The power of video, audio, and voiceovers are unmistakable in advertising. With commercials, explainer videos, and social media shorts, audiovisual content is everywhere. And it’s effective, too. According to Hubspot, 92% of marketers say video is an important part of their marketing strategy. 81% of the same survey respondents report video has a direct, positive impact on sales, and 94% agree videos help increase user understanding of their product or service. Those are some powerful statistics!
This means video content is king for advertising, but what about the audio to go along with the video? Audio is an equally powerful tool, and many content creators turn to voiceovers to enhance their video content. A professional voiceover adds several important qualities to your videos that can increase engagement and ROI. Keep reading to learn more about the top 4 reasons why you should invest in voiceovers for your videos and television commercials.
1. Target the Audience
Adding an effective voiceover to your video content starts with choosing the right voiceover artist for the job. The specific actor and their line delivery can capture the intended audience instantly and make them pay attention. The voice actor’s gender, age, accent, vocal quality, and tone are factors that contribute to targeting your audience.
Let’s say, for example, that your company sells infant car seats. A voiceover delivered by a young woman will grab the attention of your target audience: mothers of young children, or people who know mothers of young children. Conversely, if your company sells car accessories, an energetic male voiceover will target your ideal audience of young to middle-aged men. If you’re advertising walking canes, your voiceover actor should sound like a senior citizen.
Accents and regional dialects are also important to consider with voiceovers. Depending on where your target audience is located, you’ll want a voiceover that matches the regional dialect, accent, or language. Choosing the correct voice lets the audience know you understand them and their needs. It tells them your company is local and you’re one of them. All these qualities are important to building trust with your audience. If they don’t trust you or your product, then they’ll tune out or buy elsewhere.
2. Provide the Correct Tone or Mood
A professional voiceover actor will also provide the correct tone and mood for your video. They are specifically trained to deliver lines with a particular quality or energy. Your product or service will come alive, and your audience will grasp the message more easily thanks to the voiceover actor’s performance.
Think about the overall mood of your video project. Are you producing an explainer video? An energetic, upbeat, and instructive voiceover will inspire your viewers and teach them something. Or perhaps you’re creating an ad for a child’s toy. You’d want a bubbly, youthful voiceover to go with it. A professional actor will be able to determine the right tone to use for the recording, and your audience will respond to it.
Tone also contributes to how trustworthy the narrator sounds, and how trustworthy your product or service is overall. An authoritative, confident voiceover convinces your audience that you are an authority on your product or service. It inspires them to keep watching and to heed your call to action.
3. Play to Emotions
Like tone and mood, the right voiceover can also play to the emotions of your viewers. Sound and audio have a powerful effect on the mood of the listener. Vocals are particularly effective in producing emotional responses in our brains. Have you ever been moved to tears by a talented public speaker? Or inspired to achieve a goal? A trained voiceover artist delivering your script with a particular emotional weight can influence your audience in several different ways.
Perhaps your video is an advertisement seeking donations for a nonprofit. An impassioned voiceover pleading with the audience to act will easily tug on the heartstrings and convince them to donate. Or maybe you’re selling an online course to help entrepreneurs succeed. An energetic voiceover with a can-do attitude will inspire your audience to sign up, as the voiceover will have made them believe in themselves. Professional voice talent knows what lines to emphasize and how to deliver them for maximum emotional impact.
4. Hold Audience Interest
Finally, voiceovers lend incredible power to your videos because they hold the audience’s attention. A simple video with only background music and text may be easy to scroll past. Professional voice actors are skilled at grabbing attention in the first few seconds of their delivery. Combined with visuals, a warm, inviting voiceover will convince the audience to stay and watch the entire video, because they want to know what the narrator has to say. It keeps the audience engaged, and in a world of declining attention spans, this is incredibly important for your product or service.
The right voice talent will know how to deliver your script to keep the audience hanging on their every word. Combine that delivery with onscreen text, and you have a winning recipe for retention and engagement.
Killerspots Professional Voice Overs
So, you’ve decided you need to add a voiceover to your next television commercial or video project. If you’re not confident in your own voice acting abilities, you don’t have to worry. Killerspots works with hundreds of professional voice actors from all over the world, and we can help you find the perfect voiceover for your project. Old or young, male or female, character voice or straight narration, our library of voiceover artists is unmatched in the industry. Take a listen for yourself to our top talent then contact us with your script idea and we can get to work! Together we’ll create engaging, creative videos with the perfect voiceover for your product.
