2011 Sponsors & Partners

The Bees Awards are pleased to collaborate with the following companies.

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Silver Sponsors

	StumbleUpon StumbleUpon is a discovery engine that recommends the best web and mobile content for each user. With more than 14 million users and 700 million personalized recommendations per month, StumbleUpon is the leading way to discover great, peer-sourced content on the Internet. More than 60,000 advertisers have used StumbleUpon to promote their products and services. StumbleUpon is based in San Francisco and backed by some of the same investors behind Google and Facebook. For more information, visit www.StumbleUpon.com.
	SocialSamba SocialSamba is scripted social networking - the scalable way for brands, storytellers and celebrities to "friend" their fans and tell them an entertaining story through posts, images and videos. It's the experience of Facebook, with the friends fans love!
	PromoterBee Marketing tools to succeed in the expanding mobile landscape with a focus on managing online social relationships and location based promotions. Our products are built for retailers, promoters, and agencies.

World Student Brief Sponsor

Mango Languages
Mango delivers a wide variety of language learning capabilities to people all over the world. We’re dedicated to helping our customers fill their growing language learning needs with the most effective and fun tools around.

Official SEO Partner

Wpromote is a privately held firm that has been a leader in the search engine marketing industry since its inception in 2001. Wpromote is ranked as the #1 Integrated Search Marketing Company by TopSEOs.com and honored to be a four-time Inc. 500|5000 honoree. Wpromote is in an elite group of firms recognized as a Google Adwords Certified Partner, a Yahoo Sponsored Search Ambassador and a Microsoft Ad Center Certified Partner. Wpromote is also one of eight honorees invited to Google's semi-annual Client Forum where they provide feedback and testing for the AdWords platform.

Official Sponsors

	VerticalResponse VerticalResponse, Inc. is a leading provider of self-service email marketing, online surveys and direct mail service empowering small businesses to create, manage and analyze their own direct marketing campaigns.
	Klout Klout is the standard for influence. The Klout Score measures influence across the social web on a scale of 1 to 100. Look up your Klout Report to find your influence level, user style, and content.
	EventBrite At Eventbrite, we believe that anyone can be an event organizer. That’s why we’ve created tools that make it easy to sell tickets to all kinds of events. With Eventbrite, organizers can create a customizable event page; spread the word with social media; collect money; and gain visibility into attendees and sales. We empower event organizers to become more efficient and effective when bringing people together. And people everywhere are searching Eventbrite to discover great events that matter to them.
	ReTargeter ReTargeter lets you stay in front of your audience after they leave your website. Their simple and effective retargeting solution can help you capture lost sales from over 98% of available ad inventory. Additionally, their innovative product integrations with Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have converged social media with display ads, giving advertisers the most powerful B2B and B2C social engagement platform available.
	Attack! Attack! specializes in event staffing, field support and guerrilla marketing services. The company partners with advertising, marketing and public relations agencies to design and deliver experiential marketing initiatives for brands. Attack! Offers a Brand Ambassadors service.
	Bravium Bravium is focused on the artisanal production of 100% single vineyard, varietal wines as well as Independent wine brands. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of all Bravium and Independent wines support Sip&Give, the patent-pending social media charitable giving tool.
	Treasure Island Wines Treasure Island Wines is San Francisco's most unique and exciting urban winery. TIW offers its vintners-in-residence a full service winemaking facility to freely pursue their crafts as well as an intimate showcase for the public. Visitors to TIW can enjoy a rare opportunity to experience an insider's view, tasting through the wines guided by the winemakers who made them.
	Pisco Vinas De Oro ORO Pisco produces premium, award-winning pisco. ORO’s dedication to quality and taste is reflected in how carefully they cultivate their six different varietals of pisco grapes in their own vineyards before making the wine and distilling it in their state-of-the-art facilities. The ORO line is also exceptionally diverse—they currently offer the largest selection of pisco available in the US. This includes the nearly impossible to find pisco Italia, the crucial ingredient to San Francisco’s legendary Pisco Punch.
	Crystal Clear Imaging Your total signage solutions specialist.
	TeacherBus TeacherBus is an innovative concept that combine alternative energy, transportation, and education in a fun, mobile, self-sufficient unit that provides huge amounts of renewable energy (7kW each), and therefore, sound wherever we go in and around the bus. By stepping onto our mobile venues you are both a passenger and a participant!
	DodoBus As wretched a rogue's gallery as have ever sailed the skies; between them, the lost souls who crew the D.M.A. Raphus Ineptus carry death sentences from over two dozens states, commonwealths, grand-duchies, pantheons, phyles and other sovereign entities. Tales of their foul deeds are spoken of only in the dead of night, and even then in hushed and awestruck voices whispering of woe, cruelty and plunder.

Official Media Partners

	CMYK CMYK magazine bridges the gap between emerging creatives and creative professionals. Since 1996, CMYK is where aspiring creatives showcase their talents to an industry driven by inspiration and new ways of creative problem solving. At the same time, CMYK Magazine is where creative directors, design principals and art buyers scout top students and graduates at today's leading art-design schools: art directors, copywriters, designers, photographers and illustrators. Available major bookstores and newsstands or online at www.cmykmag.com
	CampaignBrief The Campaign Brief blogs have become the Asia Pacific advertising industry’s must visit sites for all the latest in news and new campaigns with just about everyone in the industry logging on at least once a day. http://www.campaignbrief.com http://ww.campaignbrief.co.nz http://www.campaigand3nbriefasia.com
	Mashable Mashable is the top source for news in social and digital media, technology and web culture. With more than 30 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the most prolific news site reporting breaking web news, providing analysis of trends, reviewing new Web sites and services, and offering social media resources and guides.
	ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteWeb is one of the most popular technology blogs in the world, known for offering insightful analysis about each day's Internet industry news. 46% of our readers have 'significant input' or "make final information technology purchase decisions." As one advertiser put it, "The real users of the Web read ReadWriteWeb."
	MeiHua MeiHua is a China-based marketing professional portal site that aggregates communication industry news, advertising and media intelligence data, knowledge center, resource directory and online community. The site receives the highest traffic level in this B2B category with more than 1.8 million page requests per month. It is widely recognized as the information hub for China’s advertising and marketing business society.
	Afrigator Afrigator is Africa’s largest social media aggregator and blog directory and has won critical acclaim world-wide.
	India Social India’s largest social media community, aims to bring together stakeholders in the Indian digital eco-system for engagement, sharing, learning and collaboration in a vibrant space – physical and virtual.
	Adrants Adrants provides marketing and advertising news; insightful, informed, experiential, no holds barred commentary on the state of the advertising and media industries. Editorial covers emerging marketing and advertising trends, cultural and demographic shifts affecting advertising strategies, new campaign launches, viral and buzz marketing, the rise of social media, useful industry research and the examination of the industry's shift from old paradigms to new.
	Best Ads On TV Bestads is the world's best global ad industry website, the only site showcasing the world's best in every medium: TV, Web, Print, Outdoor, Ambient, Interactive and Radio ads. The site is updated daily and can be searched by any criteria, including by medium and by category (eg: Automotive). With over 89,000 registered users - and growing by the week, Bestads has become the industry site to keep pace with the latest ads from around the world.
	Dagens Media Dagens Media is the leading trade magazine on media and marketing in Sweden.
	ICE Founded in 1998, ICE is the pioneer Israeli portal for media, advertising and marketing. ICE's daily content includes: news, interviews, editorial columns, gossip as well as providing data tools for the local advertising and media industries. ICE is part of the Trendline Group - the largest media outlet in Israel. A subsidiary, Trendline Media, operates the following websites: www.bizportal.co.il, a real-time business news and data site; www.140.co.il, a daily technology blog; www.zazim.co.il, a real estate listing portal; as well as the aforementioned www.ice.co.il.
	Infopresse Infopresse is the leading portal, magazines and events for marketing and advertising in Quebec.
	Grenier Aux Nouvelles Grenier Aux Nouvelles is a leading newsfeed and job posting site for marketing and advertising professionals in Quebec.
	Memeburn Memeburn is an award-winning site that tracks emerging technologies worldwide and in emerging markets. Innovation, mobile technology, the start-up scene, and general tech culture and online business are all subjects Memeburn covers. The site plays particular attention to the web, mobile, social media, online media and social networking fields. A mixture of the site’s own journalists, contributors, columnists and key opinion leaders world-wide write for Memeburn, providing their insights on the online world.
	Silicon Valley Watcher Silicon Valley Watch is a leading electronic publication reporting on the business of technology and media.
	Social Media Examiner Social Media Examiner is a free online magazine designed to help businesses discover how to best use social media tools like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to find leads, increase sales and generate more brand awareness. Technorati and AdAge rank us as one of the world’s Top 100 business blogs.
	Ronnestam This blog is written by Johan Ronnestam. He's widely regarded as one of Sweden’s leading speakers and authorities in the field of modern creative and conceptual thinking and skill of innovating brands and their communication. In 2010 the readers of Microsoft Indikat named Johan Sweden’s most influential authority within digital communication. Johan was one of the Founding Judges of the 2010 Bees Awards. To hook up with Johan, visit his blog on future communication or follow him on Twitter.
	SM Latam SMLatam is a leading event group in Latin America for social media education and knowledge. It organizes seminars and conferences on the innovative ways to communicate and do business through social networks.
	TechMAP TechMAP is a real world and online community that pioneers the evolution of business through the practical application of technology for marketing, advertising and PR professionals across multiple sectors.
	Ubergizmo Ubergizmo is a leading technology blog distributed in 6 languages and read in 212 countries. "We love gadgets and the technologies that make the gadgets go."
	TechWave TechWave is the Glocal Blog-Media from Japan covering social media and technology.
	WebAddict Web Addict is a blog that covers Web application design, development & innovation in Cape Town (South Africa).

Industry Partners

	We Are Social We Are Social is a social media agency with offices in London, Paris, Milan & Sydney. We help brands to listen, understand & engage in conversations in social media.
	MindJumpers Mindjumpers is a full-service Social Media agency offering consulting and creative communication solutions. Our goal is to make a positive impact in the world through our creative concepts and consultancy.
	Mekanism Mekanism is a creative company that builds digital audiences. We sprinkle our love of good storytelling into viral campaigns, brand entertainment, and social media development programs to inspire measurable brand loyalty. Visit: http//:www.mekanism.com
	Miami Ad School Miami Ad School is World's Most Awarded Ad School, with locations in Miami Beach, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Sao Paulo, Madrid, Berlin, and Hamburg.
	Velocidi Velocidi is a next-generation digital marketing agency that helps clients engage audiences across platforms. They provide complete digital services including Web presence, search, mobile, social, email anchored in rigorous strategy. The company was established and is staffed by digital industry veterans who have been pioneering the industry since 1994, and have been responsible for some of the most successful digital marketing campaigns of the last decade. Team members have worked with top brands including Dove, Ben & Jerry¹s, and Microsoft.
	SparkPR Founded in 1999, Sparkpr is one of the world's top independent PR agencies, working with businesses that range from stealth startups to global public companies. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California and has offices in New York, London and Cape Town, South Africa.
	CutCaster Royalty free images, stock pictures, affordable illustrations and free stock photos for blogs, websites, advertising, publishing and designers.
	Ustream Ustream allows you to broadcast video LIVE to the world from a computer, mobile or iPhone in minutes, or watch thousands of shows from News to Entertainment to celebrities, 24/7.
	IAB Mexico The Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) Mexico is a Mexican marketing association founded in 2005. Its objective is to promote the Internet as an advertising medium and to increase investment through research, education and standardization. The most important businesses in the industry work together under the IAB to develop and expand the interactive market. We are a reliable source of information and support, helping companies to benefit from the advantages that interactive marketing brings. Currently the IAB Mexico works with almost 130 associated members in Mexico.
	SOBCon 2011 SOBCon is more than just a conference. SOBCon is the think tank of the social web where some of the best minds in the Internet space gather to present models, discuss insights, and determine best practices.
	Influence People Influence People run high-quality social media marketing events in the UK, Europe and USA

Bees developed a well coded communication system to make their collective intelligence greater than each individual’s one. Like bees, social media is all about collective communication which calls for a new marketing expertise. The Bees Awards reward this new expertise.