Area served Global Revenue $10 million (2014) Website Official website | Industry Media / Entertainment Employees 95 (2015) Founded 2003 | |
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Headquarters 100 Dundas St. Suite 700
London, Ontario N6A 5B6
Canada Founders David Ciccarelli, Stephanie Ciccarelli Profiles | ||
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Voices.com is a job search website focusing on voice actors and voice actor employers, headquartered in London, Ontario. The company has a global user base of more than 200,000 registered individuals and companies.
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Company history
Voices.com was founded in 2003 by husband and wife David and Stephanie Ciccarelli and was officially incorporated in 2004 in Ontario, Canada. The couple first developed the business on the back of a paper napkin while sitting at their kitchen table. The original name for the business was Interactive Voices, and eventually purchased the website Voices.com for $30,000 from the medical journal Silencing the Critical Voices in Your Head. It allows employers in small markets to connect with voice actors in other regions, as well as connecting larger companies with voice actors. In 2011 Voices.com had revenues of $2,266,887, 97% of which came from exports. That year the company moved its headquarters from Western University's research park to a larger space in downtown London, Ontario. In 2014, the company launched its first non-English site, for Spanish speakers in Latin America. As part of the 2015 Canada Technology Accelerator, the company set up a temporary office in New York City for four months.
Business overview
Voices.com has a store function that provides prices for different kinds of voice services, such as commercials or voicemail messages. It also has a library of articles to educate users about the voice acting industry and trends in the field. The site offers freelancers in more than 100 languages. Beside each freelancer's name there is a small sample of the person's voice that employers can listen to. In May 2012 the website launched an app for iPad and iPhone devices, followed by the release of an app for Android devices in January 2013, both allowing job seekers to interact with potential employers directly over their mobile devices. Clients that have worked with Voices.com include ESPN, PBS, The History Channel, Reader’s Digest, NBC, DreamWorks Animation, Sony, and Greer & Associates.
People
David Ciccarelli currently serves as CEO of the company, while Stephanie Ciccarelli serves as chief brand officer. They are the authors of the book Voice Acting For Dummies, published in 2013. David Ciccarelli studied audio engineering at the Ontario Institute of Audio Recording Technology, and opened a recording studio after he graduated. He has been nominated for the Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award by the Business Development Bank of Canada.
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Controversies
In 2006 CEO of Voices.com David Ciccarelli claimed that the Google radio ad product, which was in beta testing at the time, was nearly identical to the one offered by Voices.com. Ciccarelli admitted, however, that he hadn't actually seen Google's product, and neglected to mention that Google's offering was based on technology developed by dMarc, which Google had acquired the previous year.