Client · 2026

Talking Shrimpers.

An editorial home for an award-winning Southend United podcast.

Role Client
Discipline Web · Editorial · Brand
Sector Sport · Media

The brief

The Talking Shrimpers Podcast covers Southend United week in, week out, and won Silver for Best Non-League Club Podcast at the 2026 Non-League Bible Awards in its debut season. The show lived on YouTube and socials; it needed a home of its own that treats fan media like proper journalism.

Talking Shrimpers homepage hero with the two hosts at Roots Hall

The build

A static-first Astro site in the club’s navy and gold: every episode in one place, fixtures, news, and long-form editorial set in a serif article layout built for reading, not skimming. The centrepiece is a full club-by-club National League season preview written and researched to a journalistic standard.

The site is fast, self-hosted fonts and all, and the contact form is guarded against bots with Cloudflare Turnstile. It carries a small "Powered by Foundry Studio" credit in the footer, which is the only advertising it needs to do.

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