Speakers
2012 Sponsors
     
 
Adnetik   Adnetik (www.adnetik.com) is an independent advertising technology company that provides its partners and clients with the tools and services to more effectively plan, purchase, measure and deliver digital media at scale. Since inception we have helped hundreds of brands and agencies around the globe maximise their digital media investments through sophisticated audience targeting and real-time media trading. In 2012, Adnetik received the DPAC Award for Best Targeting Technology in New York City, and in 2011, Adnetik was recognized for Most Effective Online Campaign by the IPA in London.

For more information about Adnetik, visit www.adnetik.com
     
AdSafe   AdSafe (www.adsafemedia.com) is the digital advertising industry's leader in brand protection, ad verification and ad engagement data. Its Content Rating System evaluates the brand safety and context of web pages on the individual page level. Leveraging this data, AdSafe's Firewall prevents advertisers from appearing on pages that do not conform to brand guidelines.

AdSafe's Network Monitor enables ad networks to manage inventory at scale, in order to improve brand safe quality and better on-board new publishers. AdSafe suite of Real Time Data Feeds for RTB provide the industry's only predictive ad engagement, brand safety, and contextual information, to optimize brands' and DSPs' bidding decisions. Headquartered in New York City with growing operations in San Francisco and London.

Visit AdSafe at www.adsafemedia.com, follow @adsafemedia or join facebook.com/adsafemedia
     
BrightRoll   BrightRoll (www.brightroll.com) With reach to 150 million monthly unique viewers globally, BrightRoll is the world’s largest and most trusted video ad network and the leading provider of digital video advertising services. The BrightRoll Network has access to billions of video impressions per month enabling advertisers to execute smart digital video campaigns across a massive pool of web and mobile video inventory. The company’s proprietary buying technology, combined with full site disclosure, detailed performance reports and flexible targeting provide brands and agencies with the reach, frequency and scalability needed to achieve campaign goals. BrightRoll is a privately held, venture-backed company headquartered in San Francisco, California.

For more information visit www.brightroll.com.
     
DataXu   DataXu has developed the industry’s only fully-integrated enterprise digital marketing management (DMM) platform – DX3. Comprised of the #1 ranked demand-side platform as well as sophisticated data management and attribution management capabilities, DX3 defines a new class of enterprise solutions that manage, optimize, and automate digital marketing initiatives to turn Big Data into profitable actions. DataXu’s executive team unites leading executives in digital media with MIT technologists. With offices across North America, Europe, and Latin America, DataXu services customers in more than 60 countries. The private company is backed by Atlas Venture, Flybridge Capital Partners and Menlo Ventures.

For more information, visit www.dataxu.com or follow us on Twitter at @dataxu.
     
DoubleVerify   DoubleVerify (www.doubleverify.com) is the worldwide leader in online media verification and compliance, and the top choice of marketers, agencies, ad networks and publishers looking to ensure brand safety, campaign transparency and regulatory compliance. DoubleVerify verifies over 35 billion advertising impressions per month for hundreds of leading Fortune 500 marketers. DoubleVerify is headquartered in New York City, with sales offices in London and engineering offices in Tel Aviv, Israel. Investors in DoubleVerify include Blumberg Capital, Institutional Venture Partners, First Round Capital and Genacast Ventures.

London office: 20 Broadwick Street, London W1F 8HT - www.DoubleVerify.com
     
Evidon  

Evidon (www.evidon.com) empowers consumers and businesses to see, understand and control data online. With insights fueled by its Ghostery browser extension and rich, 800+ company privacy database, Evidon enables businesses to assess the cookies and other tracking activity on their websites, helping them to protect their audience data and improve performance. As the first and largest dedicated provider of privacy and compliance solutions for digital media, Evidon also enables leading brands, agencies, publishers, advertising networks and others to comply easily with privacy laws and self-regulatory programs across North America and Europe. Evidon serves over a billion “Ad Choices” notices daily on behalf of these businesses—in the U.S. and in local languages across Europe—giving consumers transparency into and control over how their information is used online. By protecting themselves and empowering consumers, businesses build their brands and improve results. , visit

For more information, visit www.evidon.com

     
Millward Brown  

At Millward Brown (www.millwardbrown.com), we're passionate about brands. As a leading global research agency, we've been in the business for more than 35 years and with 79 offices in 51 countries, we work with 90% of the top 100 global brands.

We offer a full spectrum of research and analytical expertise to deliver media effectiveness insight. Integrating information across all media, we provide clients with an unparalleled understanding into utilising media for brand building. Our digital expertise remains unmatched with over 350 cross-media and 7,000 online, mobile and tablet campaigns tested.

We've helped our clients build strong brands and services through research-based consultancy and today, we continue to push the boundaries of marketing research.

For more information, visit www.millwardbrown.com

     
Quantcast   Quantcast measures and organizes the world’s audiences in real-time so advertisers can buy, sell and connect with the people who matter most to them. Ranked Fast Company‘s # 3 Most Innovative Company on the Web for 2010, the company is used by the top 10 media agencies in the US, the world’s largest brands and more than half of the top advertising supported publishers. Quantcast connects the planning, buying, and media fulfillment processes, delivering the marketplace’s most consistent and accountable audiences. Launched in 2006, Quantcast is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Founders Fund, Polaris Venture Partners, Revolution Ventures and Cisco Systems. Come Get Quantified™ at www.quantcast.com.
     
Rocket Fuel  

Rocket Fuel (www.rocketfuel.com/uk)is a real-time ad targeting company that transforms digital media buys into self-optimizing engines that learn in real time, delivering great campaign results from awareness to sales. Our technology combines all data-driven targeting techniques, from behavioural to contextual, into one comprehensive solution that automatically adapts campaigns in real time to achieve both brand and performance goals. Over 400 of the world's leading brands run on Rocket Fuel across display, mobile, video and social media. Founded by online advertising veterans and computer scientists from Yahoo!, DoubleClick, Salesforce.com, and NASA, Rocket Fuel is based in Redwood Shores, California, and has offices in nine cities worldwide including New York and London.

For more information on why campaigns run better on Rocket Fuel, visit www.rocketfuel.com/uk

 
 

Previous Sponsors
     
 
BUDDY MEDIA   The Buddy Media Platform is the Facebook management system of choice for eight out of the ten top global advertisers. With its scalable, secure architecture and straightforward administrative tools, it is the only solution that allows brands to launch, maintain and measure their Facebook presence in any country and in any language.

Buddy Media shares four investors with Facebook and was one of the first companies selected by Facebook as a preferred developer partner.
For more information, visit www.buddymedia.com.
     
HammerKit  

HammerKit was founded in 2006 in Helsinki, Finland with the goal of making designer-friendly tools for the creation of dynamic web services. The company was started by two designers and two coders who set out to challenge the status quo and try to create a new way of building and maintaining data-driven sites. HammerKit 3.5, launched in 2007, introduced a new era of interactive web service building. By deploying a Software as a Service (SaaS) model we were able to offer our customers a complete online web design and assembly service. This gave the company a positive boost and set our vision as being the next generation web service design infrastructure.

Things really started rolling for HammerKit in October 2008 as the company won the Audience Favourite and Best Company awards at the International MindTrek conference held annually in Tampere, Finland. At the end of 2008 the company raised a seed round of funding and was selected by the Finnish National Innovation Organisation, TEKES, as one among ten companies nominated as “Young Innovative Company” with high-growth potential. In 2009 HammerKit was awarded with a Red Herring Global 100 Award as well as recognized as one of the 20 most potential European growth companies at the European Venture Forum in Dusseldorf.

To find out more, visit www.HammerKit.com

     
Magnetise Group  

The Magnetise Group is a marketing technology company founded in 2007. Its proprietary technology platform enables a suite of products that deliver online lead generation and digital engagement across many different sectors including retail, technology and telecoms, financial services, publishing, utilities and FMCG.
Current products include:

  • TopFox: UK's leading white label competition platform.
  • In-Banner: Improves standard display advertising with real-time data capture, validation and pricing.
  • Lead Intelligence: Bespoke, fully integrated lead management and analytics platform for multi-channel campaigns.
  • In-Video: Innovative multi-level interactive overlays for online video advertising and engagement.

To find out more, visit www.magnetisegroup.com

     
MediaMath   MediaMath is pioneering an innovative digital advertising platform that allows marketers to leverage robust technologies and data to gain behavioral insights and power digital media trading through one simple interface. With MediaMath's TerminalOne, agencies impactfully target their online ad dollars and cost-effectively reach the consumers that matter most to their clients. The platform runs hundreds of advertising campaigns across 13 billion daily impressions in 23 countries around the world.

To find out more, visit www.mediamath.com
     
mexad   Mexad is Europe's leading display engine marketing (DEM) agency with offices in Germany, the UK, Austria, USA, France, and Italy. With over 5 years experience, mexad offers synchronised bid management in real time (RTB) across all major display bidding platform, e.g. ad exchanges & supply side platforms.
We are a platform agnostic service provider which optimises display campaigns towards your campaign objectives. mexad gives media buying agencies direct access to all relevant RTB-Platforms, increases advertisers' ROI, offering full price transparency, and giving insight into your campaign performance. www.mexad.com
     
NAVTEQ   NAVTEQ Media Solutions is the industry’s leading global location-based mobile ad network. NAVTEQ’s patented LocationPointTM Advertising (LPA) technology enables brick and mortar merchants to pinpoint where consumers are, deliver ads within a few meters of advertised points of purchase, and guide them to the merchant’s doorstep with convenient one-click “Click-to-Map” and “Click-to-Route” calls to action.

As the world leader in high-quality maps and location-based content, NAVTEQ is uniquely qualified to provide the most accurate location-based targeting and to ensure a great consumer engagement experience. To find out more and view our video, visit: www.navteqmedia.com
     
MHP Communications  

MHP Communications - Corporate Reputation

Turning your business strategy into a compelling corporate story
The 60-strong MHP corporate reputation team draws on a variety of skill sets: from former national journalists to online specialists; from career communications professionals to young graduates with a thirst for corporate communications.

We start at the beginning to articulate your business story clearly and effectively, understanding your stakeholders to ensure impact, amplifying your voice to make your message heard, and preparing you for any challenge that may be thrown at you.

And we help you to take that story out to the world through the right mix of channels and routes to reach the audiences that matter to your business success.

Our promise is to provide expertise, results and an exceptional level of service, making a measurable difference to your business.
www.mhpcommunications.com

     
SilverStream   Silverstream: Video at the speed of Twitter. Social media is changing the game for internet video. Silverstream TV's mission is to help brands keep up with the conversation. Using the latest technology we can deliver video at the speed of Twitter. Imagine a live video dialogue with your customers. We'll show you what can be done. Broadcast-standard production, bespoke applications and streaming, integration with social media. Engage with your audience via interactive video. Go live from anywhere using Silverstream TV's outside broadcast truck. Scripting and production from BBC-trained staff. Informed advice about video delivery over the internet.

For more information, visit www.silverstream.tv.
     
Simply   Simply Pro is Europe’s leading online advertising platform for agencies focused on performance and publishers who want to maximise returns on their inventory.

Simply Pro’s sophisticated targeting technology and carefully selected and managed brand safe network deliver highly effective campaigns, along with the online reporting and control needed, and support from a team with deep expertise in ad serving and media planning.

For advertisers and agencies Simply Pro enhances and simplifies campaigns using a blend of five different targeting technologies across a carefully developed and controlled network with each publisher conforming to Simply’s strict SBP™ (Simply Brand Protection) policy.

For publishers, maximum inventory returns with end-to-end control and management ease. www.simply.com
     
SteelyEye   Steely Eye makes mobile system software and apps across all operating systems.

Steely Eye Digital Media was formed in late 2009 by a team of skilled technology executives to deliver innovative, high quality and cost effective mobile systems software, applications, and mobile Internet solutions.

The founding team is drawn from veterans of both the mobile software and digital media industries. They are an international team of British and American executives with decades of mobile experience.

The team is headquartered in London, England, at the heart of the mobile and digital media markets in Soho. Management, sales, project control, architecture, graphic design and user experience skills are based in London: most coding is executed by a dedicated nearshore team in Europe. This allows high quality bespoke software to be designed and built at affordable prices, without loss of project oversight, cost control or cultural nuance.

Specialties
Bespoke development for iPhone, Android, Symbian, J2ME, and Windows Mobile. Creative Design for mobile and web. Consulting services for mobile strategy.
www.steelyeye.com
     
StrongMail   StrongMail enables marketers to forge meaningful, profitable and long-lasting connections with their customers through email marketing and social media.

With our unique combination of technology and services, StrongMail takes a fundamentally different approach that offers many distinct advantages, including the lowest cost of ownership of any tier-one solution and easy access to customer data.

StrongMail’s agency provides groundbreaking strategic and creative services to help marketers listen, learn, engage and influence best customers. For more information, visit www.strongmail.com
     
Tribal Fusion   Tribal Fusion is a digital marketing solutions company that drives superior results at all levels of the purchase funnel. Our company is built around dedicated vertical teams that leverage their industry-specific knowledge of “what works” to create fully customized advertising solutions to help companies capitalize on opportunities at every level of the consumer decision process. From custom “brand channels” to increase awareness to vertical-specific targeting tools to drive immediate purchase, Tribal Fusion offers smarter solutions that drive greater results.

Tribal Fusion is a part of the Exponential Group of online businesses – a technology-enabled media services company that delivers innovative products and services to meet the demands of today’s digital advertisers and publishers. Through a variety of offerings that includes Tribal Fusion, the Exponential™ group of businesses enables online advertisers to reach their target audiences from around the globe to across town. Headquartered in Emeryville, CA, Tribal Fusion operates offices across the US, India, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
www.tribalfusion.com

     
userzoom   Userzoom is the leading online research software firm specializing in user experience, usability and customer insights. We offer an on-demand web-based solution which empowers User Experience and Marketing Professionals to cost-effectively manage and conduct sophisticated online & mobile research… we help them zoom in on the user experience.

UserZoom's technology is the result of identifying that many of the traditional research methods were simply not enough in today's highly competitive online & mobile marketplace.

Today we have accomplished our goal by providing one of the most sophisticated and cost-effective digital research solutions in the market. We are proud to say that, thanks to our solution, User Experience and marketing professionals from top global brands around the world (Google, PayPal, IBM, Coca Cola, Amazon, ShopDirect, Betfair, HSBC, ITV) are able to better manage customer experience, protect their brand image, save money and time on research, and increase overall ROI.

www.userzoom.com
     
Velti   Velti is a leading global provider of mobile marketing and advertising solutions that enable brands, advertising agencies, mobile operators, and media companies to implement highly targeted, interactive, and measurable campaigns by communicating with and engaging consumers via their mobile devices.

The Velti mGage™ platform enables our customers to use mobile and traditional media to plan, manage, and optimize mobile advertising and marketing campaigns, reaching targeted consumers, engaging them through the mobile Internet and applications, and converting them into customers. We have the ability to conduct campaigns in over 30 countries and reach more than 2.5 billion global customers.

Thirteen of the twenty largest mobile operators worldwide have run campaigns with Velti. In the first nine months of 2010, over 600 brands, advertising agencies, mobile operators, and media companies used our platform to conduct over 1,500 campaigns.
www.velti.com
     
Vibrant   Vibrant is a world leader in contextual technology aligning billions of words across the Internet with relevant video, information, tools, and advertising. With over 6,000 premium publishers, reaching 225 million unique users per month (comScore, November 2010), 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 websites.

Vibrant works with top brand advertisers such as Microsoft, Unilever, Warner Bros 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. Vibrant's rapid growth has been recognized by the Inc. 500 and Deloitte Fast 50 lists. Vibrant CEO and Co-founder Doug Stevenson was named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2010 for Metro New York.
www.vibrantmedia.com
     
Turn   Turn was founded to bring the efficiencies of search advertising to online display. We are a software and services company with the industry’s only end-to-end platform for delivering the most effective data-driven digital advertising in the world.

Our self-service interface, optimization algorithms, real-time analytics, interoperability, and scalable infrastructure represent the future of media and data management.

The world’s premier advertising agencies and brands use the Turn Platform to harness data to target custom audiences at scale, optimize performance, and globally manage campaigns across inventory sources.www.turn.com
     
Visual DNA   VisualDNA is a technology built and developed by the London-based company, Imagini.

VisualDNA understands people through images and then connects them with the information and services they need.

Our ability to provide 1st party opt-in data to our advertisers is what makes us unique. We build incredibly rich profiles of individual users' tastes, preferences and intent through fun visual quizzes. They opt-in to a more personalised web which is tailored to their own 'VisualDNA'.

VisualDNA enables brands, agencies and publishers to gain powerful insight into an individual's online and offline life, to deliver more engaging messages and help create a more personal and meaningful online experience for all. www.visualdna.com
     
Weborama  

Created in 1998, Weborama is a European pioneer in online tracking & targeting technologies.

With more than 100 employees in France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Holland and the UK, Weborama helps leading advertisers, agencies and publishers optimize their online investments through a range of cutting-edge technology solutions:

  • A centralized adserving, tracking & analytics platform, the Adperf Suite is a next-generation campaign management platform offering a unique dashboard, advanced attribution rules, and numerous cross-channel optimization capabilities to advertisers and agencies
  • The Adrime Rich Media & Video Platform allows publishers to create, serve and report on the performance of high-impact campaigns
  • Weborama’s profile databases include advanced demographic, interest & intent data on hundreds of millions of European users to help advertisers, agencies and publishers target the right audience
  • The pan-european Weborama Network is a premium advertising environment offering 80%+ reach as well as innovative and user-friendly creative solutions to maximize the impact of online display campaigns

Weborama is listed on the Paris stock exchange (Alternext: ALWEB) and one of fastest-growing European technology companies (Deloitte Fast 50 & 500 rankings).
For more information, visit www.www.weborama.com

     
YuMe  

YuMe is the relevance-based video advertising technology company, which powers the next generation of video entertainment by bringing TV brand advertising to all connected devices.

YuMe's ACE Relevance Engine powers its premium in-stream Connected Audience Network and its industry-leading advertising management solutions, ACE for Publishers and ACE for Advertisers. The ACE Relevance Engine matches the right ad to the right audience on whatever screen they are viewing. As a result, YuMe gives publishers and advertisers unprecedented reach, brand safety, contextual relevance, controlled syndication, and consistent delivery across all digital media platforms.

Learn more about YuMe at www.yume.com.

     
 
 

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