Lynx Launch New Mobile Fan App

MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL – The Minnesota Lynx today launch their official mobile app that delivers an interactive team experience for fans on-the-go.

The app provides quick and easy access to the most up-to-date scores, schedules, news and stats for the Lynx. Interactive features such as box scores and a team calendar allow fans to go deep with player stats, sortable play-by-play and shot tracking, and a view of all recent, current and upcoming games. Users can keep all information in one screen with a view of the team’s Twitter stream and connect directly with the Lynx on social media. Fans can also enable push notifications to get up-to-the-minute alerts on breaking news, start of game, end of quarter and final score.

The Lynx app is a response to digital analytics showing more and more fans are looking for content via mobile devices, including responsive websites and mobile apps. The team has been focused on web in recent years and wanted to also allows fans to follow the team through a professionally developed, clean designed mobile app.

 

Fans can download the free app on all iOS and Android devices.

UND, REA launch UND GameDay app for men’s hockey

GRAND FORKS, N.D. – UND Athletics and the Ralph Engelstad Arena are proud to announce a brand new addition to North Dakota men’s hockey games: a mobile app developed specifically for game days. For the past two years, UND and REA have been working together with Emotion Media Inc. to build and test a mobile application to add to the tradition of great experiences at UND men’s hockey games and “The Ralph.” The new “UND GameDay app” is now available for fans to download from the Apple App Store and the Google Play store.

This is a first-of-its-kind interactive experience designed for live in-venue entertainment. Fans who check in to their seat will be able to participate in interactive games, contests and polls during timeouts and intermissions. The app also features up-to-date line charts, game notes, exclusive deals, schedule, National Collegiate Hockey Conference standings and more.

As adoption of the UND GameDay app grows, the app’s most innovative feature, known as “Light Up The Stands^®”, where fans will participate in creating a truly unique pre-game experience, will be activated.

“The new UND GameDay App is intended to enhance the fan experience and engage the fans in a true in-venue entertainment experience,” said REA General Manager Jody Hodgson. “The live event experience continues to evolve and we believe our new app is a great way for fans to participate in the game and stay connected with everything happening in the arena on game night. Our goal is to provide our fans with a world-class event experience and we think the new app is another tool that we can use to try and achieve our goal.”

“Connecting the fan’s mobile device to in-game production introduces a whole new layer of entertainment possibilities for fan engagement,” said Emotion Media, Inc. President Kemal Leslie. “Fannex began its pursuit in this area with a proprietary innovation called "Light Up The Stands^®” designed to bring fan mobile screens together like pixels to create graphical effects in the stands. We needed a sports and entertainment partner that was willing to develop and learn with us how best to approach this exciting objective. We found that partner in UND and the Ralph Engelstad Arena. Their exceptional willingness to help lead the way allowed us to demonstrate this innovation on March 8th of this year with the participation of 300 UND students. UND Gameday is the product of this collaboration and includes up to date informational content alongside of interactive entertainment. The fan is an important part of leveraging its power and we look forward to seeing what new heights we can take it too together.  We are proud to have UND and REA as our partners in developing revolutionary interactive live entertainment that we can take across the landscape and to the rest of the world.”

Emotion Media Inc. (EMI), is the Winnipeg-based developer of  the Fannex Entertainment System and the UND GameDay app, and is a client of the Manitoba Technology Accelerator. Fannex is a mobile technology platform that allows sports and entertainment venues to engage attending fans and energize their entertainment experience through their mobile devices. The flagship of the platform is the patented Light Up the Stands^® feature which treats each user’s phone as a pixel in an animated visual display. For example, during player introductions, fans at hockey games can hold up their phones and pixelate their team’s logo in the stands. The Fannex effect makes this possible by integrating the screen displays of the phones and creating an animated mosaic from the colors displayed. Fans can also play interactive games that incorporate the venue’s video screens and sound system with their mobile device during time outs and intermissions.

UND opens the 2014-15 men’s hockey season on Sunday, Oct. 5 with an exhibition game against the University of Manitoba at Ralph Engelstad Arena.

UND Athletics I Phone App

UND athletics launches iPhone, iPod mobile solution

UND sports are now available on the iPhoneTM platform


GRAND FORKS, N.D. - The University of North Dakota athletics department and leading technology service provider NeuLion, Inc. (TSX:NLN) today announced the launch of UND's new mobile solution for the Apple iPhone(tm).

Powered by NeuLion technology, the app gives fans access to a complete repository of video that includes various highlight packages, interviews and more which users can share with friends on Facebook and Twitter. The University of North Dakota's iPhone(tm) solution has been specifically designed and developed with a suite of video, audio, statistics, content and more, all in one convenient app.

Additional features include: Field Tracker, featuring a visual representation of important events, sort by specific stats, preferred team, or player stats and personalized features based on user-defined settings.

"This app continues our goal of providing content through a variety of channels as our fans change the way they follow UND athletics," said Matt Schill, new media editor for UND athletics. "It provides news, live stats, videos and other features directly to the users' handheld device."

UND will continue to develop its use of the app, Schill said, and hopes to deliver live streaming audio and video in the near future.

With an emphasis on ease of use and access to content anywhere at any time, UND athletics and NeuLion continue to focus on providing the ultimate destination for Fighting Sioux fans on-the-go.

"With NeuLion's platform, we can take video one time and stream to many different consumer devices. Our mobile solution brings the exact same PC viewing experience to mobile. The look is sleek and seamless. All of the features and functionality are the same. Our platform is able to synchronize all the video that is distributed to both the PC and mobile consumer," said Chris Wagner, Executive Vice President of NeuLion.

The University of North Dakota iPhone(tm) app can be downloaded at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/north-dakota-fighting-sioux/id381335872?mt=8.

The premium video app can be downloaded at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/north-dakota-fighting-sioux/id381336995?mt=8.