2012 Sponsors & Partners

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

Should you want to join the effort and become a sponsor or partner, contact us at [email protected]!

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.
	Current Current is a creative public relations team that knows how to turn brand equity into brand currency. We help clients develop and execute strategic marketing campaigns that seamlessly integrate with the ever-changing activities, interests and opinions of today’s consumers. We’re moms and dads, artists and athletes, foodies and fashionistas, dietitians and do-gooders, techies and world travelers, design mavens and do-it-yourselfers…and much, much more. We’re members of the communities we market to, which ensures that we deliver the most authentic work…because it’s our reputation that’s on the line, too.

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

	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.
	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.

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.campaignbriefasia.com
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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."
	WebAddict Web Addict is a blog that covers Web application design, development & innovation in Cape Town (South Africa).
	beSUCCESS beSUCCESS is a Korean startup and tech media platform. beSUCCESS introduces Korean start-ups and ventures to a global audience . beSUCCESS informs and inspires readers by sharing interesting business ideas and trends from all over the world. Furthermore, beSUCCESS offers opportunities for Korean start-ups and ventures to meet other start-ups, ventures and investors abroad through events and partnerships. beSUCCESS is organizing beLAUNCH, Korea's first global startup event in June 2012. .
	Ninja Marketing (Italy) Ninja Marketing is a point of reference for marketing and communication innovation. Founded by Alex Giordano and Mirko Pallera in 2004, long before Youtube was born, Ninja Marketing is a precious resource for comprehending the ongoing changes in marketing and communication, in technological and social innovation based on the rapid evolution we are witnessing today. Since its foundation in a hidden lair in the Amalfi Coast, Ninja Marketing has started a movement of creatives, marketing professionals and communication students - all united by the will to renew the way brands and companies communicate. The n°1 most read Italian blog on marketing (source: eBuzzing), Ninja Marketing is visited daily by influencers, trend setters, early adopters, and in particular entrepreneurs, agency and company managers, pr specialists, journalists and geeks.

Industry Partners

	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.

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