A voice talent agent shares observations, ruminations and occasional frustrations about the voice-over industry in Canada.
Edge Studios in New York has asked me to be their guest tonight for their ongoing series, Talk With A Pro. Apparently, I’m the “pro” :)-
I’ll be taking questions about being a voice agent and the voice over industry in general from people all over North America tonight from 9-10 pm EST.
Details here: www.edgestudio.com/workshop-talk-with-a-pro.htm
The voice-over webisphere is all abuzz because a new online casting site - voicejockeys.com - is offering $55 a spot to voice talents and will take 50% (!) commission on that already lucrative fee. The site works like many others out there in that talents “pay to play”. That is, it’s free for producers to [...]
I don’t fully get Linked In the way I get Facebook. I got Facebook the second I posted my profile and it still sucks me in, almost on a daily basis. I haven’t decided whether to bother promoting this blog in any “real” way there yet. Linked In, on the other hand hasn’t really grabbed [...]
One of the “joys” of being a talent agent, especially of the non-union variety, is the constant monitoring of the list of accounts receivables (aka money owing). At the best of times, let alone during an unsteady economy, the Net 30 days on the invoice seems to be some very loose guideline for your average [...]
Roger King is the President of PN Agency which provides voice-over talent to the radio, television, film, multi-media and animation industries. In 2004, he launched a sister agency, Ethnic Voice Talent (EVT), and now represents over 100 voice over talents & translators in more than 15 different languages.
