Storyboard was built on a powerful insight: while podcasting has exploded in the consumer world, organizations lacked secure, easy-to-use tools to bring this engaging format to their internal teams. Their vision was to create a mobile-first platform that would:

• Allow companies to distribute private podcasts, securely reaching employees with leadership updates, training, and cultural stories.
• Give employees a modern, on-the-go listening experience, turning company updates into engaging audio they could enjoy anytime.
• Offer rich analytics so internal communications teams could track engagement and optimize content.

Storyboard chose ThoughtWin IT Solutions for our deep expertise in building secure, high-performance mobile applications on iOS & Android.

• Native iOS & Android Apps: Developed with Swift for iOS and Kotlin for Android, ensuring seamless audio playback, background downloads, and OS-specific features like push notifications and media controls.
• Secure Podcast Delivery: Engineered encrypted token-based streams so only authorized employees could access episodes — protecting sensitive internal content from leaks.
• Rich Playback Experience: Built custom audio players with adjustable speeds, skip controls, and bookmarking — all while managing offline downloads for commuting or travel.
• Dynamic Episode & Channel Management: Delivered flexible admin APIs and mobile interfaces that support multiple channels per company, episode tagging, and targeted content pushes.
• Deep Analytics Integration: Tracked listening metrics by episode, department, and time spent — with anonymized rollups to respect privacy while guiding better content decisions.

• Fully native over cross-platform: Given the importance of high-quality audio playback, OS-level notifications, and offline caching, native development was essential for best-in-class performance.
• Tokenized episode links: Avoided static URLs to ensure even if someone shared a file, it couldn’t be played without valid secure tokens.
• Minimal local data footprint: Beyond securely cached audio files, limited device-stored user data to reduce risk in case of lost or stolen phones.
• Push notification system: Integrated deep links so when new episodes were released, tapping a notification took employees straight into playback, driving engagement.

Designed a sleek, familiar mobile UX with:

• Podcast-style episode lists and rich show artwork.
• Personalized “Up Next” queues, making it effortless for employees to continue where they left off.
• Light and dark themes to support long listening sessions without eye strain.

Created simple admin experiences for company communicators to feature certain shows or highlight must-listen episodes, boosting adoption across large workforces.

• Enabled organizations to replace long PDFs and dry emails with engaging audio, improving employee connection and information retention.
• Provided internal communications teams with actionable insights into what content resonated most, guiding future campaigns.
• Strengthened company culture by turning leadership updates and peer stories into easy, on-the-go listening — fostering a sense of inclusion, even in distributed teams.