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.
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.
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.
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.
The largest online food ordering service in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, HungerStation, used ECAL to drive engagement and orders around the FIFA World Cup.
Part of the Delivery Hero group, HungerStation delivers food from over 100+ restaurants to your doorstep, and promises high standards of service and guaranteed food delivery.
Managed by TTP Creative Agency, and promoted on social media via Facebook and Twitter, the HungerStation ECAL offered customers the ability to sync the World Cup schedule (or games of your favourite teams), straight to their personal calendar on mobile or desktop, complete with timely alerts and promotional discounts.
The ECAL display and all calendar entries were entirely in Arabic, and the service worked to engage customers around the World Cup to order their food, take advantage of discounts, and have the food delivered in time to watch the game!
Another awesome example of how ECAL enterprise technology can deliver a brilliant customer experience with amazing, measurable success to a global audience.
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.
