The Business Development Bank of Canada’s (BDC) Voices project, “Voices’s Growth Journey” was announced as the winner of the 2018 Constantinus International Gold Award as the Best Project at the International Constantinus Awards on October 18, presented at the International Council of Management Consulting Institute’s (ICMCI – now known as CMC-Global) congress in Milan, Italy. The project was also awarded the National Champion award for Canada.
The International Constantinus Awards showcase excellence in consulting services worldwide. This is the first year that a Canadian project was submitted for consideration.
“Voices’s Growth Journey,” a project which began in 2016, included strategic growth planning, leadership development, and execution support from BDC, the results of which contributed to Voices cementing its position as the undisputed leader in the voice over industry with the largest market share online. The project was named as a winner of the 2018 Canadian CMC Project of the Year award by the Canadian Association of Management Consultants (CMC-Canada) in July, and was moved forward to be considered for the 2018 Constantinus International awards.
“BDC has been a great supporter of Voices for many years, so when we were faced with the strategic challenge of accelerating our already fast growth in a sustainable and achievable – yet aggressive – way, we knew that BDC would help our company really deliver on our vision,” says Voices CEO David Ciccarelli. “BDC and Glenn Yonemitsu, the lead on this project, have been invaluable partners to our organization and contributors to our significant achievements to date. We couldn’t be happier that their project with our company, along with their great consulting work, has been recognized by this prestigious organization and award.”
“Voices is a great example of how a committed entrepreneur can benefit from a disciplined growth strategy approach when combined with expert support,” said Glenn Yonemitsu, Senior Executive Advisor, BDC Advisory Services. “We are proud of Voices’s tremendous progress as they participated in our Growth Driver Program, which was created to accelerate the growth of high-potential and scalable mid-sized companies. Our teams meshed well to produce strong results, and we are excited to see what the future has in store for Voices.”
120 projects representing 20 countries were evaluated for the 2018 awards. Of the projects selected for the final round, three were from Canada, including the Voices project. Canada swept the podium with all the top awards, with “Voices’s Growth Journey” taking Gold and National Champion. TDV Global from Ottawa and Clearthink Group from Edmonton tied for Silver.
“These award winners demonstrate the significant difference even a small engagement with a Certified Management Consultant can make for our Canadian and international clients,” said Mike Watson, CMC-Canada’s National Board Chair. “CMC-Canada thanks all of its members who submitted projects for this year’s awards – we’re looking forward to next year’s submissions and continuing to highlight the work of CMCs in delivering superior results for their clients.”
The series of Constantinus Awards was established to promote the consulting sector and the individual outstanding consulting projects at national and international levels. This is the eighth year of the awards.
For ongoing updates on Voices, follow @voices on Twitter, or @Voicesdotcom on Facebook.
About Voices
Founded in 2005, Voices is the largest global online marketplace for audio and voice over products and services comprised of more than half a million business clients and voice actors. Its flagship website, https://www.voices.com/, records approximately two million unique visitors annually and has enabled over 300,000 transactions to date. Headquartered in London, Canada, the Company employs more than 120 people and has clients and voice talent in 160 countries.
About BDC
BDC is the only bank devoted exclusively to entrepreneurs. It promotes Canadian entrepreneurship with a focus on small and medium-sized businesses. With its 123 business centres from coast to coast, BDC provides businesses in all industries with financing and advisory services. Its investment arm, BDC Capital, offers equity, venture capital and flexible growth and transition capital solutions. BDC is also the first financial institution in Canada to receive B Corp certification. To find out more, visit bdc.ca.
About CMC-Canada
The Canadian Association of Management Consultants (CMC-Canada) fosters excellence and integrity in the management consulting profession as a whole. CMC-Canada administers, and its Regional Certifying Institutes confer, the CMC designation in Canada. The Association and its members advocate for the CMC designation and are dedicated to advancing the profession and delivering the benefits of those efforts to the client community. Learn more: www.cmc-canada.ca.
About CMC-Global
CMC-Global (formerly ICMCI) is an international membership organization and a network of the management advisory and consultancy associations and institutes worldwide, who have a common purpose and shared values and goals. Learn more: www.cmc-global.org.
Canadian Business and Maclean’s today ranked Voices number 224 on the 30th annual Growth 500, the definitive ranking of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies. The company made the list as a result of a five-year revenue growth of 319%. This is the sixth consecutive year that Voices, the world’s largest online voice over platform, has been named to the prestigious list, representing consistent growth that ranks among Canada’s top businesses.
“Given the competitiveness of the ranking and the challenges associated with sustaining high growth, it is very difficult for any company to make the ranking for six straight years,” says Growth 500 Program Manager Deborah Aarts.
Produced by Canada’s premier business and current affairs media brands, the Growth 500 ranks Canadian businesses on five-year revenue growth. Growth 500 winners are profiled in a special print issue of Canadian Business published with Maclean’s magazine and online at CanadianBusiness.com and Growth500.ca.
“We’re honored to again be included among Canada’s fastest-growing and most ambitious companies,” says Voices CEO, David Ciccarelli. “The entire Voices team is ever inspired to serve our customers and build our platform. This recognition is a symbol that we’ve matured from a startup to a scale-up, moving into a new phase of growth. Our team’s focus will always be to help organizations communicate more effectively using the power of the human voice.”
Voices recently eclipsed 500,000 registered users and has the largest market share, making it the undisputed leader in the voice over industry. The company has also been recognized as one of the fastest-growing businesses in North America, appearing on the 2017 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 and Deloitte Technology Fast 50.
“The companies on the 2018 Growth 500 are truly remarkable. Demonstrating foresight, innovation and smart management, their stories serve as a primer for how to build a successful entrepreneurial business today,” Aarts says. “As we celebrate 30 years of the Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies program, it’s encouraging to see that entrepreneurship is healthier than ever in this country.”
For ongoing updates on Voices, follow @voices on Twitter, or @Voicesdotcom on Facebook.
About the Growth 500
For 30 years, the Growth 500 has been Canada’s most respectable and influential ranking of entrepreneurial achievement. Ranking Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies by five-year revenue growth, the Growth 500—formerly known as the PROFIT 500—profiles the country’s most successful growing businesses. The Growth 500 is produced by Canadian Business. Winners are profiled in a special Growth 500 print issue of Canadian Business (packaged with the October issue of Maclean’s magazine) and online at Growth500.ca and CanadianBusiness.com. For more information on the ranking, visit Growth500.ca.
About Canadian Business
Founded in 1928, Canadian Business is the longest-serving and most-trusted business publication in the country. It is the country’s premier media brand for executives and senior business leaders. It fuels the success of Canada’s business elite with a focus on the things that matter most: leadership, innovation, business strategy and management tactics. Learn more at www.CanadianBusiness.com
About Voices
Founded in 2005, Voices is the largest global online marketplace for audio and voice over products and services comprised of more than half a million business clients and voice actors. Its flagship website, https://www.voices.com, records approximately two million unique visitors annually and has enabled over 300,000 transactions to date. Headquartered in London, Canada, the Company employs more than 120 people and has clients and voice talent in 160 countries.
Voices, the largest online marketplace for voice actors and audio production services in the world, has been recognized by the Canadian Association of Management Consultants (CMC-Canada) as a winner of the 2018 Canadian CMC Project of the Year Award.
Voices was nominated this past June by the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) for the project titled “Voices’s Growth Journey,” which was submitted by BDC’s Glenn Yonemitsu, FCMC, Senior Executive Advisor, High-Impact Firms – Ontario, who served as project lead. The engagement, which began in 2016, included strategic growth planning, development, and support, which has contributed to Voices cementing its position as the undisputed leader in the voice over industry with the largest market share online.
“The ability of a consultant to effect positive change is directly related to the openness, receptivity, and action orientation of the client,” Glenn Yonemitsu said. “The leadership team at Voices were ideal clients and we worked effectively together for an optimum solution.”
Winners of the Canadian CMC Project of the Year award move forward as nominees for the international Constantinus Award in Milan. The CMC Project of the Year Award recognizes excellence in management consulting in Canada, while the international Constantinus Awards showcase excellence in consulting services worldwide.
“We are honoured to be one of the Canadian nominations for the 2018 International Constantinus Awards,” said Voices CEO David Ciccarelli. “BDC were early believers in us, forming a partnership more than ten years ago. We are grateful for the work that they’ve done to help us achieve our long-term goals. Their knowledge and business expertise has added to Voices’s future, as we have grown from a small business to the leader in our global industry.”
Voices is one of three winners for the Project of the Year Award, which also includes the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, Alberta, for “Back to Business Coaching Program,” and Peru Food Safety Capacity Building for “Canada Americas Trade Related Technical Assistance (CATRTA) Program.”
Voices is the only London, Ontario winner of the CMC Project of the Year Award, and will be competing against global entries over the next few months. Winners of the international award will be announced in September.
For ongoing updates on Voices, follow @voices on Twitter, or @Voicesdotcom on Facebook.
About Voices
Founded in 2005, Voices is the largest global online marketplace for audio and voice over products and services comprised of half a million producers, voice actors, and talent agents. Its flagship website, https://www.voices.com, records approximately two million unique visitors annually and has enabled over 320,000 transactions to date. Headquartered in London, Canada, the Company employs more than 100 people and has clients and voice talent in 160 countries.
About BDC
BDC is the only bank devoted exclusively to entrepreneurs. It promotes Canadian entrepreneurship with a focus on small and medium-sized businesses. With its 118 business centres from coast to coast, BDC provides businesses in all industries with financing and advisory services. Its investment arm, BDC Capital, offers equity, venture capital and flexible growth and transition capital solutions. BDC is also the first financial institution in Canada to receive B Corp certification. To find out more, visit bdc.ca
About CMC-Canada
The Canadian Association of Management Consultants (CMC-Canada) fosters excellence and integrity in the management consulting profession as a whole. CMC-Canada administers, and its Regional Certifying Institutes confer, the CMC designation in Canada. The Association and its members advocate for the CMC designation and are dedicated to advancing the profession and delivering the benefits of those efforts to the client community. Learn more: www.cmc-canada.ca
About CMC-Global
CMC-Global (formerly ICMCI) is an international membership organization and a network of the management advisory and consultancy associations and institutes worldwide, who have a common purpose and shared values and goals. Learn more: www.cmc-global.org
Voices, the largest online marketplace for voice actors and audio production services, announced today that it has been recognized as one of the fastest growing technology companies in North America on two internationally-renowned rankings: the 2017 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ and the Deloitte Technology Fast 50™.
Voices’s growth is driven by its ability to offer producers, creative professionals and marketing teams instant access to a global network of over 200,000 professional voice over actors, helping them complete any type of project faster and easier than ever before. This momentum has contributed to the organization’s 362% percent in revenue growth from 2013 to 2016. This recognition comes on the heels of Voices’s $18 million growth investment from Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital and acquisition of Voicebank.net, which is expected to further fuel growth in 2018 and beyond.
The Deloitte Technology Fast 500 recognizes the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy tech companies in North America, in which Voices ranked #255. Additionally, Voices is listed at #40 on the Deloitte Technology Fast 50™, which honors the top 50 Canadian technology companies with the highest revenue-growth percentage over the past four years.
“What’s been central to our continued growth is our desire to lead and transform this nearly 100-year-old industry for the digital age,” said David Ciccarelli, Voices CEO. “Our talented team shows relentless dedication to our vision of positively influencing the world through the power of the human voice. Our team lives this out on a daily basis by building new relationships and expanding into new markets globally. We are all honored to be recognized as a leading technology company on these prestigious lists.”
“New technologies have disrupted various industries in ways that were unimaginable a few years ago,” said Erica Pretorius, Partner and National Leader for the Technology Fast 50™ program at Deloitte Canada. “Fast 50 winners have led the way and I can’t wait to see where they take us next.”
To stay up to date on what’s to come for Voices, visit https://www.voices.com or follow the company on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn.
About Voices
Founded in 2005, Voices is the largest global online marketplace for audio and voice over products and services comprised of nearly half a million business clients and voice actors. Its flagship website, https://www.voices.com, records approximately two million unique visitors annually and has enabled over 250,000 transactions to date. Headquartered in London, Canada, the company employs more than 100 people and has clients and voice talent in 139 countries.
About Deloitte’s 2017 Technology Fast 500™
Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 provides a ranking of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy tech companies — both public and private — in North America. Technology Fast 500 award winners are selected based on percentage fiscal year revenue growth from 2013 to 2016.
In order to be eligible for Technology Fast 500™ recognition, companies must own proprietary intellectual property or technology that is sold to customers in products that contribute to a majority of the company’s operating revenues. Companies must have base-year operating revenues of at least $50,000 USD, and current-year operating revenues of at least $5 million USD. Additionally, companies must be in business for a minimum of four years and be headquartered in North America.
About the Deloitte Technology Fast 50™
The Deloitte Technology Fast 50 program is Canada’s pre-eminent technology awards program. Celebrating business growth, innovation and entrepreneurship, the program features three distinct categories including the Technology Fast 50 Ranking, Companies-to-Watch Awards (early-stage Canadian tech companies with the potential to be a future Deloitte Technology Fast 50 candidate) and the Leadership Awards (companies that demonstrate technological leadership and innovation within the industry.) Program sponsors include Deloitte, Aequitas NEO Exchange, Bank of Montreal, Bennett Jones, CBRE, OMERS Ventures and Wellington Financial. For further information, visit www.fast50.ca.
Canadian winners of the Deloitte North American Technology Fast 500™ initiative are automatically eligible for the Deloitte Technology Fast 50™ program. For rank consideration, companies must have been in business for at least four years, have revenues of at least $5 million, be headquartered in Canada, own proprietary technology, conduct research and development activities in Canada and invest a minimum of five percent of gross revenues in R&D.
Voices, the largest global online marketplace for voice over talent and audio services, announced today that it has been ranked in the top 100 of the 29th annual PROFIT 500 ranking of Canada’s Fastest- Growing Companies by Canadian Business.
Reporting a five-year revenue growth of 1,166% and a rank of 61 of 500 of the fastest-growing companies in Canada, Voices has moved up an impressive 33 spots in the list since 2016, and 65 spots since 2014. For 2017, Voices is in the top 12% of companies ranked nationwide.
This announcement comes after a monumental year for the company, founded in 2005 by David and Stephanie Ciccarelli in London, Ontario, Canada. In January, Voices officially opened its new state-of-the-art office at 100 Dundas Street in London, Ontario. In July, an $18 million investment from Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital was announced, and in August, the company acquired US-based Voicebank.net, a platform for talent and management agents, including those for well-known celebrity talent.
“It may look to some as an overnight success story, but the reality is that achieving such an incredible growth rate is a direct result of years of hard work, strategic decisions, and the pursuit of our mission with laser-like focus,” says CEO and co-founder, David Ciccarelli. “Sustaining such high rates of growth year after year is a testament to the incredible work of our talented team who are fully engaged and aspiring to lead and transform our industry. We are honoured to be ranked with this year’s winners. The entrepreneur’s journey is an uphill climb, and Stephanie and I are inspired by everyone on this list.”
Ranking Canada’s Fastest- Growing Companies by five-year revenue growth, the PROFIT 500 profiles the country’s most successful growth companies. A joint venture between Canada’s premier business and current affairs media brands, the PROFIT 500 is published in the October issue of Maclean’s magazine and online at CanadianBusiness.com.
“It is never easy to earn a spot on the PROFIT 500, but this year’s applicant pool was the most competitive yet,” says Deborah Aarts, PROFIT 500 program manager. “This year’s winners demonstrate the resilience, innovation and sheer management smarts it takes to build a thriving business today. Canada – and the world – needs more entrepreneurial success stories like these.”
About Voices
Founded in 2005, Voices is the largest global online marketplace for audio and voice over products and services comprised of nearly half a million business clients and voice actors. Its flagship website, www.voices.com, records approximately two million unique visitors annually and has enabled over 250,000 transactions to date. Headquartered in London, Canada, the Company employs more than 100 people and has clients and voice talent in 139 countries. For more information, visit www.voices.com or follow Voices on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
About the PROFIT 500
For 29 years, the PROFIT 500 has been Canada’s most respectable and influential ranking of entrepreneurial achievement. Developed by PROFIT and now published in Maclean’s magazine and at CanadianBusiness.com, the PROFIT 500 ranks Canadian companies on five-year revenue growth. For more information on the ranking visit PROFIT500.com or CanadianBusiness.com.
About Canadian Business
Founded in 1928, Canadian Business is the longest-serving and most-trusted business publication in the country. It is the country’s premier media brand for executives and senior business leaders. It fuels the success of Canada’s business elite with a focus on the things that matter most: leadership, innovation, business strategy and management tactics. Learn more at CanadianBusiness.com.
Voices, the largest global online marketplace for audio and voice over products and services, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Voicebank.net, a leading online platform for casting and project management workflow utilized by more than 1,600 of the top global advertising agencies, casting directors and creative, television and film production studios. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Launched in 1998 and based in California, Voicebank.net is the leading platform for talent and management agents including those for well-known celebrity talent. Leading production, creative and advertising companies utilize the technology-enabled platform to post opportunities, identify and communicate with talent and their representation and manage and complete engagements through VoiceBank.net’s digital platform.
Combined, Voices and VoiceBank.net will address all segments of the market and include all engagement types from animation dubbing to global television spots to podcasts to gaming. While operating as separate platforms, VoiceBank.net will immediately benefit from Voices’s deep investment in its technology and systems. Production companies and corporate clients will now be able to turn to Voices for all of their audio and voice over requirements, large and small.
“The acquisition will create a new paradigm for the process of securing voice talent across the globe,” says Voices CEO and Founder, David Ciccarelli. “Years of customer feedback and an ongoing commitment to continue to revolutionize the voice over industry has resulted in this transaction. Acquiring Voicebank.net will see Voices strengthening relationships in the community and further delivering on the evolving needs of clients and talent alike.”
“From early meetings, it was clear to me that our companies had much in common, including a similar vision for the future. That, in combination with it being the right time for each of us, resulted in this acquisition,” says Jeff Hixon, the CEO and Founder of Voicebank.net for the past 19 years. “As a leading company in the voice over industry, this relationship with Voices will be an invaluable benefit for both Voicebank.net and our customers.”
This news follows Voices’s announcement of an $18 million growth investment from Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, positioning the Company to continue to cement its market leading positioning, invest in its technology and systems and better serve its clients, talent, and employees.
About Voices
Founded in 2005, Voices is the largest global online marketplace for audio and voice over products and services comprised of nearly half a million business clients and voice actors. Its flagship website, www.voices.com, records approximately two million unique visitors annually and has enabled over 250,000 transactions to date. Headquartered in London, Canada, the Company employs more than 100 people and has clients and voice talent in 139 countries. For more information, visit www.voices.com or follow Voices on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
August 12th to 14th, industry giant Voices will be exhibiting at the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques (ACM SIGGRAPH) conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Joining over 150 companies that will be exhibiting the newest products and services available to the industry, Voices is representing the province of Ontario as part of a government-led delegation of innovative organizations. An exhibition on computer graphics and interactive techniques, SIGGRAPH is touted as a meeting place for professionals to swap ideas, discover new offerings, and to discuss recent innovations. The event attracts animators, engineers, game developers, artists, and executives from all over the world, and is the ideal event to generate new partnerships within the space.
Travelling and exhibiting with 6 other companies, Voices joins Arc Productions, AWE, Guru Studio, Southpaw Technology Inc., and Toronto ACM SIGGRAPH in the Ontario Pavilion at the conference.
Representing Voices are Manager of Professional Services and Account Manager Stephanie Dickson and Sara Williamson, both of whom will be onsite at SIGGRAPH throughout the week at booth 801. There, they will share insights on how technology and the human voice can impact animation and film and how Voices streamlines such projects, as well as building on a mission of business development.
“We are most looking forward to providing visibility to our industry and company, as well as meeting new people from all over the world,” shares Dickson. “We’ll be offering 60-second demos at our booth, giving visitors a high speed Voices experience and a glimpse into an aspect of production that while rarely thought of, truly makes or breaks a creative endeavour.”
With the majority of the exhibitors in attendance focusing on the application of visual techniques, Voices is one of the only companies representing audio at SIGGRAPH 2014.
For updates on Voices at #SIGGRAPH2014, follow: @voicesdotcom About Voices Voices strives to achieve amazing things through the talent and faith of ordinary people. Voices is the online marketplace that connects businesses with voice over talent. More than 200,000 people from companies like ABC, NBC, ESPN, PBS, The History Channel, The Discovery Channel, Sony, Audible, Comcast, Bell Canada, Google, Microsoft, Cisco, Western Union, American Airlines, Toyota, Ford and GM as well as organizations such as the US Army and the US Government entrust the Voices online marketplace with their stories and collaborate online.
The industry-leading online marketplace for voice over has formally announced its involvement with VO Atlanta 2014, a 4-day, major industry event for voice over artists, agents, coaches, and trainers.
Named as a Gold sponsor for the 2nd annual conference, which will be taking place from March 20th-23rd, Voices’s CMO and Co-Founder, Stephanie Ciccarelli, will be in attendance throughout.
Serving as a judge for the highly anticipated VO Atlanta Voice Over Contest, styled in the same format as the hit television talent show, The Voice, Stephanie will also be conveying her insights on the voice over marketplace from her position on the panel, “A Look at the Modern Voice Over Industry.” She will be joining the CEO of Edge Studio, David Goldberg, Jeffrey Umberger, owner of Umberger Agency, and Mary Lynn Wissner, a casting director and coach, and the owner of Voices Voicecasting, as they discuss the major players and roles in the industry, the future of voice over, and the trends of clients, a hot topic for voice actors.
Stephanie shares, “We’re grateful to have the opportunity to sponsor and participate in VO Atlanta 2014. This is an important time for the industry and we believe that this conference will have a significant impact on the business of voice over for years to come.”
VO Atlanta, the largest voice over conference on the east coast, has been developed as a forum for industry-specific discussions, resources, and insights. It is here, on location, that the well-connected industry exec will be signing copies of the book, Voice Acting for Dummies, which Voices has donated to all conference attendees. Keeping with the theme of offering support and tips for professional development, Voices has also signed on to participate in the conference showcase series to guide voice over professionals on best practices for using the site to advance their careers.
“Having the right partners in an event like VO Atlanta 2014 is important,” explains the conference producer, Gerald Griffith. “Voices is definitely one of those partners. They continue to create unique and innovative opportunities for both talent and clients while working to educate both. We’re very excited to have them and look forward to their continued involvement.”
To keep on top of daily updates and announcements regarding the company and the voice over industry, follow Voices on Twitter at @voicesdotcom, or on Facebook.
About Voices
Voices strives to achieve amazing things through the talent and faith of ordinary people. Voices is the online marketplace that connects businesses with voice over talent. More than 200,000 people from companies like ABC, NBC, ESPN, PBS, The History Channel, The Discovery Channel, Sony, Audible, Comcast, Bell Canada, Google, Microsoft, Cisco, Western Union, American Airlines, Toyota, Ford and GM as well as organizations such as the US Army and the US Government entrust the Voices online marketplace with their stories and collaborate online.
Industry giant, Voices, recently released their annual report on the industry to great fanfare.
The report, which covers such topics as the vertical markets of the online voice over industry that were prevalent in 2013, such as advertising, broadcasting, e-learning, gaming, publishing, and streaming, acts as a forecast of where the industry is going and offers insight on how voice professionals can stay on top of it.
Acknowledging that voice actors are “in the midst of the digital revolution,” Voices, which is the number one online marketplace for voice over, maintains in the report that this revolution can be attributed to the wide-spread adoption of hardware devices, software programs and apps. David Ciccarelli, the CEO and Founder of the platform that over 200,000 registered users employ each month, explains in the report that “freelance and professional voice-over talent that work online have already made the first leap, have acknowledged the current state of the industry and the accepted practices for receiving work and promoting their services to a global audience.”
The 2013 Report on the Voice Over Industry includes statistics, as well as insights on the challenges and opportunities faced by talent and clients alike. With a focus on how the momentum of digital technology has resulted in the industry’s steady reliance on the internet, Voices’s white paper addresses the trends that are quickly becoming the standard for the business of voice over.
Shared on the company’s social media accounts, including LinkedIn, the full report can be found and downloaded here.
To keep on top of daily updates and announcements regarding the company and the voice over industry, follow Voices on Twitter or Facebook.
About Voices
Voices strives to achieve amazing things through the talent and faith of ordinary people. Voices is the online marketplace that connects businesses with voice over talent. More than 200,000 people from companies like ABC, NBC, ESPN, PBS, The History Channel, The Discovery Channel, Sony, Audible, Comcast, Bell Canada, Google, Microsoft, Cisco, Western Union, American Airlines, Toyota, Ford and GM as well as organizations such as the US Army and the US Government entrust the Voices online marketplace with their stories and collaborate online.
Voices is honoured to help pave the way for the SENSEsation2011 UnGala, a fund-raising event unlike any other. It will ignite the senses and bring out the funky and fabulous in everyone. The event will take place on September 30, 2011. Letting people know about the ungala is just one aspect of this multifaceted sponsorship that will shine some well deserved light on CNIB and the life-changing programs and services they provide to over 3,000 people in London and surrounding area.
Voices.com’s strategy for promoting the ungala includes creating new web content specific to the event, raising awareness about CNIB and drumming up support online. A perfect fit with CNIB, Voices recognizes the significant role that voiceover plays in enriching the lives of the people who are blind or partially sighted through audiobook consumption, text-to-speech, audio description and other services.
Voices Chief Marketing Officer, Stephanie Ciccarelli, was quick to see how the company could be of service to CNIB and designed a social media campaign tailored to the event complete with the added goal of highlighting measures people can take to help protect their eyes and prevent vision loss. Ciccarelli shares, “We are excited to be part of this event and are grateful to CNIB for the opportunity to contribute. Our goal is to creatively show Londoners and the world how vision loss and voiceover have impacted our community and how sight and sound affect all of us.”
Lindsay Neale, CNIB Specialist, Corporate & Community Development, says, “CNIB is so grateful to have the support of voices.com to promote this important event and our organization via their extensive social media platforms. This partnership is not only a great fit for the unique UnGala; it also lays the foundation for a rewarding relationship between our organizations. Thank you for helping our voice to be heard in spreading the message of vision health and vision hope!”
Fans of Voices have been seeing relevant updates via Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn in support of the SENSEsation2011 UnGala since Monday August 15th. SENSEsation 2011 UnGala will take place on September 30th, 2011.
For more information about the event, visit: http://www.facebook.com/myCNIB#!/cnibungala
To follow social media updates provided by Voices, go to: http://www.facebook.com/voicesdotcom http://www.twitter.com/voicesdotcom
About Voices
Voices 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 marketplace to search for, audition and hire voice talents with the assistance of our innovative SurePayâ„¢ escrow service and our award-winning Web application. Voices has a global network of over 30,000 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.
About CNIB
CNIB passionately provides community-based support, knowledge and a national voice to ensure Canadians who are blind or partially sighted have the confidence, skills and opportunities to fully participate in life. To learn more, visit cnib.ca or call the toll-free CNIB Helpline at 1-800-563-2642.