Did you guys know that you can track digital ads on Google, Meta and TikTok?

It's a German idiom, literally translating to "The squirrel feeds itself arduously" 🐿️

It means something along the lines of "slow and steady wins the race"..."Rome wasn't built in a day" and all the other sayings that express the idea of taking baby steps towards a bigger goal.

Every now and then I get an audition through, I record it thinking "I nailed that", send it off feeling confident that it might at least end in a pencil, and then....crickets 😂

So...you do like, commercials and things?

That's usually what people ask when they hear that I do voice overs.

Here's a cautionary tale for you.

A creative freelancer, let's call them Sam, starts out in the business.

The Game Directors Panel I hosted at One Voice is already a distant memory.

I was joined by a delightful group of people made up of Gina Thompson, Natalie Winter, Natalia Hinds and HaZ Dulull.

If you produce voice-over content, for corporate videos, commercials, social media content...do you send your voice talent the background music?

Hidden within the vast landscape of voice work, lies a huge sub-genre that is sometimes treated treated like the ugly step-sister of commercial work: corporate narration.

I've been hearing this a lot recently when new clients have approached me for a quote....

I recently worked with a new client, voicing a character for an escape room...

Is it necessary to have teaching experience to be a great e-learning narrator?
No it isn’t.
But it certainly helps…

Last week, I wrote a little post with some narration tips.
This week, I am flipping the script and sharing some tips with producers who want to achieve the best results when working with VAs…