VocalReviews of vocal.media

Their challenges are the only reason I joined and sorry to say winners of these are extremely amateur. Difficult to trust a "writing platform" when their judges clearly have no idea what good writing is. Aside from this, making money on this site is extremely difficult. Don't waste your time.

They restrict the perceived theme of your writing and will not alow publishing if the writing isn't consistent with their limited views. Not a platform to expand your writing creativity.

As a writer and author or two published books, it is very discouraging to have your stories and poems put on the shelf, never reaching TOP STORIES - no comments, no feedback aside from the number of views and stats. How can the public find your poetry and stories if they are not displayed out front? Comments from the public and feedback would be great as it seems that I am writing in vain - little noticed. Very few of the stories that are displayed as top stories would impel me to read them. Just not interested in the articles that I could read anywhere in the newspaper or on line. Looking for unusual stories and personal experiences as opposed to magazine articles so this is what I write. I signed up for Vocal but not going forward by committing my credit card for payments to something I am not encouraged by.

I'm a professional writer who saw a Vocal contest advertised, and saw others promoting Vocal. So I signed up - I got the membership, too. Most of their contests that award money are "membership only." So the membership is $9.99 USD/mo ($10) so if they have 10,000 members that equals $100K -x 12 mos, $1.2 million revenue. The contests are like $5,000 prizes (at most). The site doesn't seem to have ads, it gets money only from subscribers. You will not have any type of promotion or delivery to readers. You get mini pennies per "view" so earn like 6 cents and have 10 "views." You have no way to interact with others and can only include a header image. The interface is very clunky and basic. I'm writing to say clearly "NO DO NOT DO." You can do your own blog for free or minimal expense; you can use services like Medium that actually will pay if you get any type of traction ... just really tired of this type of online business that exploits people. "NO" Vocal is not a money maker and "NO" it will not introduce your work to any readers. There is no way any of the "writing" on the site is getting enough views via pennies to amount to $6K earnings a month. Thumbs down. It is a moneymaker for the owners. The parent company is now called "Creatd," formerly Jerrick Media. It's publically traded on NASDAQ and had an IPO in 2020 for $7.7 million USD - that is a small IPO. The stock opened at $4.50 and is now trading at about $2. In addition to being an actual pro writer who is now dismayed that other pros are promoting Vocal - I'm a business consultant. This is a ripoff and exploitation of aspiring writers and investors a definite 1-star.

Auto charge your credit card to post YOUR OWN WORK and then you must self promote and get pennies for each read post. What a joke. Waste of time and your money

Terrible, the judges are extremely biased and reward what they like, not what’s good or marketable. I entered a contest, not expecting to win, but perhaps expecting to learn something. When I read the 5K winning submission, I was shocked! It was horrible, no horrible is a massive understatement. They clearly have an agenda or a political bent and do not judge fairly. Don’t waste your time or money.

I'd put zero stars if I could. This site IS a scam, ignore any and all positive reviews, they're meant to gaslight you and it's extremely likely they've been written by the site's administration team.I joined Vocal+ for several months entered several challenges and didn't win a single one. That isn't my main issue, my main issue is upon deciding to drop Vocal forever and move on I cancelled my Vocal+ subscription and tried to delete my credit card information. THEY WOULDN'T LET ME DELETE IT!!!!! The website said "You cannot delete your payment information because you have an active subscription" Bull-Spit! That's a massive red flag! No I did NOT have an active subscription, I just cancelled it! And the cancellation didn't fully take effect for over 23 days. Meaning the scam artists that run this farce of a website just wanted to steal money from me one last time. But I outsmarted them and changed my payment information to a prepaid card that had no money in the account. This site is not for REAL writers,it's a online country club for snobbish, sycophantic, rip-off artists with no appreciation for true literary talent. If you see a Vocal ad just keep scrolling, don't waste your time or money, because they sure will waste YOURS!

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.