The media strand
Trader’s Hub
This is where Academy and Talk came together. Podcasts with traders and market figures, and a cover for every episode.
- Graphic design
- Social
Part of the NEOMAAA ecosystemWhat it was
NEOMAAA is an international prop firm. Trader’s Hub is its media arm: Academy and NEOMAAA Talk were merged into it, it got a site of its own, and the channel was kept for podcasts.
Episodes ship regularly, and every one needs a cover. A new guest, a new topic, and the channel still has to be recognised from the first frame in a feed of recommendations.
Episode covers
One format, different contents: the guest, a large line from the conversation, the topic. In Spanish, because the audience is in Latin America.
The headline works as bait. "They made me believe I was worthless", "I was born poor but trading changed my life". In a YouTube feed an episode is up against everything at once, from news to music.
How many there are
A screenshot of the board, so the number is not just a claim. There are hundreds of episodes and every one of them has its own cover.
Each one is built by hand. The frame is pulled out of the video itself, the guest is cut out, the colour is brought in line with the channel, and in places it has to be repainted with a neural net while keeping the face recognisably that person.
Spanish is its own story. Neither I nor the team speak it. To put one line on a cover we first run the conversation through a translator and work out which line is even worth using.
The site itself
Beyond the channel the direction has a site of its own. It became necessary when Academy and Talk were merged: streams, mentors, courses, shorts and podcasts lived in different places, and a viewer had to find them in one.
The landing page as a single sheet, so its shape and length are visible. There are many sections, and the order matters more than the styling here: it leads from what people are watching right now to what they can take up next.
First screen
The name of the community and one line about what it is. There is nothing to sell here, so the feed comes straight away instead of a button.
Announcements feed
Fresh episodes and streams tagged by where they come from, Academy or Talks. Right on the first screen, because that is what people come for.
Trading Hub TV
Broadcasts with hosts. A large card for the live session, with a list of formats beside it: market breakdowns, workshops, conversations with viewers.
Past streams
What has already aired, three cards with dates. A live session does not run every day, and between them the section still has to hold up.
Mentors
Faces and names. For a media project trust rests on people, and promises count for little, and this is the only section with portraits.
Academy
Here it became a section of the site. A cloud of topics on top instead of a list of courses: there are two dozen of them, and a person arrives looking for their own.
Courses and e-books
A card carries the level, the author, the duration and the languages. Languages are marked with flags, because some of the material exists only in Spanish.
Become a mentor
A full-width band between sections. The one place where the site asks for something, addressed to people ready to run a course or a stream themselves.
Shorts
Vertical clips in a feed, the way social platforms show them. These are reviews and reactions from members, the same trust in the viewers’ own voices.
Talks
The podcasts the whole thing was built around. Formats of the conversations on the left, the episodes themselves on the right, with the same covers they carry in the YouTube feed.
About the community
Text about this being an independent community, the mission in its own column, and social links. The logo sits centred between them.
Footer
Legal links and the CFD risk disclaimer. The project is a media one, but it stands next to a prop firm, and the warning is mandatory.