I suppose some people expect you should get royalties every time your voice appears anywhere so in their eyes he should be a millionaire from this gig or something ridiculous like that.
Definitely not ridiculous to think so, considering how many people recognize his voice. Just like one great book will be bought by many people and make its author rich, a great line recognized by many people should be remunated as such.
It’s couple words that could have been said by anyone with nice voice and good diction. I’m probably not such person, but if you would pick 100 random people, you would get someone who could do a good job for this kind of quick announcement.
Most internal employees would even do this for free. One time payment of 200 eur seems fair.
Much more depending on the usage. The length of the audio counts in the rate but less than its use, how long and where it would be used.
For instance, a perpetuity buyout (one of the thing he should have negotiated), are very expensive. Audiobooks for instance are longer but cheaper. My rate is 350/per finished hour for audiobooks, which is pretty average in the field. While a 30 seconds national radio commercial for my country, I would ask between 350 and 500, and that’s with a limited time they would be allowed to use/broadcast it.
I suppose some people expect you should get royalties every time your voice appears anywhere so in their eyes he should be a millionaire from this gig or something ridiculous like that.
Definitely not ridiculous to think so, considering how many people recognize his voice. Just like one great book will be bought by many people and make its author rich, a great line recognized by many people should be remunated as such.
It’s couple words that could have been said by anyone with nice voice and good diction. I’m probably not such person, but if you would pick 100 random people, you would get someone who could do a good job for this kind of quick announcement.
Most internal employees would even do this for free. One time payment of 200 eur seems fair.
It would be devaluating the value and the work of voice over artists.
I’m not even a well known voice over artist and I get paid way more for words that fewer people will hear. And I’m not even in an union.
He got shafted.
More than 300€ per minute?
Much more depending on the usage. The length of the audio counts in the rate but less than its use, how long and where it would be used.
For instance, a perpetuity buyout (one of the thing he should have negotiated), are very expensive. Audiobooks for instance are longer but cheaper. My rate is 350/per finished hour for audiobooks, which is pretty average in the field. While a 30 seconds national radio commercial for my country, I would ask between 350 and 500, and that’s with a limited time they would be allowed to use/broadcast it.
Here is a rate sheet for standard usage, if you are interested: https://globalvoiceacademy.com/gvaa-rate-guide-2/
I’m so excited, I don’t get to talk about this aspect of my job often :)) Thank you for your interest so far!