How to run your room

Any account can upgrade. Go to Settings, hit Become a commentator, read the terms, tick the box, and you can host today. No application, no waiting. In plain English, the terms say four things:

• Your recordings are yours. Completely. Arseradio takes no rights, no license, no exclusivity.
• Audio only, never the match. Your show is your voice and your guests; never play match video or broadcast audio through it. Breaking this means suspension (see the one rule).
• You are responsible for your show. You moderate your room; the community guidelines apply to you, your co-host, and your callers.
• Hosting can be suspended for breaking the terms; your listener account and history stay intact.

1. From My rooms, hit Create room and pick an upcoming fixture from the schedule.
2. Two inputs, that is it: when your show starts (defaults to fifteen minutes before kickoff, so you have time to warm up) and an optional one-line blurb, your angle on the game in 140 characters.
3. Your room gets a clean, permanent link like /room/arsenal-vs-chelsea-04-dec-2026-you. Share it anywhere; there is a Share button on the room and next to it on the schedule.

Match not in the list? Create your own room. On the create page, Create your own room takes just a title and a start time, and the start can be right now (your waiting room opens immediately) or any time in the future. Give it a title like "Arsenal vs Chelsea"; as you type, we search the competitions we cover, and picking a suggestion links the room to the real match so live stats flow automatically. If your game isn't in our data feed, the room still works fully (chat, audio, recordings, everything); it just shows "Information coming soon" in place of stats, and the create page has a box to tell us which league we should add next. We're early and started with a handful of competitions; more are on the way.

Host a whole season: in the fixture picker, Or host the whole season schedules a room for every game your team plays in that competition this season, and new fixtures get their room automatically as they appear. Unsubscribing cancels the future rooms it created.

Bring a co-host: from My rooms, invite another commentator to share a room as an equal. Two hosts max; either of you can run everything; both of you appear on the room and both keep the recordings.

Plans change: cancel any scheduled room from My rooms. Listeners who RSVP'd are notified. A room you never open quietly expires on its own, so an abandoned room never strands an audience.

Your room opens in a waiting state. From the control bar:

• Start time · Set gives listeners a countdown to your show. No time set shows a calm "starts soon" card.
• Chat open / Links open let the room warm up before you are on air.
• The room shows how many people are planning to attend, and listeners who hit Count me in get a reminder before you start.
• Your followers get a nudge when you schedule a room and when you go live, so showing up on time compounds: consistency builds an audience. (Email and push alerts are rolling out during early access.)

1. Start mic. You need a live microphone before you can broadcast. Mute and Mic off are always one tap away.
2. Start Broadcast. You are on air: chat, links, questions and call-ins unlock for everyone, and recording starts here (the waiting room is never recorded).
3. Drive the clock to match the broadcast: Start 1H → Halftime → Start 2H → Full time, with extra time if needed and −1s / +1s nudges to line it up exactly.

The clock is sacred. Listeners align your commentary to their own screens using your clock as the reference, so keep it honest to the live broadcast and never run it ahead of the action.

Watching on a delay? Set your own Delay (up to 5 seconds) and your voice is held back to match, so you can watch a slightly delayed feed and still sound in sync to everyone else.

Stats run themselves. Score, possession, shots, xG, line-ups and events fill in live for covered competitions (Premier League, FA Cup, Carabao Cup and 2. Bundesliga today). You can push any stats tab onto every listener's screen when something is worth looking at, and edit the match info and line-ups if the data feed gets something wrong. Uncovered competitions show "Information coming soon"; the room still works fully.

Widgets: the score predictor runs before kickoff on its own; you create the half-time poll; player ratings open at half-time and again after the whistle.

Call-ins: when a listener requests the mic, a card appears with their topic. Accept puts them on air (two guests max); Dismiss declines quietly. Ending a call is neutral, it does nothing to their account. For problem callers, the flag leaves a private note other hosts can see, and a block (reversible) bars call-ins only.

Questions arrive in a private inbox only the hosts can see; answer the good ones on air or in chat.

• Hide any message with the ✕; it hides the whole reply thread underneath it for everyone.
• The room also moderates itself: listeners can flag messages (each gets 10 flags per match) and enough weighted flags auto-hide one. Votes from established accounts count more, so brigading is blunted.
• Links to unauthorized streams and blocked domains are rejected automatically; you never have to police that by hand.
• You are the moderator of record for your room. Set the tone early; it sticks.

End Broadcast (it asks you to confirm) stops the recording and wraps the room. A Downloads panel appears for you: the full show plus per-segment clips (pre-game, first half, halftime show, second half...), each cut at your clock events. If a boundary is off, adjust it by up to two minutes and recut.

The files are MP3s, named and ready to publish wherever you like: your podcast feed, YouTube, anywhere. They are 100% yours; Arseradio claims nothing.

• What equipment do I need? A microphone and a browser. A quiet room and a decent headset beat expensive gear.
• Do my listeners pay? No. Listening is free and needs no account; people sign up only to chat, vote, or call in.
• Can I see what listeners experience? Yes, read how it works for the listener side, including how they sync your commentary to their own screens.
• What if my match has no stats? As a new product in its early days we focused our data coverage on a few competitions first: the Premier League, FA Cup, Carabao Cup and 2. Bundesliga today. Anything else shows "Information coming soon", and chat, audio, and recordings all work regardless. We are adding more leagues as soon as we are able, and we appreciate your patience while we get there.
• Something broke mid-show? Keep talking. Listeners reconnect automatically and the room rebuilds itself; the recording runs server-side, so a glitch on your end does not lose the show.