For hospitality & venues
Run your pick'em pool on your venue's brand, not someone else's app.
Pubs, sports bars, restaurants. Fanzava builds a branded pick'em pool that lives at your venue, captures your customer data, and gives you back the regulars who've been signing up to someone else's app for years.
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The challenge
You know this challenge.
The pool that's running on someone else's brand.
Your regulars sign up through a generic pick'em app. The leaderboard is branded as the app, not the venue. You've built an audience that belongs to a platform you don't control.
The customer database you can't build.
The app collected the email addresses. The app knows who's been making picks every week. You don't get to email those regulars about trivia night, the new menu, or playoff night, because they're not your contacts, they're the app's.
The gambling-adjacent funnel running through your bar.
A lot of the big free pick'em contests are run by sportsbooks. Every time a regular taps the QR code at your bar, they're walking into a gambling operator's product. Some venues are fine with that. A lot of family-friendly venues aren't.
What changes
What changes when a venue runs on Fanzava.
A pool that's branded as your venue, end to end.
Your logo on the leaderboard, your colours on the screen, your domain on the link. The regulars know whose pool they're playing in.
A customer database that's actually yours.
Every player, every email, every phone number, captured by you, owned by you. Use it for the Tuesday night special, the playoff party, the new chef. The audience belongs to the venue.
A regular crowd that knows each other.
A pick'em pool builds the thing bars are actually trying to build: regulars who recognize each other from the leaderboard, shared banter across the season, the kind of in-the-venue community that brings people back without a promotion.
How it works
Built for the way venues operate.
Branded with your venue's identity. Guests sign up with a QR code at the bar. No app download required. Set up in an afternoon. No gambling licence, no sportsbook funnel, no third-party brand on your customer's screen.
Designed for venues like yours.
Coming soon, real customers, named as they arrive.
Pricing
Pricing and access.
Free to start. Upgrade to a paid plan when you want your own branding. Running a group of venues? Talk to our team about a licence across all your locations.
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Due diligence
Questions venues ask.
How do we move our existing players across from the app we're on now?
Most of the big pick'em apps, ESPN Bracket Challenge and the sportsbook-run free contests among them, don't let you export your player list. The honest path is a fresh invite. We'll help you set up a branded sign-up link and a QR code for the bar, and your regulars opt in once. After that they're yours, in your database, on your branded experience.
Do guests need to download an app, or can they play from their phone browser?
Browser-only: no app, no install. Guests scan the QR code at the bar (or follow a link), sign up in under a minute, and make their picks from their phone for the rest of the season. The same browser experience runs on iOS and Android; nothing to download, nothing to update.
Can we put our sponsors' logos and prizes on the leaderboard?
Yes. Sponsor placements appear on leaderboards, in weekly reminder emails, in results emails, in the weekly digest, and in mobile banners; every paid plan includes self-serve creative upload. Configure prizes in the admin panel and the prize attribution carries through to players so they know which sponsor is behind each prize.
Can we run pools for more than one sport when seasons overlap?
Yes. The Free plan runs one pool at a time, which suits most single-venue starts. When the NFL and NHL seasons overlap in the fall (or any other combination), Starter handles three pools at once, Growth handles five, and Pro is unlimited. Your venue runs both, both leaderboards live in parallel, guests can join one or both.
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Ready to take the pool back?
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