There are dozens of reasons. Hopefully these eight will do.
Built for actors, nobody else
Every design is made with actors in mind. We could build for corporations; we chose not to. Would you use your graduation photo as a headshot? Would you send your agent the resume you wrote for an office job? Other builders hand you a "portfolio" template meant for anyone with something to show. This is not that.
It takes about a minute
The average build is 76 seconds. You enter your name and your email, and the rest is a few clicks. Other builders want forms, then more forms, then a download, then a login to each of your social accounts so you can copy photos across by hand. Hours later you may hate the result and start again.
No ads. None.
We never place Google Ads or any other ad on your website. Your site exists to keep a visitor looking at you, not to earn a click through to somewhere else. Other builders will put as many as four ads on a single page of yours.
Change the design whenever
Every design here is hot-swappable. You can change how your entire website looks with one click and lose nothing you have already put in. Other builders either will not let you switch at all, or make you re-enter everything and re-upload every image.
It updates itself
Imports from IMDb, Backstage, ActorsAccess, Stage 32, Vimeo, YouTube and a few others bring in videos, awards, credits and training, and you choose what to keep. We email you when a new match turns up. Other builders make you log in and do it by hand every time.
Built to be found
Years of web development and search work behind it. We look at data across more than 1,000 actor websites to find weak pages and fix them, so every site carries what an actor needs: headshots, reels, resume, credits, awards, training, reviews and events.
Built to be fast
Every image you upload is resized and cropped down. Headshots usually arrive raw, often 8MB each, and uploading those as they come would bring a site to a crawl. We resize them and crop to the standard 8x10 that headshots want. Other builders do neither, because they are not built for this.
Built for every screen
Every design is tested across screen sizes and devices, so it does not matter whether somebody opens your site on an old phone or a 4K monitor. It stays readable and easy to move around.
Three worth knowing about
Twitter review tool
Add a review from Twitter to your website by replying to the tweet with the hashtag #IADBReview.
Resume builder
Merges your projects and experience into a neat resume and hands you a PDF.
Industry contacts
Keeps everyone you work with in one place, with a focused Twitter feed alongside.
The full catalog runs to a good deal more than three.
Eight reasons is a lot of reading.
Building the thing takes 76 seconds and starts free, which is less time than you have just spent finding out why.
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