Sponsors
About Google
Google’s innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top web property in all major global markets. Google’s targeted advertising program, which is the largest and fastest growing in the industry, provides businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information, visit www.google.com.
About Bloomberg
Across all media platforms, Bloomberg is the trusted provider of unparalleled news and analysis for the world’s largest, most powerful network of global business executives. Our 2,300 news and multimedia professionals in 152 bureaus across 72 countries cover the world, delivering award-winning intelligence, as it happens, from where it happens. Leveraging the innovation and scale of Bloomberg technology, analytics, data, news, and distribution, the Bloomberg media portfolio spans a full range of channels, including Bloomberg.com, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg TV, Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg Mobile, and Bloomberg Markets®. Learn more at http://bloombergmedia.com/.
About Quantcast
Quantcast is an audience measurement and targeting company. The pioneer of direct audience measurement, we start with the industry’s most in-depth understanding of digital audiences to help marketers and publishers buy and sell the most effective targeted advertising and drive conversions through the full funnel. Our products let publishers match their audience to the exact consumers an advertiser wants to reach with impression level targeting. Ranked Fast Company’s #3 Most Innovative Company on the web and the overall winner of AlwaysOn’s Global 250 Top Private Companies, Quantcast is used by the world’s leading advertisers, the top 10 media agencies and 100+ million web destinations. Launched in 2006, Quantcast is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Founders Fund, Polaris Venture Partners, Revolution Ventures, and Cisco Systems.
About Admeld
Admeld helps the world’s top online publishers sell their ad inventory smarter. Built and run by publishing veterans, the company provides its clients with expertise and technology to capture new revenue streams, control how they sell each impression, and protect their data and brand. Admeld customers include Answers.com, Discovery Communications, FOX News, Hearst Television, IDG TechNetwork, The Weather Channel, and more than 500 others worldwide. The company is headquartered in New York with offices in London, Berlin, San Francisco, and Toronto. Visit www.admeld.com for more information.
About CONTEXTWEB
CONTEXTWEB is a leading integrated digital media services company that delivers consistent, measurable online ad performance on hundreds of millions of real-time impressions every day. CONTEXTWEB layers online and offline audience data with highly relevant content to deliver unique audiences at scale. Its patented page-level contextual technology delivers brand-safe environments and ranks among the top 20 ad-supported properties, according to comScore. CONTEXTWEB counts among its clients Fortune 500 companies in pharmaceuticals, automotive, consumer goods, among others. CONTEXTWEB is headquartered in New York with offices across the country and in the UK. For more information, please visit: contextweb.com.
About Kontera
Kontera predicts consumer interest to deliver market leading campaign results. The company’s Synapse Engine is able to pinpoints best ad placement, identify consumer interests, and deliver web-wide scale for advertisers. Kontera’s solutions span editorial placement, display on comScore top 250 sites, and social brand amplification.
Kontera is the exclusive in-content analysis and engagement platform for more than 15,000 web publishers, for whom it analyzes over 3 Billion monthly page-views in real time. Kontera delivers relevant content and ads to more than 140 million unique users each month, offering 5 times the efficacy of traditional on-line display.
About MediaMath
MediaMath empowers the online marketing professional with technology and services that enable advertisers and their agencies to make efficient, effective, and profitable marketing decisions across display, social, video, and mobile formats. Our math-driven TerminalOne platform brings together digital media and data into a powerful and flexible solution that simplifies planning, execution, optimization, and analysis of both direct response and branding campaigns. MediaMath has delivered results for customers that include every major international ad agency and holding company as well as top 5 retail, financial services, CPG, auto, and travel advertisers. MediaMath is a privately held company headquartered in New York.
About MediaMind
MediaMind, a division of DG (NASDAQ:DGIT), is a leading global provider of digital advertising campaign management solutions to advertising agencies and advertisers. MediaMind provides media and creative agencies, advertisers, and publishers with an integrated platform to manage campaigns across digital media channels and a variety of formats, including rich media, in-stream video, display, and search. The MediaMind platform runs digital campaigns for 11,000 brand advertisers, servicing over 4,200 media and creative agencies, across 11,500 global web publishers in 75 countries.
About NBC Universal Digital Media
NBC Universal Digital Media represents the online home of our entertainment portfolio: NBC.com, iVillage.com, BravoTV.com, Oxygen.com, USAnetwork.com, Syfy.com, AccessHollywood.com, and NBCSports.com. Every month, tens of millions of the most engaged users on the Internet consume our Emmy Award-winning content both on our web sites and via emerging platforms such as mobile, widgets, and social networking. With our creative flexibility, TV360 capability, and innovative advertising platforms, NBCU can create “Solutions with Scale” that provide deep connections between our users, our content, and our advertising partners.
About PointRoll
PointRoll, a Gannett company, enables advertisers, agencies, and web publishers to create, deliver, and measure interactive and action-inspiring mobile, tablet, rich media display, online video, and social campaigns. Delivering both the art and science of digital engagement, PointRoll provides the creative tools, analytics, distributed content, and expertise marketers need to effectively engage consumers across screens and make a memorable and measurable impression. Evolving beyond the banner, PointRoll allows marketers to find consumers wherever they are across any digital platform and deliver a relevant and engaging brand or direct response experience, dramatically improving ad effectiveness. For more information, visit www.pointroll.com.
About PubMatic
Since 2006, PubMatic (www.PubMatic.com) has been at the forefront of developing innovative technology. PubMatic provides a strategic sales platform that gives premium publishers the control to manage revenue and brand strategies in the growing real-time media environment. PubMatic combines some of the industry’s most comprehensive brand control tools with a true real-time bidding platform. Uniquely, these capabilities are combined with a complete audience data management suite and open APIs that allow publishers to engage with additional advertising technology vendors and data providers. PubMatic is privately held, with eight offices around the world in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Australia.
About SocialVibe
SocialVibe is a digital advertising technology company that provides the most effective form of brand advertising for some of the world’s top brands. Unlike ad networks that simply deliver impressions through display advertising, SocialVibe provides opt-in engagements that consumers can share across their social graph. SocialVibe enables advertisers to engage at a time when consumers are most motivated to participate in brand experiences, such as while playing a social game, donating to charity or accessing premium content. SocialVibe enables engagements on the Web and on mobile, reaching a universe of more than 200 million socially-connected global consumers. Visit www.socialvibe.com or check out twitter.com/socialvibeads.
About Vibrant
Vibrant (www.vibrantmedia.com) is a world leader in contextual technology, aligning billions of words across the Internet with relevant video, information, tools, and advertising. With over 6,500 premium publishers, reaching more than 250 million unique users per month (comScore, 2011), Vibrant gives top brand marketers the opportunity to deliver highly targeted advertisements within premium web content and offers publishers premium editorial tools to re-circulate users throughout their web sites. Vibrant works with top brand advertisers such as Microsoft, Unilever, Chrysler, and AT&T. The company was founded in 2000 and has offices in London, New York, Boston, Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Paris, Hamburg, Munich, and Dusseldorf. For more information, please visit www.vibrantmedia.com or www.facebook.com/vibrantmedia or twitter.com/vibrantmedia.
About Right Media, a Yahoo! Company
Right Media, the world’s trusted digital advertising marketplace, launched the first global digital advertising exchange in 2005, evolving to support the needs of businesses in today’s digital media world. From sellers maximizing yield to buyers optimizing their ROI, businesses choose Right Media as the premium, trusted destination where they can build invaluable relationships. With the market as fragmented and complex as it is today, Right Media provides needed simplicity and control by combining multiple supply sources through one flexible interface.
About ADTECH
ADTECH is a business unit of the AOL Advertising.com Group which was formed in May 2011. The focus of this group is to position AOL as a global partner for leading publishers, advertisers and agencies seeking to maximize the value of their online brands through premium formats, video, content, networks, platforms and monetization. The eight businesses that make up this Group are Advertising.com, ADTECH, AOL Video, goviral, Pictela, Content Solutions, 5min Media and Sponsored Listings.
About Casale Media
Casale Media builds innovative, high-performance advertising technology that maximizes digital media value for publishers and advertisers. Its Index platform is the first fully transparent real-time bidding (RTB) management technology that allows publishers to access premium demand through an exchange or a publisher’s own private marketplace.
Casale Media continues to establish its presence in digital advertising through its premium ad network, MediaNet, which is powered by Optimax, the first real-time ad serving and optimization platform. The company works directly with premium media organizations, with a focus on brand-safety and control for advertisers and publishers.
About HORN
HORN is an award-winning digital communications agency. Named 2011 Technology Agency of the Year, HORN works with Fortune 500 global brands and hot emerging growth companies in technology, media, and consumer markets. Established 20 years ago, the agency is independent, with offices in San Francisco and New York, and is Co-Founder of the Oriella International Network. To learn more, please visit www.horngroup.com.
About ShareThis
ShareThis is the world’s largest ecosystem for sharing and engagement, reaching more than 85 percent of the U.S. population online across more than 1.6 million sites. ShareThis makes content more engaging for publishers and marketing more impactful for brands by tapping into its true influence and value. Based in Palo Alto, CA, the company is privately held. http://www.sharethis.com
About Advertising Age
Advertising Age is the leading global source of news, intelligence and conversation for marketing and media communities. Ongoing coverage of strategic topics like CMO Strategies and data-driven marketing is complemented by breaking news on digital, social media, and more.
About Conversational Marketing Summit
Federated Media presents — The Conversational Marketing Summit (June 6-7). The rise of digital platforms present massive opportunities, but one significant challenge: finding the signal in an increasingly noisy ecosystem of sites, apps, and services. Demand side platforms, real time bidding, engagement metrics, firehoses of Twitter, Google, and Facebook actions, not to mention all the third party data services—it’s easy to get lost in the sea of data now available to marketers. Hosted by John Battelle, The CM Summit New York brings bring together all signals for two days of robust case studies, insightful one-on-one conversations, and compelling introductions of new products, startups, and services. More info at cmsummit.com.
To find out more about sponsorship and exhibit opportunities, please contact Phil Ardizzone, Director of Event Sales, at phil@iab.net.
