ECAL is excited to announce it’s global partnership with the NBA, the world’s most popular basketball league. ECAL provides the exclusive ‘Sync to Calendar’ service for the NBA in the United States, in key international markets, and available to fans anywhere in the world.

With the NBA Playoffs fast approaching (beginning 13th April) fans can easily sync the Playoffs Schedule, or games of their favourite team(s) directly into their personal calendar for free. This dynamic calendar service keeps fans up-to-date with the evolving playoffs schedule, complete with rich game information including TV broadcast details, handy alerts, and direct access to tickets, League Pass and official NBA merchandise, all from the convenience of their personal calendar.

Know what’s on, when and where with the NBA Digital Calendar, a truly global service powered by ECAL – the world’s leading calendar communications platform. The NBA Digital Calendar feature is available in 30+ languages, and available across the official NBA website, NBA digital channels, and from https://nba.ecal.com

Don’t miss a moment of the 2019 NBA Playoffs. ‘Sync to Calendar’ here.

The 2019 Cricket World Cup is coming to England and Wales later this year, with the 12th edition of the competition beginning 30th May, with the hosts playing South Africa at the Oval.

Fans will enjoy a new look tournament format, with ten teams all playing each other once in a single group, and the top four teams progressing to the knockout stage.

Cricket lovers, sync your calendar now with the complete tournament fixture, or you can just follow your favourite teams. With handy alerts and direct access to the ICC Match Centre, Tickets, Latest News, Social Media and more, you’ll never miss a moment of the action.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) is yet another global sports organisation that relies on ECAL’s dynamic ‘sync to calendar’ technology to engage with fans from across the globe.

Don’t miss a moment of the ICC Cricket World Cup, sync the fixture to your calendar here.

 

Cricket World Cup Calendar

ECAL has partnered with the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC), to help promote it’s expanding global circuit of tournaments via the calendar.

In addition to popular TV events such as the William Hill World Darts Championship and betway World Cup of Darts, the PDC now live stream events via PDCTV, their own HD streaming service. With the help of ECAL’s dynamic ‘Sync to Calendar’ technology, dart fans from around the globe can easily know what’s on, when and how to watch, straight from their personal digital calendar, so they never miss a moment.

As part of the calendar solution, fans can choose to receive ‘PDCTV Streamed Events’, ‘TV Events’ and even ‘Ticket On-Sale Dates’ to calendar. Events via ECAL automatically update in the user calendar, and entries are rich with features, including handy alerts, event info and links for direct access to Buy Tickets, Watch Live on PDCTV, Latest Video, News and Player Profiles.

ECAL’s ‘Sync to Calendar’ feature is integrated across the PDC website, with buttons located on the ‘Tournament Calendar’ page and splashed across the PDC’s official facebook and twitter pages.

An Australian-based technology company, ECAL is a world-leader in delivering rich communications and marketing to calendar. ECAL works with hundreds of major brands in sports, ticketing, and entertainment, and is relied upon and trusted by over 7m users globally.

It’s ‘Game On’ for darts fans!. Sync your calendar with PDC events here.

Darts Calendar

ECAL has partnered with the South Australian Tourism Commission (SATC), to help promote the State’s world-class events direct to calendar.

South Australia is renowned for its food and wine, arts festivals, cultural and sporting events. Now, at the click of a button, international and local visitors can easily ‘sync’ events they are interested in, straight to their personal digital calendar.

Events dynamically update in the calendar, so if there are any event updates or changes, they’ll be the first to know. Events include handy alerts, event details and even pricing information, with direct access to purchase tickets straight from the calendar.

ECAL’s ‘Sync to Calendar’ technology is integrated across the SATC website, with ‘Sync to Cal’ buttons located on each individual event page. The feature is another great addition to the recently redesigned southaustralia.com website, designed to increase awareness and engagement in events across the state.

An Australian-based technology company, ECAL is a world-leader in calendar communications and marketing. ECAL works with hundreds of major brands in sports, ticketing, and entertainment, servicing many millions of users globally. SATC’s ‘Sync to Calendar’ feature is a first for the tourism sector, and an exciting initiative for both ECAL and South Australian Tourism.

Visit southaustralia.com now to see what’s on, and sync to cal!

 

Tourism ECAL

ECAL has partnered with business financing company OnDeck, to help execute its ‘Repayment Holiday’ promotion.

A promotion exclusive to MYOB customers taking their first business loan with OnDeck between 30th October and 30th December 2018, customers are being offered a deferred repayment schedule, whereby their first repayment is not due until week beginning Wednesday 2nd January 2019.

ECAL, the world’s leading calendar communications solution, delivers a handy ‘payment reminder’ service direct to calendar, so OnDeck customers know exactly what day their first repayment is due, and how much. The service is designed to help borrowers best manage their funds at such a busy time of year.

It’s one small but effective way, that OnDeck put their customers’ needs first by providing repayment relief over the festive season, and supporting this concept with helpful communications at the right time, in the right place.

OnDeck was launched in Australia in 2015 to solve a major issue facing small businesses: efficient access to capital. OnDeck provides loans up to $250,000 across over 700 different industries and has issued over US$10 billion in loans in the US, Canada and Australia since 2007.

ECAL has partnered with NBA, the globe’s number one basketball league, to provide the official ‘sync to calendar’ service for fans across Europe.

The feature allows basketball fans to sync their favourite NBA team(s), League or NBA Saturdays and NBA Sundays Prime Time TV schedule, straight to their personal digital calendar.

NBA matches dynamically update in the calendar, and include handy alerts, localised broadcast information, and direct access to watch live, latest video, news and results.

Promoted across five major European markets including United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, France and Germany, all ECAL displays feature complete language translations and EU GDPR compliance. The feature is being promoted across the official NBA regional sites, NBA social media channels and email.

ECAL has partnered with US sports team management software company, AdminSports to help keep parents up-to-date and on-time for their kids’ weekend soccer commitments.

The Boston Area Youth Soccer (BAYS) league has launched ECAL’s dynamic ‘Sync to Calendar’ technology for 1,500+ teams across the league, at all levels of competition.

BAYS manage over 14,000 games for its 1,500+ teams, involving 23,000 girls and boys from 71 Massachusetts cities and towns. That’s a lot parents that need to know where to be, and at what time each weekend for soccer!

Coaches, players and parents can sync their specific team schedule straight to any personal calendar program on mobile or desktop, so they never miss a match. Game entries feature handy reminders, dynamic updates, game day information and links directly to stats, standings and even league policies.

This is a wonderful initiative by Admin Sports, in partnership with the team at ECAL to better serve community sports in the Boston area.

ECAL, the world’s leading calendar marketing solution, is proud to announce its partnership with the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Network, that delivers live streaming of high school sports and events across America.

Students, family members and fans can now sync live sports schedules from over 25 different sports across 23,000 High Schools, straight to their personal calendar for free. Fans will know exactly when their favorite sports are available for live stream, so they can tune-in and follow the action live.

For ECAL, this is yet another significant partnership with a major sports and entertainment provider. The NFHS serves 50 member state high school athletic associations, plus the District of Columbia, that reach 23,000 high schools and over 11 million students.

The NFHS Network live stream is a service powered by PlayOn! Sports, America’s leading high school sports media company, and official live stream partner of the NFHS.

The NFHS Network live streaming service is available to fans for as little as $9.95 /month, and ECAL’s technology is designed to provide an amazing service to paying customers, and convert more free subscribers to the paid streaming service.

 

Calendar Marketing

The 2018/19 Chemist Warehouse WNBL Championship, Australia’s pre-eminent women’s basketball league has released its schedule for the 2018/19 Season, powered by ECAL.

Fans of the eight-team competition are treated to a live and dynamic feed of game details, delivered straight to their digital calendar of choice.

Basketball lovers will never miss a moment with match entries automatically updated with TV broadcast information, official game hashtags and direct access to Tickets, Membership, Online Shop and more, all just a click away

2018/19 is the beginning of a new and exciting era, with Australia’s longest running elite female competition celebrating its 38th year with a brand-new naming rights partner in Chemist Warehouse and broadcast partner in FOX SPORTS Australia.

The season will tip off on October 12 with the Chemist Warehouse Wellness Round, to be spread over both round one and two, a fun and exciting fan orientated activation that will take place across all teams opening home games. Also featured will be several double headers, the Adelaide Lighting and Brydens Sydney Uni Flames to play alongside their NBL counterparts.

FOX SPORTS Australia will again broadcast one live game per round, as well as every finals game.

You can follow your team throughout the 18/19 Season and join thousands of basketball fans who rely on ECAL to stay up-to-date and connected to the WNBL via their personal calendar. Sync your team fixture here.

WNBL Fixture ECAL

The NBA has released its 2018/19 regular season schedule for what is sure to be another blockbuster year ahead, and ECAL is proud to play its part!

Fans of leading NBA teams including the Cleveland Cavaliers, Indiana Pacers and Toronto Raptors can easily sync team games, broadcast details, ticket alerts and more, straight to their personal calendar. Powered by the world’s leading calendar communications service. With direct access to Tickets, Latest News, League Pass, Video, Team Shop and more, from the convenience of their calendar, fans will never miss moment of the action.

See here a selection of just some of the great launch promotion created by NBA teams using ECAL.

NBA PACERS ECAL

NBA CAVS ECAL

 

The 73rd NBA season will tip off on Tuesday 16th October 2018, with the 76’ers taking on the Celtics in Boston. The Indiana Pacers and Toronto Raptors are both tipped to contend for the Eastern Conference title, whilst new LA Laker, LeBron James, will return to play Cleveland on 21st November.

Follow the Pacers, Raptors or Cavs now, with the compliments of ECAL.