Peter K. O'Connell Voiceover

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Peter K. O'Connell Voiceover

As America's friendly, neighborhood voice-over talent, Peter K.

BROADCAST VOICEOVER TALENT
Commercials | Narrations | Character Voice | Live Announcer (Voice of God)
w/ Source-Connect

Local, regional and national VO clients include:
Disney
Ford
Crest
Amazon (AWS)
Duracell O'Connell's amazingly versatile vocal talent allows him to share many voice acting styles with his clients, who range from Fortune 500 Companies to companies who thin

k $500 is a fortune. From his conversational and friendly everyman voice to his hard-sell straight announcer performances, Peter's natural voice over abilities are favored by clients for commercials, narrations, e-learning, documentary, TV promo, radio imaging and live announcing.

11/27/2025

Enough of this crap about turkey and stuffing...let's get down to the REALLY important stuff.

BUCKY HAS HIS OWN WEB PAGE.

The people have spoken and he is more interesting than I am *sniff* (but he is).

Click the link to read: https://blog.audioconnell.com/thank-you-for-loving-bucky-almost-as-much-as-we-do/
...and don't complain that it's too much work to click the link because you've not done a darn thing all day expect watch a parade and some football games.

Click the link and worship my dog!

11/25/2025

As your honest, producer-friendly, voiceover talent pal I am going to help you get to 5pm Wednesday a little faster (*come on four-day weekend!*)

Below is my new narration demo --- listen to it a couple of time throughout the day and just play it a few other times and tell folks you're working on a CASTING project.

You should be able to kill 20 minutes easy...you can do this!

You're welcome!

11/23/2025

Except in an emergency --- or if you have LARGE sacks filled with big denomination U.S. bills that you will then be giving to me --- I will not be available to record this Thursday or Friday.

Back on Monday, December 1st.

11/21/2025

Happy birthday Bucky. We love you.

11/20/2025

It's been well over a decade that I have been represented by my great agents Pastorini Bosby Talent

I am thrilled to have Cindi Andress and her staff on my team and we will be pals forever....

EXCEPT FOR TONIGHT!!!! 😉 😁

11/19/2025

When one of America's most respected sports columnists calls... you assume it's a wrong number, right?

Nope.

Erik Brady - who was a sports writing legend at USA Today (before he retired) and is still at The Buffalo News (as a Contributing Columnist) actually wanted to talk to ME—not about my nonexistent NFL career (correct assumption), but about being a Buffalo Bills fan now living in North Carolina.

Small problem: I wasn't going to the Bills-Panthers game a few weeks ago. I live three hours from Charlotte.

But we kept talking. And talking.

About Crescent Beach summers, raising kids, the voiceover business, and of course, the Buffalo Bills.

Next thing I know? I'm featured in The Buffalo News.

My brilliant PR strategy? I answered the phone. That's literally it.

Sometimes marketing isn't about the perfect pitch...or even about marketing—it's about authentic conversations that lead somewhere you never expected.

Talking to a nationally recognized great storyteller doesn't hurt either. 😊

Read the full story of how the most unathletic voice actor accidentally ended up in his hometown newspaper: https://blog.audioconnell.com/why-did-one-of-americas-most-respected-sports-columnists-call-one-of-the-most-unathletic-voiceover-talents-in-the-world-to-talk-buffalo-bills-football/

11/11/2025

The moon gives you light,

And the bugles and drums give you music;

And my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans,

My heart gives you love.

- from "Dirge for Two Veterans” by Walt Whitman (1865)

11/04/2025

For those business-owning Buffalonians who LEFT --- this is the most powerful networking tool I own!

It happened AGAIN Monday.

Raleigh meeting. Wearing my Bills pullover.

30 seconds in, I hear from across the room: "GO BILLS!"

Since leaving Buffalo, my Bills gear has connected me with more people than any business card ever could.

* Airport? Bills fan.
* Coffee shop? Bills fan.
* Random meeting? Bills fan.

And it's not just here in Raleigh, Cary & Apex...it's around the GLOBE!

The Mafia doesn't just travel to away games...we ARE the away game.

Best $60 networking investment ever.

11/03/2025

The pharma VO landscape just changed.

I wrote about what seems like seismic changes hitting pharmaceutical advertising.

John Florian at VoiceOverXtra thought more voice actors needed to see it—lucky for all of us, he's got the publication to make that happen.

Spoiler: Nobody really knows where this is going.

Read it here: https://www.voiceoverxtra.com/article.htm?id=RXOFO1F1

10/31/2025

The FDA sneezed and pharmaceutical advertisers caught the regulation flu—side effects include a $10 billion panic attack for ad agencies and commercial producers (voice actors could also be infected...er, affected).

The "adequate provision" loophole just got eliminated. You know, that handy little regulatory shortcut from 1997 that let pharma companies speed through safety info and tell people to "visit our website for details"?

Yeah, that's dead now.

The new requirement? Say it ALL. Every side effect. Every warning. Right there in the commercial.

Which sounds reasonable until you remember that most pharma spots are :30 to :60 seconds long and now need to fit what basically amounts to a medical encyclopedia into that same timeframe.

The math isn't mathing:
💰 $10.1 billion pharmaceutical ad industry
📺 $5.15 billion spent on TV ads alone
⏱️ 30-90 additional seconds needed just for disclaimers
🤔 Solution = ???

Ad agencies are already warning clients about the cost of buying that much extra airtime. Industry experts are throwing around phrases like "very expensive and very difficult." The FDA has sent out thousands of warning letters and isn't messing around.

So what happens next?

Option A: Way more expensive broadcast buys (hello, 90-second spots)
Option B: Mass exodus to unbranded advertising
Option C: Complete pivot away from TV
Option D: Nobody actually knows

For voice actors who built careers on rapid-fire pharmaceutical disclaimers? This is a whole new ballgame.

For producers and creative directors working pharma accounts? Your entire playbook just became a history lesson.

For everyone else in the commercial production world? Buckle up, because when half of a $10 billion industry gets disrupted, we all feel it.

I broke down the numbers, the implications, and what to watch for as this unfolds.

Full breakdown on the blog: https://blog.audioconnell.com/the-10-1-billion-question-for-voice-actors-how-new-pharma-ad-changes-could-reshape-the-voiceover-world/

10/30/2025

Not even Halloween yet and I'm already in full Santa mode. This is what Q4 looks like in the voiceover world.

Real talk: Brands will drop BILLIONS on holiday ads this season.

But here's what separates campaigns that crush from campaigns that get scrolled past...

The voice.

You can have the perfect script, gorgeous visuals, and prime placement. But if the voice doesn't connect? That's money down the chimney.

Holiday audio ads with the right voice boost purchase intent by 26% and drive 55% higher conversions.

That's not magic - that's what happens when you invest in professional voice talent who can deliver:

✨ Santa that sounds authentic and charming (not creepy)
✨ Warmth in an everyman voice that doesn't sound fake
✨ Energy in hot spots that cuts through holiday noise
✨ Characters that audiences actually remember

Q4 deadlines are brutal.

Every brand wants to sound fresh. Campaigns need a VO pro who can nail it in take 3, not take 33.

Yes, I'm serious about this. (Doesn't my Santa suit prove it?) 😄
Read why the holidays are make-or-break for voiceover 👇

https://blog.audioconnell.com/ho-ho-hold-the-mic-why-christmas-comes-early-for-voice-actors/

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