In most cases, voice artist agencies are recording studios with a fairly restricted pool of voice artists. They earn most of their money from audio recording services and charge their customers service fees, or require commissions for other expenses. It is not uncommon for voice artists to pay an additional commission, as well. At Brilliant Voice® such services are free of charge to you.
We like to compare ourselves to actors' agencies: We manage our voice artists, which means that in addition to negotiating working arrangements and terms, they also make use of other Brilliant Voice® services that are paid for out of a commission based on the voice artist's fee.

There are also online platforms that act as voice artist agencies. In these cases, voice artists pay membership fees to be listed, but without being actively represented. Such platforms provide few, if any, genuine value-adding services. We at Brilliant Voice®, on the other hand, consider ourselves to be a full-service provider to whom clients and voice artists alike can delegate all organizational and administrative tasks.

We view the processing of your request as our service. Providing basic voicing business advice, making calculations and preparing cost estimates, or castings - including voice artist recommendations and audio demos - are a matter of course, and free of charge to you. All these services are paid for in the management commission each voice artist has contractually agreed upon with Brilliant Voice®.
Should an extra commission be incurred based on additional services, we will always inform you in advance.

Our top priority at Brilliant Voice® is to establish and maintain fairness on the market and realistic prices for all our clients, whether global players or medium-sized companies. More than 20 years of experience and expertise gained through our close interactions with voice artists, studios and professional associations, form the basis for our price list.
We have nothing to hide, so we publish our voice artist fees openly right from the start. This transparency provides you - the client - with pricing reliability in your cost calculations: Same voice artist + same usage rights = same price.

No. For our services, the voice artists engage and compensate us. We are engaged and paid directly by the voice artist for our services. The voice artist benefits from our efforts that make his or her work faster and easier. We relieve voice artists of managerial and organizational chores to make more bookings possible in less time, we handle all accounting requirements automatically and perform many more administrative tasks to allow our voice artists to concentrate exclusively on their work.

For our part, special handling costs only accrue for activities we undertake specifically on your behalf: Do you require a single total invoice in the name of Brilliant Voice® instead of in the names of the voice artists or studios? Then the customary 15% commission will be added. Why? Because, we too bear an entrepreneurial risk. However, this frees you from having to bother with legalities such as voice artists' social security insurance, concerns about permanent employment or paying any withholding tax, because Brilliant Voice® is incorporated as the legal entity GmbH & Co. KG under German law.

Occasionally, the question is raised why, for example, a relatively high voice artist fee is charged for a single word or sentence. Naturally, it's impossible to compare spoken words with a physical product you can buy and actually hold in your hand. However, by presenting his or her voice, you are also purchasing the voice artist's most individual and personal usage rights; permission to use his or her personality in connection with your product or service. The image, consumer awareness and ultimately the success of a product or a brand can potentially be significantly influenced by the voice artist's personality for many years. So you are not merely buying a recorded audio file.
Furthermore, a voice artist's personal engagement also includes continuous training and ongoing education, the talent and ability to design and present an easily understandable and thoroughly convincing text quickly and reliably, as well as an excellent knowledge of pronunciation in addition to much more that contributes to the effectiveness and success of your project.

At Brilliant Voice® we have made the decision to present only selected voice artists online. We know the people behind these voices well and are firmly convinced of their brilliance. As our client, this offers you premium quality assurance - and above all ensures transparency and fairness for our voice artists. Long-term sustainable cooperation can only deepen and develop in an atmosphere of trust and close personal contact. And in the end, you benefit from a well-functioning team.
Haven't found your ideal voice yet? No problem: In our extended Brilliant Voice® pool of voice artists we maintain contact with numerous additional professional voices and new talents that we can access immediately.