VocalReviews of vocal.media

I signed up for Vocal+ about six months ago to enter a poem in one of their competitions. After signing up, I started getting charged $9.99 a month to continue my membership. I didn’t agree to this, but decided to continue paying to keep entering the competition prompts they posted monthly. I haven’t won anything, but I did eventually get one of my stories featured as a “Top Story”. The odds are not in your favor with this site. I earned $5 after publishing my fifth story on Vocal+, then $10 after publishing my tenth. I earned $20 for publishing my top story. Being a Vocal+ member for six months has cost me $60, and my Vocal wallet still only has just over $32 in it. The extra $2 is accumulated from the cents I earn from readers who view my stories I post. They say you can make up to $6k a month as a member, but you don’t profit at all. On top of that, Stripe, the cash withdrawing app Vocal+ is connected to, is a scam. It’s the only app Vocal offers to withdraw the money out of your Vocal wallet. I have tried to download it multiple times and each time I’ve tried to, I just get a bunch of questions asking me personal questions (what is my SSN, what is the passcode to my iPhone, my license number, etc) and tons of pop up ads. There’s no option to use a safer connection like PayPal or Venmo. I entered two last contests this month and I’m waiting for the results, but after this I’m going to finally delete my account.

I wanted to use it so I signed up but before I started writing they posted updated guidelines which I was fine with but they also want my ID. Photo ID!!! No thank you. When I asked who they are that I should trust them with this information their answer was to not address my question but tell me what they were doing and how I should go about it. Sorry that does not cut it. I do not have to prove myself to you but the other way around. So I will not proceed and will close my account. Thank you for offering me a place to share what I experienced with Vocal. Cheers.

Signed up with introductory offer which after a month, rolled over to $9.99 per month. Needed to cancel for $$ reasons. There was no Cancel Subscription button anywhere. Contacted Vocal.media; Sunny keeps saying there’s no account associated w my email, yet they keep billing my CC! (Vocal’s phone num is an investment company.) Had to go thru CC company to stop payments.

It’s not just me, hundreds of people are starting to believe that Vocal is a scam. So many “winners” have only written one story and they just aren’t well written, especially first place winners. In fact no one in any of the Vocal Facebook groups have ever known any of the first place winners unless it was sponsored by another company. It’s becoming very clear that fake accounts are being made by vocal and that $5,000 winning prize money is just going back into vocal or its “employees”. Beware that this platform may very well be a scam. If Vocal Media kept giving 1st place winnings to known people in the community, there would be no suspicion. People should report to the BBB.

Awful awful awful. The positive ratings on this are clearly from vocal staff. I don't know a single person who has anything good to say about it after using it. Stay well clear

I love Vocal. I have an avenue that encouraged me to write when I thought I was no writer at all. I have found the platform improving, while I am not yet a vocal+ member, I am still able to earn money off the few articles I have written.

I have had a wonderful opportunity to share my writing on Vocal and continue to do so. I have also read some amazing stories from other authors. The Challenges are fun, if you win or not it is always fun to take part. I recommend Vocal to everyone who loves to write or would love to write for fun.

A lot of the reviews here smack of sour grapes. Could Vocal be better? Of course, no hosting site is perfect, and there's always room for improvement. (Personally, I'd love the ability to leave gushing comments on other stories...) On the flip side, Vocal is at least willing to listen to its users, having recently sent out a survey, swiftly followed by introducing the ability to subscribe to writers. More improvements to follow. Vocal's big draw is undoubtably its Challenges, and the Winning Prize Money. Mostly limited to Vocal+ paid members, whose subscriptions pay for prize money, Challenges run on a monthly or fortnightly basis, with three winners and several thousand disappointed writers who didn't make the cut. Vocal's other draw is that you are paid per read, other members can leave tips, and there are a number of bonuses that will earn money on top of that. Being selected as a Top Story, featuring on Vocal's social media, and assorted milestone bonuses are how most Vocal writers make a lot of their money. The biggest drawback is that, outside of being a Top Story or winning a challenge or writing something good enough to have another member rave about you on Facebook, it's honestly up to you to generate your own traffic. Vocal doesn't do paid promotions or ads; you have to promote yourself and your work. Welcome to Indie life. A lot of people join Vocal with big dreams, then let disappointment get the better of them when they find themselves struggling. I entered for the Challenges, fantasised about winning, then moped when that didn't happen. Then I picked myself up and kept writing. Maybe I'll win one day, maybe I won't. If all I ever manage is the ability to take my partner out for dinner once a month, that's still better than I expected. Vocal never claimed that it would do the work for me, and I never expected it to.