This post is an article that precedes a very exciting announcement that we'll be making tomorrow on VOX Daily.
I'd like to give you a glimpse into a new service we'll be offering effective Wednesday July 2nd, 2008.
Not entirely letting the cat out of the bag, I can tell you that we are about to reveal a new service offering to buyers and sellers in the voice over industry.
This new service is designed with people in mind who are serious about expanding their territory, getting the word out about their voice and attaining more visibility online like never before.
There will be a fee, and the service will be limited to the first 100 people.
Voices.com has created 10 websites geared toward buyers of voice over services who want to commission application specific voice over recordings.
You can read more about each website below and view screenshots to get an idea of what's coming up.
TV Commercial Voices
TV CommercialVoices.com is a site where producers, videographers, copy writers and advertising agencies can impress their clients in record time with the best possible voice talent selections on the web to record for their television commercial voice over needs.
Radio Commercial Voices
Radio Commercial Voices serves people at radio stations and creative ad agencies who need to hire a voice talent to record for broadcast radio commercials to be aired locally, regionally or nationally. Of course, voice talent listed on this site can also be hired for internet radio. When a client visits this site, they'll be able to find and listen to the voice of their next commercial quickly and easily.
Cartoon Voice Talent
This was a fun site to design! At Cartoon Voice Talent, we welcome people who are involved with the casting of voices, creative directors, agents and talent scouts. This site is ideal for finding unique voice samples for television cartoons, animated films, and animated programming for the web and wireless devices.
Movie Trailer Voice Talent
This site is designed to help individuals such as filmmakers, members of a creative team, or independent producers complete their movie trailer voice over quickly and in style.
Business Voice Talent
Business Voice Talent is suited to helping businesses, whether large, medium or small, connect quickly with a limited variety of the finest voice talent available today in the realm of corporate voice over narration. Whether someone is in need a voice over for a powerpoint presentation, awards ceremony or sales meeting, they will be able to help you find exactly what they're looking for.
Phone Voice Talent
This site is geared toward people who need to find a voice to record and brand their telephone greeting, auto attendant, Interactive Voice Response (IVR), corporate phone tree, on hold marketing, and the ever popular, voicemail. Voice talent are also available to record for ring tones, automated messages, and personalized voice greetings.
Internet Voice Talent
Outsourcing voice over for your Internet needs is fast and exciting when you use Internet Voice Talent. This website is catered to website designers, developers, web masters, creative departments and people who work in advertising and marketing who need to present their clients with something exciting and visionary.
Podcasting Voice Talent
Podcasting is literally for everyone! Serving the independent podcaster, podcasting networks, and those who are offering a corporate podcast to their customers, Podcasting Voice Talent is a superb site that helps people to choose the best voice to represent their podcast, deliver messages and engage their listening audience.
Audio Book Voice Talent
The Audio Book Voice Talent website is created specifically for audio book publishers, authors, and agents who need to find and hire a narrator to breathe life into their written words, whether it be the narration of a beloved classic or a publication hot off the press. In the past, you had to have an "in" with publishers or know somebody who would refer you, however, technology has leveled the playing field a great deal and independent publishing houses routinely search for and hire voice talent online to find that perfect voice to narrate their audio book.
Videogame Voice Talent
This site is designed to help videogame producers, audio directors and casting agencies find the best voices working in the videogame industry today. Whether someone is looking to hire just one voice talent or a whole troupe to complement their cast of characters, Video Game Voice Talent is the best place to can find freelance voice over professionals who record for videogames.
Want to learn more?
To find out more about the new service offering and how you can get listed on these sites, stay tuned for tomorrow's VOX Daily!
Best wishes,
Stephanie, David and the Voices.com Team
These look AWESOME! Really! I think these new pages/sites will be a great way to showcase the different voice applications (and they look great as well)! Please let us know how to be a part of the different sections. Will it be automatic? I would love to be included in the Podcasting, Business, and Radio Commercial Voice areas!
Congratulations David, Stephanie, and the whole team....yet again!
Wayne Henderson
The Voice-Over Journey podcast
http://voiceoverjourney.libsyn.com/
Congrats on launching the new sites!
I can already tell that I'll get some good use out of a couple of them.
~Russ
Hi Wayne and Russ,
Thank you for your comments and enthusiasm :)
When I was writing this article yesterday I found it difficult to give away too many details without revealing the surprise announcement.
There are three more clues I can share with you:
The new service is designed for professional voice talent, it will be limited to 100 people and there will be a fee. The purpose is to broaden your visibility and dominate the search engines.
Thanks,
Stephanie
It still sounds like a pretty good plan (and it does look great).
Another EXCELLENT idea for the voice over community from Voices.com. Great work! Can't wait to be a part of it!
-Jason
Stephanie, this looks GREAT! Since the service will be limited to 100 people, will there be any language restrictions? (Hope not)
Thanks again for giving us VO talents new marketing tools... I can't wait to sign up!
Hi Stephanie,
Well I'm very excited to learn more about these websites - I think it's a great idea and I'm sure it will help pair customer and talent far more easily.
I'm all happy of course so long as we (talent) aren't going to be charged separately for each site we are on in addition to the Voices.com fees.
But yes, I know, I must wait for tomorrow to find out all the details and I can't wait.
Well done you guys for the concept.
James
Hi Stephanie,
Looks great! I'm sure I'll want to participate.
(I'll be out of pocket tomorrow, though, and afraid all the slots will be taken. I've sent you an email regarding my situation)
Anxious to see and hear more!
Melanie
These look VERY interesting and once again illustrates why Voices.com is so successful. You folks lead the way in online voice casting. I'm personally looking forward to these new web site offerings and anticipate exciting things!
Stephanie,
I think it's a fabulous idea! Just have a few questions.
When you say "100 people", do you mean first 100 or will you select these 100 from a pool.
Also, will there be 100 in each category (as some of us are genre specific and some can do all 10...and God bless them! ).
Thanks!!!
Deb Dockery
This sounds exciting, but what is going to happen to the Voices.com subscribers who don't get into the 100 - it feels like we will be left out of lots of jobs.
Hi Jason and Jorge,
Thank you for commenting!
@ Jorge - To answer your question, no, there will be no language limitations :) All languages are welcome.
Best wishes,
Stephanie
Hi James,
Thank you for your comments and question.
There will not be individual fees to be on each of the websites on top of a membership fee at Voices.com. It would be part of one new service offering that is all-inclusive. More on that in the post I'm publishing later today :)
Cheers,
Stephanie
Hi Deb,
Thank you for your comment and question!
The new service will be first come first served.
Best,
Stephanie
Hi Jill,
Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
To clarify, these sites are not being used to direct traffic away from the Voices.com site but are meant to be more nets out in the water if you will to attract new clients who are looking for very specific kinds of voice over via searches conducted using Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Ask, etc.
I hope I've answered your question and put you at ease.
Best wishes,
Stephanie
Congratulations Stephanie and David! From what I can see these look great and I think this would be extremely valuable for me. I see at least 3 I am interested in joining. Please let me know how to go about getting more info on being listed on the new websites. Thanks!
Sincerely,
Lauren Synger
Hi Stephanie
Fantastic idea! Just another example of the great customer service that VOICES.COM is noted for. Applause, applause...
Hope you had a great Canada Day...we're right behind you!
All the best
Chet Kelley
I am thinking of becoming a member of voices.com and the 10 new websites sound very interesting. Are these available to those of us who don't have $2000 for a platinum membership? Or are they exclusive to the 100 platinum members?
Hi Sue,
Thank you for your comment and question.
The partner websites are exclusive to Platinum members.
Best,
Stephanie
Hi,
Very innovative ideas. However, I agree with Jill. It seems like there will be an elite group who will get the jobs. It doesn't make me feel hopeful. I am skeptical. I figured you'd want comments that represent true thoughts and feelings about the new features. I look forward to hearing more - that might put my concerns at ease. Thanks.
Hi Jennifer,
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I'd like to take the opportunity to give a different twist to how this will work.
Most importantly:
There will still be the same number of jobs being posted at Voices.com. This will not decrease, in fact, we expect the number of jobs posted to increase significantly through partnerships we have forged and relationships we are engaged in (many that have yet to be announced). We have a whole team of developers working to build more ways for clients to use Voices.com to find voice actors and generate more employment opportunities for you.
The purpose is to give professionals additional opportunities outside of Voices.com. Everyone needs a multi-pronged marketing plan and by offering the Platinum membership, we're providing another prong for those who want to take advantage of it.
Premium and Preferred members will not be losing work to Platinum members at Voices.com because of this new service.
Best wishes,
Stephanie
Congratulations!
An excellent idea to breakdown the niche areas. Can you tell me how I can be listed in these please.
Regards
Lesley Lyon
Hi Lesley,
Thank you for your interest and for commenting. To answer your question, talent may be listed on these sites if they are Platinum members at Voices.com. Platinum members can be on any or all of these sites given they have experience and a correlating demo to the niche.
Best wishes,
Stephanie