How we helped level up this industry-leading recording platform

SquadCast is one of the industry's most popular remote recording platforms that empower podcasters by capturing studio-quality audio and video conversations while allowing users to work remotely. They are one of the top-rated remote content production platforms out there, used by some of the biggest names and best podcasters in the business.

Among their customers are marquee brands such as Microsoft, Adobe, ESPN, NPR, iHeartRadio, Kara Swisher, and The New York Times.

When the opportunity to team up to optimize their platform and reimagine how they meet the needs of their user base presented itself, we jumped at it.

Creating an in-studio experience, at home.

Even with its awesome sound quality, real-time file uploading and overall ease of use, the original version of SquadCast had its limits. Many of their customers are enterprise-level, multi-show organizations with large teams working on several shows at once. SquadCast was not meeting the production needs of these organizations for two main reasons: 

1) Users only had two options: they could be the host or they could be a guest. 

2) There was no easy way to organize or find recording files or work as one user with access to work across multiple shows. 

What it came down to was that organizations using SquadCast needed the platform to better replicate the multiple roles that already existed when working in an in-person recording studio.

Enhancing Collaboration

Through user research, we also learned that podcast guests might bring their own team to the show and therefore the chat needed more privacy options for sensitive conversations. This led us to overhaul the existing chat function so that it would allow podcasters to control who can talk to who, depending on different situations or guests involved.

Design for accessibility

Another issue we came across was with SquadCast’s colors and fonts. We found that things like text and buttons were producing a lower than average ranking in terms of web standards for accessibility which signaled to us that it was likely difficult to navigate for some. This was a big red flag as one of SquadCast’s core values is that its platform makes podcasting an accessible medium no matter who you are.

We worked closely with them to slightly modify their brand colors until they passed all accessibility tests and worked with all the new components we were creating.

A flexible, accessible, premium podcast platform to keep up with the growing demand for podcasts

SquadCast has walked away with an industry-leading app that helps them serve an even wider range of podcasters. It is fresh, modern, and incredibly user-friendly while being a product that they can build upon for years to come.

We’re proud to say that SquadCast is now a product that can help anyone scale from a one-man show up to a full-blown podcast network.

Looking to record some podcasts? Check out Squadcast

Huge thanks to the team: Allan Maltais, Fabian Choi

Additional help from Adam Tester