by CourVO | Oct 12, 2021 | Compensation
A voice-actor troll pops his head into a popular online forum for voice talent every once in a while to stir the pot. His general take on trying to hold the line on VO compensation rates so as not to ruin it for everyone is: “…I’m looking out for...
by CourVO | Jan 20, 2020 | Bad Guys, Compensation, New Paradigms |
Face it…humans are just an unnecessary expense in today’s corporate environnment…except the CEO’s and important officers, of course. When iHeartMedia laid off an estimated one thousand employees nationwide last week, they spun it as...
by CourVO | Dec 16, 2019 | Compensation |
FIRST SCENARIO The check arrived in an overnite mailer. It was for more than thousand dollars, and was meant for the purchase of a Rode Podcaster interface, and my first week’s compensation. The client had hired me to record weekly podcasts using equipment the...
by CourVO | Oct 15, 2019 | Compensation |
The new low. I answered an add for narrators. The pitch was for regular, frequent narrations, so the volume looked good, but when I saw the details, I shuddered. $70 per 10,000 words non-fiction and $90 per 10,000 words fiction. 10,000 words works out to about an...
by CourVO | Oct 14, 2019 | Compensation
A voice-actor troll pops his head into a popular online forum for voice talent every once in a while to stir the pot. His general take on trying to hold the line on VO compensation rates so as not to ruin it for everyone is: “…I’m looking out for...
by CourVO | Jul 31, 2019 | Compensation
A voice-actor troll pops his head into a popular online forum for voice talent every once in a while to stir the pot. His general take on trying to hold the line on VO compensation rates so as not to ruin it for everyone is: “…I’m looking out for...
by CourVO | May 28, 2019 | Compensation |
Lord knows I’ve expended a good amount of digital ink here on this blog in the service of establishing equitable rates for voice actors. Heck, I even helped to found World-Voices Organization with that goal largely in mind. Everybody has a theory, and...
by CourVO | May 14, 2019 | Compensation
BIDDING is BAD Every part of my being screams “NO!” to the question posed in the title of this article.. …And yet, there it is, bidding is a casually intrinsic part of nearly all the Pay-to-play sites that have shoved aside the union, the agency...
by CourVO | Apr 23, 2018 | Compensation
An old, divisive argument came back to haunt me this weekend. At an open house, I saw a guy I haven’t seen for a couple of years. Our last encounter did not end well, and we haven’t talked since. The happenstance of our meeting though, led us to agree to...
by CourVO | Mar 28, 2018 | Compensation
There’s little room for straight neutrality in today’s VO marketplace. And even if you take the brave stand for decent rates, and give lip-service to “doing the right thing for our profession”, it’s still the minority who puts action to...
