How to run a soccer channel without match footage
Soccer never runs out of things to talk about. The European leagues are in mid-season, continental competitions fill the midweek, and rumours start well before the winter transfer window opens. After every match, fans look for a video that explains why their team lost and who played well.
The first wall a new soccer channel hits is footage. Match clips belong to the broadcasters, and you cannot use them freely. That is why the soccer channels that last tell their stories with numbers and graphics. That is the kind of video OneStep is good at.
Formats that need no match footage
- Match review — explain the game with charts of possession, shots and expected goals.
- Player comparison — two players’ season numbers, side by side.
- Transfer round-up — this week’s transfer news, club by club.
- History — the story of a club or a manager as a timeline. It is not tied to a date, so it keeps getting views.
- Shorts — one sentence of content, such as “the most surprising number from this round”.
How to make them with OneStep
- Enter the topic together with the numbers. For example: “Review of Team A v Team B. Possession 58–42, shots 14–6, shots on target 5–2”. OneStep builds bar and line charts only when the script contains real numbers, so typing the stats in yourself keeps them accurate.
- Turn on motion graphics. Bar chart, side-by-side and timeline scenes appear in order, matched to the narration.
- Set the narration voice. Register a voice sample on the channel and every video is read in the same voice. On a commentary channel the voice is the channel’s identity.
- Set up Shorts and a scheduled release. Start the job the night the match ends and have the video go public for the morning commute.
Save the same settings as a style preset and from the next match on you only change the topic and the numbers.
Broadcast footage, club crests and player photos all have rights holders. Build the video around charts and graphics you make yourself.
See who fans are backing right now
The Soccer board on Stardona Ranking is an unofficial fan vote where fans vote for players directly. You can view it by period (all-time, monthly, weekly, daily) and by country.
See this week's soccer fan-vote ranking →
- A player who climbs suddenly in the weekly ranking was in the news that week. They make a good subject for your next video.
- Turn the monthly ranking into a “fan vote of the month” segment and you have a regular series. The ranking itself supplies the numbers for a bar chart scene.
- When you quote it, say that it is an unofficial fan vote, not an official statistic.
Before the next round
Interest in a soccer video drops quickly once the day after the match has passed. OneStep carries a video from script to YouTube upload in one job, so even a one-person channel can keep up with the fixture list.
See the OneStep All-in-One Package →
For everything OneStep does and what you need to run it, read Introducing OneStep.
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