The voice-over industry is thriving with all kinds of productions and even small formats demanding it. This industry, like as many others, is constantly changing and adapting to the latest trends, and most of the work opportunities can be found on the internet and through networking. Most people do it as a hobby, others do it as a way to earn a living.

Before you start as a voice-over actor you must learn a few things in order to be successful. You will need proper training, equipment, resources, and of course an amazing voice talent to make a career as a voice actor.

Voice over is the term in the English language to refer to the production technique where a voice, that is not part of the narrative, is used in a radio, television production, filmmaking, theatre, or other presentations. This technique is also called off-camera or off-stage commentary.  This technique undertakes the recording of the voice of a professional speaker for later use in film, theater, radio or television. Then, having this in mind, nowadays everything that refers to voice recording or professional speech is usually called voice over.

This can be quite a fun industry, as your career can take the path you wish. There are plenty of different kinds of projects, from audiobooks to films, financial training videos, and phone systems, you just have to find your passion field and focus on the areas of voice over you are good at. After you have set up realistic goals, expectations, and motivations as a voice-over actor you can start looking for small or big jobs.

A career in Social Media

Finding voice-over work on Social Media is easy because people love to spend time on social media and share what they are doing, their projects, their work and things they are looking for. They even use hashtags which help organize all that data, and Social Media also makes easy to find and connect with those people.

In order to find work in platforms such as Twitter or Facebook, first search, you can use the toolbar search field for quick searches and then use the advanced search options so you can get more detailed results. Advanced search page and options allow you to search by words, phrases, hashtags, dates, and location, it can’t get more specific!

After doing your search you will need to scan and sort out the results you found. Finally, connect with the people offering a voice-over job opportunity. Make contact, send a message or write an email.

Freelance websites

Another way to find jobs is by joining freelance websites as the number of freelance resources has increased over the last years.

As a voice-over actor looking for job opportunities you can sign up into the popular platforms, but watch out, often these platforms are full of competitors, therefore, you will have to establish a great portfolio of past and current work as well as create good strategies to sell yourself in order to get big clients. Here’s a list of the 15 best sites to find work as a freelancer.

Don’t forget to look into our other blogs about the skills every voice-over actor need and the apps that will help you in your path of becoming a successful voice actor.