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Know your fans.Know your community.

Turn every shirt, ticket, scarf and sponsor moment into a fan you know, can reward, and can bring back.

Fan Connect adds a simple tap or scan to the things fans already love, and links it to experiences inside your own app or website. Every interaction builds one fan profile that you own, for clubs, artists and entertainment brands.

Two ways in

In your app. In their hands.

01

Digital experiences

Registration, competitions, fan voting, quizzes, prize draws, content and rewards, running inside your existing app or website with single sign-on. No new app for fans.

Example: fan-voted Player of the Match, opening in-app late in the game and closing after the final whistle, with a sponsor 'presented by' slot.

02

Connected products

Any physical product can become a digital entry point: wristbands, shirts, scarves, pins and collectibles. One tap or scan, no app.

Includes Tap to Donate: tap, choose an amount, pay with Apple Pay or Google Pay.

One fan profile

Every touchpoint. One fan profile.

Digital Experiences

Voting, quizzes, competitions and rewards inside your own app or website.

Connected Products

Shirts, scarves, pins and collectibles that open an experience with one tap or scan.

Matchday, Venues & Events

Tickets, seats and on-the-day moments that recognise the fan in the room.

Sponsor Activations

Partner offers and 'presented by' moments with measurable response.

Every interaction connects to the same fan profile.

What Fan Connect Does

Identify. Locate. Activate.

Three jobs, one loop. Know who your fans are, see where they are in the world, and turn every product and sponsor logo into the connection that pays for it.

  1. 01 / 03

    Identify

    → Known Fan

    Turn anonymous buyers into known fans. Every tap on a jersey, ticket, scarf, vinyl or pin builds a first-party profile you actually own — no app required.

    Authenticate

    Cryptographic NFC proves the product is real.

    Reward

    Recognise the fan who paid for the real thing.

    Authenticate + Reward — the dual action that separates real fans from the people who knowingly buy fakes.

  2. 02 / 03

    Locate

    → Real Reach

    See where fans actually are in the world — not where you sold to, but where they live, watch, and wear it. A jersey tapped in a Lagos bar, a scarf in a Tokyo bedroom, a vinyl in Berlin.

    Geo-truth

    Every tap is a real-world location, not a billing address.

    Density maps

    See where your fanbase is concentrated, city by city.

    Geo-truth + Density maps — every tap becomes a real location you can see and quantify.

  3. 03 / 03

    Activate

    → Sponsor Value

    Give sponsors what they're paying for: a direct, measurable line to opted-in fans through every sponsored shirt, hat, pin, and logo. Sponsorship becomes commercial, not decorative.

    Sponsor-direct

    Sponsors message the fans wearing their logo — provably.

    Measurable

    Engagement per logo, per fan, per moment. Not impressions.

    Sponsor-direct + Measurable — logos stop being decoration and start being a commercial channel.

For Sponsors

Proof per logo,not per impression.

A sponsor's logo on a shirt is worth whatever the last valuation deck said. Tag the shirt and it becomes measurable: how many people tapped it, where they were, what they opened, and how many took the sponsor's offer. That is the number that renews a deal — and raises it.

01Taps per sponsored item
02Where those fans are, by region
03What they opened after the tap
04Redemptions of the sponsor's offer
What changes with Fan Connect

What changes when you know your fans.

Every interaction becomes a relationship you own and value you can prove.

Every fan, known.

Anonymous interactions become fan profiles you can recognise and reach.

Experiences fans come back for.

Voting, rewards and connected products that give supporters a reason to return.

Straight to your fans.

A direct channel that doesn't depend on an algorithm.

Your data, in your hands.

First-party insight in one place, not scattered across platforms.

Engagement that runs deeper.

Relevant, personalised moments, not just bigger reach.

Value you can prove.

Clear reporting for the commercial team and every partner.

The outcome

One connected fan ecosystem.

Known fans

Turn anonymous supporters into known fan profiles.

Deeper engagement

Give fans reasons to come back between events.

Sponsor value

Measurable reach and response for partners.

Data and insights in one connected view.

The commercial case

Engagement that pays back.

Lifetime value

Higher retention and repeat purchase.

Product value

Exclusivity and personalisation fans will pay for.

Partnerships

More visibility to offer sponsors, partners and creators.

Sustained interaction

Long-term relationships, not one-off campaigns.

Loyalty

Turn buyers into fans, and fans into advocates.

Insight

First-party data to sharpen every campaign.

About Fan Connect

Fan Connect is the connected-fan platform for sport, music and esports.

Fan Connect connects digital experiences, physical products and matchday touchpoints to one fan profile, using NFC and QR-activated experiences. A jersey, scarf, vinyl, pin badge or seat becomes a tap-point that identifies the fan, locates them in the world, and opens a direct line for clubs, labels and sponsors.

Built for sport, music and esports, Fan Connect helps clubs, rights-holders, labels and their sponsors own first-party fan data and prove sponsor value from impression to redemption.

Selected experience across fan-led industries
Clubs & Federations
England Rugby
Scotland FA
Aberdeen FCCT
Sport Brands
Castore
Big Bobble Hats
Music & Entertainment
Pinewood
Makinarium Studio Edition

Attention is not connection.

Reach fades. Known fans stay — and keep creating value for the club and its partners.

Identify · Locate · Activate

Turn fan datainto sponsor value.

Talk to our team about Sport, Music, or Esports. We'll map your products and sponsor inventory to the loop and show you the fan data — and the commercial story — you should already own.

No setup fees · Rapid deployment · Enterprise support
Built on SmartLinks

Fan Connect runs on the SmartLinks platform — 74 modular apps for digital product identity, GS1 & DPP-ready.

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