Built For Professional & College Athletes

YOU'VE GOT THE
FOLLOWING.
NOW OWN
THE AUDIENCE.

Your fans are being fed content about you that you never created. Give them somewhere real to go. A newsletter is the one place where everything came from you — approved by you, owned by you, for life.

Your Following. Your Audience. Your Future. Weekly Newsletter — Done For You 55% Average Open Rate FIFPRO Official Partner 20,000+ Players Represented Your Voice. Your Brand. Your Future. Own Your Narrative — Before Someone Else Does. NIL Athletes — Build Your Brand Now. Your Following. Your Audience. Your Future. Weekly Newsletter — Done For You 55% Average Open Rate FIFPRO Official Partner 20,000+ Players Represented Your Voice. Your Brand. Your Future.
55%
Average Open Rate
20K+
Athletes Represented
10min
Your Time Per Fortnight
$0
Setup Cost
The Missing Piece

Social Gets You
Seen. This Gets
You Remembered.

Keep doing what you're doing on social. This runs alongside it — and gives you something social never can. Direct access to your audience. No algorithm. No platform. Just you and them.

📱 Social Media Reach
Instagram Post
3.5%
of your followers actually see any given post. Down 12% in one year. Algorithm-controlled, unpredictable, and resets when you change clubs or take a break.*
✓ Newsletter — The Upgrade
Direct to Inbox
40–60%
open rate. Works alongside your social. Direct to inbox. Follows you through every chapter of your career and beyond.
The Real Cost Of Social Media
Doing Social Properly In 2026
Means 37–61 Posts A Week.

Buffer analysed millions of posts across every major platform to find the optimal posting frequency. For a professional athlete in season — training twice a day, travelling, playing weekends — this is simply not possible.*

7–14
Facebook
posts/week
3–5
Instagram
posts/week
2–5
TikTok
posts/week
21–28
X / Twitter
posts/week
2–5
LinkedIn
posts/week
1
YouTube
video/week
1–3
YT Shorts
per week
37–61
Posts per week. Every week. To do it properly.
One newsletter every two weeks.
That's all Athlete Newsletter asks for. Around 10 minutes of your time per fortnight — 2–3 voice notes, one quick approval. We handle everything else. While you focus on the game.
An Investment In Your Future Self

Your Career Is Bigger
Than Your Club.

🔄
When You Transfer

Your subscribers follow the person, not the jersey. Every transfer is an opportunity to grow, not a reset.

🏁
When You Retire

Most athletes retire into silence. You'll retire with an audience — 10,000–50,000 subscribers ready for whatever comes next.

🎤
Speaking & Appearances

Brands pay a premium for athletes with engaged, owned audiences. 10K newsletter subscribers beats 500K Instagram followers every time.

💰
Sponsorships & Brand Deals

Sponsors want direct access to engaged audiences. A newsletter proves yours — and athletes with newsletters command better deals, more often.

The Bigger Picture
Your physio invests in your body.
Your coach invests in your game.
This invests in what comes after both of them.

Every week you play, your audience grows. By the time your playing career ends, you won't be starting over — you'll already have an audience waiting.

The Real Problem

Your Story Is Being
Written By Everyone
Except You.

🤖
AI & Deepfakes

Fake quotes. Generated videos. Content that looks like you and sounds like you — but isn't you. Your fans don't know what's real.

📰
Media Narrative

Journalists write the story. Clubs control the messaging. Fan accounts fill in the gaps. Everyone has a version of you — none of them asked.

📱
The Algorithm

When you post, 3.5% of your followers see it on average — down 12% in a single year.* The algorithm decides your story. Your actual words get buried.

A newsletter is the one source
your fans know is real.

Every word in it came from you. You approved it. Your subscribers opted in to hear from you — not a journalist's take, not a fan account's rumour, not an AI hallucination with your face on it.

✓ Written in your voice
✓ Approved by you before it sends
✓ Owned by you. Forever.
🎓 College Athletes & NIL
Build your brand
before the draft.

NIL means you can monetise your audience now. A newsletter built during college means you arrive at the draft as an athlete and a media brand — with subscribers, sponsors, and a story you own.

NIL
Ready
How It Works

Three Steps.
Zero Effort.

01
Step 01
You Post Like Normal

Instagram, LinkedIn, WhatsApp voice notes. Keep doing exactly what you're already doing. We monitor your public content and pull it all together automatically. You don't open a single new app.

02
Step 02
We Write It

Our AI transforms your week's content into a professional newsletter written in your voice. You receive a WhatsApp message to review and approve. Thirty seconds. That's your entire weekly involvement.

03
Step 03
Your Audience Grows

Published every week, without fail. Subscribers grow week over week. You get a monthly report showing progress. Transfer, retire, pivot — this audience is yours and it comes with you. Forever.

The Numbers Don't Lie

Email Is Having
Its Moment.

The newsletter economy is booming — and the sports and athlete category is almost completely untapped. The window to be first in your sport is still wide open.

12x
More engagement from newsletters vs social media posts on average
4x
More sponsorship opportunities for newsletter creators vs social-only creators
2x
More revenue earned by newsletter creators compared to social platforms alone
40–60%
Typical newsletter open rates — vs 3–5% reach on Instagram and TikTok
"
The most important thing you can do right now is own your audience. Email is the only platform that nobody can take away from you.
Gary Vaynerchuk · Entrepreneur & Media Expert
"
Social media is rented land. You're building your house on someone else's property. A newsletter is the only real estate you actually own.
Joe Pulizzi · Founder, Content Marketing Institute
"
Athletes who build owned audiences will have careers — and income streams — that outlast their playing days by decades. The ones who don't will wonder where everyone went.
Chris Broadfoot · Founder, Athlete Newsletter
Former Pro Footballer
A-League · Gold Coast United · Lived the athlete journey
🌏
Players Association Partner
FIFPRO Asia/Oceania · PFA · RLPA · 20,000+ Players
📧
55% Open Rates
The Currency Advantage · Same proven system
💸
$1B+ Managed
SportsFX · 11 Years · Athletes trust me with their money
Pricing

One Brand Deal Covers It.
The Audience Is Yours Forever.

$500–2K
Per Sponsored Issue at 10K Subs
One brand deal covers months of your subscription. Then it keeps paying — indefinitely.
You Choose
Monthly or Bi-Weekly
Pick the cadence that fits your lifestyle. Change it anytime. We handle the rest either way.
Forever
Your Subscribers Are Yours
Cancel anytime. Your audience, your data, your asset — it leaves with you. Always.
What The Journey Looks Like
0–2,500
Subscribers
Foundation building. You post, we publish. Every week without fail. Platform fully covered — no extra cost to you.
2,500–5K
Subscribers
Monetisation unlocks. Your newsletter begins earning passive income from sponsor placements — often enough to cover your subscription costs.
10,000
Subscribers
Media asset status. Direct brand deals become realistic at $500–2,000 per sponsored issue. Your newsletter is now making real money.
25,000+
Subscribers
Premium property. Sponsorships, speaking fees, product launches — every opportunity you pursue is amplified by an audience that trusts you.
Monthly — Individual Athlete
$599/mo
One newsletter per month
  • 1 newsletter per month, fully managed end-to-end
  • Written in your voice from your content & voice notes
  • WhatsApp approval — under 5 minutes per newsletter
  • All Beehiiv platform costs covered to 10,000 subscribers
  • Monthly subscriber growth report
  • You own the account and every subscriber
  • Cancel anytime — your audience always stays with you
Pay annually — $539/mo (save $720/yr)
Apply for Early Access →
A full-time social media manager costs $3,000–5,000/month and builds nothing you own. A PR consultant costs more and delivers less. At $749/month, you're building a compounding audience asset for less than a quarter of the alternatives.
Apply for Early Access →
Who's Behind This

Built By An
Athlete.

I'm Chris Broadfoot. I played professionally in the A-League for Gold Coast United — I know exactly what it feels like to build a following, then watch it evaporate when you move on.

For 11 years I've run SportsFX — currency strategy for professional athletes — as Official FX Partner to FIFPRO Asia/Oceania, the PFA, and the RLPA, collectively representing 20,000+ players. I built a newsletter with 55% open rates using the same AI system I'm now making available to athletes.

A-League Professional Footballer
Gold Coast United · Former Pro · I lived this
FIFPRO Official Partner — Asia/Oceania & Africa
20,000+ Professional Athletes · Also worked with FIFPRO Africa & MLSPA
$1 Billion+ In Athlete Transfers Managed
SportsFX · 11 Years · Athletes trust me with their money
"Your playing career
has an expiry date.
Your audience doesn't."
— Chris Broadfoot · Founder, Athlete Newsletter
Founding Cohort — 20 Spots Only

Get In First.
Stay In Forever.

We're opening 20 founding member spots before general applications open. Founding members get a permanently reduced rate — locked in for as long as they stay. Not for this year. Not for two years. Forever.

When these 20 spots are gone, the founding rate is gone with them. Everyone who joins after pays full price. This is the only time this price will ever exist.

Founding Member Spots
20
Spots
Remaining
of 20 founding member positions
Founding Rate $499/mo
Standard Rate $749/mo
You save $250/month · $3,000/year · forever
Claim Your Founding Spot →
What Founding Members Get
$449/mo Forever
Your rate never increases. Everyone who joins after pays $599–$749 depending on plan. This price exists only for the founding 20 — for as long as you stay.
Personal Onboarding
Chris personally builds your voice profile and content strategy. First newsletter live within 7 days. You get direct access — not a support ticket.
Shape The Product
Founding members have direct input into how the service evolves. Your feedback builds the product that thousands of athletes will use after you.
Apply For Early Access

Tell Us About
Yourself.

We review every application personally. If it's a good fit, Chris will reach out directly within 48 hours.

We review every application personally. No spam, no automated responses — just a real reply from Chris.

Founding rate locked at $499/mo if you're in the first 20
Personal reply from Chris within 48 hours
No commitment until you say yes
Now Accepting Founding Applications

Start Building
What's Yours.

We're now accepting applications for the founding cohort. Spots are limited — we onboard selectively to ensure every athlete gets the attention they deserve. Apply today and your first newsletter goes live within 7 days.

Apply for Early Access → Have a Question? Get in Touch
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* Instagram average organic reach rate 3.5%, down 12% year on year — Socialinsider Social Media Benchmarks 2025 (socialinsider.io). Instagram organic reach fell 30–40% across all post formats in 2025 based on analysis of 1.9 million brand posts — Emplifi 2026 Social Media Benchmarks. Optimal posting frequency data — Buffer, How Often to Post on Social Media 2026 (buffer.com). Newsletter open rate benchmarks — Beehiiv / Mailchimp industry data.