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

BBC World News, UK and Middle East

Global Listings is an excellent partner for the BBC and we are delighted to be working with them in the Middle East. It is imperative that we are able to supply the local markets with the right information in the correct language and format. We are confident that Global Listings will deliver first-class results for BBCʼs Global News division.

TV Control, Greece

We are very happy with the Global Listings service. The character length of the event descriptions fits our EPG limits, and as well as that your EPG teams always answer any questions that we may have promptly. The Global Listings schedules and EPGs are always delivered on time; we receive all your channels well in advance of airing times. Thanks a lot.