Arcade Couch & Platinum Explosion — video trial announcement

Get ready to see more of our faces as we trial video versions of Platinum Explosion and Arcade Couch.

We’ve always published all our audio podcasts to YouTube, but they’ve been a static thumbnail with the audio over the top. Nothing exciting to watch, but it did allow those who prefer YouTube to listen to our shows.

We do produce an assortment of video podcasts—like our Review Discussions and series such as South of King’s Landing and BevanWorld. I call these VIDEO podcasts because there’s effort put into the visuals to present relevant images for the topics we’re discussing. In the case of Beyond The Strange, there’s gameplay throughout to add context you won’t get from the audio-only version. That takes a lot more time to set up than just the usual show notes, which is why we’ve never done our weekly or fortnightly shows as full video productions—it’d simply take too much time for us right now.

What we’re trialling this month is a pretty basic video package for both Arcade Couch and Platinum Explosion—a way for those who want to see our faces to watch the show, without too much pre- and post-production each episode. I’m not adding gameplay in the background or relevant images per topic, etc.

Platinum Explosion 122 is live now with this new video presentation.

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If you like having the option to watch the video, let us know here or in the YouTube comments—we’ll be evaluating all this a month from now. If we stick with it, we’ll put more time into graphics and video packages for transitions so it’s cleaner, but overall I want it to be as little effort to set up each week.

If you’re an audio-first podcast listener (which I am, so I get it), don’t worry—nothing about any of the shows is changing.

Thanks for reading this update and I hope you have a great week.

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