What’s new at FanWord
Jul 23, 2026
It’s Chris with FanWord, and it’s time for another edition of The Highlight Reel! 🎉
Many of you have asked to stay informed on what we’re doing here at FanWord. These emails are short in nature and designed to keep you in the loop on:
- ✅ Product updates
- 🤝 New partnerships
- 🚀 New features
- ℹ️ Other noteworthy info
With that said… let’s jump into our sixth edition! 🎬
And as always, if you have any questions or want to chat further, reach out through the contact form at the bottom of the page — I’d love to connect.
What is FanWord Assist?
If you need a quick refresher, FanWord Assist is the leading AI-powered storytelling platform in college sports. We help college sports communicators at more than 225 schools across every level of the industry reclaim 7-10 hours every week by streamlining workflows and making high-quality content both faster and easier to produce. (i.e. game recaps, weekly nominations, feature stories, player bios, transcriptions, news stories, online interviews, etc.)
🆕 Get to Know: Forms
Incoming freshman bios just got easier.
FanWord’s new Forms feature makes it easier than ever to collect responses from any stakeholder. Unlike other form solutions, Forms is built with multiple automated response-cleanup features tailored exclusively to the world of college athletics, like spell check, grammar check, and example formatting.
The primary use-case? Incoming freshman bios. Let Forms turn responses from incoming freshmen into clean and consistent outputs — and then turn them into bios with just a few clicks.
Already collected responses? Use our CSV import tool to bring in your previously completed forms and take advantage of the cleanup features.
📚 Case Study: Stetson University
The Hatters have produced over 400 pieces of content in 10 months, but more importantly, they’re saving over 32 work hours per month on average.
What stands out most is that, not only does Stetson use every possible feature within FanWord Assist, but they use them creatively. Like when they used our Feature Stories tool to build roster bios for the cheerleading team — a novel solution that captured their personality and made the athlete feel more seen.
⏰ What Would You Do With 10 Hours Back Per Week?
That’s what FanWord partners are saving. Some use it to tell long-form human interest stories. Some use it to give coverage equity to every sport. Some use it to get home before midnight.
The average athletics communicator works 50+ hours a week, and the industry is losing people to that pace. 10 hours back can be the difference between burning out and staying in it.
🤔 From Skepticism to Strategy: How AI is Becoming a Must-Have Tool for Athletic Communications
If you missed our insightful panel featuring industry leaders at NACDA/CSC, our team grabbed a recording of the session, dropped it into FanWord Assist and produced a thorough summary of the event in minutes.
You’ll also find a behind-the-scenes look at what it took to bring that summary to life and how that same process works for SIDs.
🙋♂️ The Storytellers of College Sports: Braden Smith
The Storytellers of College Sports is a first-person series from CSC and FanWord celebrating the people behind athletic communications. Know somebody? Nominate them here.
Braden Smith (Director of Athletic Communications at Nebraska Wesleyan) shares his path from student-athlete to SID at the same school, the lessons he wishes he’d known in year one, and why the invisible work is the work that lasts.
“Doing this job well means that student-athletes never have to wonder if someone is paying attention.”
🏆 In The News
- Greensboro College Athletics Partners with FanWord to Enhance Athletics’ Storytelling
- Augustana To Modernize Storytelling Through FanWord Partnership
- UIC Athletics Enters Multi-Year Agreement with FanWord
- Bethel College Signs Multi-Year Storytelling Deal with FanWord
- Austin Peay Athletics Signs Multi-Year Deal with FanWord to Power Storytelling
- Blazers Athletics Enters Partnership with FanWord to Elevate Storytelling
🔜 Coming Soon…
A sneak peek at what we’re actively building.
- New Feature: Summaries — Our solution to help you quickly create weekly summaries for upcoming and past games will be live before fall sports begin.
- Product Update: Multi-Interview Stories — Our time-saving Online Interviews feature is getting a boost. Use multiple interviews to write one feature story.
- Game Previews — soon, you’ll be able to generate game preview articles in FanWord Assist as well.
That’s it! 🎉
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