GH Connects — The Creators Lounge
Say it properly. For once.
GH Connects: The Creators Lounge is a Manchester studio series for creators who are sick of being carved into someone else’s clip. One hour in the chair. Your story, at full length. You keep everything we shoot.
Applications take about five minutes. No media kit, no follower minimum.
- Manchester studio
- One session, about an hour
- Free to appear
- Your footage, yours to post
The problem
You know how this usually goes.
You get the invite. You give them ninety minutes of honest conversation. Then a clip goes out — the worst ten seconds, stripped of everything that made it make sense, captioned to make you look like an idiot. The comments do the rest.
The Lounge runs the other way round. The conversation is the product, not the raw material for one. Nothing goes out that misrepresents what you actually said. If a moment needs context to make sense, it keeps the context or it doesn’t run.
You’ll be asked proper questions. You’ll be allowed to finish your answers. And if you say something you regret, tell us before we publish and it comes out.
The reach
Why the Lounge is worth your afternoon
- followers across Instagram and Facebook
- 120Kfollowers across Instagram and Facebook
- views so far this year
- 55.5Mviews so far this year
- interactions
- 900Kinteractions
- link clicks
- 183.8Klink clicks
Gerryn Hussain has spent years building an audience in football and creator culture — BallerFC, the Legends match, World Cup and pitchside coverage. Not a channel that buys reach and hopes. An audience that turns up, argues in the comments and actually clicks.
That last number is the one to look at. 183,800 link clicks means the people watching don’t just scroll past — they move when there’s a reason to. That’s the audience your episode goes out to.
The deal
What you walk out with
Nobody gets paid to come on the Lounge — including us. What you get instead is a day’s worth of content you’d otherwise have to commission, and a collab that puts you in front of an audience that clicks.
A collab post on both accounts.
Your episode goes out as a joint post across Gerryn Hussain and GH Connects Lounge - so it lands in two feeds, not one. That's 120,000 followers across Instagram and Facebook, on an account doing 55.5M views a year.
Three vertical cuts, edited for your grid.
Not our cuts pushed to your page. Three properly edited verticals built to work as your content, captioned and sized for Reels, in your hands within seven days of filming.
The raw footage and a stills set.
Everything we shoot, handed over. Cut it again, use it in a sponsor deck, pull a thumbnail from it - no permission needed, no restrictions, no expiry.
Shot like it matters.
Sony A7C II multi-cam in 4K, Shure SM7B and RODECaster Pro II for broadcast-quality audio, lit properly. Most creators are still filming interviews on a phone in a spare room. This won't look like that.
Who it’s for
You don’t need to be big. You need to have something to say.
There’s no follower minimum. We’ve deliberately not set one, because the best episodes usually come from people with a story rather than people with a number.
What we’re after: creators who’ve got something they’ve never properly been given the room to explain. A thing they changed their mind about. A thing that went wrong. A thing everyone gets wrong about their corner of the internet. Football and sport creators are our home ground, but the door isn’t closed if you’re somewhere else and the story’s right.
You need to be 18 or over and able to get to Manchester for a shoot day. That’s it. That’s the whole gate.
And if you’re reading this thinking you’re too small — apply anyway. We’d rather turn down fifty good applications than miss the one person who talked themselves out of it.
How it works
Three steps. About five minutes of effort before you’ve committed to anything.
- 01
Apply
Fill in the form below. Takes five minutes. You'll need your handle and a couple of lines on the story you'd want to tell - no media kit, no showreel, no CV.
- 02
We talk
If it's a fit, we'll come back to you within seven days for a short call or a DM back-and-forth. We'll talk through your story, what we'd cover, and anything you'd rather we didn't. No obligation at this point - plenty of people have this conversation and decide it's not for them, and that's completely fine.
- 03
You film
One session at the studio in Manchester, around an hour in the chair, free parking on site. Your cuts, raws and stills land within seven days of the shoot.
FAQ
The straight answers
Including the ones most shows make you ask for.
Apply
Right then. Tell us about you.
Five minutes. Three short steps. We come back to everyone within seven days, yes or no.
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Still deciding?
Drop us a message on @ghconnectslounge and ask. We’d rather answer a question than lose a good episode to hesitation.