2015 Sponsors
Diamond Sponsors
CJ Affiliate, recognized by Internet Retailer as the #1 affiliate marketing provider, engages with millions of online consumers by facilitating and supporting equitable, lucrative relationships between advertisers and publishers. Many of the world’s most recognized and highly specialized brands use CJ to acquire new customers and encourage existing ones to buy more, and more often. CJ’s expertise, actionable insights and 70,000+ active publisher network provide unparalleled scale and growth opportunity. For more information, please visit www.cj.com.
LeadsPedia is a SaaS performance marketing platform bringing Affiliate Management, Lead Distribution, Call Tracking & Routing all into one unified platform. Unifying these business functions under one platform connects data normally found separated into silos, simplifies business processes and provides easily scalable solutions for businesses to grow. Although all of these functions are wrapped into one platform, they’re still available à la carte based on your individual needs.
LeadsPedia offers industry-leading security with HIPAA compliant IT infrastructure to make sure any data passed through our platform is secure. Beyond the technology, LeadsPedia offers 24/7 bilingual support through phone, email and chat for all of our clients, no matter how big or small. Whether you’re new or a veteran to the industry, a dedicated account manager will work with you on training, implementation and any questions you have along the way.
Platinum Sponsor
AM Navigator is one of the world’s oldest outsourced affiliate program (OPM) agencies. Started by Geno Prussakov – a University of Cambridge Graduate, International Speaker, Author, and Affiliate Marketing Evangelist – we have contributed to the online marketing success of such top brands as Forbes, Nokia, Hallmark, Warner Music, Skype, Forex Club, and hundreds of small businesses. AM Navigator was voted the “Best OPM of the Year” by the largest online affiliate marketing community, ABestWeb.com in 2006, 2007 and 2008; while in 2013 we were selected as a finalist for Affiliate Summit’s “Affiliate Manager of the Year” award. AM Navigator specializes in affiliate management, program audit, and related training and consulting.
Gold Sponsors
eBay Enterprise Affiliate Network (formerly PepperJam Exchange) is known throughout the affiliate marketing industry for their high-touch services combined with unmatched results. Leveraging exclusive distribution, innovative solutions and strategic thought leadership in performance marketing, we build solutions for advertisers that bridge affiliate marketing with online, offline, mobile and social attribution.
With the ability to support both US and international currency, eBay Enterprise Affiliate Network empowers advertisers to expand their global footprint for international success.
HasOffers by TUNE is a fully customizable software solution for managing campaigns, creative, publishers, invoices, payouts and more at a detailed level—in real time. HasOffers provides unbiased attribution analytics for performance advertising. We believe that better attribution technology in the hands of online and mobile marketers creates higher performing advertising relationships that ultimately generate the best value for advertisers. With a mission to make mobile marketing better for everyone, TUNE (www.tune.com) creates Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products to help marketers manage performance advertising relationships across mobile and desktop. For more information about HasOffers, visit www.hasoffers.com.
Silver Sponsor
Linkdex Publisher Discovery is a solution that enables you to discover online publishers from anywhere in the world and understand more about their business model. By using the platform, you are able to identify the vast majority of publishers working with affiliate networks or advertiser programmes and build a picture, in order to create new opportunities with a view to recruiting them to your own affiliate programme. Networks, agencies and advertisers have utilized the product to increase market knowledge and ultimately build revenue.
Bronze Sponsors
BrandVerity provides visibility into how brands are represented by their partners in key marketing channels, protecting brands from abuse, misrepresentation, and regulatory risks. BrandVerity’s full suite of services protects hundreds of brands across the internet by monitoring paid search, website content, and coupon promotions. Brands, Agencies and Affiliate Networks use BrandVerity’s software tools each day to identify and take action against non-compliant affiliates, marketing partners and third-parties.
Dwolla was created on the idea that anyone with an Internet connection should be able to move money while maintaining the value of a dollar, allowing friends, families, and merchants to electronically send and receive funds with one another, like cash, but without the fees, constraints, and security problems of traditional debit and credit cards. Like other web 2.0 platforms, Dwolla leverages open APIs and a strong developer community (thousands strong) to distribute its network inside third-party products and services, like point of sale software or mobile wallets.
Dwolla built the nation’s first real-time gross settlement platform for financial institutions and service providers – allowing financial institutions to move money in real-time, while adding new layers of authentication and validation. Dwolla will continue to expand the service as financial institutions continue to innovate in order to keep up with their customers’ demands for safety, cost, and convenience.
Founded in 2004, LinkConnector is a Performance Marketing Network whose unique online application helps merchants and their affiliates build strong, strategic partnerships to maximize online revenues. LinkConnector maintains extreme network quality by rigorously backing its zero-tolerance fraud policy. This network has introduced exclusive technologies to the market that give its merchants and affiliates a strong advantage. With its custom tracking solutions and proprietary technologies (such as the Product Feed Search API, Coupon Compliance and patented Naked Link Technology), LinkConnector is serving many large online retailers and many of the industry’s most influential affiliates.
LinkConnector is operating as the fastest growing Performance Marketing Network—especially among Internet Retailer Top 500 companies (LinkConnector is the Top 6 Vendor to IR 500 companies). LinkConnector is an Inc. 500|5000 company and a Top 4 Most Popular network.
Mindspark is the leading direct marketer of downloadable apps.
We conceptualize, develop and strategically market unique digital applications for diverse audiences. Our browser search products, desktop applications and mobile apps enhance web experiences in ways that are important to our millions of users in over 200 countries worldwide.
Mindspark is home to 80+ uniquely engaging digital applications.
With 80+ browser search products we are able to create highly targeted digital experiences for a variety of consumer audiences in the US and internationally.
Our top five countries (by spend) include: the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Brazil, Australia and India. Our fastest growing international markets are in Germany and France.
Mindspark’s one-of-a-kind products bring moments of happiness, fun, entertainment and convenience to our users.
Our products are designed and implemented to maximize user traffic and ultimately make the web an easier, more manageable place to be.
Looking for a competitive edge in your search and affiliate marketing? The Search Monitor® provides real-time competitive intelligence to monitor brand and trademark use, affiliate compliance, and competitive advertisers on paid & organic search, local search, display ads, mobile, PLAs, and shopping engines worldwide.
Hundreds of interactive agencies, search marketers, and affiliate marketers use The Search Monitor to track ad rank, ad copy, keyword reach, click rates and CPCs, monthly ad spend, market share, trademark use, and affiliate compliance. The Search Monitor provides the most precise data possible through high-frequency crawling, advanced geo-targeting from thousands of global IP addresses, and an exclusive comScore® data partnership. All data are available through easy-to-use web-based reports, APIs, and automatic alerts that are customizable for 1,200+ verticals.
Benchmark yourself against the industry leaders and stay one step ahead of the competition by visiting TheSearchMonitor.com and requesting free competitive insights from your industry.
Sponsor
LinkTrust is a Leader in Affiliate Management Software.
The LinkTrust platform powers hundreds of affiliate programs around the world including those of leading affiliate networks, top brands and online advertisers. LinkTrust handles everything from a simple affiliate program to the most sophisticated affiliate and lead management needs. Get a 30 Day Free Trial and experience the power of LinkTrust yourself!
PerformanceMarketingJOBS is the leading contingency based recruitment partner within the Performance / Affiliate Marketing space. We have helped leading affiliate networks, OPM agencies, Performance Marketing agencies and RTB leaders FIND and LAND great Talent. Finding the “Needle in the Haystack” is a common testimonial remark from our clients. Our websites – PerformanceMarketingJOBS.com, AffiliateManagementJOBS.com and RealTimeBiddingJOBS.com – get candidates’ attention but it’s our experience in the industry, extensive connections and personal service that has allowed us to deliver results for both of candidate clients and Employer clients. To get the Performance space, you have to live in it and with over 7 years of experience, we know our EPC’s from our ABCs. Value Your Time, We Do! Contact us today to discuss your needs. We can be reached at by chatting with us live at www.performancemarketingjobs.com.
Reception Sponsor
Performance Horizon Group – PHG – is a top tier partner & performance marketing management technology provider. We are the proven technology solution selected by the world’s most iconic brands, including our two newest global partners Expedia & Marriott. We are the global tracking, reporting, and payments total solution, providing a SaaS platform to manage partner marketing channels.
Our technology aggregates all aspects of partner conversion data with the brand’s own backend meta-data. With this combined information, our technology then allows marketers to adjust activity in real time through instant insights gained at such granular levels. The critical benefit to partners is optimized commissions that increase the ROAS by managing the margins and driving sales where needed.
Partner Conference
Performance Marketing Insights will return to Berlin for a second consecutive year in 2015 welcoming an international audience of over 1,000 senior marketing professionals from more than 40 different countries to the Estrel, Berlin.
The event provides a platform for crucial face-to-face meetings with global contacts new and old – packed into just two days, making them the most valuable days that you will spend out of office in 2015.
Last year’s agenda featured inspirational keynotes, thought-leading sessions and contentious panel debates tackling everything from attribution to multichannel; personalisation to customer journey; device marketing to display – headlined by Wired editor David Rowan. It will be a tough act to follow, but this year we’re planning on going one better so that you walk away with actionable insights and a turbo-charged strategy.
The content you need to know – the people you need to meet – together under one roof, for two days.
Media Partners
ABestWeb is the world’s largest Affiliate Marketing forum with 130,000 members and 140,000 discussions. Affiliate marketers—from newbie to experts—come to ABW to learn and earn more by sharing information about networks, merchants and best practices. Affiliates and decision makers turn to ABestWeb to discuss the issues, find merchant partners and discover resources to run their businesses. Visitors to ABestWeb rely heavily on the critical information they find from experienced industry peers, who truly define and review best practices, ethical behavior, merchant offerings, network terms and new technology that can be used today and in the future.
A 16-year heritage of affiliate & performance marketing: 17 conferences across Europe and North America; 8 Performance Marketing Awards ceremonies; over 20 networking events, and a performance marketing news portal and affiliate community forum.
Our focus has changed over the 16 years we’ve been involved in affiliate & performance marketing, and today we are proud to be placed as thought-leaders, professional event creators, market-growers and an educational arm for a rapidly growing industry – having ourselves grown into a fully-fledged digital publication.
We’ve built many relationships over the years, heavily involved since the outset of affiliate marketing. Today, we shift our focus to one that encompasses affiliate as part of wider performance marketing – an industry we’ve grown to be so passionate about.
Revenue+performance is published by mThink, LLC and delivers the most integrated and personally relevant information to today’s online marketers. Our editorial intelligence is focused on all aspects of the online marketing experience including: innovative marketing methods, effective online advertising techniques and emerging trends in technology. Each year we conduct the largest research survey in the performance marketing industry in order to identify the best affiliate and CPA networks which is published annually in the Blue Book Top 20 Networks rankings and is recognized as the most comprehensive network survey by the performance market industry.
Small Business Trends is an award-winning online publication for small business owners, entrepreneurs and the people who interact with them, and the premier source of information, breaking news and advice covering issues of key importance to small businesses. Along with the regular editorial staff, the site has 450+ vetted experts who volunteer their knowledge, insights, successes and failures. It is one of the most popular and highly-trafficked independent destinations on the Web exclusively focused on small businesses.