Vancouver, British Columbia – September 28, 2021 – GameOn Entertainment Technologies (CSE: GET) (OTCQB: GMETF) (FSE: 9E7), a leader in providing broadcasters, TV networks, OTT platforms, leagues, tournaments and sportsbooks with white label fan engagement technologies around sports, TV and live events, is pleased to announce a distribution partnership with LiveLike, signed this month. Through this partnership, the two companies will strategically leverage each other’s client base and industry relationships to drive new business and revenue.
LiveLike is a tech pioneer with a mission to empower digital audiences. It provides fan engagement and gamification tools to high-profile rights holders, broadcasters and sports organizations from the NBA, NASCAR, LaLiga and the Golden State Warriors, to Turner Sports, Canal+ and FloSports. Using LiveLike’s software development kits (SDKs), integrated directly into their own apps and websites, these leading sports rights holders have grown their ROI by attracting younger audiences, increasing retention, and unlocking new monetization and sponsorship opportunities. Among the many interactive and social features that partners can build with LiveLike’s platform are digital watch parties, influencer-led or private chat, leaderboards, trivia, quizzes, and more.
“As we continue on our mission to power the world’s most-watched content with the most innovative fan engagement technologies, strategic distribution to new clients and revenue is key,” said Matt Bailey, CEO at GameOn. “Partnering with the LiveLike team is a no-brainer. Our technologies and teams are complementary, and their clients are some of the world’s biggest sports and entertainment brands. We’re excited to drive business together.”
“LiveLike has always aimed at democratizing access to new-age technology, and particularly over the past two years, fans have come to expect innovation as part of the streaming sports experience,” said LiveLike CEO and Co-founder, Miheer Walavalkar. “Our partnership with GameOn puts us in a strong position to empower their partners to create new, custom ways to interact with and engage their users. We’re beyond thrilled to work with their team.”
GameOn recently announced partnerships with MX Player and Willow TV to launch free-to-play cricket prediction games this October, as well as its plan to be ready for Q4 revenue. This is off the back of a $5.8 million financing in March, listing on the CSE in June and subsequently on the OTCQB in July.
GameOn has a dynamic and experienced management team led by its CEO, Matt Bailey (Brooklyn Nets, Barclays Center), Chief Product Officer, Santiago Jaramillo (Dapper Labs, NBA Top Shot, EA Sports) and VP of Partnerships, Ryan Nowack (Madison Square Garden, New York Knicks, New York Rangers), as well as its Directors, J Moses (Take-Two Interactive), Shafin Tejani (Victory Square Technologies), Liz Schimel (Apple News, Comcast) and Carey Dillen (YYoga).
LiveLike Board Advisors include Jay Adya (Elysian Park Ventures), Andrew Cox (former Chief Strategy Officer, Stats Perform), Monique Ellis (CHILAM), Katherine Hays (serial entrepreneur, including co-founder of Massive, Inc.) and John Kosner (Kosner Media, 21-year ESPN executive), with Board Directors including CEO and Co-Founder Miheer Walavalkar, Jon Goldman (Greycroft), Nikolay Dyachkov (USM Group, CM Ventures) and Bob Stanley (Evolution Media Capital). In addition to Walavalkar, LiveLike’s leadership team includes Lawrence Chan (CFO), Samuel Westberg (Chief Commercial Officer) and Justin Poliey (Director of Engineering, Product Lead).
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LiveLike Audience Engagement Platform Brings Community, Gamification and More to Stadion and its Partners
New York and London, July 20, 2021 — Stadion, which creates high performance digital products for the sports industry, and LiveLike, which transforms passive audiences into engaged communities around sports and entertainment,are partnering to deliver market leading digital platforms across web, mobile, and OTT.
LiveLike brings a custom mix of interactive features and gamification to its partners. These include influencer-driven chats, prediction games, fan leaderboards, live polls, quizzes, and more – all of which can be integrated with sponsors.
Through this partnership, Stadion will integrate LiveLike’s audience engagement platform into the digital experiences it creates for rights holders, including clubs, leagues and federations, driving increased engagement, interaction and dwell time. As a combined offering, Stadion and LiveLike are able to create unique activation experiences and revenue generating opportunities for rights holders and sponsors.
Stadion’s clients include Manchester City, Paris Saint-Germain, Newcastle Utd, Rangers FC, and Team GB, while LiveLike works with clubs including the Golden State Warriors, as well as major rights holders such as Canal+, Turner Sports and FloSports.
Stadion CEO Lee Cook said, “The experiences we create complement so well with LiveLike’s audience engagement platform. Rights holders are increasingly looking to interact and engage with their audiences, and this allows us to take our products to the next level with LiveLike’s best-in-class gamification and interactivity platform. When working together, we as companies both speak the same language and know this is going to translate to success for our partners.”
“Working with Stadion is really a natural fit for us. Their reputation of delivering for their partners proceeds them and the creation of this relationship shows that what they saw in LiveLike is the best partner to bring their partners’ digital platforms a step further. I am very excited to see the power of our tools in their hands and how we are going to help sports organizations engage more with their fans in the coming years,” said LiveLike COO Samuel Westberg.
The World Economic Forum announced its selection of the 100 most promising Technology Pioneers of 2021 – companies that are shaping industries from healthcare to retail and many more.
This year’s cohort includes representation from 26 economies on six continents with reach far beyond traditional tech hubs like Silicon Valley.
LiveLike partners with the world’s top media companies and sports organziations to transform passive audiences into engaged communities.
The full list of Technology Pioneers can be viewed here.
New York, 15 June, 2021 – LiveLike, which partners with the world’s top media companies and sports organizations to transform passive audiences into engaged communities, was selected among hundreds of candidates as one of the World Economic Forum’s “Technology Pioneers”. The way we consume sports and entertainment is changing. Today’s fan does not just sit back and watch – they participate, engage, and create. As a result, there are more opportunities than ever to tap into current trends and own the consumer experience. Through its audience engagement platform, LiveLike is enabling its sports and media partners to do just that, while taking lessons learned from its work in live sports and entertainment to expand into new industries.
The World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers are early to growth-stage companies from around the world that are involved in the use of new technologies and innovation that are poised to have a significant impact on business and society.
“We’re excited to welcome LiveLike to our 2021 cohort of Technology Pioneers,” says Susan Nesbitt, Head of the Global Innovators Community, World Economic Forum.
“LiveLike and its fellow pioneers are developing technologies that can help society solve some of its most pressing issues. We look forward to their contribution to the World Economic Forum in its commitment to improving the state of the world.”
“Audience behavior has permanently shifted around watching, interacting and connecting to each other through streaming content, and there is no going back. Being a part of the World Economic Forum, we have an opportunity to take what we have learned from building new fan engagement experiences with our sports and entertainment partners, to discover applications for our technology in new industries,” said LiveLike Co-founder and CEO Miheer Walavalkar. “Being acknowledged as a pioneer by the World Economic Forum validates the vision and hard work of our wonderful team, and it is an honor for our company as we continue to expand.”
For the first time in the community’s history, over 30% of the cohort are led by women. The firms also come from regions all around the world, extending their community far beyond Silicon Valley. This year’s cohort includes start-ups from 26 countries, with UAE, El Salvador, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe represented for the first time.
The diversity of these companies extends to their innovations as well. 2021 Tech Pioneer firms are shaping the future by advancing technologies such as AI, IoT, robotics, blockchain, biotechnology and many more. The full list of Technology Pioneers can be found here.
Technology Pioneers have been selected based on the community’s selection criteria, which includes innovation, impact and leadership as well as the company’s relevance with the World Economic Forum’s Platforms.
All info on this year’s Technology Pioneers can be found here: https://wef.ch/techpioneers21
More information on past winners, information on the community and the application link can be found here.
Influencer chat, polls, quizzes, and more are now available in DIVA thanks to further integrations with LiveLike
LONDON, UK — 1 June 2021 — Deltatre, the global leader in fan-first video experiences, today announces that a new suite of fan engagement functionality is now available to sport and media clients in its over-the-top (OTT) video player, DIVA.
This update comes as a result of the company’s long-standing relationship with LiveLike, the audience engagement platform, and focuses on two key areas of functionality – influencer engagement and interactive features.
- Influencer Chat. Give your fans direct access to influencers who can comment and engage on live content in real time.
- Sentiment Analysis. Gauge how your fans are feeling about a particular moment that happens during the event.
- Polls. Pique your audience’s interest and encourage engagement by asking questions around the live action.
- Gamification. Test your audience’s trivia knowledge with quizzes and other features that add friendly competition to the viewing experience.
These features enhance what is already considered by many to be the leading interactive OTT video player for sport. DIVA is an advanced, award-winning OTT player, synchronizing real-time data with rich interactivity. It empowers rights owners to spark new levels of engagement through best-in-class features such as social media integration, full DVR with visual timeline, 360° Video Support, multi-camera viewing, and more.
Commenting on the news, Gilles Mas, President, Video Experience, Deltatre, said:
“The modern fan craves greater interactivity and control over their viewing experience that brings them closer to the action – and that’s what this new functionality delivers, while building on Deltatre’s trusted and valued offering.
The evolution of our collaboration with LiveLike is further evidence of our shared ambition to deliver revolutionary technologies to our clients around the world.”
Miheer Walavalkar, CEO and Co-founder, LiveLike, said:
“Our working relationship with Deltatre has gone from strength to strength, with our shared expertise and integrated offering elevating the way fans can connect with the sports they love. This is a great opportunity for LiveLike to add its unique functionality to a solution that is already very highly regarded and widely used in the marketplace.”
LiveLike empowers broadcasters and sports organizations to transform passive audiences into engaged communities. LiveLike’s audience engagement platform has been proven to attract younger audiences, increase session lengths, and improve retention, resulting in new monetization opportunities.
Some recent examples include helping NASCAR grow logins 70% year-over-year in the first month after integrating LiveLike’s platform into its app, and for FloSports, helping to reduce subscriber churn rate by almost 14%, with users who engaged in LiveLike’s watch party chat within the FloSports platform being 11% more likely to return to the platform and consume additional content.
All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
Who knew we would quote Shakespeare to introduce the 2021 dream team – technology, community and personalization.
Social media experiences are changing faster than we blink and users are looking for more than just using the apps. Live events, personalized interactions, real-time engagements are the new hot experiences platforms are looking for to help users immerse deeper into the “reality”; which is why you need CMS platforms like LiveLike and their innovative, interactive widgets to keep fans remotely connected with the live events they love and create engaging, fun and memorable experiences for them.
Here are a few easy ways you can use LiveLike which relies on SDKs and APIs as their foundational technology, to say goodbye to those boring “click here now” sessions and build engaging events, create sponsorship opportunities and provide personalized data to the fans.
1. It all starts with knowing the user
There is no way you can build up the engagement or personalize your event without getting to know your audience. Enter fan surveys/polls – An easy way to get your audience’s opinion without them worrying about the right answers. Ask questions and see results update live as votes are cast which makes everyone feel like they are part of the crowd. Using Livelike you can create fun, interactive text/ image polls to gauge audience opinion and gather feedback in a visual, fun, and emotional way.
2. The more they engage, the more they will want to
Audiences invest a lot of their time and effort in getting to know about their fav event/team/sports. And what better way to increase engagement than challenging their knowledge with quizzes and trivia. Livelikes’ interactive widgets allow you several innovative gamification options to create clickable, intuitive modules for the audience and enhance their long term retention.
3. Users are the OG cheerleaders
An event can only be as fun and engaging as their fans. With Livelikes interactive widgets such as the cheer meter widget and interactive stickers and reactions lest you create interaction, everywhere. Users can interact with their friends, battle out on team trivia, show their team some support or what mood they’re in – all this even before the event has begun. This helps users connect to one another and experience the joy of in-person events.
LiveLike and WMT Expand Relationship with Spain´s Globally Renowned Soccer League Following Successful North American Events with Verizon and Fanatiz
NEW YORK – MARCH 9, 2021 – After a successful debut in 2020 with interactive fan events in North America, LiveLike, the sports fan engagement platform for live entertainment, and WMT, a digital solutions and data-driven technology and marketing agency, today announced an expanded relationship with Spain´s renowned soccer league LaLiga for a global expansion of its Live Watch Party platform. Through this platform, LaLiga can uniquely engage with fans during live matches via digital watch parties, trivia, and gamification..
“LaLiga is committed to delivering unique and innovative experiences to our fans in every part of the world, especially during the current social distancing circumstances. We have reinvented ourselves and looked for solutions to give our fans a chance to keep sharing moments and interact with others around LaLiga matches,” said Oscar Mayo, Business, Marketing & International Development Director at LaLiga. “Our fans have really enjoyed being brought deeper into the game, and share unique, social experiences with their favorite teams, players, and each other, and we look forward to expanding this globally.”
LiveLike and WMT’s “Watch Parties for Brands” platform debuted in North America in October 2020, creating an interactive, communal experience for fans around live events. The platform utilizes LiveLike’s audience engagement suite — including watch parties, polling, reactions, trivia, gamification and more — and WMT’s proprietary real-time voice and video engagement experience. LaLiga North America utilized the platform for VIP activations -sponsored by Verizon- in which legendary players interact in real-time with a select group of fans before, during and after big matches. LaLiga North America also hosted an exclusive screening of a documentary film through the platform with fan clubs across the U.S., which was sponsored by Fanatiz.
“Our team thrives on building solutions that fulfill a market need and drive results,” said WMT Founder and CEO, Andres Focil. “Our unique video and voice-conferencing platform paired with LiveLike’s technology is a perfect match given the current demand to distribute and create real-time engagement around content for fans, whether live or on-demand. We look forward to expanding on the success with LaLiga, and to work with even more brands, teams, and leagues around the world who can use the Watch Party platform to further engage fans and drive revenue.”
Separately, as announced last year, LiveLike and WMT are also working together to bring similar offerings to the collegiate market, starting with Georgia Tech.
“We are grateful for our expanding relationship with LaLiga, and to be working closely with them and our partners at WMT to create communal viewing experiences for a growing, global fanbase,” said Miheer Walavalkar, LiveLike CEO and co-founder. “The desire to bring fans together has never been more top-of-mind, and LaLiga has taken on the challenge head-on by adopting new technology and innovations that are valuable not only during this time of social distancing, but which will continue to provide new opportunities to engage, retain and monetize audiences into the future.”
About LiveLike
LiveLike is a pioneer in next-generation fan engagement for live entertainment. The Company’s platform is used by media companies globally to transform their digital properties into communal and interactive viewing experiences. LiveLike has connected audiences to the biggest live events in the world, including the Super Bowl, FIFA World Cup, NBA Playoffs, French Open, European soccer and more. It empowers its partners to enhance their platforms with features such as watch parties and gamification, helping them attract younger audiences, increase session lengths and improve retention, resulting in new monetization opportunities. Partners include leading media companies and sports properties, from Canal+ and Sky Group to FOX, the NBA, nugs.net, and WarnerMedia, among others. For more information, visit livelike.com.
About WMT
WMT Digital is a full-service agency that consists of a team of engineers, designers and developers committed to using technology to solve complex problems. By examining user behavior through search patterns and usage data, the company builds one-of-a-kind digital products that inspire action and drive results. Grounded in targeted metrics, WMT crafts custom solutions that meaningfully impact fan engagement, recruiting, ticket sales, fundraising, and more. Many of the most respected names in sports partner with WMT, including the Arkansas Razorbacks, Clemson Tigers, Florida State Seminoles, Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, Kansas Jayhawks, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, and Ohio State Buckeyes. For more information, visit wmt.digital
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Enhanced Social Experiences
A companion web app allows fans to build community and get more involved in the action
Sky Sports Fanzone allows users to choose their own adventure by watching Premier League games in three unique ways: watch together, watch & influence, and watch & play.
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