Sponsorship Opportunities

Deliver unique opportunities and undeniable value to your partners.

With a wide range of sponsorship opportunities within the Athlinks Services platform, your event sponsors will gain meaningful exposure and a valuable return on their investment in your race. Sponsorship opportunities are available within the results page, athlete videos, event photography, athlete updates, and the Race Day app.

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Result sponsor

Real-time results provide an interactive, searchable site to view race leaderboards, search for athletes, and access competitors’ splits, pace and finish times.

Sponsor opportunity

  • Customize the real-time results background to include your sponsor

Sponsor benefits

  • The results interface averages 6-7 unique visits for every finisher
  • Easy social share options mean 10-20% of finishers share on Facebook and Twitter

Athlete video sponsor

Athlete video allows spectators and athletes to watch 15-second clips at the finish line and at various split points on the course.

Sponsor opportunity

  • Include a short pre-roll video or static ad that plays before each video view

Sponsor benefits

  • Videos are played 6-8 times for every finisher
  • Videos are easily shared on Facebook and Twitter for more engagement

Digital photography

Digital photography packages can be sponsored and offered to athletes for free or at a reduced cost.

Sponsor opportunity

  • Digital photography packages watermarked or branded with sponsor logo

Sponsor benefits

  • Free or reduced cost photo download increases viewing and sharing
  • Photo views vary greatly depending on race distance, but minimum engagement is 2-3 views per finisher

Athlete updates sponsor

Real-time updates from the course are delivered to an athlete and their social network, allowing friends and family to comment and engage.

Sponsor opportunity

  • The athlete update sponsor gets branding and mentions in each athlete update and on the athlete update sign-up page

Sponsor benefits

  • “Presenting Sponsor” of the athlete update sign-up widget placed on a race’s site
  • Sponsor secures placement in the “social conversation”
  • Each athlete’s updates will be viewed by an average of 190 Facebook friends, who will in turn engage around the updates

Athlinks race day app sponsor

The app provides many opportunities for sponsors to engage with their target audience in a captive environment on race day.

Sponsor opportunity

  • Sponsors can add videos to your library, short video clips to your event download screen, offers and information in your announcements, and branding and info on your vendor map

Sponsor benefits

  • With exposure in various touch points throughout the app, sponsors gain increased brand exposure and multiple opportunities to share their messages and/or offers to your participants
  • Sponsors can increase foot traffic to their expo booths with offers and messaging throughout the app