About Our Sponsors

5th Finger

5th Finger connects clients with consumers across all digital channels using its unique 5th Finger Responsive and mobile solutions. The patent-pending 5th Finger Responsive offers brands all the benefits of Responsive Design, without having to rebuild their current website. Our awardwinning mobile and tablet app platform places powerful brand experiences in the hands of consumers. As a part of the Merkle family of companies, 5th Finger is backed by innovative technology, world-class service and data-driven strategy. We deliver mobile focused answers to brands' biggest digital challenges.

Amazon Payments

Criteo

EdgeCast

ForeSee

Maxymiser

MediaMath

MediaMath’s TerminalOne is the operating system for marketing professionals. Through the platform, marketers can speak to their customers as individuals, utilizing the latest technology and audience data to deliver finely targeted ad messages across channels and at scale. TerminalOne delivers the key pillars for audience based digital marketing in one efficient system, with media, data, ad serving, decisioning & analytics and service.

TerminalOne is an open operating system that creates immediate interoperability across the advertising ecosystem. Through integration with more than 150 technology, media and data providers, marketers can build solutions that fit their needs. With industry leading access across exchanges, supply platforms, and publishers, TerminalOne drives precision and scale across display, video, social and mobile channels. MediaMath has 16 locations and 260 employees around the world, making it a trusted source for marketers and agencies looking to navigate the complex digital advertising landscap

Symantec

United States Postal Service

A self-supporting government enterprise, the U.S. Postal Service is the only delivery service that reaches every address in the nation, 151 million residences, businesses and Post Office Boxes. The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses, and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.

With 32,000 retail locations and the most frequently visited website in the federal government, usps.com, the Postal Service has annual revenue of more than $65 billion and delivers nearly 40 percent of the world’s mail. If it were a private sector company, the U.S. Postal Service would rank 35th in the 2011 Fortune 500. In 2011, the U.S. Postal Service was ranked number one in overall service performance, out of the top 20 wealthiest nations in the world, Oxford Strategic Consulting. Black Enterprise and Hispanic Business magazines ranked the Postal Service as a leader in workforce diversity. The Postal Service has been named the Most Trusted Government Agency for six years and the sixth Most Trusted Business in the nation by the Ponemon Institute.

BloomReach

BloomReach, the world's first Big Data Marketing Application for search, maximizes revenues by making relevant products and services easier to find, capturing new users, and creating better experiences. BloomReach’s signature technology, the Web Relevance Engine, interprets content on over a billion web pages daily and dynamically adapts websites to capture existing demand and enhance consumer happiness leading to an average increase of 94% in natural nonbranded traffic.

BloomReach's portfolio of 80+ customers span the retail, travel, education, financial, and listings industries and include companies like: Neiman Marcus, Guess, Yahoo!, BlueFly, Orbitz, Drugstore.com, and Williams Sonoma. BloomReach is headquartered in Mountain View, CA and is backed by investment firms Bain Capital Ventures, NEA, and Lightspeed Ventures. Learn more: http://www.bloomreach.com.

NetElixir

etElixir is a global Search Marketing and Web Analytics Consulting firm headquartered in Princeton, NJ. Since 2005, NetElixir has been offering multi-channel campaign management technology, end-to-end campaign management solutions and web analytics consulting services for online retailers. Through our not-for-profit ventures - NetElixir University (platform for sharing free practical digital marketing knowledge) and XRMarketplace (free search marketing tools) we aspire to level the digital marketing playing field for e-businesses worldwide. Additional information about NetElixir can be found at http://www.netelixir.com.

RKG

YourAmigo

ExactTarget

ExactTarget is a leading global provider of email marketing and cross-channel interactive marketing software-as-a-service solutions that empower organizations of all sizes to communicate with their customers through email, mobile, social media and the Web. ExactTarget’s powerful suite of integrated applications enable marketers to plan, automate, deliver and optimize data-driven interactive marketing and real-time communications to drive customer engagement, increase sales and improve return on marketing investment.

SalesWarp

SalesWarp helps retailers manage product, order, customer and inventory data across multiple suppliers and online stores. Bysimplifying operations, SalesWarp help retailers increase sales, improve quality and reduce operating costs. SalesWarp is a web-based Storefront Management System for eCommerce that provides retailers with all the tools and technology needed to get products to market faster while being able to sell in more online locations. By focusing on the three main areas of eCommerce - product management, operations and selling on multiple stores, SalesWarp makes its easy to connect all the critical back–end systems (ERP, inventory, POS, CRM, financial, order processing, purchasing/receiving, andshipping) to a retailer's webstore, marketplace (Amazon, eBaby, Rakuten...), POS system and customer service. This allows them to easily manage, through advanced automation, all of their eCommerce operations from one system.

Compare Metrics

Compare Metrics offers Adaptive Commerce solutions that drive next generation product discovery and allow consumers to forge their own distinct path to a buying decision. The solution scales merchandising to support every consumer shopping scenario while creating new intelligence into how and why your shoppers buy. With this new found ability to understand and react to what customers really care about, retailers have seen increased shopper engagement, increased conversion, as well as improved relevancy and efficiency in demand generation and marketing strategies. Founded and lead by a team steeped in experience building proven retail technology and pushing the boundaries of machine learning and natural language processing, Compare Metrics is changing the way consumers discover and decide on the products right for them. Based in Austin, TX, the company is privately held and supported by trusted venture capital partners and advisors.

Criteo

DataPop

DataPop is an online ad optimization company that has radically altered the way marketers create online ads to engage with targeted consumers. Through its semantic advertising technology, DataPop provides intuitive ad customization for retailers, brands, and ad agencies. DataPop’s product offerings are the first semantic solutions for Search Engine Marketing (SEM) creative and Product Listing Ads (PLA). The products combine semantic modelling, natural language processing (NLP), and big data techniques with human intuition to seamlessly connect advertising offers with consumer intent, driving long-term ad performance gain and rich insights on how consumers engage with marketing messages.

RetailMeNot, Inc.

TapSense

Yext

Kount

Kount helps etailers boost sales by reducing fraud and allowing them to accept more orders from more people in more places than ever before. Our all- in-one, SaaS platform is designed for etailers operating in card-not-present environments, simplifying fraud detection and dramatically improving bottom line profitability.

For each transaction, Kount’s “decisioning” engine analyzes hundreds of relevant variables and activity across the globe in real-time. Kount applies amultitude of proven and proprietary technologies based on the specific needs of each customer providing etailers with unprecedented insight and reducing the need for manual review of orders.

Kount provides a single, turnkey fraud solution that is easy-to-implement and easy- to-use. Kount’s proprietary technology has reviewed hundreds of millions of transactions and provides maximum protection for some of the world’s best- known brands. For more information about Kount, please visit http://www.kount.com.

Maritz

Maritz Loyalty Marketing is a full service North American Loyalty Marketing agency headquartered in Toronto. Our brand loyalty marketing and technology-enabled, lifecycle engagement solutions drive measurable business results for our clients

FLeveraging over 120 years of history, experience and expertise from the Maritz family of companies, Maritz Loyalty Marketing provides its clients with consumer loyalty solutions that consider the holistic consumer experience at every brand touch point and through all stages of their lifecycle with a brand.

Maritz Loyalty Marketing is wholly owned by Maritz Holdings Inc., based in St. Louis, Missouri. Maritz Holdings also operates Maritz Research, Maritz Travel, Maritz Motivation Solutions, The Maritz Institute and more.

Symantec

Symantec protects the world’s information, and is the global leader in security, backup and availability solutions. Our innovative products and services protect people and information in any environment – from the smallest mobile device, to the enterprise data center, to cloud-based systems.

Our industry- leading expertise in protecting data, identities and interactions gives our customers confidence in a connected world.

Compare Metrics

Compare Metrics offers Adaptive Commerce solutions that drive next generation product discovery and allow consumers to forge their own distinct path to a buying decision. The solution scales merchandising to support every consumer shopping scenario while creating new intelligence into how and why your shoppers buy. With this new found ability to understand and react to what customers really care about, retailers have seen increased shopper engagement, increased conversion, as well as improved relevancy and efficiency in demand generation and marketing strategies.

Founded and lead by a team steeped in experience building proven retail technology and pushing the boundaries of machine learning and natural language processing, Compare Metrics is changing the way consumers discover and decide on the products right for them. Based in Austin, TX, the company is privately held and supported by trusted venture capital partners and advisors

Fanplayr

Fanplayr is the leader in targeted real-time ecommerce offers. By analyzing site and visitor traffic, Fanplayr’s ‘Smart & Targeted Conversions’ enables marketers to create campaigns that will display dynamic offers depending on visitor behavior. Fanplayr has headquarters in Palo Alto, California.

Responsys

Responsys is a leading provider of email and cross-channel marketing solutions that enable companies to engage in relationship marketing across the interactive channels customers are embracing today— email, mobile, social, display, and the web. With Responsys solutions, marketers can create, execute, and automate highly dynamic campaigns and lifecycle marketing programs that are designed to grow revenue, increase marketing efficiency, and strengthen customer loyalty.

esponsys’ New School Marketing vision, flexible on- demand application suite, and customer success-focused services aim to deliver high ROI, increased levels of automation, and fast time-to-value. Founded in 1998, Responsys is headquartered in San Bruno, California and has offices throughout the world.

Responsys serves world- class brands such as: American Family Mutual Insurance Company, Avis Europe, Brooks Brothers, Continental Airlines, Deutsche Lufthansa, Dollar Thrifty, LEGO, LinkedIn, Newegg, Orbitz, Qantas, Southwest Airlines, and UnitedHealthcare. For more information about Responsys, visit responsys.com.

Mad Mobile

Mad Mobile builds and powers mobile commerce sites for the best brands and retailers in the world including Office Depot, Major League Baseball, Lenovo, Sport Chalet, TJ Maxx, Café Press, Sleep Number, Total Wine, Books-AMillion, Claire’s, Bealls and Tuesday Morning. Combining deep technology, development, and design expertise, we transform and optimize web content to create rich mobile and tablet experiences with no client IT resources required. Additional information can be found at http://www.madmobile.com/.

Anametrix

Anametrix is a cloud-based, real-time, marketing analytics platform that transforms Big Data into actionable insights for right-time marketing. We collect, analyze and make sense out of data across all channels in real time to enable marketers to discover new truths about customers, prospects and the market at large.

Anametrix delivers 360-degree visibility into business data to uncover new trends and hidden correlations, explore new relationships, and deliver a bigger and more predictable impact on revenue.

Founded in 2010 by the trailblazing web analytics team behind WebSideStory,Anametrix is headquartered in San Diego, California

For more information, visit our website (http://www.anametrix.com), Twitter (@anametrix) and our Data Alchemy blog (blog.anametrix.com).

Artisan

Artisan has created the industry’s first Mobile Experience Management platform, bringing the capabilities of customer experience management and website optimization to native mobile apps. With an intuitive interface and robust analytics, we enable the world’s largest brands to create compelling native app mobile experiences that deepen engagement, drive retention, and increase revenue.

Our first product, Artisan OptimizeTM, enables design modifications and A/B testing without needing to write code or re-submit to the app store. Brands can observe and test customer interactions with their app in real-time providing deeper insight into user behavior. Artisan is proudly located in Old City Philadelphia. To learn more, please visit http://www.useartisan.com.

BloomReach

BloomReach, the world's first Big Data Marketing Application for search, maximizes revenues by making relevant products and services easier to find, capturing new users, and creating better experiences. BloomReach’s signature technology, the Web Relevance Engine, interprets content on over a billion web pages daily and dynamically adapts websites to capture existing demand and enhance consumer happiness leading to an average increase of 94% in natural nonbranded traffic.

BloomReach's portfolio of 80+ customers span the retail, travel, education, financial, and listings industries and include companies like: Neiman Marcus, Guess, Yahoo!, BlueFly, Orbitz, Drugstore.com, and Williams-Sonoma. BloomReach is headquartered in Mountain View, CA and is backed by investment firms Bain Capital Ventures, NEA, and Lightspeed Ventures. Learn more: http://www.bloomreach.com.

Bronto

Bronto Software provides a cloud-based marketing platform for retailers to drive revenue through their email, mobile and social campaigns. The platform is used by over 1000 organizations worldwide, including Party City, Armani Exchange, Timex, Samsonite and Gander Mountain.

Bronto is listed as the leading self-service email marketing provider to the Internet Retailer Top 1000. Bronto is headquartered in Durham, NC with an office in London, UK

Certona

Delivering personalized customer experiences for the world’s most popular brands, Certona is the leader for true omnichannel personalization. Trusted by more than 400 top ecommerce sites, Certona’s real- time personalization platform increases engagement and conversions by leveraging Big Data and serving up individualized content, promotional and product recommendations across all customer touch points.

Combined with a flexible business rules engine, marketers can harness the power of real-time behavioral profiling while maintaining control over their recommendation and personalization strategies. Personalize Anytime, Anywhere http://www.Certona.com

Chango

Chango provides simple and effective Solutions for marketers in an era of real-time media and big data. We solve the common problems faced by marketers today - we PROSPECT for new customers with Search Retargeting and CONVERT existing site visitors with Programmatic Site Retargeting.

Additionally, with Audience Extension and our 'Trading Desk in a box' capabilities we enable publishers and agencies to BUILD solutions around their own sites and data. Our clients include the world's largest brands & agencies, including 55 of the top 500 retailers. We have offices in New York, Toronto, London, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Kadro Solutions

Complete Technology Confidence With more than eleven years being in business, partnerships that range from small businesses up to Fortune 50 organizations, and diverse industry experience at the forefront of web technology, Kadro has consistently delivered innovative solutions to drive customer return on investment. When working with Kadro Solutions, you work with a seasoned leadership team and software services firm experienced in delivering enterprise--􏰁class software and managed services to help you reach more customers, service existing customers better, gain efficiencies and grow your business.

Landmark Global

Monetate

Monetate empowers marketers to leverage big data to create more personalized and engaging online customer experiences. By providing more relevant web interactions, leading brands are able to anticipate and react to consumer preferences to generate stronger customer relationships and significantly increase profits.

Monetate drives billions of dollars of revenue every year for some of the best- known brands in the world, including Best Buy, Frontier Airlines, Aeropostale, The Sports Authority, and PETCO. The company's solutions and conversion expertise enable marketers to deliver a more relevant customer experience with unprecedented agility.

Responsys

Responsys is a leading provider of email and cross-channel marketing solutions that enable companies to engage in relationship marketing across the interactive channels customers are embracing today— email, mobile, social, display, and the web. With Responsys solutions, marketers can create, execute, and automate highly dynamic campaigns and lifecycle marketing programs that are designed to grow revenue, increase marketing efficiency, and strengthen customer loyalty.

esponsys’ New School Marketing vision, flexible on- demand application suite, and customer success-focused services aim to deliver high ROI, increased levels of automation, and fast time-to-value. Founded in 1998, Responsys is headquartered in San Bruno, California and has offices throughout the world.

Responsys serves world- class brands such as: American Family Mutual Insurance Company, Avis Europe, Brooks Brothers, Continental Airlines, Deutsche Lufthansa, Dollar Thrifty, LEGO, LinkedIn, Newegg, Orbitz, Qantas, Southwest Airlines, and UnitedHealthcare.

RocketFuel

Rocket Fuel delivers the only programmatic media-buying platform at big data scale that harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to improve marketing ROI.

Rocket Fuel's Advertising That LearnsTM technology powered 894 advertisers in 2012, and empowers media teams to focus on strategy, not spreadsheets. Awarded #4 on Forbes' 2013 Most Promising Companies In America list

Rocket Fuel was founded by online advertising veterans and rocket scientists from NASA, Yahoo!, Salesforce.com, and DoubleClick. Rocket Fuel employs over 375 people in 18 offices worldwide including New York, London, Paris, and Hamburg, and provides its services in Japan via a strategic alliance with cci.

Turnto

TurnTo provides the leading Social Q&A system for online merchants, enabling shoppers to get advice directly from stores’ real customers. By enabling authentic dialog between shoppers and customersright on the merchant site, TurnTo increases conversion rates, generates fresh content for SEO, builds customer loyalty, and reduces call center load.

The TurnTo Social Q&A Platform is a white-labeled SaaS product that can be integrated in as little as a day. Top online stores and brands including Brown Shoe (Shoes.com), L’Oreal USA, Vitamin Shoppe, and Adorama, have chosen TurnTo to convert visitors into buyers. More information about TurnTo is available at http://www.turntonetworks.com.