2024 SPONSORS
2024 LEAD-TO-CASH BASH HOST
INDIGO TRIGGER
Platinum Sponsor & Host
www.indigotrigger.com
Indigo Trigger helps media and publishing companies by offering tech stack planning and as-needed technology resources in a managed services model. Indigo Trigger specializes in all things "Lead-to-Cash" -- from CRMs to order management, fulfillment to finance, and reporting & analytics. Armed with a team of industry veterans, Indigo Trigger is the premier consulting group serving publishers of all shapes and sizes wherever people, platform and process help is needed.
Press Contacts: Julia Kuziomko, Marketing & Events
Sales Contact: Christopher Prinos, Founder & CEO
2024 PLATINUM SPONSOR
ADCELLERANT
Platinum Sponsor
www.adcellerant.com
AdCellerant is a digital advertising and technology company focused on making quality digital marketing accessible to every business. AdCellerant achieves this goal by partnering with local marketers, media companies, agencies, and channel sales organizations, helping them leverage AdCellerant’s proprietary advertising software platform, UI.Marketing.
Press Contacts: Meghan Brito, VP Marketing
Sales Contact: Ken Campbell, Business Development
2024 PLATINUM SPONSOR
COMPULSE
Platinum Sponsor
www.compulse.com
Compulse 360 combines planning, execution, and reporting into one omnichannel advertising platform built to save time, ensure quality, and drive profit and performance for local agencies and media companies. Boost engagement, run more campaigns, and grow margins with an all-in-one martech platform and managed services built to make omnichannel campaigns work harder for local media companies and agencies.
Sales Contact: Jonathan Muzio, Vice President, Business Development
2024 PLATINUM SPONSOR
NAVIGA
Platinum Sponsor
www.navigaglobal.com
Naviga is the leading provider of software and services powering media-rich industries. Our Content Engagement Platform (CEP) helps companies create, enrich, deliver and monetize content to manage engagements from end-to-end. Our solutions are easy to use, scalable and agile. Combining our experience in media with a dedication to digital, we’ve developed software solutions that help any content-driven business meet the demands of the future of information.
With headquarters in Bloomington, MN and regional offices throughout the world, Naviga is a trusted partner serving over 3,200 news media, broadcast, magazine, financial services and corporate clients in 45 countries.
2024 GOLD SPONSOR
SEBPO
Gold Sponsor
www.sebpo.com
SEBPO is the go-to global business outsourcing partner for companies looking for a better way to work. Our innovative approach and expert teams are designed to give clients a competitive advantage. We offer flexible, customized solutions to help scale operations, control costs, and optimize processes. Last year, SEBPO Teams executed client tasks with a 99.75% average accuracy rate.
Our people-first approach and pursuit of excellence have yielded consistent recognition as one of the “5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America” by Inc. and as a Top Global Outsourcing Company (GO100) by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP). Founded nearly two decades ago, SEBPO is committed to improving the lives of employees and their communities. We are the largest employer of BPO professionals in Bangladesh, with nearshore operations in El Salvador and established leadership and program support in the United States. For more information, please visit SEBPO.com.
Sales Contact: Ryan Stephens, Director of Sales
2024 GOLD SPONSOR
FREQUENCE
Gold Sponsor
www.frequence.com
Frequence, a Madhive company, is the first and only end-to-end solution for media companies and ad agencies to automate and grow their local advertising sales. Through its full-stack workflow, creative and campaign management software, Frequence provides the necessary tools to sell, launch, manage and optimize omnichannel advertising campaigns in local markets.
From campaign proposals and creative development to measurement and analytic tools, Frequence users have a complete local media solution that optimizes business outcomes.
Sales Contact: Mike Smith, Vice President, Business Development
2024 GOLD SPONSOR
SITE IMPACT
Gold Sponsor
www.siteimpact.com
Site Impact specializes in multi-channel direct marketing services. Our goal is to achieve measurable results for our clients. While continuing to evolve as a company, Site Impact has earned the business and trust of clients all over the globe.
Site Impact clients range from Fortune 500 corporations, locally owned and operated small business, as well as advertising agencies who use their private label services. By providing integrated marketing solutions that target your ideal audience, Site Impact is one of the leading providers in data and marketing resources.
Sales Contact: Greg Heiman, Vice President of Business Development
2024 GOLD SPONSOR
A Marketing Resource LLC
Gold Sponsor
www.4amr.net
A Marketing Resource is a market leading outsourced contact center and marketing provider for the Newspaper, Cable, Energy, and Utility marketplace. Our infrastructure and technology are custom designed to deliver outstanding assistance to our clients based on their business requirements.
Most recently, AMR has received numerous accolades and industry awards for their "Cash Discount Program". Originally launched at the Star Advertiser in Honolulu, HI in 2020, the patented technology behind the Cash Discount program has been launched -- in partnership with Indigo Trigger as an implementation partner -- and is now available for media companies worldwide.
Sales Contact: Ed Spagnola, President
2024 GOLD SPONSOR
MIRABEL TECHNOLOGIES
Gold Sponsor
www.mirabeltechnologies.com
Mirabel Technologies is a privately owned, international tech company that provides all-in-one software solutions for businesses. Its flagship product, Magazine Manager, is a web-based CRM solution designed to help digital and print publishers streamline operations in an ever-changing media environment. The Magazine Manager connects a CRM platform, a sales pipeline module, a production and project management system, a billing and accounts receivable system, a full reporting suite, and more, into one unified platform.
Since our introduction of the first web-based publishing CRM in 2003, our suite of SaaS products has grown to include Digital Media Manager, Media Mate, DigitalStudio, The Newspaper Manager, Flip & Share, Mirabel’s Marketing Manager, Clean Your Lists, and ChargeBrite. Each product expands Mirabel Technologies into new industries to provide clean, streamlined solutions to marketing automation, sales, project management, and more. Mirabel now serves over 23,000 magazines, newsletters, events, and websites.
Sales Contact: Jakob Fenger - Technical Sales Director
2024 GOLD SPONSOR
GROUNDTRUTH
Gold Sponsor
www.groundtruth.com
GroundTruth is a media platform that drives in-store visits and other real business results. Using observed real-world consumer behavior, including location and purchase data, GroundTruth creates targeted advertising campaigns across all screens for advertisers. GroundTruth then measures how consumers respond to the campaigns, including if they physically show up to a store location or website, to understand the real business results generated by a brand’s advertising. Learn more at groundtruth.com.
Sales Contact: Will McEachern - Senior Director, GroundTruth
2024 PARTNER SPONSOR
TAPCLICKS
Partner Sponsor
www.tapclicks.com
TapClicks, Inc. is the leading provider of unified marketing operations, analytics and reporting solutions for media companies, digital marketing agencies, brands, franchises, and HIPAA covered entities. The TapClicks Marketing Operations Platform provides end-to-end business intelligence capabilities that include SEO, social and PPC reporting, automated order entry, set up and approval workflows, marketing performance analysis and the creation of interactive visual reports and presentations. TapClicks integrates more than 200 different data sources via its Connector Marketplace to provide marketers with the ability to analyze data from the full breadth of popular marketing and advertising tools used in the industry today.
Sales Contact: Mark Zahar, VP, Strategic Sales
2024 PARTNER SPONSOR
IPUBLISH MEDIA
Partner Sponsor
www.ipublishmedia.com
iPublish Media is the industry leader in self serve advertising. In fact we currently work with hundreds of publishers every day to process thousands of jobs. Finally, a self serve advertising platform that is easy to use and provides the performance and versatility to create and sell any print, digital or social advertising campaign, for any product or platform, 24/7/365.
Sales Contact: Malcolm McGrory, Business Development
2024 PARTNER SPONSOR
LINEUP SYSTEMS
Partner Sponsor
www.lineupsystems.com
Lineup Systems is a leading global provider of media sales technology. Our customers are recognized media groups including Gannett, Lee Enterprises, News UK, Hearst Magazines, McClatchy, Bauer, Metro Media, The New York Times, Daily Mail Group and many more. We offer mission-critical commercial omnichannel solutions for global media organizations, enabling sustainable growth, operational excellence and lower cost of sale.
Contact: Amanda Montgomery, North America Client Success and Operations Director
2024 PARTNER SPONSOR
AUDIENCE.IO
Partner Sponsor
www.audience.io
Audience.io is the audience management platform that helps media companies grow, engage, and monetize their audiences.
Our end-to-end solution connects the journey between audience growth and engagement, data containment and augmentation, segmentation, activation, and monetization, giving you the leverage you need to close advertisers and capture significant incremental revenue.
The comprehensive platform powers a broad cross-section of audience engagement experiences, simplifying your tech stack and ensuring your data is clean and compliant.
Sales Contact: Creighton Green, Co-Founder - Audience
2024 PARTNER SPONSOR
BURT INTELLIGENCE
Partner Sponsor
www.burtintelligence.com
Burt Intelligence is the only decision intelligence platform built specifically for media professionals. Burt helps ad ops, programmatic yield, and sales teams take back their Monday and get out of VLOOKUP jail by putting all the data they need in one place. Burt enables the world's largest media businesses to make data-driven decisions, driving revenue growth and operational efficiency.
Founded in Sweden, the Burt Intelligence team is now distributed globally with headquarters in New York, supporting its growing base of customers across all time zones.
Sales Contact: Shay Brog, CEO, Burt Intelligence
2024 PARTNER SPONSOR
AFFINITYX
Partner Sponsor
www.affinityx.com
AffinityX is the global leader in results-driven marketing and advertising solutions. Utilizing our proprietary performance data derived from millions of engagements and driven by next-generation technology, the AffinityX team simplifies the complexity of omnichannel marketing for clients of all sizes, resulting in high-impact solutions crafted with precision to achieve your goals efficiently and cost-effectively.
Sales Contact: Sara Droke, VP of Business Development, AffinityX
2024 PARTNER SPONSOR
BROADSTREET
Partner Sponsor
www.broadstreet.com
Broadstreet helps publishers impress, perform, and renew by offering the #1 rated alternative to Google Ad Manager. We help local and B2B publishers impress their advertisers.
Google Ad Manager and Wordpress plugins don't cut it anymore — and your clients agree. Join the growing number of news and magazine publishers who use Broadstreet to deliver exceptional display advertising and sponsored content campaigns.
Sales Contact: TJ Roache, Account Executive, Broadstreet
2024 PARTNER SPONSOR
THEOREM
Partner Sponsor
http://theorem.digital
Theorem, a digital marketing and tech solutions provider with over 20 years of experience in successfully managing and streamlining ad operations, delivers agile marketing solutions to global Media & Entertainment giants. Our ethos revolves around humanizing technology, crafting and delivering innovative solutions to fuel sustainable business growth. We take legacy services and embrace modern approaches that ensure futureproof marketing strategies for our clients and partners. Pioneering the future of full-service flexible marketing solutions, we deliver scale, optimize time, reduce costs and increase revenue for our clients.
2024 PARTNER SPONSOR
SWITCHBOARD SOFTWARE
Partner Sponsor
www.switchoardsoftware.com
When Switchboard’s co-founders launched Google BigQuery in 2012, they saw first-hand that the amount of data media companies were grappling with was rapidly outstripping their ability to utilize it. Switchboard was created to help solve this problem. Our mission is to empower go-to-market teams to grow revenue by giving them timely, reliable access to all the data they need to understand their business, no matter how granular or from how many sources.
Sales contact: Petter Fritz, Enterprise Account Executive
2024 PARTNER SPONSOR
VCITA
Partner Sponsor
www.vcita.com
vcita helps business owners and entrepreneurs around the world manage the fundamentals of their business: money, time, clients, and marketing.
Our all-in-one business management platform streamlines and automates SMB's day-to-day operations, keeping them fully connected to their business, and allowing them to remain competitive in an ever-changing digital-first economy. vcita’s easy-to-use app enables solopreneurs and small teams to run their entire business online, turning time-consuming tasks like scheduling, payment collection, and marketing into simple, one-click operations.
Sales contact: Rich Hargrave, Enterprise Account Executive
2024 PARTNER SPONSOR
ATEX
Partner Sponsor
www.atex.com
Atex is a company specialized in providing software solutions for the publishing sector, organized into three divisions:
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Content: Provides multichannel editorial systems for creating and publishing content on paper and digital channels.
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Advertising: Provides systems for managing the sale of advertising space throughout the entire workflow, from managing the sales force and related CRM, to booking spaces, collecting and sending materials to production systems, and finally invoicing.
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Subscriptions: Provides systems for managing subscriptions to both print and digital publications. Atex solutions are used worldwide by over 200 publishers, media companies, and organizations.
The latest addition to the Atex solutions portfolio is MyType (www.mytype.news), a CMS for online news publishers, offered as SaaS, and supporting newsroom along the entire editorial workflow: from news trend detection, to AI assisted content production, and news distribution via social posting.
Sales Contact: Chris Freeman, Account Executive, Atex
2024 PARTNER SPONSOR
PAYWAY
Partner Sponsor
www.payway.com
Payway has been at the forefront of payment solutions for 40 years, trusted by major publishers and media organizations to handle their recurring online and over-the- phone payment transactions seamlessly and securely.
Our payment solution, designed specifically for card-not-present transactions, helps reduce transaction errors, prevent payment declines, and ensure steady revenue.
With features like Account Updater, Customer Payment Recovery, a simple-to-implement Cash Discount Program, and advanced fraud protection, our payment solution creates a frictionless checkout experience, making payments an easy-to-manage source of revenue.
Contact: Bob Alvarez - Director of Sales, Payway
2024 REFRESHMENT SPONSOR
HAWTHORNE SEARCH
Refreshment Sponsor
Based on the Atlantic Coast in Wilmington, North Carolina, Hawthorne Search has been a leading player in the recruitment of leading-edge talent, across multiple industries with a focus on game changing senior leaders. President, Robert Hawthorne, and his team of practice leaders, recruiters and researchers work with companies paving the way in SaaS, Data & Software talent for the past decade.
The firm‘s members immerse themselves in the industries they cover by reading trade publications, e-newsletters, attend conferences, work through social media groups and anything else that enables them to increase their market awareness. It is only after our team learns everything we can about your company and industry position that we feel comfortable enough to act on your organization’s behalf, reaching out to everyone in the industry in an effort to secure the best available talent for your critical role.
Sales Contact: Robert Hawthorne, President
2024 HAPPY HOUR SPONSOR
MARFEEL
Happy Hour Sponsor - Friday
www.marfeel.com
Marfeel offers no-code analytics solutions for more than 100 publishers in North America, Latin America and Europe. Developed specifically for publishers and through multiple unique flows and dashboards, Marfeel’s lightning-fast platform makes it possible for teams to make data-driven decisions in a heartbeat. Teams easily align around effective strategies with everything they need for content production, audience development, SEO, subscriptions and monetization — all in one place.
Sales Contact: Julio Medrano, Sr. Director, Business Development
2024 HAPPY HOUR SPONSOR
VISTAR MEDIA
Happy Hour Sponsor - Thursday
www.vistarmedia.com
Vistar Media is the home of out-of-home. Out there, in the streets, ad space intersects time and place. It’s a part of life. OOH campaigns inform, entertain, attract - and they can change the course of someone’s afternoon. At Vistar Media, we facilitate that serendipity hundreds of thousands of times a day. Our goal is simple: to help marketers leverage OOH’s unique ability to motivate and delight. Persuade and captivate. Stand out and blend in. Through our truly intelligent platform that hosts the world’s most extensive OOH inventory, we provide the scale, data, and expertise that allow brands to capture a better, gentler kind of attention. We believe that OOH is both timeless and future-proof. Why? Because it speaks to the human need to look up and around, but it’s always evolving and improving, infusing novelty into everyday life and opening up new opportunities. With Vistar, OOH is not only the most enduring channel in media, it’s also getting better every day. We’ll see you out there.
Sales Contact: Dave Rivera, Head of Channel Partnerships
2024 COFFEE BREAK SPONSOR
MADISON MARKETING
Coffee Break Sponsor
www.madisonmarketingco.com
Madison Marketing is a data driven omnichannel marketing company that specializes in both digital and traditional marketing strategies. Our solutions integrate 12 proven digital marketing technologies into every campaign, and we seamlessly track the effectiveness of your campaigns while enhancing results through the integration of our digital platform. A cornerstone of our platform is our revolutionary lead generation technology known as Lead Match. Adding this technology to your website will yield the activity and contact information of interested visitors to build one of the most valuable and highest response campaigns available. You will be able to deploy personalized retargeting and traditional marketing campaigns, such as Direct Mail, based on actions taken. Since personalization has been proven to positively impact buying decisions, consumers will be more likely to become repeat buyers of your brand.
Sales Contact: Jon Wiley, Principal Officer
Madison Marketing will set up a FREE 30-day Lead Match test for your company with no required commitment. This will allow you to see the volume of visitors to your website, how often they are visiting, and the individual pages they are navigating to. This information will allow you to make an informed decision on marketing to people that have an interest in your business. Please email us or visit the Madison Marketing table for more information on this offer.
2024 AWARD SPONSOR
POPMOUNT
Award Sponsor
As a strategic partner we will add value to your business and your product by expanding on what you already offer – Articles, “Best Ofs”, Celebrations, Advertorials and more. The work is already done, by monetizing your existing content we help you take it to the next level.
Sales Contact: Danielle Jongewaard, Business Development