Sponsors

Trendkite

Founded in 2012 in Austin, Texas, TrendKite revolutionizes how the world’s biggest brands and media companies strategize and report earned media’s impact on revenue growth. TrendKite is transforming the way the world views public relations by being the first to harness artificial intelligence and machine learning in analyzing the data-driven value public relations has on a brand’s reputation, website traffic, and business goals. As a venture backed, high traction startup, TrendKite is disrupting a huge existing market while helping companies like Nike, Google, Delta, SXSW, and thousands more turn earned media coverage into real business impact.

To learn more, visit: www.trendkite.com

Digital Nirvana

Digital Nirvana has been providing business process management solutions for an increasingly media-centric world for the last two decades. Our solutions enable large volumes of data to be automatically acquired, compiled, and organized for analysis, troubleshooting and decision-making for Media Monitoring and Intelligence companies globally.

Our services portfolio includes Media Analysis & Coding, Monitoring, Clipping & Indexing, Report Generation, Broadcast Logging or Summary Alerts, Transcription, and Media Content Management.

Our broadcast media content acquisition and monitoring product portfolio includes MonitorIQ, CAR/TS, and Repeat Audio Detection Systems (RADS) for news, copyrighted content, songs, and advertisement tracking. Other services include market intelligence and analytics, learning management, and professional services.

Our solution offers OPEX optimization for our customers and helps them focus on their core competencies.

For more information, please visit www.digital-nirvana.com.

Newton Media

NEWTON Media is a dynamic and innovative company providing sophisticated media intelligence solutions in the Central and Eastern European region. Led by highly qualified communications professionals with direct experience at the sharp end of PR and media management, we understand our clients’ challenges. Our solutions include international and regional media monitoring and analysis; market research; voice to text software; media archiving and consultation and training services.

Forward thinkers, we fuse talent and technology to deliver bespoke solutions for all your present and future media needs. We believe that human insight should always be at the core of media analysis with technology enhancing the personal factor. With a team over 500 professionals and offices located across 10 countries, NEWTON Media is recognised as one of the most progressive and agile partners to the communications industry in Europe.

TAGFACT

TAGFACT is an expert in Media Tagging, Coding, Sorting and Summarizing Services for Print, Online, Broadcast and Social Media Content across 12+ European and Asian Languages. With a proven business process framework, dedicated quality team, and flexible data deliver formats and timelines, TAGFACT works closely with clients to manually tag and code their content enabling them to draw insights, measure media effectiveness, manage their data repositories.

Clients work with us over and above their automated solutions for close to 100% accuracy. We are source and content agnostic and can work across providers and tools

Zignal Labs

Zignal Labs is reinventing how brands and organizations use media data to measure what matters to their business. Through real-time and predictive analysis of the full media spectrum, Zignal’s centralized platform empowers corporate communications, marketing and executive teams to build and protect brand reputation, inform strategy and take action. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York and Washington DC, Zignal serves customers around the world including Airbnb, Citrix, IBM, Levis, NVIDIA, Tyson, Uber, The Sacramento Kings and FleishmanHillard. To learn more, visit: www.zignallabs.com.

At Apollo.ai we provide artificial intelligence (AI) based solutions for the media and media monitoring industries, molding the latest high-end research into usable services. Our products include newspaper clipping technologies and services, automatic text summarization and clustering tools, keyword-based sentiment services as well as branded white-labeled app solutions. All of our offerings are provided as SaaS, making it very easy to integrate our technology into customer processes. Our parent company Updatemi Inc. was established in 2014 and is based in Palo Alto (USA) and Linz/Vienna (Austria).

byBrick Insight is a strategic communications agency that works with analysis and insight at the core. We help our customers to understand what data is relevant in each situation and how it connects to different parts of the organization as well as giving an overall perspective. This helps build communicative and innovative organizations with efficient strategies and strong brands.

Our strength lies in our vast experience of working with change management, communication and digital development and how to support our customers so they can take lead in their own development.

We help organizations be insight driven.

Cision

Cision is a leading media communication technology and analytics company that enables marketers and communicators to effectively manage their earned media programs in coordination with paid and owned channels to drive business impact.

As the creator of the Cision Communications Cloud™, the first-of-its-kind earned media cloud-based platform, Cision has combined cutting-edge data, analytics, technology and services into a unified communication ecosystem that brands can use to build consistent, meaningful and enduring relationships with influencers and buyers in order to amplify their marketplace influence.

Cision solutions also include market-leading media technologies such as PR Newswire, Gorkana, PRWeb, Help a Reporter Out (HARO) and iContact. Headquartered in Chicago, Cision serves over 100,000 customers in 170 countries and 40 languages worldwide, and maintains offices in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and Australia.

Isentia

Isentia is APAC’s leading integrated Media Intelligence and Insights business, empowering nearly 4,000 clients in 12 locations to connect the dots between data and decisions. Isentia blends market-leading monitoring experience with analytics to help the world’s biggest brands uncover the whole picture – and act on it. Powered by cutting-edge technology and a team of world class experts, our mission is to help businesses leap forward where only genuine insight can take them.

ResponseSource

ResponseSource provides easy-to-use tools that connect PR professionals and businesses to journalists, enabling them to give stories relevant coverage – quickly and easily.

The media is in our DNA. Our philosophy of putting content creators at the front of mind is what informs everything we do. It is what sets us apart. Whether you’re talking about the Journalist Enquiry Service, Media Contacts Database, Press Release Wire or Freelance Journalist Profiles, it’s our close relationship with the media that gives you the edge.

ResponseSource is your essential source for media contacts. Trusted by thousands of journalists each day, our deep understanding of their requirements enables you to give your stories the best possible coverage. Not only do we make it easier for PRs and businesses to access a huge range of actionable media coverage opportunities, we help you to build the trusted network of contacts you need to create effective PR campaigns and maximise your coverage.

Vitreous World is a leading consultancy delivering global data solutions to marketing and media industry stake holders. We offer a consultative approach that maximises return on investment. We see the bigger picture and design bespoke research strategies to deliver outcomes that support the desired goals. Champions of best practice we carry the accreditation of a number of industry leading organisations that support our commitment to the highest ethical codes of conduct.

Our guidance empowers clients to bridge the gap between creativity and research insight to create informed content that will resonate and influence the target audience. We offer a full range of research services that deliver data across a variety of platforms and methodologies. We are completely transparent about any risks, difficulties, skews or biases we are likely to experience and strive to offer maximum transparency and accountability to all clients at all times.

Dircom is a professional association of communication executives and managers from companies, institutions and consulting groups in Spain.

It was founded in 1992 by a group of professionals in light of the increasing importance and scope of their responsibilities in companies and society as a whole.

Its vision is to enhance the role played in organizations by communication and communication managers so that this department and its executives are regarded as a key strategic area and role. It carries out its mission through their four strategic goals: Acknowledgement, Knowledge, Networking and Responsible Management / CSR.

Currently, it has more than 1,000 members and 8 territorial delegations: Aragon, Canary Islands, Castilla y León, Catalonia, Galicia, Valencian Community and Region of Murcia, North and Andalusia.

FUNDACOM is a non-profit Ibero-American civil foundation whose goal is to promote communication in Spanish and Portuguese around the world through different initiatives including studies and investigations, the Ibero-American Summit on Strategic Communication, the International Awards FUNDACOM, Executive Education in the field of communication and the Edition of Benchmark Publications. This organization is promoted by different associations in Iberoamerica that work in the field of communication being those of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Portugal, Spain and Uruguay that drove this initiative.

Our mission: Creating and sharing communications content and projects within the countries of Latin America, Portugal, Spain, the United States and the rest of the Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries, as well as providing all the professionals of strategic communications with influence, knowledge, networking and education.

The International Communications Consultancy Organisation (ICCO) is the voice of public relations consultancies around the world. The ICCO membership comprises national trade associations in 32 countries across the globe: from Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australasia. Collectively, these associations represent over 2,500 PR firms. ICCO provides a forum for senior management of the world’s best PR consultancies to meet and address issues of mutual interest and concern. Members work together to raise standards of quality, address ethical issues, harmonise professional PR consultancy practice, and share knowledge.

The Institute for Public Relations is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit foundation dedicated to fostering greater use of research and research-based knowledge in corporate communication and the public relations profession. IPR focuses on research that matters to the profession, providing timely insights and applied intelligence that professionals can put to immediate use. Dedicated to the science beneath the art of public relations.^TM IPR serves as a research aggregator, grantor, partner, interpreter, and convener. IPR does this through independent projects as well as through some of our commissions and programs, including our Behavioral Insights Research Center, Social Media Research Center, Organizational Communication Research Center, and Measurement Commission. All research and publications are available for free to the profession at www.instituteforpr.org.

PROI Worldwide, the world’s largest partnership of integrated leading independent communications agencies both by revenue and reach was founded in Europe in 1970. With 135+ offices in 50+ countries, from London and Paris to New York, Hong Kong, Beijing and Mumbai to Frankfurt, Tokyo and Sydney to Rio de Janeiro, and other major markets agencies across five continents, PROI Worldwide is the 6th largest global communications group with more than 5,000 staff servicing 6,300+ clients worldwide and 2016 net fee income of US$ 700+ million. We’re steeped in local culture, understand the nuances and the opportunities, and know the influencers you need to access. For more information go to www.proi.com

Founded in 1969, the PRCA is the largest PR association in Europe, representing 18,000 people in agencies, in-house communications teams, and individuals. The PRCA promotes all aspects of public relations and internal communications work, helping teams and individuals maximise the value they deliver to clients and organisations.

The Association exists to raise standards in PR and communications, providing members with industry data, facilitating the sharing of communications best practice and creating networking opportunities.

The PRCA represents many of the major consultancies in the UK, and currently has more than 350 agency members from around the world, including the majority of the top 150 UK consultancies. We also represent over 250 in-house communications teams from multinationals, UK charities and leading UK public sector organisations.