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Whether you’re just starting out as a voice artist or have worked in the industry for years, it’s human nature to make mistakes from time to time and, on occasion, we simply need to take a step back and remember the basics.

Can you believe it’s a staggering 109 years since what is regarded as the first ever voice over was recorded? Whilst many wrongly assume that Walt Disney was the first voice actor, voicing Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie in 1928, it was actually Reginald Fessenden, 22 years earlier in 1906 who held this achievement to his name.

When you have a marketing campaign with an international audience in mind, it always pays to take lessons from the best global brands in the game. Time and again these brands show us how global marketing should be done (and sometimes how it shouldn’t) so listen up and take some notes.

Earlier this month, Matinée Multilingual was asked to give comment on the findings of a survey carried out by Magical Vegas to determine which accent Las Vegas women find most attractive. Unsurprisingly, Vegas women find the English accent to be the most alluring.

When it comes to putting together your demo show reel as a voice artist, it’s sometimes difficult to know exactly what you can do to make it stand out from the crowd. So how do you ensure that you’re the one who producers and decision makers are drawn to?

We previously published a video which looks at what it actually means to have a voiceover professionally edited, however we also wanted to share examples of what the audio sounds like pre and post editing.

As a freelance voice artist, one of the hardest roles of the job can be finding the work and being selected as the chosen voice for a particular role. We wanted to share our own top tips on how to win work as a freelance voice artist.

When it comes to launching a multilingual website, you’ve generally got two options in regards to the approach you can take. As such, we thought we’d take a look at these two alternatives, sharing, in our experience, which of these makes for a stronger multilingual marketing approach.