legally can't do anything about it (since it's technically happening off their site) and the most they'll do is send them an email. So, in other words, they encourage you to work off the site so they don't have to take any responsibility. Womp womp

Which brings me to this issue--what if clients prefer to audition Talent on the site, but book and work with them off the site? Or, message them saying how much they like their voice and would like them to audition off the site? Talent doesn't get V123 credit for booking those jobs or being "liked" (happened to me many times) unless they ask the client to do that... which can be very awkward and "needy". Hear that downward whistle sound? That's the sound of my ranking percentage plummeting, despite my bookings and "Likes". Haha. In other words, the ranking system is so not a reflection of reality at all. And clients know that, that's why they mostly don't bother with it.

Anyway, I mostly ignore these tricks because guess what? It doesn't matter. Remember: clients are no more concerned about furthering your career than you are about furthering theirs.;)

Hopefully, V123 will make some changes to better serve Talent, overall. But, in the meantime, ignore the "noise" if you can. Don't give up. Keep going, keep auditioning. That one great opportunity/audition could be a life-changer.

I was previously a Premium Member for a year. I have been a Professional Voice Artist for over 45 Years.
I received ONE $40 script in that year.
It seems whomever is in the Same Time Zone as You gets the scripts Immediately.
I get the New Notification for a script and am told either:
1) The allotted number of auditions have been Filled...OR...
2) A talent has already been chosen for this client.
It was Not worth my $395 and certainly did not entice me to purchase Your $600 Membership...Right?

I've been part of the Voice123 community since 2007. The level of talent and buyers has always been quality and meeting industry standards. While there will always be first time talent and/or clients, Voice123 has a strong supply of both outstanding competitive talent and legit, professional buyers from small to big agencies. Always happy to do business with buyers on Voice123.com.

Hundreds to thousands of voiceover jobs are available for audition on this online casting marketplace and hundreds to thousands of voiceover talent are there to competitively apply. That said, talent is of the utmost professional and Voice123 will help, if ever you have a question.

I've had a lot of success using Voices.com so I thought I'd expand my market by signing up for Voice123. They're pretty much the same thing, right? Wrong. On Voices.com at the basic membership level, around $500 for the first year, you get a shot at pretty much every job that comes along. They send an email and the faster you reply the better your chances (in my experience).
On Voice123 for I signed up for the $888/yearly plan. Since there are higher payment levels what I've found is that by the time I get an email notifying me of a job it already has so many people who've already responded (the higher levels) that the chances of the job poster even listening to my audition is minimal, or sometimes the number of audition slots requested is filled up already even if I open the email immediately. The jobs that aren't filled are usually low paying or even NO paying (why would they even allow those kinds of jobs on their site?).
From a side by side comparison I'd say that the best return on your money is likely from Voices.com. I've made several thousand from that site so I don't think it's my skills or talent holding me back on Voice123. They protect their top payers, and I get that. But for the amount of money I'm spending I'm getting great results on Voices.com and after 4 months still no results on Voice123, mainly because the jobs that do filter down my way are so low paying they really aren't worth the time.

I tried it out for a month and most invitations I received wanted me to do work free of charge. That is a hard pill to swallow when I just paid over $300 on their Bronze Plan to make a living. I had received 66 invitations and my profile appeared 2 times in the Voice123 search. So spending over $300 for a membership includes a profile search of ONLY 2 times? They also told me If I was a Premium member, I could have received 209 invitations and appeared 69 times in the search instead. Just greed to get you to buy a more expensive membership. I ended up requesting my 30 day money back guarantee which I did receive promptly.

I'm currently "ranked" in the top 20% of talent, and see at least a dozen projects posted daily. Typically the pay offered is a mere $100 - $150, licensed in perpetuity, for 1 - 5 minutes of VO, well below any established industry standard. It is widely rumored on social media that successful users are those that have been on the platform at least 5 years, and having joined prior to sweeping changes made to the site and algorithms in 2017. Since those changes there doesn't seem to be an avenue to success for new users.

After 2 months of being a VOICE 123 Worker, I have not established any link despite the fact that they send me between 3 and 6 tasks a day and I answer all of them.

It seems to me that there is something obscure in this, since I have noticed that they send me the same task separated in 3 different invitations, that is, since I order all the tasks in a WORD document, I was able to realize that he sends me, for example, Tuesday the first part of three of a text, Wednesday morning the second part that is a continuation of that same writing only in a different invitation and Wednesday night in another invitation that is the third part of a complete text.

I wonder if I've been a fool completing Tasks that I do professionally and someone else is getting paid for me?

On other occasions they send an Invitation that is clearly the complete task but they have never paid me 1 cent for those tasks, there are works that I have completed of more than 600 words that they send as "Script for custom audition". In this case, the task would be practically completed but they do not pay anything for doing it.

I have started to work on my own in Social Networks looking for Tasks by myself since I start to think that these Freelancer type sites make us work but not pay, how can I know on this side of my Laptop?

I got project invitation but I send the wrong project, so I contact the admin and they fix the problem and correct the project.

If you are on the free plan you will be send "fulfilled" auditions by the Voice 123 team.
I just spend my sunday morning auditioning for a project that wasn't looking for voice actors anymore.
When you get send the project you will still be able to submit your proposal and only then will it tell you the job has been fulfilled.
This is time you spend recording you will never get back and a very $#*!ty way of trying to get you to pay for a plan.

I used Voice123 ten years ago, and it went very well. I tried it again this past week, and my project is "still being reviewed" after 4 days (they must not count weekends, so it totals 4). I wrote to them for help, and all I get is automated spam messages asking me if I 'still need help.'

I need a human. This is pointless.

As a newbie to voice talent work, I pulled the trigger on this particular P2P because they looked legit and got good reviews. And they offered $100 off! SoI've been using this site for 2.5 months and have peppered them with many, many questions. Fortunately, they've always had answers, or been open to suggestions. No issues, lots of help, some advice. And I've scored enough gigs to pay for the service, so there's proof Voice123 works.

I have been a member, under both free and paid plans. I have been a paid member intermittently and have seen the changes over time, which unfortunately are for the negative. The system changes they use contribute to a downward trend to individual workers as well as the industry as a whole. Overall, I would not readily recommend this site to others, and would not look to renew my membership after it's time has been completed.

Updating for 2022:
Still don't recommend. From a fellow working VO friend's advice, I tried restarting my membership in a higher-paid tier. The way they've adjusted their auditions means that everything is more saturated than before (as long as you pay, you can audition, even past the requested number a client puts in). Some clients request 50 auditions, and by the time you receive the post, they're already at 70+!
Meanwhile, the quality of clients and work have gone down. There are SO many requests for vastly underpaid audiobooks (e.g. Asking for 10's to 100's of 1000s of words for a few hundred dollars) or to use your voice for AI with no future rights or percentage, at a very low price. AND their ranking system continues to work against you! Basically, you get marked down for auditioning but not getting chosen, which of course is more likely when again these clients are getting bombarded with auditions, and you're getting sent less opportunities with real openings.

The lack of quality control makes the website feel even more like it's going toward the trend of collecting money for itself while contributing to a downward spiral for any kind of standard quality VO industry. Very disappointed and currently cannot recommend in good conscience.

2020: Unfortunate that many problems that plagued my original year of using Voice123 have persisted, only seeming to get worse. Returning after a year or two of taking a break, I found that the new system is worse in providing opportunities. The rating system seems more volatile, and I shot from Bottom 50% to Top 30% to Bottom 30% in consecutive weeks, and am now only receiving 1-3 auditions a day. This is a very low amount when most of the better gigs are already slanted to their established VO Platinum tier, and the automated system often gets the ones you receive wrong (asking for a specific ethnicity or accent that the profile is not specific enough to catch).

I accepted an offer of a 20-percent discount to join Voice123, which took $79 off the full rate. However, accepting the discount also disqualified me from cancelling after 30 days, as allowed with payment at the full rate. Sorry to say, I have wasted my money and my time. Invitations to submit auditions apparently are based on the number of job offers and "likes" a voice actor receives from clients. In a curious twist, it seems that the more submissions you make that are not liked or accepted, the fewer invitations you receive. In other words, the more you try and fail, the fewer chances you're given to try again. I have received about a half-dozen invitations over the past few days, and most are for paltry sums or for voices that do not match my profile. (Recent projects request submissions from African Americans, which I am not, and from French speakers, which I am not). Had I paid the full amount, I would have cancelled. As it is, I am out $316 and no longer bother to submit proposals.