Advertising Voice Over

Many! Here are just a few examples of the types of advertising voice over projects we specialise in:
• TV commercials
• Radio ads
• Digital promotions
• Social media advertisements (organic or paid)
• Podcast sponsorships
• YouTube bumpers

This is primarily dependent on the availability of the selected voice artist. We also have a professional recording studio so we can schedule projects at short notice. As commercial voice over scripts tends to be on the shorter end, we can turn-around regular and urgent projects in just 24 hours.

Choosing the right voice artist for your advertising voice over project involves considering factors like their vocal qualities and range, experience in the language or accent, and their ability to convey emotion and tone. It’s also important to listen to commercial demos and read reviews from previous clients.

Working with a professional voice over agency like Matinée Multilingual can make this process easier. We have a team of experienced project managers who know our commercial voice actors inside and out, allowing us to match clients with the most suitable voice actors for their projects.

Our advert voice talent casting is free of charge – we want to help you find the perfect commercial voice over actor for your project, so we’ll work with you until we find the right fit.

Factors such as budget, audience attention span, and the platform in which you will be sharing your commercial can all play a role in determining the length of your ad.

Often, TV adverts in the UK have a limited slot of 30 (or 60) seconds. Social media adverts benefit from being shorter, around 15–20 seconds, as viewers are likely to scroll past longer videos.

Whether our voice artist is based locally or in-country, a live-direction session enables you to act as the host and director of the recording session.

You will need to create a session meeting link (Zoom, MS Teams, etc) and we’ll pass this on to the voice artist. This means you can add as many parties as you require to be present within the session. Alternatively, we can provide a link via Source Nexus.

You will have complete creative control of the session and be able to converse with the voice artist and the recording engineer directly. This often prevents the need for re-recordings due to mispronunciation or other misunderstandings.

Usage fees (also sometimes called “buy-out” fees) are an additional fee payable to a voice artist for the use of their voice in TV, Radio, Website, Digital or Cinema broadcast; Museums, Events, Exhibitions & in-stores. Every union has their own guidelines on usage rates.

For more information about usage fees, take a look at this blog post.

Many advertisers continue to prefer human voice-overs for commercials, as they can convey emotion and personality that may be lacking in AI-generated voices.

Hang tight and wait for our reply within the hour. Once we have confirmed your project brief, we will then curate a list of commercial voice over actors we think will be suitable for your ad. From casting the right voice artist down to the delivery of files in the format of your choosing, you will have a dedicated account manager, project manager and audio engineer who will guide and assist till the project is completed and you are satisfied.

Yes! At Matinée, we have a diverse pool of talents with varying accents and dialects from all regions in the UK. You can specify your desired accent when booking your commercial voice over artist, or head over to our Regional English Accents page to hear demos from our featured talents.