I paid for a membership last month - Waste of $ . Should have read the reviews. I am a successful 65 yo male actor, who thoroughly created (and double checked) my profile to ensure only appropriate roles pop up. Over the past month I have only been matched with 2 roles.: a 40 yo female and a role for Chicago locals only - I am from Boston. On Casting Networks, Actor's Access and Backstage I get numereous appropriate roles for submission each day. read more

Total lawsuit worthy - needs to be shut down. It's free to open an account, same as actors access etc. with limited media uploads like 1 video alongside a few headshots. BUT,if you go absent for awhile....a few months whatnot, it emails you that you've gone 'inactive' requiring a paid subscription. What? ... Even actors access doesn't do that. Paid subscriptions are OPTIONAL. NO legit casting site "requires" any payment form. THAT on top of media upload limits of 300mb. No acting reel is less than 330 which is 1.25 minutes. read more

Cast It Talent - Talent Agencies Near Me - Santa Monica, California

Started my submission since 2022 until now, normally I got the slide very fast from casting directors as they posted the open calls out on this platform, I like them mostly because they allowed you to upload 10 headshots maximum without charging any money, unless you wanted to upload your reels, then you have to sign up for a membership, I dislike others compare to this one because they only let you upload 2 looks, then charge you a premium service, so far still haven't booked any from this one, but a lot of CD seems to put their sides here which is good as long as my agent knew to send me all my auditions for them. read more

This is the absolute worst website to upload anything to. Carmen Cuba and Rapaport/Baldasare Casting please stop using this antiquated-unfriendly to actors website. It's a nightmare with all these error messages saying that your PDF has "special character" in it and that exact PDF file works on any other casting site ever. Banish this monstrosity of a website...begone Castit. read more

WORST. SITE. EVER. Casting always requests to upload audition as separate files. Cast It Talent only let's you upload one video, you always get the error message "video upload limit reached" after uploading one video file. I HATE this website so much!!! And their "support" is more than beyond useless, after 3 business day you get a generic email response. Actors Access is SO SO much better!! Every time I get an audition and it's through Cast It - I cry a little inside read more

Worst site ever!!! Nothing works. Try to upload a self-tape with instructions 4 page in length but what they want you cannot do! What?! Just fix your site please or close your doors. read more

The only service where Yelp should offer a 0 star option. When a CD asks to submit through Cast-It, I just make peace that they'll never see my audition lol At first it was impossible to log in, eventually they fixed that. Now when I upload the audition video it 'converts' for hours and never makes it through. Sometimes my reps can't even make it work. I don't know why anyone professional uses this site, maybe they own 'stock' in it or some BS like that. And their 'support' is nonexistent. read more

This is the worst in terms of service for actors. The word is going to go out and casting directors will have to stop using it. They never respond to phones and issues and there are always issues like passwords not working and the system not uploading your audition tapes unless you pay them even though they tell casting directors it's free for actors. This is a Huge Scam. When you have a deadline to upload an audition tape and they send you an email that they can only respond in 48 hours. WOW! unbelieveable. LA casting answers actors right away and deals with issues this is horrible! read more

An absolute horror show!! Someone designed this website in the 90s and completely forgot to update it!! Nothing, absolutely nothing works!! Why any casting office uses it is beyond me!! read more

Terrible website. I tried to log in to submit video via the website and got an error messages at every turn--was never able to even log in. And when you reach out for support, there is none. Even the support button on the website had a error message. Complete garbage. read more

Terrible and antiquated. The experience from logging in (seem to be two versions?), to instructions on converting videos from 10 years ago, to uploading videos (mysteriously fails)... just awful. Tip for actors trying to use this: CHECK YOUR HISTORY TAB after submitting. I learned that the second video I uploaded did not actually upload after I checked the history tab. I had to submit a second. Casting Directors, please avoid using this VERY actor-unfriendly site. read more

I concur with what I'm reading from others... worst site ever. I spent WAY too much time trying to submit an audition that either never loaded or didn't play. There's no customer support that's of any practical use, especially since those of us using it are facing a sometimes tight deadline. I HOPE casting directors read this and get off of this site! There are perfectly user-friendly, much more efficient, FUNCTIONAL delivery systems that no one should have to endure this. Even my manager says that the client base generally has trouble with it and they have to find a way to submit for us. And likely we are getting blamed for ineptitude when it's the actual fault of the site... which I had a tech person look into for me, and he assured me it was NOT of my doing, but theirs. read more

As a Manager it's important to have accurate and concise character information in order to submit the correct talent for specific projects. I've contacted Cast It Talent about the fact that 99% of their character breakdowns don't offer any information about age range, ethnicity, gender, eye/hair color, height, weight..etc. These are things that a representative needs to know in order to properly submit their talent. The only response I ever received was from someone named Taylor who told me, "We recommend that you submit your all of your clients' headshots, resumes, and demo reels or appropriate self tapes." This is not how this business works. If you bombard a casting office with your entire roster then you'll end up ticking off the people who are casting these projects. I don't know who started Cast It Talent, but it's obviously someone who has zero casting knowledge. I'm canceling my subscription from this service and I recommend that my fellow representatives use other services. If you need to cancel your subscriptions, here is the information directly from their Terms and Conditions: 16. CANCELLATION a. CANCELLATION BY CAST IT TALENT. Cast It Talent may, in its sole discretion, cancel or suspend your access to all or part of the Service for any reason, including, without limitation, breach or assignment of these Terms of Use. b. YOUR RIGHT TO CANCEL. You may cancel your membership with Cast It Talent and these Terms of Use and obtain a full refund, without any penalty or obligation, if notice of cancellation is given, in writing, within 10 business days from the Effective Date. For the purposes of this section, business days are Monday through Friday. To cancel your membership and these Terms of Use, you may: (1) mail or send by facsimile transmission a signed and dated copy of a written notice of cancellation of your membership; (2) send an email notification with "notice of cancellation" in the subject line; or (3) log in to your online account with Cast It Talent use the cancellation prompts contained therein. Cancellation notices must be sent NOT LATER THAN MIDNIGHT of the 10th business day from the Effective Date. If you cancel, all membership fees that you have paid to Cast It Talent shall be refunded to you within 10 business days after delivery of the cancellation notice to Cast It Talent. You may cancel your membership with Cast It Talent at any time after the expiration of the 10 business days from the Effective Date by following the same procedures as described in this section, PROVIDED you shall not be entitled to receive any refund (full or prorated) of the membership fees that you have paid to Cast It Talent prior to such cancellation. If cancelling by mail: Cast It Talent 1223 Wilshire Blvd G Santa Monica, CA 90403-5400 If cancelling by fax: 310-438-5986 If cancelling by email: talentsupport@castitsystems.com (type "notice of cancellation" in subject line") read more

Worst self tape experience I have ever had. Was requested by a CD to upload a video to this site via their casting link and it took me 4 emails and 2 days to receive an answer from customer service about why I could not successfully upload: The answer was I needed to pay them $20 to upload all the scenes of my audition. If this hadn't been a legit audition I already spend hundreds on dollars on in studio rentals and coaching, I never would have bothered. I hope I'm never asked to use this platform again. Canceling my account as soon as this audition is over. read more

Two years later, and they are still horrible. No one answers the phone. No one responds to emails.

Absolute turd of a website. Not sure why this has gained any traction in our industry. CDs ask to separate files yet CAST IT taps out after one upload. So many bugs and errors, it's just unpleasant at every turn. Just stick to Actors Access. read more

It just doesn't get any worse than this site. Casting Directors, please stop using it!! I have issues uploading my tape literally every time. It's so frustrating, and the customer support is non-existent. Being an actor is difficult enough as it is. Why torture us with Cast It? read more

I had an account with Cast It 3 years ago and stopped using it. Decided to give it another try and remembered why I stopped using it in the first place. The company/business model is ineffective and shady in my opinion. They offer free headshot sessions in which they talk you into buying all the photos and signing up for the pro membership. The hanging sheet background ends up looking like you did your headshots Walmart. They say that they will put your pics on LA casting for you too but don't tell you that LA casting charges for all membership types so it would be an additional cost to sign up. To cancel the pro membership is confusing AF. I'm sure they've gotten plenty of emails about it but have never fixed it, probably because it works in their favor if someone misses the deadline because of it. Come on guys, be better. read more

I did the FREE Headshot Session and I paid for the full package with 2 uploads to LA casting. I emailed 3 times and never got my two LA casting headshot uploads. read more

Has anybody been cast or have had a callback for this site. Is it any reason they dont provide a role specs? Never a description for the roles. I tried this site for 2 years and I find it super difficult to understand. After reading all the other reviews I know its not just me. Where are the success stories with this site? Awful site! read more

Horrible talent agency!!!! Stay away!!! I've been trying to contact them through email for almost a year to help me upload my headshots and they have NEVER replied but they take the monthly fee out of my account every month and I don't see an option to cancel my membership online!!! Stay away!! read more

This is the worst casting platform I have ever had the unfortunate experience of having to use. Was instructed to upload an audition from casting and was unable to upload as separate video files as requested. Emailed and called customer support but got nowhere. This site should be shut down and no one should continue using it. read more

Horrible!!! You upload a file then try to send. Theres no indication of where that file is in the upload process. You click send the screen closes. You click upload nothing happens. Eventually after trying to upload five times they all show up in a que with past submissions and the wrong CD. Did it send? I guess. To which CD? IDK. I loathe when CDs use this system. Why? read more

Cast It Talent is the WORST self taping site out there BY FAR!!! The only reason it gets 1 star is because I don't have the option of going lower than that! As all actors know, when we are asked to upload auditions we are under tight deadlines that need to be adhered to and most of us get this overwhelming feeling of dread when we are forced to use this crappy site because we know the experience is most likely going to suck!! The main issues I have with this site are the great difficulty in uploading multiple files and the unacceptably long delays when requesting support. I don't even bother calling their support anymore because by the time they get back to you, your submission deadline has most likely passed!! Actors Access is a far superior tape upload site and I lament that we are sometimes instead forced to use this catastrophe in Cast It Talent. If you haven't already guessed, I really, REALLY hate this service, and I have no advice for them other than to do us all a favor and go out of business for good because they obviously have shown no interest in improving the experience for their reluctant customers! read more