We would like to thank our 2012 sponsors:

Corbus

Corbus, LLC, a global solutions provider founded in 1994, offers superior services combining years of experience, solid partnerships and adaptability. Corbus’ solution offering includes Information Technology (IT), Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Project Management (PMO) services. Corbus creates technology-empowered solutions with industry leading processes and technologies that deliver business value to global clients through year-on-year savings and are known for the ability to work in true partnership with clients to innovate and bring cost reduction along with enhanced product quality. With competitive positioning and complete transparency, Corbus and clients together achieve success. For more information, visit http://www.Corbus.com.

Corbus is a global organization, headquartered in North America with presence in Europe and Asia Pacific markets. Corbus is a wholly owned subsidiary of Soin International LLC, a private multi-national holding company that provides strategic management, administrative systems, and financial support to a diverse array of worldwide subsidiaries and affiliates.

Decideware

Decideware provides the world’s leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application or Marketing Procurement professionals. Our clients, major advertisers with responsibility for some of the world's best-loved brands, demanded their key agency data be accessible anywhere, anytime via a central platform of fast, secure, robust tools delivered across the Internet. Designed in consultation with our clients, Decideware’s Marketing Agency Management Platform features a wide array of solutions covering all key touch points between clients and their agencies. Specific modules include Agency Evaluation, Scope of Work and Capability Manager.

Surge Consulting

Surge Consulting is a marketing efficiency firm, broadly defined.

We complement marketing strategy by delivering economic and operational efficiencies for major advertisers through rigorous analytics, strategic sourcing, process simplification, and organizational design.

Our teams work with a strategic, enlightened mindset, helping advertisers make every invested dollar “work” and eliminating overpayment on the services, technology, and processes required to build great brands.

Our team is comprised of experts from top-tier, global consultancies, leading marketing organizations, and leading ad agencies. Collectively, we’ve saved over a half-billion dollars for clients. Please visit us at www.surgeconsulting.com for additional information.

Advertising Production Resources

Advertising Production Resources is the leading global consultancy helping advertisers optimize production spending across all media.
Overseeing more than $500 million in ad production spend for many of the world’s biggest brands, we’re 65+ experts with vast production experience in broadcast TV, print and digital. Our collaborative approach with brands, agencies and production entities is designed to add transparency to the production process, find efficiencies and manage costs. We go on set during productions, we go onsite with brand marketers and we utilize our proprietary reporting system to capture data across agencies, media types, production companies and post houses to create the industry’s gold standard for ad production benchmarking.

Beekman Associates

Beekman Associates is the leading expert in agency compensation assessment and benchmarking worldwide. We assess and benchmark over $5 billion in agency compensation every year. Our databases on agency economics are current and unmatched in the industry covering all agency types and over 60 global markets. Our team has extensive client and agency-side experience including at the CEO and CFO roles in addition to highly talented database and analytics experts.
Our clients include 8 of the top 10 and 40 of the top 100 global advertisers. No other consultant can match the depth or breadth of our rigorous, fact-based processes. Beekman is pleased to announce the release of RightSpend, the web-based agency compensation assessment and benchmarking tool that allows you the client to build, assess, benchmark and track your marketing budget, scope of work, staffing plan and agency compensation from start to finish providing you the flexibility and accountability you need.

KSC Kreate

KSC Kreate is a full service creative firm that blends art with science to produce beautiful, dynamic imagery for consumer products manufacturers and retail brands. They specialize in creative services including photography, video and non-Flash 360º product imagery for companies who seek to increase revenues from their traditional and e-commerce marketing efforts. KSC Kreate is driven by their proprietary business model, the Total Image Management Experience (TIME™) that provides clients with an end-to-end solution from content creation to asset management & deployment for global marketing efforts. To learn more about the company, TIME™, and their technologies, visit www.ksckreate.com