Freelancer FAQ – Working with Global Listings

Thursday, January 15th, 2026

Freelancers often ask why passing a translations test doesn’t always lead to immediate work.

In broadcast localisation and metadata, approval means your quality meets the standard — not that demand is guaranteed every week.

At Global Listings, we work across multiple broadcasters, platforms, budgets, and timelines. Freelancers are matched to projects based on language pair, expertise, availability, client budget and fit.

To be transparent, we’ve published a clear Freelancer FAQ explaining how our freelance pool works, how rates are used, and what to expect.

If you’re a translator or localisation specialist, this may be useful:

Clarity builds better partnerships.

What the industry says about US

MAIL ON SUNDAY, DMG MEDIA, UK

The Global Listings schedule service works very well for us. We also use the Global Listings weekly and monthly TV highlights as well as the programme amendment documents. The service is very good.

Insight, International

Since Insight TV launched in 2015, Global Listings have been a trusted and reliable partner for all our EPG and Press Highlights services. The team are friendly, dedicated and understand the needs of our business, which is vital for us as a new and growing channel within the linear television market.