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AudienceScience
AudienceScience is the largest and most trusted audience aggregator in the world. As an early innovator of online advertising technology, they continue to revolutionize the industry, enabling universal access to audiences and driving digital marketing success. With 270 billion data insights daily into over 386 million people worldwide, AudienceScience makes it simple to find, reach and achieve one-to-one marketing at scale.
Bizo
Bizo is how marketers reach and engage business professionals, wherever they travel online. Bizo’s unique ability to precisely target more than 80% of the US business population gives marketers cost-effective access and insight into business professionals – the most valuable online audience segment. Bizo is privately held and based in San Francisco, California.
Bluekai
For the first time in history, advertisers can target individual consumers independent of their media choices. At the heart of this vision is a simple, but proud truth: Data is king. True audience targeting is driven by superior data. By decoupling media from targeting data, we’ve created an enlightened data economy that compensates data sellers with maximum yields and buyers with performance‐driven data that delivers consistent results. This vision makes it possible to reach anyone, anywhere on the web with “polite marketing” that’s targeted to their specific needs and wants, at time when they most open and receptive.
Chitika
Chitika is a data analytics company in the business of on-line advertising. Through the application of data and innovative technology in the fields of mobile, local and search, Chitika has developed a vast global network that maximizes yield for both publishers and advertisers. Chitika was co-founded by Venkat Kolluri and Alden DoRosario after leaving Lycos in 2003 and the company introduced its online-ads service in January 2004.
CNBC
CNBC is the recognized world leader in business news, providing real-time financial market coverage and business information to more than 340 million homes worldwide, including more than 95 million households in the United States and Canada. The network’s Business Day programming (weekdays from 5:00 a.m.- 7:00 p.m. ET) is produced at CNBC’s headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J. CNBC also includes reports from its news bureaus worldwide in Midtown Manhattan, the NASDAQ MarketSite, Washington D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, London, Singapore and CNBC’s headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
Cox Digital Solutions
Cox Digital Solutions provides compelling solutions connecting advertisers with engaged users and publishers with quality brands. As the only company to offer the largest integrated source of premium national reach and local engagement including 7,000+ specialty content and 1,300 local sites, Cox Digital Solutions maximizes revenue for advertisers, agencies, and publishers.
Dataxu
In order to make their dream happen, they have assembled a team with some of the best minds from Academia, Silicon Valley, Wall Street and Madison Avenue. They have deep expertise in digital media and online advertising, in brand building, company building and advertising platform development, and they even have a few rocket scientists on board.
Guardian
Formerly known as The Manchester Guardian (founded 1821), is a British national daily newspaper in Berliner format. Currently edited by Alan Rusbridger, it has grown from nineteenth century local paper to a national paper associated with a complex organisational structure and international multimedia presence with sister papers The Observer (British Sunday paper) and The Guardian Weekly, as well as a large web presence.
Mashable
Mashable is the largest independent news source dedicated to covering digital culture, social media and technology. Mashable reports on the importance of digital innovation and how it empowers and inspires people around the world. Pete Cashmore founded Mashable in 2005 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. His passion for sharing how web tools and social networks were transforming human interactions and reshaping cultures drove him to create what would become Mashable.
MediaMath
MediaMath provides tremendous performance and ROI to forward-thinking agencies and their clients. They are the leader in cross-exchange advertising management services and technology. Their media buying platform provides the technology, strategy, services and insights to trade effectively across the leading display advertising exchanges on behalf of advertisers.
NESN
The New England Sports Network (NESN) is owned by the Boston Red Sox and Boston Bruins and delivered to over 4 million homes throughout the six-state New England region and nationally as NESN National. The definitive source for New England sports programming, NESN has consistently been one of the top rated regional sports network in the country and was the first regional sports network in the country to originate every game and studio show in high definition.
nugg.ad
nugg.ad operates Europe’s largest targeting platform and offers the most efficient solution for target group-specific online advertising. With the unique principle of predictive behavioural targeting, the company has become the market leader. nugg.ad offers customised, cooperative solutions that make it possible for online marketers, agencies and advertisers to increase the efficiency, performance and branding impact of their online campaigns.
PubMatic
PubMatic’s ad monetization and management solution combines impression-level ad auction technology, the most comprehensive brand protection tools, and enterprise ad operations support to give the Web’s premium publishers the most control over their revenue and brand. PubMatic has seven offices around the world in the US, Europe, and Asia.
RichRelevance
Serving over two billion recommendations per month, RichRelevance powers personalized shopping experiences for the world’s largest and most innovative retail brands. Founded and led by the e-commerce expert who helped pioneer personalization at Amazon.com, RichRelevance helps retailers increase sales and effectively monetize site traffic by providing the most relevant products, content and offers to shoppers as they switch between web, store and mobile.
Rubicon
The Rubicon Project’s REVV yield optimization platform process 250 billion real-time bid transactions per month and is engineered to empower publishers to monetize digital content across all sources of demand. Monetizing more than 90 billion ad impressions each month across more than 565 million unique users around the globe, REVV provides the precise combination of technology, data and access to demand that empowers publishers to thrive.
San Diego Union Tribune
The oldest business in San Diego County and the oldest newspaper in Southern California, The San Diego Union-Tribune is the product of a merger of The San Diego Union, founded Oct. 10, 1868, and the Evening Tribune, founded Dec. 2, 1895.
Their mission is to be the leader in providing news, information and marketing services indispensable to customers in our diverse region. To ensure Their future, They continuously improve their products and services, enhance their financial strength and uphold the highest standards of journalistic quality.
Smowtion
Smowtion is a technology company specializing in the ad network business, focused on developing products and solutions for the online advertising industry, helping them to target quality audiences. By combining behavioral, predictive and contextual targeting and inventory performance methods, they enable advertisers to reach their targeted audiences wherever they can be found (blogs, networks, searches and social networks). Smowtion also works with over 80,000 publishers worldwide, using the same optimization processes to help them obtain a higher eCPM and present visitors the most appropriate ads.
TagMan
Founded in 2007 after three years in development, TagMan was created by CEO and founder Paul Cook (a marketing technologist who pioneered post-click conversion tracking) to solve the many challenges that site tagging posed to effective digital marketing. After four years in the market, TagMan now solves those challenges for more than 100 enterprise e-commerce brands globally.
The Next Web
The Next Web goes back to 2006 when Boris, Arjen and Patrick organized their first conference. It was planned as a one-off to promote their own little start-up named Fleck.com. But with 300+ attendees and a great line-up of speakers – Kevin Kelly, Kevin Rose and Michael Arrington among others – it turned out a lot more successful than they ever imagined. After this first conference they realized they had something that people were waiting for. So they promptly started organizing The Next Web Conference 2007 and they have grown ever since. The Next Web Conference aside, they organize several other events like Bowlr, Kings of Code and the upcoming TNW Mobile Conference in London.
Tremor Video
Launched in 2005, Tremor Video is a digital video technology company that serves the complementary needs of the media community. Their SE2 technology offers advertisers massive reach and proven engagement with their marketing messages in 100% brand-safe environments, while their Acudeo income engine provides publishers easy access to multiple sources of revenue and the ability to manage and monetize every video impression.
Triggit
Triggit is an advertising technology company that provides innovative marketers and their agencies with the industry’s most advanced platform for buying media using real time bidding (RTB). With direct integrations into all major advertising exchanges, Triggit enables its customers to run highly targeted and effective advertising campaigns at massive scale. Triggit represents the confluence of cutting edge technology, big data and digital media.
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Since 1999, [x+1] has helped marketers connect with consumers in more meaningful, actionable ways, delivering content and offers where they’re most relevant. They work with brands, agencies and media companies to determine the most valuable customer attributes (those characteristics that indicate who is most likely to respond favorably) and then interact with those people when and where they are online.