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Interaction and personalisation were at the heart of BUPA’s Great North Run in Gateshead this July, thanks to an innovative social signage solution designed to engage and motivate runners, marking a UK first for mass participation events.
NowSignage, a leading expert in digital social media sign solutions, was entrusted with deploying this one-of-a-kind solution to display personalised motivational messages to individual runners at the event, in collaboration with NOVA International, specialists in the development, design, organisation, and rights management of mass participation and televised sporting events.
Utilising a number of large digital social screens throughout the 10k event, NowSignage captured images of individual runners, tracking their unique identification codes, and presented personalised messages to keep them motivated further along the track. The messages were branded in association with sponsors Puma, reinforcing the brand further to participants.
“Our team worked efficiently together to ensure that the images captured by the photographers were matched correctly to the runner’s unique ID code so the messages were perfectly personalised and factually correct,” comments Michael Wilde [title] at NowSignage.
“We utilised a wireless SD card within the camera, which was linked to our bespoke backend software to relay the information to the big screens deployed around the track.”
The challenge of this particular project was the speed with which the NowSignage team needed to turn the messages around from the initial photograph to the final message. “On average, we had a mere 50 seconds until the runners reached the screens,” says Michael.
The trial at BUPA’s Great North 10K Run in Gateshead was considered a tremendous success for NowSignage and NOVA International, with NowSignage now in discussions to deploy similar solutions at mass sporting events across the country.
[spokesperson] at NOVA commented: “We looked to NowSignage to deploy a unique solution for this particular event due to its expertise in this specific area. From concept right through to delivery, their ‘can do’ attitude impressed us, and everyone at BUPA’s Great North Run was delighted with the results.”