Voices.com

About Us

Company Overview

Voices.com is the industry leading website that connects businesses with professional voice talents. Radio and television stations, advertising agencies and Fortune 500 companies rely upon the Voices.com marketplace to search for, audition and hire voice talents with the assistance of our innovative SurePay™ escrow service and our award-winning Web application.

Voices.com has a global network of over 25,000 voice actors in over 100 languages and currently serves more than 107,220 users online. Over 69,662 MP3 voice-over demos are listened to by 1,159,901 unique visitors, creating 6911 job opportunities on average, each and every month.

Management Team

Established in 2003 as Interactive Voices, then rebranded in September 2006 as Voices.com, the company was founded by Chief Executive Officer David Ciccarelli who is a graduate from the Ontario Institute of Audio Recording Technology with an Honour's Degree in Audio Technology and partner Stephanie Ciccarelli, the Chief Marketing Officer who received a Bachelor of Musical Arts from the Don Wright Faculty of Music at the University of Western Ontario.

The Voices.com team, united from a complementary set of backgrounds including the financial industry, computer science, sound engineering, vocal education, marketing and customer service has developed an online voice casting service for the purposes of simplifying the process and reducing the costs of hiring professional voice-over talents. Voices.com's team of professionals offer the best in first class service and technology.

Products and Services

Voices.com's online marketplace brings together the participants to conduct business simply and efficiently. Unique features and benefits include:

50% savings on production and administrative costs
Anytime, anywhere access to a global network of 25,000 voice over talents
Projects are completed in 24-48 hrs, usually cutting production schedules in half
Financial transactions are processed securely online, taking the complexity out of hiring voice actors

Examples of Audio and Voice Recordings:

Recorded business presentations and voice messaging systems
Scripted radio spots and television commercials
Audio books, films and documentaries
Voices of animated characters in games and other new media
Narration for educational recordings such as e-learning software

SurePay

SurePay is an escrow and file delivery service developed by Voices.com. The service guarantees satisfaction with the work delivered by the talent and ensures that the talent will be paid for the work they have sent the client. The service is free for talent members of Voices.com. There is a 10% fee applied to the client and includes bank fees, merchant fees and dispute resolution services.

Voices.com upholds a privacy policy as well as an anti money laundering policy and has taken a number of safeguards to ensure the security of the web service and the data management.

Customers

Voice over professionals rely upon Voices.com to generate leads for their business, for promotion, and also for access to job postings. Having a presence on Voices.com is critical to the success of any freelance voice over professional and puts them on the grid for voice casting. Voices.com provides a steady stream of opportunities for talent from clients around the globe and gives them the freedom to pursue work in different aspects of the business whereas their agent may limit the number and or type of opportunities they receive. When talent use Voices.com, they are acting as their own agent and can make decisions for themselves with regard to what they feel they are interested in and are able to provide.

Clients hiring voice over talent rely upon Voices.com to simplify their recruiting experience. They use Voices.com to search, review, and identify the people they want to work with and ultimately hire to record their voice over. We are able to give them the tools to narrow their searches, find the best talent, and also acquire a voice over that they are proud to associate their company or organization with.

Business clients span the spectrum from SME's to Fortune 500 companies, including NBC, ESPN, PBS, The History Channel, The Discovery Channel, Reader's Digest, Comcast, Nortel Networks, Bell Canada, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, ING, Western Union, Ford, GM, Jaguar, US Army, the US Government and thousands more.

Clients using Voices.com to post jobs and find voice talent include:

Fortune 500 companies
Start-ups and small businesses
Advertising agencies
Radio and television stations
Audio book publishers
Film and documentary producers
Game and animation companies

Awards and Recognition

From customer service to innovation, entrepreneurial leadership to economic and cultural development, the team at Voices.com has won a variety of awards that demonstrate its leadership in business.

PROFIT HOT 50

Voices.com, one of North America's fastest growing Internet brands and digital media companies, grew at 534% and was recognized in PROFIT Magazine's "10th Annual PROFIT HOT 50" as Canada's #20 Emerging Growth Company. The PROFIT HOT 50 is the definitive list of Canadian growth companies, ranked by two-year revenue growth.

Pick 20 Web 2.0

Backbone and KPMG assembled a prestigious group of Canadian thought leaders, movers and shakers, practitioners and pundits to select Voices.com as a PICK 20 Web 2.0 winner. Voices.com excelled in problem solving, innovation, collaboration as well as knowledge sharing and management.

1to1 Impact Award

The 1to1 Impact Awards spotlight leading companies that have implemented effective and innovative customer strategies that have led to clear and quantifiable business results. Voices.com won a silver medal in the Full-Suite CRM award category at the 7th Annual 1to1 Impact Awards presented by 1to1 Media, a magazine published by Peppers and Rogers.

CRM Elite Award

As the most trusted marketplace for voice actors, Voices.com has won a CRM Elite Award in recognition of their stellar success and rock-solid ROI using CRM (Customer Relationship Management) processes and technology.

DigiFest

Voices has been selected as a New Voices winner at DigiFest 2005, an award recognizing Interactive Voices as an industry leader who provides digital media products and innovations that contribute to Canada's economic and cultural future.

Canadian Venture Forum

Voices.com, selected by the Canadian Venture Forum as one of sixty of the nations brightest and best, carefully screened quality investment opportunities will present their case for investment at the forum.

Young Entrepreneur Award Nomination

Co-founders David and Stephanie Ciccarelli have been nominated for the Young Entrepreneur Award, established by the Business Development Bank of Canada as an award presented to entrepreneurs who have distinguished themselves for their business sense.

Reviews

Internet gives voice to unseen actors

"Today, it's almost too easy. Voice actors can be their own agent. Clients find them through personal Web sites or via talent-congregation sites Voices.com." Steve Mollman, CNN

The Do-It-Yourself Economy

"Rather than hiring local voice talent — for $250 to $500 per hour — we searched the Internet for high-quality voices that we could afford. We found several sites offering various forms of narration or voice-overs. We selected www.voices.com. In less than one minute, we created an account, posted our requirements and solicited bids. Within five minutes, we had 10 to 15 'applicants' — charging 10 percent of what Greer would have paid live talent." Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times

Google's New Radio Ads Product

"Voices.com has been helping to match advertisers with voice talent and ad production for the last couple of years." Michael Arrington, TechCrunch

Mashable on Voices.com's Graphic Design

"Voices is larger, but tighter. More technically productive, but simpler to use. It's evolved, really. It's hard to make something of Voices' proportions into a truly elegant thing, but Voices may well have done just that."
Paul Glazowski, Mashable