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Sports, gaming and
entertainment

Gain the data-driven advantage across the field, stage and screen

Where performance, operations, and engagement converge

Sports and entertainment organizations are undergoing rapid digital transformation while operating in high-pressure environments with tightening performance margins. They face increasing challenges in ensuring players’ health and safety, navigating fragmented audiences, and delivering meaningful fan engagement, alongside growing complexity in marketing and advertising due to limited visibility into campaign effectiveness.

In response, EXL leverages advanced analytics, AI, and scalable data platforms to enable data-driven decisions powering real-time insights, optimizing marketing performance and fan engagement, and streamlining game-day and broadcast operations.

Who we serve

Empowering organizations with intelligence to solve challenges and achieve operational excellence

Leagues and clubs

Leagues and clubs

<p>EXL helps teams, leagues, and clubs make data-driven strategic decisions, optimize player and team performance, and streamline operations.</p>
Real-money gaming

Real-money gaming

<p>Real-money gaming platforms can convert player signals into real-time intelligence to support responsible engagement, integrity, and long-term value.</p>
eSports

eSports

<p>Harness real-time player, fan, and gameplay data to drive deeper engagement and monetization—enabling smarter decisions across performance, operations, and revenue growth.</p>
Entertainment

Entertainment

<p>Entertainment leaders can improve content valuation, audience measurement, and performance insights to guide distribution and monetization strategies.</p>
Live events

Live events

<p>From forecasting attendance to optimizing on-the-ground operations, EXL helps live event organizations deliver high-impact experiences every time.</p>

Sports and entertainment solutions

We help sports and entertainment enterprises use data better

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Fan experience

<p>Drive personalized fan experiences using comprehensive customer profiles, analytics, recommendations and real-time sentiment.</p>

Player health and safety

<p>Enhance player health and safety by identifying and analyzing early warning signs in real-time to protect player well-being.</p>

Ticketing operations

<p>Support end-to-end ticket sales by identifying, engaging, and converting prospects. Drive sustainable growth through structured outreach and sustained engagement.</p>

Sponsorship

<p>Sponsors can get information on ad performance, inventory, and pricing to optimize ROI and choose the best placements possible.</p>

Sports data analytics suite

<p>Integrate and analyze multi-source sports, fan and operational data to uncover actionable insights, optimize pricing strategies and marketing spending and enable data-driven decisions that improve revenue and performance strategies and overall business operations.</p>

Finance operations

<p>With a suite of F&amp;A solutions and services specialized scaled to the needs of sports leagues and clubs, our gen AI-enabled capabilities streamline F&amp;A operations, including automated revenue sharing across leagues, clubs, vendors, partners, and talent.</p>

Marketing operations

<p>A unified agentic solution for leagues and clubs integrating customer data, AI-led segmentation, prompt-driven journey orchestration, and ML-powered insights. Deliver personalized fan engagement, enable omnichannel activation, and get real-time intelligence across the entire fan lifecycle.</p>

Smart venue

<p>Unify your data on crowd flow, ticketing, parking, F&amp;B, merchandise, facilities, and fan engagement in a single operational command center, enabling venue owners to anticipate demand, reduce bottlenecks, optimize staffing and inventory, personalize in-game experiences, and maximize revenue.</p>

Client success stories

Game scheduling optimization
Optimized game timing for live sports events using performance data, delivering $220K incremental revenue per game and $600K–$1.1M potential seasonal uplift.
Marketing analytics
Enabled AI-driven fan marketing for top sports leagues and multiple clubs, driving +60% marketing ROI, 30% cost efficiency, and 60× reduction in manual BI dashboard efforts.
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