Sohan, founder of Off-season Productions

Sohan

Founder · Daily Steelers since 2019

About

One fan. 1,247 videos. Same plan every day.

Started the channel in February 2019 because nobody was making daily Steelers content for actual fans. Not weekly. Not "after the dust settles". Daily.

The Story

How Off-season Productions started

Started the channel because nobody else was doing it the way fans actually wanted. The mainstream Steelers coverage was too slow, too cleaned up, too afraid to take a position. Don't get me wrong, the big networks have their place. But if you wanted a take 20 minutes after the press conference instead of three days after the dust settled, your only option was Twitter.

So I started filming. February 2019. One video that day. One video the next day. Same the day after. Quite frankly the first 200 uploads barely got noticed and that was fine, because the only way to build the kind of channel I wanted was to be the guy who actually shows up every day. Not the guy who promises to. The discipline came first. The audience came after.

Seven years in, 1,247 videos, 39 million views across all platforms. The channel is still solo. I still watch every game. I still write every script. The fans who watch every day are why this works, and they're who anybody who partners with us is actually reaching. Not a vague impression count. A locked-in audience that presses play on purpose.

The Discipline

Daily since 2 February 2019

1,247
Videos shipped
32,100+
Subscribers
39M+
Views, all platforms
100K+
Top video views

The cadence breaks once for travel or surgery, never twice in a row. Seven years of that compounds into trust. The fans know when they open YouTube there's going to be a new video. The sponsors know when they buy a slot the channel is going to keep showing up for as long as they're paying.

What I Watch For

Every angle, every day

Game recaps + reactions

Same-day breakdown of what happened, what didn't work, what the next 7 days look like. Sharper than the official wrap-up, and a lot faster.

Draft + prospect analysis

Mock drafts that go deeper than the first round. College tape for the late-round picks. The kind of analysis that respects how much football you've already watched.

Roster + culture takes

Why a signing matters. Why a release doesn't. What the locker room actually thinks. The on-the-record stuff plus the read-between-the-lines stuff.

Off-season deep dives

Training camp, free agency, the months when other channels go quiet. That's literally where the brand name comes from.

Hot takes (responsibly hot)

If you ask me, the best channels don't avoid strong opinions. They just back them up. Strong take, then the reasoning, then a soft landing for the people who disagree.

Behind-the-scenes

Occasionally the camera turns around. How the channel works. What it's like to ship 1,247 videos. Why Pittsburgh sports are still the best sports.

Common questions

About the channel

Who is Sohan? +

Sohan runs Off-season Productions solo. He watches every Steelers game, writes and films every video, and handles all sponsorship inquiries himself. No edit team, no assistant. Started the channel February 2019 and has shipped daily since.

Why daily? +

Quite frankly, daily-since-2019 is the proof point most channels can't touch. The discipline is the brand. When a sponsor reads land in a video, they go in front of an audience that shows up tomorrow too — not a one-off algorithm spike.

Where is Off-season Productions based? +

Off-season Productions covers Pittsburgh Steelers football and Pittsburgh sports nationally. The audience is concentrated in Pittsburgh and the Steelers diaspora across the United States.

Why the domain steelcityy.com if the brand is Off-season Productions? +

Steel City is a Pittsburgh nickname and steelcityy.com (with two y's) is the URL. The brand displayed on the site and every social channel is Off-season Productions, matching the YouTube channel name.

Does Sohan have a media background? +

No. Self-taught fan creator, no journalism degree, no team affiliation. The channel is independent and unaffiliated with the Pittsburgh Steelers organisation. Every take is Sohan's own.

Let me know what you guys think

Watch the channel, send a sponsorship inquiry, or just say hi. Sohan reads every reply.