Altcast Commentate any match live, from your phone, in your own language.

An altcast is a match called by a fan instead of a broadcaster. You watch the game you were going to watch anyway, and other fans listen to you call it. Nobody hands out the microphone: you pick the match and go on air.

free · no gear

How an altcast works

Pick the match: Any fixture on the board, in any of the sports WeSpeakSports follows. Nobody has to have booked it first, and you need no accreditation.
Open the app and talk: The app is the booth: it records you and puts you on air. No mixer, no desk, no second machine. Your phone and your voice are the kit.
Fans find you on the match: Your name appears on that fixture and on the boards of both clubs, next to the other fans commentating it, in the language you speak.
Keep the ones who stay: Call the same club week after week and the regulars become yours. That audience is the thing worth building; it is also what any sponsorship would eventually be sold against.

What a sponsored altcast could pay

Not running yet. This is the plan, not an offer: no fan has been paid for an altcast.

Fans listening to you1,000

Hours you are on air2

Ads per hour10

Paid per 1,000 ads heard$6.00

Matches you call a month8

Ads heard in one match: 20,000
That match would pay: $120.00
A month of 8 matches: $960.00

figures you type, not figures we pay

The arithmetic is the standard one: an advertiser pays a rate per thousand ads heard, and the commentator takes a share of it. What that rate and that share turn out to be is not settled, and neither is the date. Nothing on this page is a commitment to pay.

What you get today

Your own schedule: One match a season or four a week. Nothing is assigned to you and nothing expires.
Your own language: Most matches are called in one or two languages. Yours is often the only one covering a club, which is exactly how fans find you.
A page that keeps your name: Every match you call is listed on your commentator page and on the clubs’ boards, and it stays there.
No kit to buy: A phone, headphones if you have them, and somewhere to watch the match. That is the whole setup.