When starting out and just looking for a variety of scripts to practise on, I was initially very grateful for the quantity of material. The work varies widely in subject and rate, from the super-budget to the occasional major commercial project, but when just starting up on a part-time basis, I soon found this rapidly growing bunch of emails making me audition blind. I found the sheer quantity of auditions coming through Voice123 initially very comforting after deciding to try one of the 'big' brands and investing in an annual subscription. Having navigated the P2P field on and off for about 18 months, I have had two annual subscriptions (to Voice123 and The Voice Realm) and a spate of fitful monthly subscriptions to Bodalogo whenever I’ve had the time to audition. If you google P2P, you will soon come up with a vast amount of country advice about what different VO talents would say are the better P2P’s. In comparison, a site like Bodalgo or The VoiceRealm may only offer the same number over the course of a week.īut quantity doesn’t guarantee quality. and Voice123 are probably the largest brands in the market, and you can expect between 5-10 audition invites per day if you subscribe to either of those.
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Unlike the UK’s professional acting directory Spotlight, there is no one site that you need to be part of simply to ‘be on the map’. But you can only judge how good a site is by trying them out, and with an annual subscription to a handful of sites likely to cost you hundreds if not thousands of pounds before you’ve even recorded an audition, it’s difficult to know which might be best. In theory, these sites have helped to explode the 'closed shop', or at least the budget section of it. I was introduced to this previously undiscovered country of online work through the Voiceover Kickstart course, and once you’ve had a look at a few sites you can see how it has helped to explode the voiceover market as the demand for VO content blossoms. Most will charge a commission for any work you obtain through their site in addition to a weekly/monthly/annual subscription.
The Voice Realm), but the majority don't or pay lip service to assessing customers willing to pay.
Some P2P’s present themselves as ‘agencies’ and will only list you after screening your submission (eg. This is where most P2P’s such as these dangle incentives, promising better ‘search result’ rankings if talents commit to a year rather than monthly subscription. By creating such an ostensibly open market, the question then arises how potentially vast numbers of submissions are relayed to the client. Two of the largest and most established, and Voice123 allow you to create a profile for free, but you will need to subscribe for $40-50 per month to be able to respond to auditions. Various companys have conceived their own interpretations of the P2P template. Usually, this will be in the form of a custom audition – recording a few lines (but often much more) of a script and submitting it to the client – and then waiting to see if you’ve been successful. As soon as you’ve uploaded your various demos, it’s often a case of waiting for auditions to land in your inbox and responding appropriately. P2P is in many ways the gateway drug for home voiceovers. Registering your details on numerous sites (thus increasing your online ‘presence’) is a much less daunting process (emotionally if not financially) than directly calling potential clients and making a pitch over the phone. Coming in a huge variety of forms, these are organisations who provide you with access to potential work, posting auditions and allowing you to create a profile from which employers can listen to your demos and contact you directly. One of the first unfamiliar terms you will encounter when embarking on a voice over career is P2P, which stands for Pay to Play.
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