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Keep pace with the right kind of voice-overs Whether you are putting up a new Youtube video series or you are doing some interesting webinars or innovative new ads to promote your brand, you want to make sure the voiceover is just perfect. Finding the right voiceover talent can become one of the most difficult [...]

Age-Based Discrimination in the Voiceover Industry In 2015, actress Maggie Gyllenhaal disclosed that she was considered too old to play the love interest of an actor who happened to be 18 years her senior. Naturally, this became the subject of a controversy in Hollywood. Like Gyllenhaal, many on-camera actors, especially women, suffer the stigma attached [...]

In this post we will discuss the advantages of engaging a full time voiceover artist, against a part time voiceover artist. Voiceover is a special vocation, honed over years and years of practice and effort. Many advertising agencies and creatives are trying to cut costs by hiring part time, voiceover artists for their projects. If [...]

The person donning the cap of the director for a voice-over session has a tough job to do. He/she needs to communicate his vision to the voice over artist while remaining open to constructive input. And unlike the making of a play or a film, time is a scarce resource. Every wasted minute adds to [...]

Ask The Voicecat A lot of great V-O questions came in this month, but the most pertinent one—and one that a lot of NowCasting.com readers might be interested in—was asking about how to get voiceover representation from a talent agency if you live outside the big three U.S. cities. Q:  I’ve been training in voiceover [...]

Your Voice Over Career If you have ever been told that you have a great voice, then you may have thought of making use of that great voice in a professional way, as a singer, announcer or as a voice over talent. Voice over, or adding your voice to advertisements and recorded messages, can be [...]