Purpose: Here is a list of many unique and fun ways to utilize your FanX app to engage your fans and create memorable experiences.

Giveaways and Raffles

Work with departments outside of athletics to provide fun giveaways for students and fans! Whether working with admissions, housing, or campus parking, there are a lot of ways to utilize the FanX app to do fun giveaways.


Priority Housing

  • Work with res life on campus to raffle off first choice for next year’s housing
    • Targeting students
    • Enter through the app
    • Names picked and announced at halftime (or last media timeout)
    • Winners get first shot at housing next semester
    • Promote on social channels

Parking Passes

  • Work with campus to get some free parking passes to raffle off at games
    • Targeting students
    • Enter through the app
    • Names picked and announced at halftime (or last media timeout)
    • Winners get free parking pass for next year (or maybe even a reserved spot)
    • Promote on social channels (“Click link to download the app and enter to win ___”

Seat Upgrades

  • Have a set of seats set aside to raffle off seat upgrades through the app
    • Targeting all fans
    • Enter through the app
    • Text winner and have them come to the ticket booth to get their new tickets
    • Promote on social channels and PA announcements

Unsold Season Ticket Giveaways

  • If you have unsold season tickets, give them to your fans! Ask them to refer a friend to enter
    • Targeting non-student fans
    • Enter through the app
    • Text the winners and have them pick up their tickets at the ticket booth
    • Promote on social channels

School Apparel

  • Give away unsold school apparel at the end of the year
    • Targeting all fans
    • Enter through the app with name and t-shirt size
    • Text winners and have them pick up what they won
    • Promote on social channels

Participate in Halftime Contest

  • Enter to have a chance to participate with halftime contests
    • Targeting all fans
    • Enter through the app
    • Text winners and coordinate
    • Promote on social media and in game announcements

Additional Ideas for Giveaways and Raffles

  • Locker room access at half time / end of game / before game
  • Enter to be the bat boy at the next home game
  • Shag balls in the outfield with the team next game
  • Managing or coaching an inner squad scrimmage


Culture Building Promotions


Show what your program is about! Whether that's what you're doing on the field, or what your athletes are doing to succeed in the classroom, or how your athletes help your community, fans will want to see it! Show your programs successes through notifications or promotions on the FanX platform.


Student Athlete Successes

  • Conference Player of the Week/Month
  • End of season All-Conference Teams
  • School records


Conference players of the week

  • Push a promotions linking to the conference player of the week article (copy the article into the body of the promotion
  • Push to the home screen (standard promotion slot) for the entire week
  • Include a notification to fans if you want to call out the accomplishment
  • If there are multiple players of the week (in different sports), you can create a graphic that calls out both

All conference performers

  • At the end of the year, when the all-conference teams are announced, push a promotion that calls out all of the all-conference performers
  • Copy the article into the body of the promotion
  • Link out to the article on your website
  • Optionally include some stats for each performer

All tournament teams

  • Same thing as the above for the all-tournament performers

Former Pandas in the pros

  • Promotion calling out recent graduates who are in the pros
  • Call out specific key performances

Player of the game

  • Pick your player of the game
  • Show their stats, game outcome, and game recap in the promotion

Game recap

  • Game outcome and team stats on a promotion card

End of the year awards and honors

  • If you have an awards ceremony, call out the big winners in a promotional card
  • Also, don’t forget to put that ceremony on the schedule in the app!


Coupons and Deals

Internal Deals:

  • Concessions
  • Tickets
  • Merchandise

Sponsored deals:

  • BOGO deals
  • Free Appetizer with entrée
  • Free soda -> show app

Threshold deals:

  • Pandas score 75+ get BOGO at ___
  • Pandas win, you win!


Driving Ticket Sales and Attendance

  • Upcoming game promotions / notifications
  • Notifications with game reminders
  • Ticket deals
  • % of ticket sales goes to ___
  • Give tickets to local little leagues or organizations and allow them to sell the tickets to raise money for their organization
  • Season ticket sharing (condo buildings, retirement facilities, clubs, companies)