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October Rates Roundtable: Usage

October Rates Roundtable: Usage

We enter a world of arcane language, conflicting buyouts, and digital media streams this month on our Rates Roundtable. "Usage" was something agents handled for their talent...buffering them from predatory and unscrupulous clients -- and they still do that (should).  But independent freelance...

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#WoVOChat Wednesday:  Commercials!

#WoVOChat Wednesday: Commercials!

When you start out in voice-over work...what's the first demo you put together? Commercial, right? We all kinda want that to be our bread 'n' butter.  It doesn't always work out that way...but that seems to be most everyone's hope.So, little wonder that WoVOChats would eventually touch on...

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VO Rates Roundtable

VO Rates Roundtable

Don't fault me or WoVO for focusing so much on voiceover compensation rates lately.  We're only trying to keep up with the crazy pace of this industry.  No one topic garners more interest among freelance voice actors than this issue. World-Voices Organization members site "rates" as one of their...

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Next #WoVOChat: Pay-to-Plays

Next #WoVOChat: Pay-to-Plays

Given the high participation in almost any online discussion about online casting sites, we expect this week's #WoVOChat to be a barn-burner! In just the last week, a thread on the FaceBook Group that Terry Daniel and I administer (Voice-Over Pros)  has been going on and on.  The arc of such...

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