Apps that exclusively cater to sports fanatics would be arriving soon on diverse mobile platforms. Georgia Tech’s Athletic Department has entered into a subscription contract with Whoop for encompassing limitless use of Whoop’s web-based mobile application platform.
Whoop is all geared up to facilitate Georgia Tech’s sports information professionals to effortlessly generate and publish opulent media mobile apps that can function on nearly any handset. Georgia Tech’s first mobile app is claimed to deliver up-to-the-minute live updates of games, news feeds, team and player statistics, schedules, audio and video highlights, and links to ticket sales. The Athletic Director Dan Radakovich’s ‘The Good Word’ blog may be viewed by users.
“We performed an initial test last month of a mobile app for football and basketball and were very pleased with the results. We received a lot of great feedback from our fans and students across the Tech family, and we intend to integrate this feedback into our future app production and deployment efforts,” commented Wayne Hogan, associate athletic director for public relations.
Jeff Wilson, executive vice president of sales and marketing for Whoop, stated, “Like Georgia Tech, we were pleased to watch their app adoption ticker rise, even with little fanfare or widespread marketing. We see big successes ahead for Georgia Tech in the mobile space and are pleased it chose us as its partner.”
Georgia Tech’s preliminary mobile app was crafted at the Whoop Creative Studio, a web-based platform that appears to be as simple as PowerPoint. For mobile app development to non-developers, Whoop makes it rather effortless for schools, companies, agencies and organizations to create and publish their own mobile channels, swiftly and inexpensively.
Users can download the Georgia Tech’s initial mobile app by texting the word ‘Jackets’ to 53000 and go by the instructions. The company warns that usual messaging costs would be applicable.