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Sport Techie Articles #2: Australian Basketball Team Perth Wildcats Launch...

Artificial intelligence chatbots are one area where technology continues to evolve rapidly within the sports business. Entering this space is the Perth Wildcats basketball club — the first National...

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Sport Techie Articles #3: Esports Continues Rise In Australia As A-League...

The growing tide of Australian sporting clubs leaping into esports shows no signs of slowing down with Hyundai A-League team Melbourne City FC becoming the first major football club in Australia to...

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New Ticketing Developments Transforming the Fan Experience

Each week there seems to be a new development in the ticketing space with teams/artists, venues and fans now having access to a wide variety of new technologies which are improving the fan experience....

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Sport Techie Articles #4: Sydney College Football Cup: A Showcase Of...

Sydney College Cup 2017 SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES – AUGUST 27: Rice University players run onto the pitch for the start of the College Football Sydney Cup match between Stanford University (Stanford...

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2017 AFLGF and NRLGF Fan Engagement/Experience Overview

With the 2017 AFL (Adelaide Crows Vs. Richmond Tigers) and NRL (Melbourne Storm Vs. North Queensland Cowboys) grand finals happening in Melbourne and Sydney this weekend respectively here’s a quick...

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Sport Techie Articles #5: DROPIT Partners With Phoenix Suns On In-Arena...

DROPIT Fans love being able to use their smartphones at live sporting events to access vital game day content, take and post photos and videos as well as interact with fellow fans through social media....

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The 2017 Fan Engagement/Experience 100-1 Recap

Hello and welcome to the 2017 fan engagement/experience year in review countdown-recap-innovation-spectacular where I’ll again be showcasing 100-1 ideas from this space across the sports business...

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2017 Writing Recap

In 2017 I had another exciting year of writing about fans where I pumped out 17 articles for a combined word length of 31,000 words. Perhaps unsurprisingly I only used ‘fan engagement’ 127 times too!...

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Sport Techie Articles #6: Australian Kangaroos Launch Chatbot At Rugby League...

SYDNEY — The 2017 Rugby League World Cup has kicked off across Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea with passionate crowds, large broadcast, digital and social numbers all coming through within...

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Sport Techie Articles #7: Accenture Provides Qantas Wallabies With...

The Australian Rugby Union has partnered with digital consulting firm Accenture to deliver an innovative statistics platform which aims to improve the way the national team, the Qantas Wallabies,...

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Sport Techie Articles #8: How Sports And Sleep Science Helped Australia Reach...

Advancements in technology are transforming the sports science space for professional athletes and their coaches, who are utilizing groundbreaking new methods to ensure their players get an extra 1-2%...

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Sport Techie Articles #9: Big Bash League Melbourne Stars Launch Youth...

The Australian Big Bash League has continued to push the boundaries of innovative fan engagement with the Melbourne Stars announcing the launch of their new digital platform to engage young fans over...

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Sport Techie Articles #10: Cricket Australia MatchDay App Enhances The Fan...

Attending any big sporting match these days in our tech- and experience-driven world offers fans the chance to partake in a multitude of fan engagement activities, with many starting the moment they...

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Sport Techie Articles #11: Siri, Tell Me Some Australian Open Tennis Information

Smart home devices and artificial intelligent voice activation area areas that show a lot of potential in the sports industry as a way for fans to get closer to teams and leagues that look to drive new...

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Sport Techie Articles #12: Cricket Comes Alive In Palm Of Your Hand With...

MELBOURNE, Australia — Augmented reality is an area that is showing a lot of traction for teams and venues to showcase their creativity and innovation. The NBA has an AR game where fans can overlay a...

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Cricket Australia debuts The Lawn deck fan experience

The following article was written for Digital Sports Labs and can be found in full here. The Lawn was a truly memorable fan experience and spectacularly well-presented entertainment space from Cricket...

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Big Bash, Big Fun at Melbourne Stars BBL

The following article appeared in Digital Sports Labs and can be found in full here. There’s an entertainment extravaganza taking place in the fan zone outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground as the Big...

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Introducing……FANS HQ

Hello, After numerous requests from colleagues across the sporting globe to provide some kind of weekly or monthly summary of educational insights from the world of fan engagement I’ve decided to put...

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Sport Techie: Australian Esports Club ORDER Launches Equity Crowdfunding...

With the global esports business pushing into the billions of revenue in the coming years, a fan base in the hundreds of millions and live events packing out global stadiums, the mammoth rise of the...

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Froth Beer Magazine: ‘Beer In Stadiums: Give Beer A Sporting Chance’

Beer Improving the game day fan experience for sports fans is a hot topic in the sports business at present with venues and clubs constantly rolling out innovative new ‘fan-first’ initiatives to entice...

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