A voice talent agent shares observations, ruminations and occasional frustrations about the voice-over industry in Canada.
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 started hustling for voice work back in 1990, the summer before my last year at university. Back then, we were still a few years away from the internet hitting the mainstream so one had almost no option but to use the yellow pages and published directories of ad agencies & production companies to find [...]
There’s a fine line between persistent and completely annoying and the trick for the aspiring voice talent is to stay on the right side of that line.
It’s true the voice demo is always going to be the #1 calling card for a talent trying to land an agent but there’s also the matter of your personality. I [...]
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.
