Where Talent Gets Discovered
StarNow is an open casting platform, which means anyone can make a profile and apply to what is listed. That is its strength and its weakness at once.
The strength is access. It carries a wide spread of work across acting, extras, modeling, presenting and music, and it is one of the few places someone without representation can find and apply for real jobs. It is strongest in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, where it began.
The weakness is volume. Open means everyone, so competition on any single listing is heavy, and it is worth reading each one properly before spending an application on it. Paid work sits alongside unpaid and low paid work, and the listing says which is which.
Treat it as one channel among several rather than as a plan, and keep your photos and credits current, because that is what a caster sees first.