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Platinum Sponsors
ValueClick Media is one of the world’s largest online advertising networks, providing a scalable and efficient way for political and advocacy campaigns to advertise online across thousands of quality media properties with state and district-level geo-targeting, network road blocking capabilities and full site transparency. According to comScore Media Metrix, ValueClick Media reaches more than 133 million unique visitors per month in the U.S., including 82.4 percent of registered voters and 81.5 of Independent voters.
Gold Sponsors
Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo! is focused on powering its communities of users, advertisers, publishers, and developers by creating indispensable experiences built on trust. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, visit pressroom.yahoo.com or the company’s blog, Yodel Anecdotal.
The company launched elections.yahoo.com, as part of Yahoo! News, to provide voters as well as politicians a dynamic place to connect and access all the latest elections news from the nation’s leading news providers. Voters on the site stay up to date on the issues affecting their lives, and connect with the people, candidates and communities that matter most to them.
In March 2007, the company also formed a political advertising team in response to the rising demand from candidates and advocacy organizations interested in connecting with Yahoo!’s large audience. The team helps candidates better understand the tools and tactics that can best meet their campaign media objectives whether that’s raising money, enlisting supporters or driving persuasion.
Politico was launched on January 23, 2007 and is Washington, DC’s first truly multi-platform news source catering exclusively to the Capital’s 24-hour political news consumer. Politico.com is the one-stop destination for the politically minded. Politico’s print publication has the largest circulation of any Capitol Hill publication, distributed throughout the DC region. With such features as The Crypt, Pit Boss, and the Smith and Martin blogs, Politico reports on events in Congress, the inter-workings of lobbying in Washington, and keeps everyone current on the ’08 Presidential campaign. Because Politico has assembled the most recognizable and experienced editorial staff of any publication covering Washington, Politico.com received over 22 million unique visitors in 2007 – more traffic than all of our Washington DC competitors combined. Politico.com offers advertisers the opportunity to get their message across to the most politically active and influential nation-wide.
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
As a first step to fulfilling that mission, Google's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed a new approach to online search that took root in a Stanford University dorm room and quickly spread to information seekers around the globe. Google is now widely recognized as the world's largest search engine -- an easy-to-use free service that usually returns relevant results in a fraction of a second.
When you visit www.google.com or one of the dozens of other Google domains, you'll be able to find information in many different languages; check stock quotes, maps, and news headlines; lookup phonebook listings for every city in the United States; search billions of images and peruse the world's largest archive of Usenet messages -- more than 1 billion posts dating back to 1981.
National Journal Group Inc. is a leading publisher of magazines,
newsletters, books and directories for people who have a professional
interest in politics, policy and government. Based in Washington, D.C.,
National Journal Group Inc. is committed to providing publications and
services that are nonpartisan, reliable and of the highest quality.
NationalJournal.com is the online home for CongressDaily, The Hotline and National Journal magazine.
Established in 2000, RealClearPolitics is one of the leading independent political web sites on the internet. RCP’s political commentary, election analysis and polling averages have been featured in national media outlets including The New York Times, CNN, FOX News, The Economist, Investor’s Business Daily, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Time magazine, and many more. RealClearPolitics is where people with deep interest in American politics go to keep abreast of policy and policy issues. The depth of RCPs up-to-the-minute political coverage is unmatched by any other site on the web! RCP is who influencers trust for awareness and insight on today’s hot topics.
Adfero Group is a strategic public affairs firm that provides innovative online and offline programs and campaigns for high-profile interest groups, associations, and elected officials. The firm was renamed in December 2006 from Rightclick Strategies to indicate a broadened scope and mission. Adfero Group sets itself apart by leading with high impact ideas that leverage the latest in online and interactive tools, and then integrates those elements with grassroots and offline programs for maximum impact.
The Graduate School of Political Management (GSPM) seeks to improve politics by educating its students and professionals in the tools, principles and values of participatory democracy, preparing them for careers as ethical and effective advocates and leaders at the international, national and local levels.
Advertising.com’s mission is to deliver superior results for our
advertiser, agency and publisher clients. We execute upon this mission
by providing our clients with award-winning customer service, a comprehensive
suite of online marketing solutions, the industry’s most advanced
technologies and the largest, highest-quality online advertising network. Advertising.com, a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL LLC, is a global online advertising services company. The company offers a fully integrated suite of online advertising solutions, including display advertising, search engine marketing, managed affiliate placements and video advertising. These solutions are powered by Advertising.com’s award-winning optimization technology and industry-leading third-party display advertising network, which reaches more unique visitors each month than any other online property.
Since 2004 BSD has developed, implemented and managed some of the most
successful online constituency building and fundraising programs in
history. The BSD technology tools suite is currently in use by over 100
campaigns, organizations and institutions, while our strategic
communications practice works with a smaller portfolio of clients -
including national and international campaigns, organizations and
corporations - to build awareness, raise funds and advocate for
progressive causes. BSD currently has more than 30 employees in
Washington, DC, Boston, and San Francisco.
Founded in 1997 by innovators at the University of Vienna, Austria, FAS.research is an independent think tank and consultancy blazing new trails for business intelligence and advocacy, market analytics, and sales and campaign strategies.
What makes us different? Our pioneering use of social network analysis.
An active scientific discipline since the 1930s, network analysis in the digital era can quickly process millions of relationships, revealing the structures of our hypernetworked world in dazzling new ways.
Discover connections — and gain new insights on your market — by learning how your customers influence each other. Define your strategies, and conduct rigorous predeployment testing. Maximize resources, activate networks, open up markets and transform your enterprise. It's yours to accomplish.
FAS.research: Network analysis for business and enterprise.
Pulling together two of the world's most powerful communications tools -- ads and blogs -- blogads is a unique vehicle for promoting your dragon-headed dreams, droning drivel, wonderful widgets, beat books, awesome auctions, pretty pixels, or perpetual motion machines.
Bloggers are the ultimate intellectual entrepreneurs and blogs are where opinions get made these days. Blogs are among the few intimate, authentic spaces left on the Internet and, as such, are a uniquely powerful place for advertisers to break through the Internet's gazillion page impression clutter. Blogads think by banding together, bloggers can articulate, define and get properly compensated for the unique value they deliver to advertisers.
San Diego based Eventful, Inc., operates Eventful.com, the leading events Web site which enables its community of users to discover, promote, share and create events throughout the world. Eventful users select from nearly four million events taking place in local markets throughout the world, from concerts and sports to singles events and political rallies. Eventful’s Demand service enables users to influence where their favorite performers appear by creating viral grass-roots campaigns to “Demand” them in their town. Visit Eventful at http://www.eventful.com
MSHC Partners began when two of the direct mail industry's pioneers – Hal Malchow and Rich Schlackman – decided to pool their talents and reputations. Their idea was to create a unique communications firm offering the potent combination of Rich's innovative creative messaging and Hal's pioneering work in statistical modeling and data mining techniques. This new agency would be founded on the principle that direct mail could do a better job in reaching out and engaging an audience, asking them to feel, to think, and to act. MSHC Partners has used years of collective experience and know-how to help elect 16 Governors, 16 US Senators, more than 40 members of Congress and numerous other elected officials.
Pajamas Media began in 2005 as an affiliation of 90 of the most influential weblogs on the Internet. They were linked together as an advertising network, but the intention was to provide a significant alternative to mainstream media. Two years later PJM has
expanded its reach. Besides adding to its blog network, through its portal www.pajamasmedia.com, PJM now provides exclusive news and opinion 24/7 in text, video and podcast from correspondents in over forty countries. Pajamas Media also has its own weekly show on XM satellite radio - PJM Political - as well as a channel on YouTube, and it syndicates its original material like a news agency.
Founded in 1973, The Heritage Foundation is a research and educational institute - a think tank - whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.
Bronze Sponsors
With an excess of 5 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the world's largest blog on social networking. What does that mean? It means sites like MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, hi5, Piczo, Bebo and YouTube. Mashable is written by Pete Cashmore, a new media expert. It ranks among the Top 100 blogs worldwide.
For more than twenty years, Capitol Advantage and its family of companies have provided innovative products and services for thousands of national and state organizations, corporations, media and educational institutions to influence the democratic process. Our award-winning ”Congress at Your Fingertips" directories have been trusted by government affairs leaders nationwide for obtaining valuable information on Congress. In addition, our variety of online solutions include CapwizXC, an online advocacy tool with e-mail marketing, as well as PACbuilder, a PAC management tool. Capitol Advantage also powers Congress.org, a free public-service Web site engaging citizens in democracy.
To drive persuasion and fund-raising online, you need the right combination of scale and targeting. The Undertone network reaches more than 55 million* eligible U.S. voters across the Internet's most well known and highest quality websites. With this reach and our suite of targeting options we are able to engage voters and influencers on a national, state and city level.
Whether you'd like to bring your broadcast campaigns online with pre-roll or in-banner video, behaviorally target to boost results, or leverage a network roadblock for maximum impact, Undertone has a solution for you.
Undertone has been providing creative and effective online advertising campaigns for political marketers since our inception. We take the time to listen to your goals and objectives and then develop custom solutions that help you exceed them. To find out what we can do for you, call our dedicated political team at (212) 685-8000.
*comScore December, 2007 demographic profile report (users age 18+)
CNN.com is among the world's leaders in online news and information delivery. Staffed 24 hours, seven days a week by a dedicated staff in CNN's world headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, and in bureaus worldwide, CNN.com relies heavily on CNN's global team of almost 4,000 news professionals. CNN.com features the latest multimedia technologies, from live video streaming to audio packages to searchable archives of news features and background information.
The staff of Campaign Solutions is made up of top professionals who have worked on campaigns at all levels. Our firm has experience with political committees, Capitol Hill, state elected officials, trade associations and in the business world. We bring a breadth and depth of knowledge and experience not found in any other Republican voter contact and communications firm. Our team plans and executes the strategies and tactics that win campaigns. Most importantly, our staff shares a professional commitment to conduct all services with honesty and integrity.
Your campaign is unique. Your needs, resources and strategies are distinctive. We have extensive campaign experience so we know there are no "turn-key" solutions on the road to victory. We customize our services to your particular needs. All of our products are designed and managed to strengthen the specific themes articulated in your campaign communications. What never changes is our stand on quality: we do not compromise.
There's traditional online advertising… and then there's Connell Donatelli, Inc., a full-service marketing agency positioned to help you take advantage of a new political environment. CDI is…
…Run by proven political strategists who are fully committed to helping you create, maintain and grow a powerful Internet presence,
…Staffed by experienced designers, programmers, producers and directors who have created award-winning interactive electronic media, television and radio commercials for some of the most successful political clients and causes in the nation and around the world.
Politics magazine, from Campaigns & Elections is the publication of record for political professionals and insiders. Launched in 1980, the magazine connects all those who touch politics, from casual observers to those at the highest levels of government. Politics is read in nearly forty countries. In addition to the print publication, Politics has been training campaign staffers and candidates for more than twenty years.
NGP Software, Inc., is the leading national software and technology consulting firm serving Democrats and their allies. Since our incorporation in January of 1997, NGP has helped elect Democrats through consulting, custom database solutions, and political software.
As a rare example of a partisan firm in a technical niche, NGP has found success in combining technological skills and strong customer service with political savvy and experience. Our steady growth in staff and market share reflects our dedication to providing clients with superior products and outstanding training and support.
TVEyes Media Monitoring Suite is a real-time, web-based subscription service that tracks, transcribes and instantly alerts users to selected radio and television broadcasts on the issues and topics important to their organization. Clients can view the news coverage in real-time, and instantly share those results with unlimited recipients. TVEyes is a fully-automated broadcast media monitoring service that provides an effective, time-efficient and economical way to find what is being said about any issue, any subject or any person in the news today.
At over 6 million members, Care2 is the largest online social networking platform for civically active adults. We provide a variety of ways for people to discover, share and take action on social, political and environmental issues. Using "Web 2.0" principles such as user-generated content and community-building, Care2 is the kind of like MySpace, del.icio.us, Yahoo! and Flickr wrapped into one package for people interested in making a difference in society and the health of the environment. Care2 provides cool, free, easy-to-use internet tools to help civic-minded people make a difference while they're doing what they do online anyway such as email, social networking, ecards, shopping and reading the news. In the process, we connect our members with opportunities to donate or take action on behalf of our nonprofit partners and political campaigns.
Care2 members also have opted in to receive information from us and from our nonprofit partners on the issues that they (our members) care most about: human rights, environmental issues, animal rights, civil liberties, healthcare, healthy living, democracy, women's issues, politics and other social and environmental causes. Our audience grows at about 5,000 people per day, and we work with over 250 nonprofits and political campaigns to run permission-based list- growth campaigns. We help recruit members and supporters for your organization from our rapidly-growing, targeted audience.
As pioneers in the delivery of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Click & Pledge enables any size organization to access and use sophisticated software tools for more efficient and effective online fundraising.
ElectionMall Technologies, Inc., established in 1999, is a world leader in providing Internet-based non-partisan solutions for elections and campaigns, effectively utilizing technology and business expertise to enable candidates, advocacy groups, or nonprofits to generate enhanced gains in awareness, funds, and votes.
From their eight years in the campaign and election industry, ElectionMall has identified over 54 different campaign behaviors and has categorized them into five specific product offerings of: Build, Manage, Raise, Promote and Shop. ElectionMall’s complete product offering successfully encompasses the entire life-cycle of a political campaign by pioneering software as service solutions (SAAS) in campaign and election industry.
Electionmall.com is headquartered in Washington, D.C. with offices in Los Angeles and Chicago.
We Media connects individuals and organizations from across
industries who believe the power of media, communication and human
ingenuity should be applied to innovate in business AND to make the
world better through media.
Leaders from all sectors, fields and disciplines join enterprising
citizens in participatory programs, unscripted dialogue, workshops,
demos and networking events aimed at using the power of our media to
strengthen communities geographic and virtual.
We Media functions as a marketplace of ideas and actions. It’s a meeting ground for the global We Media Community
- an eclectic and ambitious network of media innovators, entrepreneurs,
creators, investors, funders, community activists and executives.
Together we seek new collaborations, new relationships and new ways of
thinking.
We Media itself is an idea: it’s a counterpoint to “The” media. In a
world connected by digital information networks and devices, the power
to produce and distribute media and communications services is now in
everyone’s hands. That includes grass roots groups, bloggers and
independent media creators, as well as institutions large and small
that share space, time and attention with everyone else in the
connected society. A new creative class of technology entrepreneurs,
dreamers, inventors, story-tellers and digital media producers is
fueling a relentless cycle of innovation in communications.
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