GAIN LINE Analytics & Platinum Asset Management Crown Australasia’s Best Sporting Team for 2020
Tuesday, 01 December 2020
Platinum Asset Management (Platinum) and GAIN LINE Analytics (GAIN LINE) have crowned National Rugby League club Melbourne Storm as Australasia’s (Australia and New Zealand) Best Sporting Team (ABST) for 2020. It’s the second year in a row both Platinum and GAIN LINE have crowned the Storm as the Best Sporting Team, the Storm also took out the NRL Premiership for the second
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TheMagic5: It’s About Customisation and Doing Away With ‘One Size Fits All’
Tuesday, 17 November 2020
Right now, they may be known as a customised swimming goggle manufacturing company but that undersells what TheMagic5 is as a company and where they’re heading. Starting with great success in goggles for swimmers and triathletes, their commitment to offering better fit, comfort and functionality sees the company’s potential mushroom as their technology can be
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A New Season Begins: In Conversation with Travis McDonough, Kinduct’s CEO
Tuesday, 03 November 2020
Kinduct has exited and have done so in a significant way too, in fact the largest exit for a sports technology company in Canada. In September, the Halifax, Nova Scotia based athlete management company sold to Silicon Valley headquartered sensor technology company mCube and are moving into the next phase of their journey with a
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In Conversation with Nick Maywald, Chairman of Synergy Sports
Thursday, 29 October 2020
In 2019, Atrium Sports acquired both automated camera technology firm Keemotion and also the sports data behemoth Synergy Sports Technology. The business recently rolled them all up into a new brand, Synergy Sports, to create a colossal one stop shop for advanced video and sports data services for leagues and teams from the top of
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Talking About the Future of Sports Job Search and Recruitment with SportIn Global
Wednesday, 26 August 2020
With a love of sport and a sharp focus on delivering an innovative job search experience, Norwegian startup SportIn Global is a social recruitment platform for the sport business industry where they use artificial intelligence to match job seekers with recruiting organisations. Of course the mission is to help people find jobs and opportunities in
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In Conversation with Sports Alliance’s Nuno Mena
Monday, 17 August 2020
Sports clubs and federations have become clued into the age of personalising the fan journey, understanding their interests, how they engage with the club and more. To do this requires a lot of data from a lot of touch points. Sports Alliance helps clubs gather and organise their in-house fan data across multiple platforms to
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Return to Sport: In Conversation with Stack Sports’ Cameron O’Riordan
Friday, 10 July 2020
As Australia inches its way to community and grassroots sport getting underway (and we say this very cautiously given that flare ups of COVID-19 cases occurring again), we talked to another technology player who have some of the tools to help clubs and organisations who are ready to play. In this conversation we talked to
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Pico: Helping Teams Know and Build Engaged Fans
Wednesday, 08 July 2020
One of the big challenges for all teams is to get a full picture of their fan base. Who follows them and where from? The problem with having so many social media followers is that they exist outside of a team’s direct communication channels which can make it seem like those fans and followers are
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Startupbootcamp Interview Series: Floteq Technologies
Wednesday, 03 June 2020
We bring you a series of interviews with the 10 companies accepted into Startupbootcamp’s Sports & EventTech cohort. In this edition we talked to the founder of Floteq Technologies, Miles Lazic. Floteq in essence is a beverage analytics company. Describe its scalability and its potential to be deployed just about anywhere. So let’s start by
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How Big a Hit Has Sport Taken on Social Media During the April Lockdown?
Tuesday, 19 May 2020
This is a cross-posting from Australian sports data company Shunt who analyse social media trends and movements across Australian sport. Shunt’s April activity comparison has shown that Covid-19 dragged down the Australian sports industry’s Facebook productivity and engagement by a third with better resourced national sports and teams faring best while smaller state and territory markets
- Published in Feature, Social Media