Release Note
This month, Fastory is enhancing its sports blocks with several major updates designed to improve fan engagement, increase customization options, and provide deeper performance insights. Highlights include new participant loyalty metrics for Bracket and Predictor, greater flexibility for licensed competitions, unified leaderboard management, expanded gamification capabilities, and a complete redesign of the Fanzone Experiences component.
Advanced Analytics to Better Understand Participant Loyalty
Following the introduction of several new performance indicators in recent months, Fastory continues to strengthen its analytics suite with the launch of a dedicated Metrics tab for Bracket, Football Predictor, and MMA Predictor blocks.
These new dashboards provide a clearer view of engagement and participation trends, helping you measure the performance of your prediction experiences more effectively.
The Bracket also benefits from a major analytics enhancement with the addition of new participant recurrence metrics. These insights help you better understand audience loyalty by analyzing activity days, retention rates over time, and the proportion of new versus returning participants.
With these new metrics, it becomes easier to identify the most engaging behaviors, evaluate your ability to bring fans back regularly, and measure the quality of your community beyond simple participation volume.
In addition, Bracket match analytics now include a new statistic displaying the most predicted exact score. Available directly within the analytics dashboard, this metric highlights the overall prediction trend among participants for each match.
A More Flexible and Customizable Bracket
To address the needs of brands and media organizations that do not always hold official competition rights, the Bracket is becoming even more customizable.
You can now freely modify competition flags, logos, and competition names. This new flexibility allows you to align the experience with your own branding guidelines while respecting licensing and partnership constraints.
Bookmaker integrations have also been enhanced. Just like with Predictor, you can now display betting odds alongside matches while retaining full control over their presentation. This allows organizations to benefit from odds-based insights without necessarily promoting a specific betting brand.
Unified Leaderboard and Ranking Management
Leaderboard-related features have been consolidated to provide a more consistent experience across all prediction products.
From the season settings, administrators can now choose between different ranking models depending on their objectives. Some competitions benefit from a single global leaderboard covering the entire tournament, while others prefer rankings to reset at each stage to maintain excitement throughout the competition.
Bracket now supports stage-based rankings while also allowing the display of global, weekly, and Bracket-specific leaderboards independently or simultaneously. This standardization simplifies data management for editorial activations, broadcast integrations, and social media campaigns.
Gamification: Choose the Reward System That Fits Your Community
Gamification capabilities continue to evolve with the introduction of a new progression system that supports both points and stars as reward units.
This additional flexibility gives brands more freedom when designing engagement mechanics and allows each experience to be tailored to the habits and expectations of its audience, whether through competitive scoring systems or more accessible progression-based journeys.
A New Navigation Experience in the Fanzone
The Experiences component within the Fanzone has been completely redesigned to simplify its use for both administrators and fans.
Until now, carousel-based navigation could become difficult to manage when a workspace contained a large number of experiences. The new version introduces both list and grid display modes, making it easier to browse and showcase available content.
The administration interface has also been improved with a new dropdown menu that allows experiences to be selected and positioned more quickly within the Fanzone.
This redesign serves a clear objective: enabling fans to access and participate in experiences directly from the Fanzone without opening a new browser tab on desktop or mobile. As a result, users remain fully immersed in the brand ecosystem throughout their journey.
