
2009 Sponsors
VIP Sponsor:
About ESPN
Launched: September 7, 1979 as the flagship network and is currently in more than 98M HH’s. Programming Hours: more than 5,100 live and/or original hours of sports programming presented annually more than 65 sports including the BCS (coming in 2011), MLB, NBA, NFL’s Monday Night Football, NASCAR, the Open Championship (British Open, coming 2010), FIFA World Cup, WNBA, college football, men's and women's college basketball, including the Masters, Little League World Series, the X Games. ESPN Content Development creates branded programming outside of the network's traditional event and sports news genres. Multimedia Extensions: ESPN’s assets also include industry-leading Digital, Print and Audio properties.
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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, SCIFI.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 websites 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.
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About Platform-A
Platform-A, AOL’s advertising business, reaching 91% of the U.S. Internet audience, is the industry’s largest digital advertising platform. Platform-A offers the most comprehensive suite of marketing solutions, powered by the Web’s best advertising technologies. Platform-A includes AOL’s leading media properties – AOL.com, AIM, MapQuest, and more – and Advertising.com’s third-party networks. Platform-A also includes TACODA’s audience insights and behavioral targeting; Quigo, a site- and content-targeting solution; ADTECH, an international digital ad serving business; Third Screen Media, a mobile ad serving network; and buy.at, an affiliate marketing solution. Platform-A currently has operations in the United States, nine countries across Europe, including Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, the UK, and Japan through a joint venture with Mitsui. Learn more at http://www.platform-a.com.
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About AdMob
AAdMob is the world's largest mobile advertising platform, serving more than 8 billion mobile banner and text ads per month across a wide range of leading mobile Web sites and applications. AdMob helps advertisers connect with a relevant audience of consumers on mobile devices and gives publishers the ability to effectively monetize their mobile traffic. AdMob provides the tools, data, and business models fueling the explosive growth of mobile media in more than 160 countries. AdMob works with thousands of advertisers and publishers, including Adidas, CBS News, Comedy Central, Gap, Lonely Planet, MovieTickets.com, P&G, Tapulous, and Universal Pictures. www.admob.com.
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About Compete
Compete provides marketers with actionable digital intelligence to improve their online and offline marketing effectiveness. Hundreds of clients, including the world’s leading brands, rely on Compete to help them create more effective web sites and more targeted advertising campaigns. Compete’s products include online measurement tools available at Compete.com, as well as deep consumer and competitor insights in the automotive, consumer goods, financial services, media, retail, telecom and travel industries.
Compete is a TNS Media company. To learn more about Compete, please visit www.competeinc.com. And to increase your digital intelligence, visit www.compete.com or our award-winning blog at www.blog.compete.com.
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About Dynamic Logic
Dynamic Logic (www.dynamiclogic.com) is a leading global research company specializing in media and marketing effectiveness. As a pioneer in online ad effectiveness, Dynamic Logic now measures the branding impact of campaigns across 27 digital platforms. By leveraging Millward Brown's world-class expertise on brand building alongside digital insights from unparalleled normative databases of online, mobile and cross media studies, Dynamic Logic continues to be a leading source to advertisers, agencies and media companies seeking to maximize ROI in an ever changing marketing landscape. Dynamic Logic is a Millward Brown company, which is part of The Kantar Group, the information and consultancy arm of WPP.
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About GoldSpot Media
GoldSpot Media is a leading mobile media solutions company offering miSpot® the industry’s first end-to-end interactive advertising solution for all mobile channels, inventory owners and applications. Its unique solution powers profitable new advertising revenue models for the entire mobile content and video value chain by delivering highly targeted, less-intrusive ads in real-time based on demographics, behavioral patterns, device types, context and location. This privately held company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA with a R&D center in Bangalore, India and sales offices in Europe and Japan.
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About Microsoft Advertising
Microsoft Advertising provides advertisers and publishers with media, tools and services to drive deep and profitable engagement with their audiences. This includes a media network that reaches hundreds of millions of consumers around the world; global technology platforms and tools that enable easy planning and management of campaigns and content; and services that help untangle the complexities of digital media to get more value from marketing and content investments. Microsoft Advertising makes buying and selling media simple, smart and cost-effective across media and devices in the Microsoft network of properties and beyond. Visit http://advertising.microsoft.com for more information.
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About Mojiva
Mojiva’s powerful advertising platform gives brand marketers, publishers, and businesses of any size everything they need to efficiently run and profit from mobile advertising campaigns. All of Mojiva’s solutions were built with yield optimization in mind. The platform features third-party network management capabilities and real-time integrated reporting. Mojiva provides contextual keyword and media mix targeting, capitalizing on the personal nature of the mobile device, and ensuring the right ad is delivered to the right individual at the right time. Mojiva also has a White Label for Publishers solution—a mobile advertising workflow management tool that gives mobile content publishers complete control over their inventory.
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About Pandora
Pandora is free personalized music available anywhere and everywhere. With one-click, Pandora provides the best music discovery based on your choice of artist or song. Pandora streams personalized music at home, at work or while on the go on mobile phones on AT&T, Sprint and Verizon networks.
Pandora delivers unmatched music enjoyment and discovery based on its proprietary Music Genome. The Music Genome Project began in 2000 and it’s the most extensive analysis of popular music ever undertaken. Professional musicians analyze each song in the 700,000+ collection to capture its unique musical identity.
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About Mobile Marketer
Mobile Marketer is the leading trade publication covering mobile marketing, media and commerce. The daily targets brands, agencies and publishers, as well as mobile marketing firms. Subscribe to the publication at http://www.mobilemarketer.com/newsletter.php.
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