The free-to-attend Content Summit takes place 16 March at Dock10, MediaCityUK, Salford

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The annual Broadcast Sport Content Summit returns to Dock10 Studios in Salford on Wednesday 16 March.

The Broadcast Sport Content Summit 2022 brings together the UK’s leading digital and traditional sports producers/broadcasters, sports rights holders and sports tech companies in a full day free-to-attend conference.

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It focuses on different areas of sports production, providing a platform for sports content producers and broadcasters to discuss best practice in making and televising live sports, sports-focused documentaries, studio-based programming and more.

The topics at the Broadcast Sport Content Summit 2022 include:

  • ‘How we made’ case studies on key sports documentaries

  • Best practice for producing sports content for YouTube

  • Encouraging a better gender balance in sports production

  • One to watch: Airspeeder’s plans to take off in 2022

For more detailed information about some of the key sessions at the event, see the box below.

To hear some of the sessions from last year’s Content Summit, click on the panel of your choice in the Broadcast Sport podcast episode list below.

This year’s Content Summit is closely linked to the Broadcast Sport Awards, with sessions featuring speakers from many of the winning sports production companies and sports broadcasters from the Broadcast Sport Awards 2021, and discussions influenced by the categories of the awards.

The Broadcast Sport Awards 2022 takes place later this year - more details will be announced nearer the time.

To register your place at the Broadcast Sport Content Summit 2022, click here.

Broadcast Sport Content Summit 2022

16 March 2022, Dock10, Salford - The key sessions

In conversation with Whisper

Speakers: Bethan Evans, head of broadcast, Whisper; Sunil Patel, CEO and co-founder, Whisper

A fireside chat with one Whisper’s leading execs on how the company has quickly become one of the biggest and most respected sports production outfits in the UK. The company is only 11 years old but is already the trusted production outfit behind flagship sporting events including The Paralympics, the F1 (for Channel 4), and cricket coverage for the BBC. It also has excelled at appointing women to key positions within the company and ensuring diversity in its workforce. Evans and Patel talk about their roles at Whisper, and what the key focus and key projects are for the company in 2022.

How we made ‘Micah Richards: Tackling Racism’ with Buzz16

The Buzz16 team behind its award-winning documentary explain their approach to the production and how they created such a powerful, hard-hitting film. In the Sky Sports documentary, the former England and Premier League footballer Micah Richards explores the true scale of the racism problem in British football, and what can be done about it. The production team behind it are young and diverse, including many alumni of the MAMA Youth Project, which aims to get young people from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds employed in the broadcast and media industries.

Behind-the-scenes: Virtual Sports Studios with Dock10

Speakers: Hannah Robinson, Dock10; Steve Boulton, Golden Egg Innovations

Dock10 has designed, created and housed a wide array of virtual sports studios, including the flagship Match of The Day studio and the set for the Gran Turismo Championship. In this session, Dock10 explains how to create virtual studio spaces for sports; why virtual studios are well suited to sports presentations; what clients are looking for in a sports studio; what doesn’t work that well in virtual studios; what the future holds for virtual sports studios; will virtual production/Volume stages also increasingly become an option for studio spaces, or is the cost of the Volume prohibitively expensive compared to the green screen virtual studio spaces?

Creating sports content for YouTube

Speakers: Robbie Spargo, Little Dot Studios; Jeff Nathensen, Team Whistle International MD

Little Dot Studios and Team Whistle provide insight into how they work with leading athletes, sports clubs and federations to create and manage YouTube channels that maximise fan engagement and the reach of content made for the platform. What content works best on YouTube, how do you create a YouTube strategy, and what is best practice for growing your sports brand on YouTube? Little Dot Studios runs a wealth of sports-related YouTube channels for clients, and Team Whistle manages the Premier League’s YouTube account.

Women’s Sport Trust presentation

Speaker: Chris Hurst, board member, Women’s Sport Trust

The Women’s Sport Trust presents the latest data from the Women’s Sport Trust visibility research. The organisation explain the key findings of the report and its implications for how (and how much) women’s sport is likely to be consumed across different platforms in the future.

One to watch: Airspeeder’s plans to take off in 2022

Speaker: Stephen Sidlo, Airspeeder

Airspeeder is the world’s first racing series for electric flying cars. The racing multi-copters are being developed at Airspeeder’s aerospace engineering hub in South Australia by engineers drawn from elite motorsports, automotive, aviation and first-person-view drone, electric plane, electric vehicles and passenger drone backgrounds. Airspeeder’s vision is to deliver the most exciting and future-focused motorsport on the planet. Following an inaugural unmanned season, elite pilots will take to the skies to race on electronically governed racetracks in the skies. Those behind Airspeeder join the Content Summit to explain their ambitious plans for the sport.

What’s next for The Hundred?

Speaker: Tom Crump, senior producer, Sky Sports

This panel discusses what’s in store for The Hundred in 2022, following the success of the launch year. It reflects on the key successes of year one – putting women’s cricket on a level playing field with the mens’ game; putting live cricket back on free-to-air platforms including YouTube to encourage widespread viewing; making the stadium experience fun and high energy; and so on. Then the panel discusses how Sky’s plans for coverage of The Hundred are panning out for this year – how will Sky approach its coverage – what adaptations/enhancements will it make; what about on-screen graphics and analysis such as the use of the avatars – will that evolve to make more use of the possibilities of AR/XR etc?