The Formula 1® Heineken® Australian Grand Prix 2022 is back and it’s bigger than ever – boasting an on-track bonanza that features the world’s best and emerging drivers.
There will be over 22-hours of on-track action across the four days of the Melbourne Grand Prix, headlined by the triumphant return of Formula 1® to the Albert Park Grand Prix Circuit.
ECAL’s world-leading, dynamic calendar marketing technology delivers the latest track schedule and entertainment events directly into the personal digital calendar of fans, providing fans with timely reminders so they don’t miss their favourite events. Racing fans can sync the track and AUSGP session events across each of the four days.
Don’t miss a second of the action! If you’re watching at home or live from the racetrack, sync the track schedule to your personal digital calendar here!
GameDay and ECAL are partnering up on another product integration project to further the solutions that both GameDay and ECAL offer to community sports and event organisers throughout the APAC region, UK & Europe. GameDay Events will soon support an integration with ECALs world’s leading calendar solutions.
As part of this integration, event organisers will be able to connect their GameDay Events account to ECAL in order to automate the creation of ECAL calendar widgets and button displays, and sync events created in GameDay to ECAL. Event Organisers will then be able to publish the widget of their choice on their own website event landing page.
This integration will support a number of public-facing event calendar widgets, sync to calendar buttons for event participants and event advertising displays. From these widgets, event participants or members will be able to easily sync events to their personal calendar of choice. ECALs calendar solutions sync to all popular calendar solutions such as Google, Apple, Outlook, Hotmail, Office 365 + more.
In addition, ECAL will become the event calendar solution for all GameDay Websites, meaning users will easily be able to manage their events calendar via GameDay Events which will automatically sync to the calendar widget activated on their Website.
Patrick Barrett, Founder & CEO of ECAL says “our partnership is the coming together of two best in class technologies, to provide GameDay clients with an incredibly powerful, seamlessly integrated calendar marketing solution. The end result is a real boost for GameDay event organisers, and a wonderfully valuable, simplified experience for event participants.”
“We’re excited to partner with ECAL to further enhance our event solutions” says Mark Pititto, Senior Product Manager at GameDay. “This will provide our event organisers with added capability and benefits of using GameDay to manage their events. The integration with ECAL will also be really useful for those participants that register to an event by supporting a direct sync to their personal calendars so they have all the event information available to them and ensure they can plan their busy schedules”.
GameDay and ECAL plan to further enhance the integration in future with ECALs “Stay ‘n Play” partnership with Booking.com. Stay ‘n Play delivers the best available accommodation offers around upcoming events, straight into the personal digital calendar of its users. This integration will further enhance GameDay’s events solutions and ensure it continues to provide innovative solutions to existing and new event organisers.
The first phase of this implementation will see this rolled out to GameDay Event customers from May 2022 with future integration with ECAL to follow over the coming months. This integration will be made available to users via GameDay Marketplace.
About GameDay
GameDay, part of the Stack Sports family, have been providing next generation sports management technology solutions in the Australian market since 2001 and have extended their key markets to include the United Kingdom, Europe and New Zealand. GameDay provides a range of solutions including membership management, competition and tournament management, event/ticketing platforms and various digital websites, e- commerce, and online auction fundraising solutions. GameDay works with a wide variety of organisations including grassroots sporting clubs/associations, professional clubs/teams, national governing bodies, event providers along with charities and foundations.
More information on GameDay’s customers and the GameDay product suite can be found by visiting https://mygameday.app
Key Contact Details
Mark Pititto
Senior Product Manager
mark.pititto@mygameday.app
About ECAL
The world’s leading calendar marketing, communications, data and ecommerce platform, ECAL is trusted and relied upon by some of the world’s biggest brands across sports, media, and ticketing, servicing over 10 million users. ECAL is on a mission to communicate events better, and sets the global standard for smart, dynamic calendar marketing and communications.
We believe that time is scarce and precious. We see the calendar as a highly intimate and respected channel for brands, to communicate and engage consumers, to bring them greater utility and to simplify their life. To make life better.
More information about ECAL can be found at: https://ecal.com/
More information about ECALs “Stay ‘n Play” partnership can be found at: https://ecal.com/ecal-launches-stay-n-play/
Key Contact Details:
Patrick Barrett
ECAL Founder & CEO
patrick@ecal.com
Beyond Imagination: The Future of Creative Technology – a virtual week of insights, inspiration and discussion at the intersection of creativity and technology is using ECAL’s Sync to Calendar technology to keep attendees informed and ready to join.
From March 21st – March 25th Beyond Animation brings together artists, technologists and partners across Technicolor Creative Studios for a free, five-day virtual festival featuring live demos, panel discussions, podcasts and more.
With the help of ECAL, attendees won’t miss a moment of their chosen stream and events, with the Technicolor Creative Services digital calendar providing up-to-date session details, instructions to register and participate, with handy alerts and direct access to watch live, all from the convenience of your personal calendar.
Interested in discovering more about the technologies and trends that are evolving content production across Filmmaking, Advertising, Animation and Gaming – sync your stream of interest here!
NBCUniversal will present 230+ hours of Paralympic programming, including a record 120 hours of television coverage across the USA on NBC, Peacock, USA Network, NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app.
Like NBC’s hugely successful coverage of the Winter Olympics, ECAL’s ‘Sync to Calendar’ feature will again provide American sports fans with timely reminders via the calendar, so they’ll never miss a moment of the action. Event entries feature rich and up-to-date event information with one click access to Stream Live their favourite events on the go via Peacock. All from the convenience of your mobile phone, how good is that!
Don’t miss a moment of the 2022 Winter Paralympics action on NBC and Peacock. Sync your favourite sports to your personal digital calendar here.
ECAL partners with Harrow Council to solve one of life’s big little problems.
ECAL, the world’s leading calendar marketing solution has partnered with Harrow Council in London to provide all-important (and regrettably forgetful!) bin reminders, delivered straight into the personal calendar of residents.
We’ve all done it. Raced out the front door in our pj’s to put the bins out when we hear the truck rattling down the street. Then racing back to collect the right colour bins! Households in Harrow need not worry any longer. Residents can now ‘sync’ their blue, green, grey and brown collection dates, for their specific address, to their personal digital calendars – so they never forget the bins again!
The feature is neatly integrated into the Harrow website experience, and specific to the residential address of the household.
ECAL’s ‘Sync to Calendar’ feature provides users with timely reminders via the calendar of upcoming collections, complete with direct access to the Harrow Recycling Centre, and other useful information, including ‘What goes in which bin?’, Repair Requests, and more.
Live in Harrow? Head to the Bins, Waste and Recycling page on the Harrow Council website, enter your address, sync to calendar, and sleep easy in the mornings forever more! You’re welcome.
About ECAL:
ECAL is world-leading direct to calendar marketing platform, used by 300+ major brands globally across sports, entertainment, media, ticketing, payments and more. Headquartered in Melbourne, with a significant presence in London, Los Angeles, Singapore, Manila, and Delhi, ECAL’s smart and dynamic sync-to-calendar technology delivers important, hyper-personalised and actionable events to calendar, for better business outcomes.
For further information, please visit https://www.ecal.com
About Harrow Council:
Harrow London Borough Council is the local authority for over 500,000 residents in Greater London. The Council is responsible for a range of services to residents including Council Tax, Parking, Planning, Licensing, Schools, Recycling, Waste Management and more.
For further information, please visit https://www.harrow.gov.uk
Media Contacts:
Patrick Barrett – CEO, ECAL
Email: patrick@ecal.com
Ben Jones – Head of Digital, Harrow Council
Email: ben.jones@harrow.gov.au
NBC Universal will present a Winter Olympics-record 2,800+ hours of coverage across its television and streaming platforms, including 18 nights in primetime.
The Games will be televised live across the USA, featuring all the most high-profile sports, including figure skating, alpine skiing, snowboarding, short track, speed skating, and more.
ECAL’s world-leading, dynamic calendar marketing technology will deliver the latest Olympic event details directly into the personal digital calendar of fans, to drive engagement and tune-in via NBC and the Peacock streaming service.
Sports fans can select their favourite events, including preliminary and medal events, primetime shows, and even events of their favourite stars from Team USA.
Fans will never miss a moment, with rich and updated event information including medal tallies, and direct access to Stream Live on the go via Peacock from the convenience of your mobile.
Don’t miss a moment of the 2022 Winter Olympics action on NBC and Peacock. Sync your favourite sports to your personal digital calendar here.
ECAL launches ‘Stay ‘n Play’, a global partnership with Booking.com
AUSTRALIA, 12th October 2021 – ECAL, the world’s leading calendar marketing platform, has launched ‘Stay ‘n Play’, in partnership with one of the world’s leading digital travel companies, Booking.com.
In a world first, Stay ‘n Play is set to deliver the best available accommodation offers around upcoming events, straight into the personal digital calendar of its users.
Detailed accommodation information will include recommended properties, pricing, and reviews, with a direct link to browse and book the best available stays from Booking.com nearest the venue – from hotels, homes, apartments and other unique places to stay.
Stay ‘n Play is yet another breakthrough innovation for ECAL’s growing roster of top tier events publishers, and its millions of users worldwide.
It’s perfect timing for event organisers and fans who have an insatiable thirst for live events right now, and is great encouragement for friends and families to stay on and celebrate after their favourite sports event, show, concert, or festival.
Hot off the heels of launching Hyper to facilitate instant payments from the calendar, Stay ‘n Play reinforces ECAL’s desire to provide its audience with important, personalised and actionable information around the moments that matter, at the right time and in the right place.
ECAL Founder and CEO, Patrick Barrett says: “We are proud to bring such a wonderful innovation to market, to help support the ‘return of fans’ movement we are seeing right now around the world. We want to make it as easy as possible for our users to engage and participate in the moments that matter the most to them.”
Xaveer Fluitman, Regional Director Marketing – Partnerships at Booking.com, says: “As we can begin to start experiencing the world again, our mission at Booking.com is to make it easy for everyone to do just that. We look forward to a strong partnership with ECAL that will enable travelers to search and book their perfect stay – powered by Booking.com – around the moments that matter to them through the ECAL Sync to Calendar product.”
Stay ‘n Play is now available for ECAL publisher clients.
About ECAL:
A HyperKu company (hyperku.com), ECAL (ecal.com) is a world-leading calendar marketing platform, used by 300+ major brands globally across sports, entertainment, media, ticketing and payments. ECAL publisher clients include Premier League, NBA, LaLiga, FC Barcelona, ICC Cricket, England & Wales Cricket Board, Formula E, NBC Sports, Ticketek, AFL, NRL, Cricket Australia, NBL, The Australian Ballet and more.
ECAL is on a mission to help publishers communicate events better, and to enhance and simplify the experience for their audience. Headquartered in Melbourne, with a presence in London, Los Angeles, Singapore, Delhi and Manila, ECAL’s smart and dynamic ‘sync to calendar’ technology delivers important, hyper-personalised and actionable events direct to calendar, for better business outcomes.
The Stay ‘n Play booking portal is at https://www.staynplay.co
About Booking.com:
Part of Booking Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: BKNG), Booking.com’s mission is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world whenever it’s safe to do so again. By investing in the technology that helps take the friction out of travel, Booking.com seamlessly connects millions of travelers with memorable experiences, a range of transportation options and incredible places to stay – from homes to hotels and much more. As one of the world’s largest travel marketplaces for both established brands and entrepreneurs of all sizes, Booking.com enables properties all over the world to reach a global audience and grow their businesses. Booking.com is available in 44 languages and offers more than 28 million total reported accommodation listings, including more than 6.6 million listings of homes, apartments and other unique places to stay. No matter where you want to go or what you want to do, Booking.com makes it easy and backs it all up with 24/7 customer support.
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Premier League, the world’s most popular football league, has released its 2021/22 season fixture.
Football fans across the globe can follow their team throughout the season with a ‘dynamic’ service, with game entries updating automatically in the calendar, as the fixture changes throughout the season.
Entries feature localised television and radio broadcast information for live tune-in and one-click access to team shops, apps and twitter for social engagement with fellow football fans.
The Premier League season will kick off on August 8th with newly promoted Brentford facing a tough assignment first up on the big stage against Arsenal at The Emirates.
Will Manchester be painted blue or red this season? Will Jürgen Klopp have Liverpool firing on all cylinders? Follow your favourite team like millions of fans all around the world throughout the season here, and stay up-to-date and connected thanks to ECAL.
Ticketek has announced that The Tony®, Grammy®, Olivier and Pultizer Prize winning musical Hamilton is coming to Melbourne!
Featuring a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, R&B and Broadway, HAMILTON has taken a story of American founding father Alexander Hamilton and created a revolutionary moment in theatre – a musical that has had a profound impact on culture, politics, and education.
With tickets yet to go on sale, theatre goers are being encouraged to join the Hamilton waitlist to be the first to get the latest Hamilton news, event and ticket information.
Fans can ‘sync’ important ticket release dates, including pre-sale tickets available to Telstra Plus members and general public on-sale dates straight to their digital calendars. With timely reminders and one click access to purchase, don’t miss your opportunity to grab your tickets to Hamilton.
The revolution is coming. Be there when it happens! Sync Hamilton ticket on-sale dates here!
Cricket Australia has released its full men’s and women’s international schedule for 2021-22 season.
England, India, Afghanistan, New Zealand and Sri Lanka will all play on Australian shores, with cricket’s oldest rivalry headlining an historic Australian international summer schedule.
Thanks to ECAL, fans can receive a live and dynamic feed of match details, delivered straight to their digital calendar of choice. Cricket lovers will never miss a moment with match entries automatically updated with TV broadcast information, official game hashtags and direct access to Buy Tickets, Online Shop and more, just a click away.
Australia will look to retain the Ashes on home soil, with the 2019 series drawn with England and Australia each claiming two test wins. The First test kicks off on December 8th at the Gabba.
You can follow the Australian mens and womens cricket teams this Summer with ECAL, sync the Aussie fixtures here.
