freekickerz

If you search on YouTube for football, or all topics around football, you will almost always find the channel called “freekickerz”. What viewers can expect on this channel seems pretty transparent for now. On closer inspection, however, it becomes clear that there is much more to the channel’s content than first expected. But what and who exactly are behind the channel of the “freekickerz” and where in the German web video scene are they located today ?

In general, one can agree with the assumption that this channel is mainly about football. However, the guys from the channel freekickerz implemented this very skillfully and at the same time interesting. But first of all who is actually behind this channel ?

The channel freekickerz was founded by Konstantin Hert aka “Konzi”, who is also one of the current members. In addition to him, Michael Rauf alias “Michir7”, Max Galys alias “antimax”, Tim Mohr alias “tim6_12”, Jan Stemmler alias “Jan1GK” and Lukas Steinlein alias “lukas7football” regularly appear in the videos. Besides the main channel “freekickerz” almost all of the members have another channel of their own on which they also publish videos about football.

Konstantin Hert founded the channel “freekickerz” already on 01 January 2010. On the same day the first video with the title “OMG! Best Free Kick Ever … Watch!” was published. The video depicted a seven-second take of a free kick and, as of today, has well over a million views. In the further course further videos followed, which represented individual Shots or even special Trickshots within the range of the football contained. Furthermore they publish videos in which they present different football equipment of several professionals and test them in different categories.

If you take a look at the channel “freekickerz” today, the number of current subscribers is staggering. With well over 7.7 million subscribers, the “freekickerz” channel is clearly one of the largest and probably most successful YouTube channels in Germany. This enormous success could be due on the one hand to the topic of football, which attracts an enormous number of viewers due to the high level of interest in it, and on the other hand to the channel’s constantly varied and, above all, interesting content. So the channel can feature quite a few videos which include challenges between the channel members and different professional footballers.

As far as channel activity is concerned, there is a clear upload schedule on the channel’s info, which shows a specific category for each day. However, it should be noted that this upload plan has been somewhat disregarded lately. A regular activity of the channel is nevertheless well visible.