The Football Association (The FA) has released its Barclays Women’s Super League and Championship fixtures for the 2019/20 Season, powered by ECAL.

Fans of the two-tiered competition receive a live and dynamic feed of game details, delivered straight to their digital calendar of choice. Soccer lovers will never miss a moment with match entries automatically updated if matches are rescheduled, and direct access to Tickets, Video, News and more, all just a click away.

The 2019/20 Season follows the extremely successful 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Over 11 million Britons watched the Three Lionesses loss to eventual winners, the United States.

The Women’s Championship season kicks off on 18th August, with the Women’s Super League a fortnight later on 7th September.

You can follow your favourite FAWSL team throughout the 2019/20 Season with ECAL, sync your team fixture here.

English Football League (EFL), the world’s original league football competition, has chosen ECAL to provide it’s official ‘sync to calendar’ service for member teams across all divisions.

With 72 member clubs, the Sky Bet EFL is comprised of three divisions – the Sky Bet Championship, Sky Bet League One and Sky Bet League Two. Each Club on the EFL Digital platform will benefit from ECAL’s ground-breaking calendar communications, marketing and data platform.

Football fans will benefit from a live and dynamic feed of games, delivered straight to their digital calendar of choice, rich with features.

Fans can choose to receive ‘First Team Fixtures’, ‘Under 23 Fixtures’, ‘Under 18 Fixtures’ and ‘Women’s Fixtures’. Clubs are also using ECAL to produce other valuable content, such as ‘Ticket On-Sale Dates’ and ‘Club Events’.

ECAL will work to drive the benefits of both the team and the league, with a focus on ticket sales, Club merchandise and subscriptions to iFollow, the EFL Digital’s own live streaming service.

ECAL’s ‘Sync to Calendar’ feature is integrated across the team websites on the EFL Digital network.

Major sports in the UK, particularly football, is well served by the ECAL, with the EFL, Premier League, The FA, and FAWSL all relying on the world’s leading calendar communications, marketing and data technology.

You can search for your favourite EFL team here and ‘Sync to Calendar’, courtesy of ECAL.

Premier League, the world’s most popular football league, has released its 2019/20 season fixture with a bang!

ECAL, the official ‘digital calendar’ service provider of the Premier League, played a central role in the League’s official schedule release, working to connect hundreds of thousands of football fans around the world with the new season schedule, in a very well-orchestrated few days of promotion.

A ‘pre-promotion’ campaign ahead of the release worked brilliantly to raise awareness in the days leading up to the release, and encouraged fans to connect their calendar to ECAL early, to receive the fixture first – straight into their personal calendar.

A well-integrated campaign across all digital channels provided excellent coverage, a consistent voice and multiple opportunities to ‘sync to calendar’. Key promotional initiatives included a dedicated site splash page, site banners, a social media campaign with social posts, Instagram story, and automated Tweet replies, plus social cover image takeovers, web articles and email integrations.

The Premier League Digital Calendar is a truly global service, with displays in multiple languages, and serves localised TV broadcast information across 240+ countries into the fans’ calendar, to drive tune-in. Importantly, it’s a ‘dynamic’ service, so game details update automatically in calendar, as the fixture changes throughout the season due to TV broadcaster preferences.
Fans can choose to receive fixtures of their favourite team(s), the complete season fixture, and even the Fantasy Premier League schedule of ‘matchweek’ trade deadlines. As well as local TV broadcast details, game entries include handy reminders, official game hashtags and direct access to Buy Tickets, Match Centre, Online Shop and much more.

The Premier League ‘digital calendar’ service by ECAL remains the world’s most popular calendar marketing service of its kind in the world.

You can follow your team throughout the 2019/20 Premier League season here, and stay up-to-date and connected thanks to ECAL.

Premier League Fixture Launch

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

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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.

The NBL, Australia and New Zealand’s pre-eminent professional men’s basketball league has released its 2018/19 Fixture, 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

The 2018/19 Schedule includes a number of highlights, including Andrew Bogut’s debut for the Sydney Kings against the Adelaide 36ers, the first ever Melbourne Cup eve clash between the Sydney Kings and Melbourne United, two matches to bring in the New Year, matches across regional New Zealand and and a basketball extravaganza held across the Australia Day weekend.

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 NBL via their personal calendar. Sync your team fixture here.

ECAL, the world’s leading calendar marketing platform, has extended its enterprise product for the ‘payments’ space, to set about solving serious issues affecting business today.

Right now there is a widening cash flow gap, which is negatively impacting small and large businesses alike, and their ability to make ends meet. In fact, a 2017 study reported that “62 percent of businesses would not survive more than three months if all invoices went unpaid”. Further, “at least half say being paid on time would reduce stress, avoid unnecessary debt and drive business growth”.

To address this issue, ECAL has launched a payment reminders service direct to calendar, designed to help customers better manage their payments, so business is paid on time.

In a recent trial project with National Australia Bank, banking customers received personalised ‘payment reminders’ for their specific credit card account, to see how calendar reminders performed against traditional SMS reminders in helping customers pay on-time.

The limited trial proved that calendar reminders by ECAL were the most effective communications method for customers, with ‘on-time’ payments increasing by 12%. This included a 37% ‘spike’ in payments made when an advanced reminder was served to calendar.

Whilst the report suggests that “reminder apps” will help with this growing problem, ECAL’s ‘calendar reminders’ technology appears to provide a much more sophisticated and effective billing reminder solution, as it is totally personalised to the user, and integrates directly with their native calendar!

The calendar entries include handy alerts (at the right time), specific amount due, and a direct link to ‘Pay Now’, amongst other features to inform and assist customers.

ECAL CEO, Patrick Barrett says “as a team we’re excited to uncover new and valuable use cases for our advanced calendar communications technology. As a business, we’re committed to helping solve real problems, with highly valuable, tangible benefits. With over 70% of adults relying on their digital calendar to manage life, and with the cost of collections and support such a major burden on business, we feel ECAL delivers a better performing and ultimately more cost effective solution for payment-related communications.”

If you would like to know more about ECAL’s billing reminder software, please contact us.