FAQ

WoVO is run BY voiceover talent FOR voiceover talent. This organization seeks to bring together diverse talents and resources to foster peer-to-peer learning, support and accountability. WoVO is a place where peer education and knowledge sharing can take place, complementing education from other sources.

Members benefit by having access to free educational materials, such as a video library, peer-to-peer learning, a WoVO demo player, discounts on equipment and coaching, access to a global network of professional voice talent, support, and accountability groups. You can also register for our annual membership meeting in the fall of each year, in a format that we call an UnConference.

When you become a member, you’re welcomed to the organization by being mentioned in our newsletter, you receive a logo badge to place on your website and email signature, and you can have access to a group of peers who could be part of a meetup group, narrator community, or other groups that can be initiated under the WoVO umbrella. WoVO is listed as an affiliate in the Source Connect directory.

Professional-level members are featured in our directory listing site called VoiceOver.biz. This is a site where you can post your professional profile and demos for voice seekers to find you. All the members are vetted professionals, and clients can cast you by contacting you directly. There are no annual fees, no escrow fees, no cattle calls, and the negotiation takes place directly between the client and the voice talent. WoVO does NOT take a commission or any agent fee.

We welcome any voice talent or industry professional who wishes to become a member. The membership fee is US $99 per year. This fee remains the same for any membership category.

Three membership categories exist: Associate, Professional and Industry Partner. When you apply to become a WoVO member, the vetting committee reviews your application to see how many paid professional jobs you have completed. A minimum of five paid jobs (at a rate of pay that is at or near the union rates of your country of residence) is required to achieve Professional status.

If you do not have those yet, but are working on it, that’s OK, we love that you are striving to achieve your voiceover goals through training and coaching. In that case, you will be welcomed as an Associate member, and once you have reached those five paid jobs, you should contact us and ask that we change your membership to Professional, at no extra charge.

If your involvement in the voiceover industry is on “the other side of the glass” such as a studio owner, coach, demo producer, publisher, or you provide services or products aimed at voiceover, you will be classified as an Industry Partner.

At the Board’s discretion, a member may be voted in as an Honorary Member in recognition of his or her outstanding services to the voiceover industry.

The annual membership fee that we collect from you is used to pay for website development and maintenance, costs associated with the annual membership conference, liability insurance, administrative costs, printing and advertising, content and webinar development, translation of materials, and presence at trade conferences. The Executive Board members do not receive a salary. They are all volunteers within this non-profit organization, and they also pay for their membership fee.

WoVO has put in place committees to serve its membership. The Executive Board is composed of a President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, VP of Membership, and Board members at large. We also put in place ad hoc committees that serve particular purposes.

As many of our members have expertise in the various disciplines it takes to be successful in voice over, we offer educational resources and peer-to-peer learning programs to our members.

Educational resources consist of a media library designed to assist the membership in finding answers to specific questions. All areas relating to a member’s voiceover business will be covered, with subject matter pertaining to technical issues, technique advice, and best business practices. Much of this information is available by searching the web, but with one central repository, we can offer the membership a quick way to answer their questions from a reliable source. We will be inviting the membership to submit their own original material.

As the organization continues to grow, additional programs may be added to assist in member education.

We release a newsletter to our membership once a month. As a member, you are welcome to submit articles and content to help educate others about timely issues in the voiceover industry.

You should also expect to receive emails about upcoming webinars and events throughout the month.

You can find more information on our best practices by clicking here.

WoVO does not offer any advice on rates directly. We do have member resources with pricing guidelines from other global resources, but we do not set rates. We only encourage our members to use professional pricing guidelines and to avoid devaluing our industry by pricing their services too low.

Once you become a member, please email the Executive Board for general inquiries at: eb@world-voices.org. If you have any program or initiative ideas, please email ideas@world-voices.org and we will gladly find a place where you can contribute your time and talents.