What Voices.com Really Costs Your Voiceover Business

Right off the top, Voices.com takes a 20% fee off of your client-facing quote.

A $500 quote leaves you with $400 after that fee.

A $1,000 quote leaves you with $800.

Now, back in September of 2020, Voices.com announced that they were shifting that fee from the client to the talent.

And yeah, those...

Deductions can feel palatable and simple when you take them one at a time, but they add up fast.

You book 10 grand on Voices.com, that's $2,000 in platform fees.

You run the math annually, you book 50 grand on Voices.com, now you're paying them 10 grand in platform fees.

And that's before you pay your taxes, you pay for your studio gear, your training, all your software subscriptions.

And the problem is that $10,000 is not a negotiated fee.

It's a structural cost you had to agree to to subscribe to the platform.

And it scales up with every dollar you make.

The more successful you are, the more you pay.

And that fee often shapes how you price your work, even unconsciously.

Now, when you know the platform is taking 20% off the top, the temptation and the tendency is to under quote so that you can stay competitive.

And that's a documented tendency on the pay to plays, which produces downward pressure on rates.

And that's across the entire marketplace.

and on places like Upwork and Fiverr, that's not even just on your industry.

That's how marketplaces work.

You're not just managing your own income and revenue.

You are at that point participating in a system which by design places downward pressure on everybody's pricing.

That is the structural reality of online gig sites, online marketplace sites, and no amount of strong auditions is ever going to change that.

On Voices.com, you control your profile and your demo and your quoting and how you audition.

You do not control who sees your profile, how the algorithm puts you in front of people, how it ranks you in search results.

or whether a client who absolutely fell in love with your work can ever find you again.