The Fast Company Fast 50 big idea:

Voices.com is a web 2.0 company and the industry leading service that connects clients with professional voice over talents and voice actors. Radio and television stations, advertising agencies, marketing executives, casting directors and voice talent agencies rely on Voices.com to easily search for and hire language service providers such as translators, narrators and professional voice over talents.

Please describe the creative and business achievements of the Fast 50 nominee.

Recent business achievements include a New Voices Award at DigiFest 2005 in Toronto, acceptance into the Better Business Bureau, and several other web awards and design achievements. David has presented as a guest lecturer at The Ontario Institute of Recording Technology (OIART) and has also been interviewed by ProSound Magazine and The Wall Street Journal. Some of the most significant pursuits this quarter have included releasing a cutting edge eBook entitled “ThePodcastingEbook: Your Complete Guide to Podcasting”, starting an InteractiveVoices podcast to better serve voice-over talents, and teaching clients how to connect with their audiences using voice-overs and the podcast medium. Aside from podcasting, new products for talent have been produced including “The Definitive Guide to Voice-Over Success”, and “The Voice-Over Script Collection”, a collection over 60 original royalty-free scripts, generating robust sales and interest in the company.

What skills has the nominee used to obtain these results?

David Ciccarelli, an honor's graduate of The Ontario Institute of Audio Technology, has used his engineering background and industry insight to build a business that caters to the specific audio needs of clients all over the world, delivering voice-over services for a variety of applications ranging from broadcast to video game voice-overs. InteractiveVoices.com is fully run on proprietary software developed by the team at InteractiveVoices. David's audio expertise combined with the skills of his team have created an environment that customers enjoy using and recommend to others that they feel would benefit from the InteractiveVoices service.

What does the nominee have in store for the next 10 years?

David and his team at InteractiveVoices have set the very achievable goal of maintaining their position as the undisputed leader of the voice-over industry with regard to employing freelance voice-over talent and providing resources for career voice talent.

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