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.
ECAL is thrilled to announce the appointment of Shataksh (Shak) Tiwari as its new Chief Technology Officer, based at the company’s Melbourne HQ office.
Mr. Tiwari was most recently Co-Founder and CTO at PulseID, a large-scale mobile communications platform for the financial industry in the APAC region, and prior to that was CTO at Proximiti, a location-based mobile technology that understands consumer behaviour and performs targeted interactions. Prior, he held multiple technology roles at ANZ, one of the ‘big four’ banks in Australia.
ECAL CEO, Patrick Barrett says: “Shak is a highly experienced technologist, with a track-record for delivering smart, scalable, cloud-based SaaS platforms with big-data, security and innovation at the fore.”
“Shak will spearhead the next evolution of the ECAL platform, and ‘CalendarAI’ project, that will deliver optimised communications to calendar, smarter marketing capabilities, and data insights for our enterprise client network. This is exciting times for our company, and reinforces our commitment to push the boundaries in calendar communications and marketing, and deliver amazing outcomes for all our customers, and the millions who rely on our technology to make the most of their day.”
Mr. Tiwari officially started with ECAL at the beginning of April, and has wasted no time in laying the foundations for ECAL’s next-generation products!
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.
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.
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!
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.
