PARTNERS
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OFFICIAL PARTNERS
AD Europe is a worldwide media network offering global digital advertising solutions with country-specific customisation in more than 60 countries reaching 390 million users around the globe. AD Europe, the network alliance of France Telecom-Orange, United Internet Media and Wind LIBERO, was founded in December 2003 and is the first international media and advertising network of leading national portals and local online marketers with an European reach of 160 million unique users in 30 countries.
Based on the partners’ many years of leading market, target-group and marketing expertise, AD Europe is offering national and international advertisers a globally available high-performance online marketing portfolio of innovative online marketing solutions with one single contact point for all clients (one-stop media shopping).
AD Europe are the organisers of an annual conference for Global Online Media Executives and the 3rd GOMES event will integrate with the 2008 Venice Festival – with a special GOMES Thought Leader session on each morning, which will be open to all Venice Festival delegates to attend.
http://www.adeurope.com/
Aegis Media's four major brands are world-leading marketing and communications businesses:
- Carat is the world's largest independent media communications specialist present in 82 countries across the world
- Isobar is the first and largest global digital network: dedicated to creating time for consumers to spend with brands.
- Posterscope is the out-of-home sector leader, and the only truly global network, constantly pushing the technological boundaries.
- Vizeum, our challenger media brand, has a pioneering approach to communications.
Our advantages include an entrepreneurial spirit, a belief that digital is changing everything, and, crucially, the way we put an understanding of how consumers think and behave at the heart of everything we do. Aegis Media is part of Aegis Group plc one of the world's fastest growing marketing communications groups. It operates in media communications with Aegis Media and market research with Synovate. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Aegis is capitalised at Ј1.5 billion.
http://www.aemedia.com/
Atlas and DRIVEpm are subsidiaries of Microsoft, part of the Microsoft Advertiser and Publisher Solutions portfolio.
Atlas is a leading provider of digital media technologies for advertisers, agencies and publishers. Atlas Advertiser Suite is an online campaign management and ad-serving solution that gives advertisers a competitive advantage in planning and delivering effective multi-channel digital campaigns and reporting more insightful results. Atlas Publisher Suite enables publishers to more accurately forecast inventory, optimise delivery of premium impressions and efficiently handle the sale of unsold inventory.
DRIVEpm is a premier advertising network providing advertisers and agencies with better results from online campaigns. DRIVEpm’s unique combination of media and advanced technology enables advertisers to gain advantage from greater audience insight, better targeting, and complete control over their brand.
http://www.atlassolutions.com/
BBC.com is the online expression of the BBC outside of the UK, offering authoritative breaking news, business, sports, weather, lifestyle and featured content. BBC.com is run by BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the British Broadcasting Corporation. The BBC website is one of the most respected brands on the Internet and provides for a global audience on the web used by over 30 million unique users outside the UK every month. In November 2007, BBC Worldwide introduced advertising on the site outside the UK, offering advertisers a direct opportunity to reach this audience. BBC.com has been developed in order to generate revenue for the BBC from the non-UK, non-license paying traffic to its web properties.
http://www.bbc.com/
DDS is proud to sponsor Venice Festival of Media 2008. Helping you navigate the rapidly changing media landscape is what we do.
Agencies need effective forms of reporting and analysis to handle proliferating channels, and the explosion of media not measured by conventional surveys. That's why we've created iDesk, the web-based booking, reconciliation and analysis application to help you run your non-linear campaigns, from media plan all the way to billing & paying.
Bringing you 40 years of industry experience and continuous innovation, DDS is your technology partner in the digital age.
http://www.donovandata.com/idesk
ESPN International has grown to include, in whole or in part, 34 television networks outside of the United States which allow ESPN to reach fans in 194 countries and territories. ESPN International businesses include television, radio, print, internet, broadband, wireless, consumer products, and event management. ESPN provides targeted, solutions oriented, multi-media sponsorship opportunities to advertisers around the world.
ESPN International is a division of ESPN, which is 80 percent owned by ABC, Inc., an indirect subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. The Hearst Corporation holds a 20 percent interest in ESPN.
http://espn.go.com/
OFFICIAL NEWS PARTNER
EuroNews is the leading international news channel in Europe as well as a full multimedia platform for viewers on the move. The channel covers world news from a European perspective in 7 languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. This summer, EuroNews will launch in Arabic - the eighth fully-fledged language.
EuroNews has a global reach - the channel broadcasts into more than 199 million households in 130 countries via cable, digital satellite and terrestrial channels. It is also possible to access the channel through all major IPTV offers and mobile telephony platforms, on PDAs, onboard major airlines and in the most exclusive hotel rooms worldwide. EuroNews’ website, http://www.euronews.net/, offers all programmes on demand in 7 languages.
Go to http://www.nocommenttv.com/, and experience No Comment TV - EuroNews’ new web channel.
http://www.euronews.net/
The Eurosport Group is the leading sports multimedia platform in Europe. Eurosport, the n°1 pan-European TV channel, is transmitted in 20 languages reaching 112 million homes and 240 million viewers across 59 countries. Eurosport 2, the new generation sports channel, broadcasts to 25 million households in 11 languages across 43 countries. Eurosport Network of websites is Europe's n°1 online sports portal, with 7 million unique visitors per month across all 8 websites, including four co-branded eurosport.yahoo.com sites in the UK, Spain, Germany, and Italy, and local language eurosport.com sites in China, Russia, France and Sweden. Eurosportnews provides breaking international sports news transmitted worldwide. Eurosport Mobile offers Live streaming, WAP & I-Mod services with the latest sports news and results. Eurosport Events is the group's expert division in the organisation, management and promotion of international sporting events.
http://www.eurosport-tv.com/
Viacom Brand Solutions International (VBSI) is the full service media arm of MTV Networks International’s family of brands, including MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and Paramount.
We’re a lot more than spots and dots. We produce international advertising solutions for brands wanting to reach youth, young adults, kids and families. We have an insight team second to none, creative power recognised the world over and a unique global network of brands. Our award-winning work adds value to our partners’ businesses.
Globally our MTV Network multi-platform brands are available in 1.5 billion homes, in 162 countries on 151 TV channels, 41 mobile TV channels and 300+ websites.
http://vbs-media.com/
Yahoo! is a leading online advertising network offering an integrated suite of digital marketing solutions that seamlessly combines search marketing, display advertising, rich media and powerful targeting capabilities. These digital marketing tools enable marketers to reach the right customers at the right time with the right message. Yahoo! leverages insights about the interests, preferences and behaviours of consumers to improve ad relevance, providing marketers with the ability to more effectively target specific audience segments. Yahoo! partners with marketers to establish valuable relationships with more of their consumers, more effectively.
http://www.yahoo.com/
At ZenithOptimedia we are dedicated to creating a sustainable advantage for our clients, providing them with a quantifiable return from their communications investment that outstrips their competitors.
Our focus on ROI ensures that clients' budgets are invested, not simply spent. We believe the most important consideration for any campaign is a demonstrably effective outcome.
We are committed to developing close partnerships with all our clients and to delivering a service that always exceeds expectations.
Above all, we know that ideas and imaginative solutions are vital to make our clients' brands stand out from the crowd; connecting with consumers in a striking and persuasive manner.
http://www.zenithoptimedia.com/
EVENT PARTNERS
JCDecaux is the 2nd largest outdoor advertising company in the world, the market leader in Europe and number 1 in China. The inventor of the “street furniture" concept in 1964, the JCDecaux Group is the only company worldwide to focus exclusively on outdoor advertising and develop activities in all three principal segments: street furniture, billboard, and transport advertising. JCDecaux is also the number 1 worldwide company supplying a self-service bicycle service. Employing a total of 8,100 people, the Group is present in 53 different countries and over 3,500 cities of more than 10,000 inhabitants.
At the very heart of the JCDecaux group ethos is a dedication to the highest standards of creativity, innovation and design. By investing in industry research in all markets, JCDecaux has demonstrated the efficiency of its medium, introducing an internationally replicable research methodology that takes into account “must have" research components, including panel location quality, to quantify audience at its best.
We also have established JCDecaux Innovate departments throughout the world with the sole purpose of optimising communication through the enhancement of outdoor creativity. This innovative approach is coupled with a range of tools (Créaction, Creative Guidelines, OC Optimiser) developed to assist our customers in measuring the communication effectiveness of their outdoor creativity.
http://www.jcdecaux.com/
OMD is the largest and most influential media communications specialist in the world. A string of accolades, including M&M Europe’s Media Agency of the Year 2006 and 2007, have contributed to the network coming top of the prestigious Gunn Report for Media for three years running. They believe in the power of ideas to deliver a competitive advantage for their clients and use profound insights to create brand communications ideas that influence consumer behaviour, thus driving real business results to their clients. With global billings of $26 billion, invested through over 140 offices worldwide, OMD is ranked number one. (Source: Recma)
http://www.omd.com/
PHD is a global media agency network with over 40 offices in 45 markets worldwide. With Global headquarters in London, PHD has a market leading reputation for strategic planning, as well as an award winning global planning framework, ETNA. PHD is led by Worldwide CEO Mike Cooper. The PHD Network is part of the Omnicom Media Group (http://www.omnicommediagroup.com/), the media division of Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE: OMC) (www.omnicomgroup.com). Omnicom is a leading global marketing and corporate communications company. Omnicom's branded networks and numerous specialty firms provide advertising, media, direct and promotional marketing, public relations and other specialty communications services to over 5,000 clients in more than 100 countries.
http://www.phd.co.uk/
In the global media market, Out-of Home continues to grow its spend and share. This is due, in no small part, to advertisers' confidence in the quality and diversity of the products being offered by the major media owners in terms of presentation and innovation, which increasingly includes digital opportunities. The result is that OOH is increasingly capable of a greater range of communication tasks. As a consequence of this greater investment, advertisers need absolute assurance that their OOH communications are both effective and accountable.
Posterscope Worldwide is the world's foremost Out-of-Home communications agency - a network of 500+ OOH professionals across 21 countries, with billing in excess of $2 billion. Posterscope delivers campaign planning and buying solutions, enhanced by industry-leading tools and bespoke research insight , to maximise advertisers' Out-of-Home campaign effectiveness.
http://www.posterscope.com/
Synovate is an international top 10 market research organisation with a network covering well over 50 countries, with 5,500 staff and a turnover of more than €500m.
The European Media and Marketing Survey- EMS and Pan Asia-Pacific Cross Media Survey-PAX conducted by Synovate are the main industry surveys for multi media planning in Europe, Asia, Middle East and Latin America.
In 2008, Synovate will be launching Digital Life across Europe and Asia, which will deliver insight into: who, what, where, when and why the regions’ most affluent and influential consumers use media. Digital Life seeks to understand many different ways up-market individuals use and are exposed to all forms of media (traditional and digital) throughout the day.
http://www.synovate.com/
http://www.synovate.nl/
Universal McCann (UM) is a global media communications agency delivering ³Next Thing Now² solutions for the world¹s leading marketers and strategic thinkers including Coca-Cola, ExxonMobil, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, Mastercard, Microsoft, Sony and UPS.
We are part of the Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG) with 90 offices in 66 countries and over 2,800 employees with headquarters in New York.
UM provides a full spectrum of media services including media and communications planning, digital strategy consultation, analytics and economic modelling and research and consumer insight. Our mission is to move our clients and their customers, helping them leapfrog from big idea to memorable experience.
http://www.universalmccann.com/
The Wall Street Journal Europe forms part of the world’s leading business publication franchise, with a global circulation of 2.6 million. Read by the world’s top business and political leaders, The Wall Street Journal Europe draws on the Dow Jones network of nearly 1,900 news staff, the largest in the world.
The excellence of The Wall Street Journal Europe’s reporting has won it a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting in 1999; the Peter R. Weitz Prize for excellence and originality in reporting on European affairs every year since 2003; and Business Journalist of the Year Awards every year since 1999.
http://online.wsj.com/public/europe
PARTNERS
Accenture Marketing Sciences helps chief marketing officers and their teams to create and deliver sustained high performance by measuring and optimizing investments in marketing, media, retail and digital. Accenture Marketing Sciences is uniquely positioned to deliver the programs and capabilities at the brand, country and global levels as required, with more than 300 professionals in over 20 countries.
http://www.accenture.com/ams
Advertising Age is the most trusted brand of news and intelligence on advertising, marketing and media, delivered however and whenever our community wants to consume it.
http://adage.com/
Mediaquest Corp, founded in 1987, is one of the largest publishing houses within the Middle East region operating across three continents and publishing in three languages including, English, French and Arabic. The company built its reputation over the years through its stable of well regarded business titles including Trends, Saneou Al Hadath, Arabies and Communicate.
More recently, Mediaquest has taken the rein of the publishing and event divisions of Gray Business Communications (GBC), adding a number of respected brands to its portfolio including Gulf Marketing Review, GMR-Online, Al Tasweeq Al Arabi and Raceweek.
Mediaquest Corp is a holding company, combining both traditional and new media within its stable, with activities ranging from publishing to TV production and digital communication.
The European Interactive Advertising Association (http://www.eiaa.net/) is a unique pan- European trade organisation for sellers of interactive media. The primary objectives of the EIAA are to champion and to improve the understanding of the value of online advertising as a medium, to grow the European interactive advertising market by proving its effectiveness, thus increasing its share of total advertising investment.
http://www.eiaa.net/
Reaching over 235 million TV households worldwide, in 136 countries and 20 languages, The History Channelâ is the only international television network devoted exclusively to historical programming. The History channel makes history relevant and entertaining by taking a fresh look at everything that makes us who we are. Available in HDand across many digital platforms including VOD, HD VOD, mobile and broadband, The History Channel serves up rich content across platforms.
http://www.aetninternational.com/
Ediforum is a publishing group specialised in advertising, marketing and media. Our aim is to supply readers - companies, media companies, advertising agencies, research institutes - with authoritative and complete information. Mediaforum, one of our four titles, is a weekly publication with a deeper focus on marketing, markets, companies, advertising, media, innovation, tendencies and society.
http://dailyonline.alice.it/
M:Metrics is the mobile media measurement authority. As the only research firm to measure the audience for mobile media, M:Metrics provides the most accurate metrics on actual mobile content consumption by applying trusted media measurement methodologies to the mobile market. M:Metrics’ monthly syndicated data service gives clients the critical insights and intelligence required to inform smart business strategies and the competitive benchmarks needed to evaluate the performance of competitors and partners. M:Metrics is a private, venture-funded corporation headquartered in Seattle, with offices in San Francisco and London.
http://www.mmetrics.com/
Metro International publishes the largest international newspaper in the world. On a daily basis, Metro’s free newspapers are distributed in 23 countries and reach more than 23 million readers.
Metro launched in Stockholm in 1995 and now publishes in over 150 major cities through 84 locally tailored editions. It has a unique global reach, speaking to a young, metropolitan audience in their own language at a time of day when they are most receptive to our advertiser’s messages.
Metro’s ability to deliver creative advertising solutions ranging from in-paper, to street marketing and online activity has made it the partner of choice for many global brands.
M&M is the ultimate destination for international news, views and analysis of the latest events, issues and trends in the global media industry.
For the last 18 years, M&M has provided valuable commentary on the changes occurring to the media landscape, helping advertisers and their agency and media owner partners decipher what's happening and what they should do next.
In partnership with mandmglobal.com, the monthly magazine and its popular reference maps and guides offer a complete package to help them stay informed and stay ahead.
http://www.mandmglobal.com/
New Visions Mobile enables established brands to generate new revenue streams from mobile advertising and mobile commerce through brand led social networking. For media and brand owners New Visions Mobile create audience-based communities on the mobile and PC that generate new content and create new advertising revenues.
http://www.newvisionsmobile.com/
Vodafone is the world’s leading international mobile communications group with operations in 25 countries across five continents and over 252 million proportionate customers at 31st December 2007, as well as 40 partner networks.
http://www.vodafone.com/
Werben & Verkaufen (Advertising & Selling) – The leading weekly magazine for the communication an media industry in Germany.*
W&V provides companies, agencies and the media involved in advertising with information, value and orientation. The high-quality journalistic reporting at W&V stands out with its topicality, reliability and innovative contents.
* Source: Paid circulation, IVW IV/07
http://www.wuv.de/
The World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) is the only global organization representing the common interests of marketers. Through its network of 55 national advertiser associations and approx 50 of the world’s top 100 marketers, WFA represents around 90% of global marketing communications, almost US$ 700 billion annually.
The WFA has a dual mission:
- To maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of its members’ marketing communications through shared experience and learning
- To champion and defend responsible marketing communications
http://www.wfanet.org/
OFFICIAL CHARITY
The Venice Festival of Media has announced that it is linking with WaterAid, a leading independent organisation which enables the world’s poorest people gain access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene education. The WaterAid mission will be communicated to an audience of 850+ senior international media and advertising executives throughout the Festival. Delegates will be invited to make corporate or individual donations to support WaterAid’s work.
http://www.wateraid.org/
