Organize Your Reels and Demos Into Named Playlists
Audio on a voice actor website can now be grouped into named playlists. Each one gets its own player, its own heading, and its own place in your page order.
One player is not enough for voice work
A screen actor has a reel. A voice actor has categories, and a buyer arrives with a specific one in mind. Somebody casting an explainer video does not want to sit through your animation demo to find out whether you can do calm and clear. If they have to, they will go to the next person on their list, because there are always fifty other people on the list.
Standard categories
- Commercial. The one most buyers open first.
- Narration and corporate. Explainer, e-learning, documentary.
- Character and animation. Range, not volume.
- Audiobook. A longer sample, because that is what publishers need to hear.
- Promo and imaging. If you do it, it is a distinct buy.
Only build the ones you actually work in. Three real demos beat six thin ones, and an empty category tells a buyer you are guessing.
Length and order
A demo is sixty to ninety seconds and the first ten of those decide everything. Put your strongest, most typical read first inside each demo, and put your most bookable category first on the page. If seventy percent of your income is corporate narration, that playlist goes at the top regardless of which one is most fun.
Our older piece on where to post a voice demo covers distribution beyond your own site, and what buyers look for on a voice over website is written from the other side of the desk, which makes it unusually useful.
Practical details
- Upload files directly or connect an existing account. See SoundCloud, properly connected.
- Name every track. "Commercial Demo 2025" beats "demo_final_mix_2".
- Nothing autoplays. It never will. Autoplaying audio on a website has cost more bookings than it has ever won.
- Players load only when clicked, so a page with five playlists is still fast.
The design matters here
If audio is your main product, a design built around a photo gallery is working against you. We built one specifically for this, which is covered in VoiceNow, and rebuilt an older one in Voicebox, optimized. Both put the player where the headshot usually goes.
You can browse everything in the template catalog, or create a free actor website and try one.
