SUPPONOR AGREES FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND DYNAMIC SIGNAGE INITIATIVE WITH THE (NHL®) FOR THE 2022-23 SEASON

Supponor Announces Multiyear Partnership with the NHL to deliver Digitally Enhanced Dasherboards

Supponor Announces Multiyear Partnership with the NHL to deliver Digitally Enhanced Dasherboards

London, United Kingdom, October 6, 2022 – Supponor, the world’s leading virtual advertising technology solution provider in sports, today announced the debut of Digitally Enhanced Dasherboards (DED), an revolutionary approach to dynamic dasherboard advertising that will launch for the 2022-23 National Hockey League (NHL®) season.

The DED system allows for the real-time digital replacement of camera-visible arena dasherboards within live local, national, and international NHL game broadcasts, ushering in the next wave of innovation to create new opportunities for the League, its Clubs and their media and corporate partners.

Supponor has partnered with the NHL, the premier North American professional hockey league, to develop the DED technology solution, powered by its next-generation Supponor AIR® technology platform, using remote, Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based keying technology to augment dasherboard advertising during live game broadcasts by placing dynamic graphics over the camera-visible fully branded arena dasherboards. DED graphics can be displayed during games in a market-specific way, wherever and however the game feed is broadcast, resulting in dynamic and targeted branding and promotional messaging that was not previously achievable.

“Digitally Enhanced Dasherboards will revolutionize the way properties and broadcasters interact with brands across the world, not only in the NHL, but in all sports,” said Keith Wachtel, NHL Chief Business Officer and Senior Executive Vice President. “This has been a significant undertaking for the League, which has included years of developing, testing and readying the technology for League-wide implementation. We are thrilled to partner with Supponor to bring this game-changing technology to life this season and provide increased opportunity and value to our business partners.”

“Our long-term collaboration with the NHL has achieved a historic league-wide signage solution. With up to 15 concurrent games in one night and 40 game broadcasts per week during the NHL regular season, it is an ambitious large-scale deployment,” said James B Gambrell, Supponor CEO. “Working closely with the NHL to develop, test and implement Digitally Enhanced Dasherboards has been the most complex implementation of Supponor’s AIR®, our AI enabled fully software-based virtual signage solution. Our multifaceted platform will support the NHL’s requirements and needs, end-to-end, and will set a new gold standard for other sports. We thank the NHL for their vision, commitment to innovation and collaboration, and we look forward to many more groundbreaking initiatives together shaping the future of sport advertising.”

Supponor’s DED solution for the NHL will allow for never-before-seen dynamic dasherboard branding and messaging featuring URLs, flighted marketing campaigns, co-branded official designations, social media integration, QR codes and more. Additionally, the DED display will be programmable into multiple formats from a single-advertiser full-dasherboard takeover to a split zone format with ten advertisers brands. Among other advantages, the DED system allows for the opportunity for Clubs to provide their corporate partners and advertisers with this valuable exposure in both their home and their away game broadcasts for the first time. Supponor will also manage the League’s Slot Virtual advertising beginning this season and has developed an NHL Content Management System for use by the League and its Clubs to create, approve, manage and report on their playlists for every game broadcast in their markets.

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