What's the Best Site to Find Voiceover Work?

In addition to working with agents, loads of voice talent have built full-time, sustainable careers by marketing their own services directly to potential clients.

Yes, there are more moving parts to deal with since you're doing your own marketing (rather than letting the sites provide audition opportunities) but there are lots of benefits too:

• You're not competing with hundreds of thousands of other talent (V123 claims over 250,000, Voices-com claims over 4,000,000. That's not a typo...4. Million.) for a limited number of auditions

• You get to choose exactly the type of clients to market to, (who produce the kind of work you're best at) rather than waiting around until one of them appears on the site

• You can tailor your appeal (through your branding, website design and content, etc.) specifically to the types of clients you'd like to work for, rather than appearing as a name on a long, generic list of other names

• Through your marketing efforts, you can regularly keep in touch with high-value potential clients, rather than just being 1 of 100+ faceless talent who might've auditioned for them once

• You don't have to pay hundreds (or thousands!) of dollars a year for the chance to audition against hundreds of other talent (many of whom are likely underbidding in order to win gigs

• There's no middleman taking a membership fee, and escrow fee, a platform fee and some percentage of a client's budget (in the case of VDC's "Managed" jobs)

• When clients are exposed to my marketing messages, there aren't other "Similar Voices" presented to them on the same page, like the P2Ps do

• No one is throttling the number of auditions you can do – or giving other talent a crack at them hours/days before you see them) based on how much you pay for your membership

TL;DR: Here's my bottom line: Decide what kind of work you want to do, determine who hires people to do that kind of work, craft a marketing approach that speaks directly to them, and reach out. At least that's what's worked for me.