The episode is on your mics.
The room is on their phones.
You are taping an episode in front of people who usually only hear you: a bookshop with folding chairs, the back room of a bar, a festival tent with a sound desk at the rear. The show itself goes to your own recorder. Everything around it does not. Listeners photograph you at the mics, the guest in the third chair, the queue for the merch table and the meet-and-greet line after, and all of it disappears into camera rolls and stories that expire. One QR code on the seats and the merch table brings the photos, the voice questions and the guestbook back to the show, in one gallery you can use for show notes and social.
One-time. No account needed to buy — about a minute.
The moments guests actually photograph at live podcast recordings
Why live podcast recordings work better on Picsui
Written for the person hosting this one, and checked against what the product actually does.
A listener segment, recorded in the lobby
Listeners record a question or a shout-out of up to 60 seconds from the upload page, on their own phone, before doors or at the interval. You download the clips afterwards and pick the best ones for a listener segment, a mailbag episode or the next live show, in the voices of the people who were actually in the room.
Show-notes photos you did not have to take
You cannot photograph a show you are hosting. The audience can, and they do it from every angle: the wide shot from the balcony, the close-up from the front row, the guest laughing at something that will need a bleep. Everything lands in one gallery with full-resolution downloads, ready for the episode page, the newsletter and the clips you post that week.
A sponsor link that reports back
If your live shows are produced by an agency or producer in the Picsui Partner programme, the event can carry a 'Sponsored by' link under the logo on the gallery, the upload page and the name form, with the sponsor's name on the slideshow. Taps are counted per event, bots excluded, so the ad-read sponsor gets a real number. A plain Event Pass does not include this.
No app. No account. One scan.
Guests point their camera at a QR code and are uploading in seconds. Nobody installs anything, nobody creates a login, and the grandparents can do it as easily as the teenagers.
Voice messages
Guests record up to 60 seconds of audio right from the upload page: a blessing, a toast, a story. It is saved next to the photos in the same gallery.
Live photo wall on any screen
Open the slideshow on a TV, projector or laptop and new uploads appear as they arrive. Grid and collage layouts, transition presets, and a phone remote to control it from across the room.
A guestbook with your own question
Replace the generic prompt with one that fits the day. Written messages are collected alongside the photos and kept with the gallery.
Full-resolution downloads
Download any photo, or the whole event as one archive, at original quality. What guests uploaded is what you keep — no compression, no watermark on paid events.
Private by default, never indexed
The gallery is only reachable by the link or code you share. Guest pages are blocked from search engines and named AI crawlers, and you can close the gallery whenever you choose.
How it works
Set up in a minute. Collect for the whole event.
Create the event with the show name and the city, and set a guestbook question that sounds like your show.
Put the QR code on the seats, the merch table and the screen behind the stage, where the slideshow runs before doors.
Plug it once on mic. The audience uploads photos, records questions and signs the guestbook through the show and the meet-and-greet.
Download the photos and voice clips that night for show notes, social posts and a listener segment in the next episode.
Try uploading as a guest.
Scan this with your phone the way a guest at your event would. Choose a sample photo and upload it from your browser, then open the demo gallery to see it land. In this public demo, photos appear at once and videos wait for a person to approve them; at your own event, you decide.
- Scan the code with your phone camera — it opens straight in the browser.
- Upload a sample photo. Look for the upload confirmation so you know it reached the host.
Use a sample you are comfortable sharing with Picsui. Please keep personal or sensitive photos out of the demo.
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This is the same kind of code your guests scan at your event.
Getting the most from live podcast recordings
Run the slideshow on the venue screen before doors and again at the interval. An audience waiting for a podcast taping is already holding its phones, and the moment the first selfie from the queue appears on the big screen, the rest of the room works out what the code on their seat is for. Put a card on every other chair and a larger one on the merch table, because the merch line is where people stand still with nothing to do. When you sit down at the mics, say it once in your own words, the way you would read an ad, and then leave it alone for the rest of the show.
Give the voice messages a job. A vague 'leave us a message' collects a lot of cheering and very little you can use, while 'record your question for the guest' or 'tell us where you listen to the show' produces clips that slot straight into an episode. Ask people to say their first name and their city at the start, keep it under 60 seconds, and record somewhere quieter than the bar. Tell the room on mic that some of the messages may be played on a future episode, so everyone who records knows what they are agreeing to before they press the button.
The meet-and-greet line is where the best photos happen and where the quietest people in the audience finally say hello. Have one person from the team stand at the front of the line with a phone and take the photo for each listener, then point them to the code so they can find the picture in the gallery that night. If someone in the audience asks not to be photographed or posted, turn on host review so every upload waits for your approval, and skip their photos when you pick images for social.
Common questions about live podcast recordings
Does Picsui record the episode audio?
No. The episode is your own recording, made on the mics and the recorder you already use, and nothing about that changes. Picsui is for everything around the show: photos and short videos from the audience, voice messages of up to 60 seconds that listeners record on their phones, written guestbook entries, and the slideshow on the venue screen. Think of it as the audience's side of the night, collected in one place you control.
Can we play listener voice messages on the show?
You can download every voice message from the gallery and drop it into your edit like any other audio file. Because the clips are recorded on phones in a busy room, ask listeners to step into the lobby or a corridor first. Tell the audience on mic that messages may be used on a future episode, so the people who record are choosing to be heard. If a clip is not right for the show, it stays in the gallery and you simply leave it out.
How do we show our sponsor what they got from the live show?
On a partner event, the event carries a 'Sponsored by' link under the logo on the gallery, the guest upload page and the name form, and the sponsor's name appears on the slideshow. Every tap on that link is counted per event, and link-preview bots are not counted, so you can report a real figure alongside the ad read. This comes with the Picsui Partner programme, which is for producers and agencies running events for clients. It is not part of a plain Event Pass.
Who can see the audience photos?
Only people with the link or the code. The gallery is private by default, never listed publicly, and guest pages are blocked from search engines and named AI crawlers. Photos you choose to repost are the ones that go public. If you want to see everything before the rest of the audience does, turn on host review and each upload waits in your queue until you approve it. You can close the gallery to new uploads once the meet-and-greet is over.
What does it cost for a taping, or a whole tour?
An Event Pass is $29, paid once per event, with no subscription. It covers unlimited uploads, full-resolution downloads and 365 days of hosting. A tour is usually one event per city, so each audience gets its own gallery and its own guestbook. Two tapings on one festival weekend can sit as sub-events under a single code. You can also try the Free Preview first, where the first 60 uploads are visible and the gallery locks 7 days after the show.
Every photo from live podcast recordings, in one place
One-time Event Pass, $29. No subscription, no per-guest fee.
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