Tips for Creating the Best Video Podcast Background
To succeed in today’s podcast landscape, you need more than great audio—you need a professional, visually appealing video podcast background. With just 49 square feet of space, strategic lighting, and brand-aligned décor, you can craft a compelling set. Produce Your Podcast offers full-service support to elevate your video podcast presence.
- Video podcast backgrounds are now as important as audio quality
- A 7×7 ft space can serve as a professional podcasting studio
- Avoid poor design elements like echo, street noise, or clutter
- Personalize your backdrop with on-brand, tangible decor over greenscreens
- Produce Your Podcast provides full-service production and set design support
The podcast space continues to diversify, with podcasts of all types on seemingly every topic imaginable publishing daily. Truly, there’s no one right way to be a podcaster these days, as different tastes are omnipresent in the space.
But that’s not to say you can just wing it and hope to find an audience. While topical variety is a given in podcasting, qualitative variety isn’t. Listeners today expect well-thought-through segments and crisp audio. Plus, thanks to the rise of long-form podcast video, the background for video podcasts is just as important as the audio.
If you want to come off as professional, get out of your recording closet and give yourself a proper recording space. Here are some of our tips for creating a professional, engaging, and unique podcast backdrop.
The Ideal Recording Space
We mentioned the closet, and there’s good reason why so many start-up podcasters have begun in their closets. However, they don’t make for compelling backgrounds for video podcasts, do they?
In actuality, you don’t need a massive recording studio to record your video podcast. While that might be great for the celebrity pros out there, you can save your millions. Instead, easily transform a space you likely have in your home into a podcasting gem.
The ideal amount of space is about 49 square feet, which equates to 7 feet by 7 feet. Not much, is it? You can likely carve out just a portion of a room for your needs and still have space to spare.
Just be sure that your podcast studio setup won’t be encumbered by common foibles like:
- Echoey vaulted ceilings,
- Open windows letting in street noise, or
- Shared space with family, roommates, etc.
One last thing to note in your space plan is to ensure you have enough room and enough power supply for lights and equipment. Since you’re recording video, you want to ensure everything, including your podcast background, is properly and evenly lit.
The Ideal Podcast Background
After selecting and soundproofing your space, next determine what exactly is going to make up your podcast studio design.
You might be inclined to use a greenscreen, but we recommend against this. Why? Because it can create a detached, otherworldly feeling for podcast hosts. A video podcast backdrop should be unique, but it should also be something your audience might touch.
Consider decorating your space with an on-brand wall color, floating shelves, or even custom signage or lighting. This will give it a personal, lived in touch. The key, though, is consistency with your brand identity.
Be sure to curate and hand-select every object you plan to display behind you. Whatever the item collection you select represents, be sure it’s:
- Visually appealing,
- Not over cluttered, and
- Immediately recognizable.
For instance, video game podcasters will often utilize items from series like Minecraft, Fortnite, and Mario for instant recognizability. Podcast studio design elements in this spirit will help reinforce your brand. They’re also a wonder for your podcast’s thumbnail as well!
Launch and Grow Your Podcast
You yearn to have the best imaginable podcast. And Produce Your Podcast is here to help you realize it.
With a full-service approach to podcaster support, we can help you shine as the professional podcaster you strive to be. Everything from your strategy and launch to your podcast set design are on us to craft and perfect.
Ensure your podcast is successful with comprehensive podcast production services. Work with Produce Your Podcast on podcast set design, mixing, and more today.
