2025 SPONSORS
2025 LEAD-TO-CASH BASH HOST
INDIGO TRIGGER
Platinum Sponsor & Host
www.indigotrigger.com
Indigo Trigger helps media and publishing companies by offering tech stack planning and as-needed technology resources in a managed services model. Indigo Trigger specializes in all things "Lead-to-Cash" -- from CRMs to order management, fulfillment to finance, and reporting & analytics. Armed with a team of industry veterans, Indigo Trigger is the premier consulting group serving publishers of all shapes and sizes wherever people, platform and process help is needed.
Press Contacts: Julia Kuziomko, Marketing & Events
Sales Contact: Christopher Prinos, Founder & CEO
2025 PLATINUM SPONSOR
ADCELLERANT
Platinum Sponsor
www.adcellerant.com
AdCellerant equips media companies, agencies, and brands with high-performing digital marketing technology to help businesses grow. Through its proprietary platform, Ui.Marketing, users can manage the full buyer’s journey—from proposal to performance—on one easy-to-use system. Backed by award-winning support, expert training, and customer service, AdCellerant drives measurable results at scale.
Press Contacts: Meghan Brito, SVP Marketing
Sales Contact: Ken Campbell, Business Development
2025 PLATINUM SPONSOR
NAVIGA
Platinum Sponsor
www.navigaglobal.com
Naviga is the leading provider of software and services powering media-rich industries. Our Content Engagement Platform (CEP) helps companies create, enrich, deliver and monetize content to manage engagements from end-to-end. Our solutions are easy to use, scalable and agile. Combining our experience in media with a dedication to digital, we’ve developed software solutions that help any content-driven business meet the demands of the future of information.
With headquarters in Bloomington, MN and regional offices throughout the world, Naviga is a trusted partner serving over 3,200 news media, broadcast, magazine, financial services and corporate clients in 45 countries.
2025 PLATINUM SPONSOR
PAYWAY
Platinum Sponsor
www.payway.com
Payway has been at the forefront of payment solutions for 40 years, trusted by major publishers and media organizations to handle their recurring online and over-the- phone payment transactions seamlessly and securely.
Our payment solution, designed specifically for card-not-present transactions, helps reduce transaction errors, prevent payment declines, and ensure steady revenue.
With features like Account Updater, Customer Payment Recovery, a simple-to-implement Cash Discount Program, and advanced fraud protection, our payment solution creates a frictionless checkout experience, making payments an easy-to-manage source of revenue.
Contact: Bob Alvarez - Director of Sales, Payway
2025 GOLD SPONSOR
BOOSTABILITY
Gold Sponsor
www.boostability.com
Boostability is the global leader in white-label SEO for SMBs. LaunchPad, Boostabilitys proprietary technology platform, powers an SMB SEO platform built for scale, affordability, and value. Tracking over 2.3 million keywords per month, Boostability makes decisions based on millions of bits of data, enabling us to get 86% of our customers on the 1st page of Google in 6-9 months.
Before Boostability, no company provided affordable SEO at scale for SMBs. Over the past decade, Boostability has championed the SMB and grown to provide SMB SEO to more partners and satisfied customers than any other provider in the world. Serving in 15 countries and 9 languages, Boostability is dedicated to helping small businesses succeed online.
2025 GOLD SPONSOR
SUBTEXT
Gold Sponsor
www.subtext.com
Subtext is a text messaging platform that connects creators, entertainers, media companies, brands, and thought leaders with their audiences - free from the chaos of social media and the clutter of email. Subtext clients include Sony Music, the USA Today Network, Warner Music, Hearst, and the New York Post.
Subtext is the fourth product spinout from the Alpha Group, a successful incubator for new technology and media properties inside Advance Local. Advance Local is a unit of Advance, whose portfolio of exceptional companies includes Condé Nast, Advance Local, Stage Entertainment, American City Business Journals, Leaders Group, Turnitin, 1010data, and Pop.
World's Most Innovative Company by Fast Company & Inc.'s Best in Business
Contact: Bill Bradley - Business Development, Subtext
2025 GOLD SPONSOR
SITE IMPACT
Gold Sponsor
www.siteimpact.com
Site Impact specializes in multi-channel direct marketing services. Our goal is to achieve measurable results for our clients. While continuing to evolve as a company, Site Impact has earned the business and trust of clients all over the globe.
Site Impact clients range from Fortune 500 corporations, locally owned and operated small business, as well as advertising agencies who use their private label services. By providing integrated marketing solutions that target your ideal audience, Site Impact is one of the leading providers in data and marketing resources.
Sales Contact: Greg Heiman, Vice President of Business Development
2025 GOLD SPONSOR
AUDIENCE
Gold Sponsor
www.audience.io
Audience.io is the audience management platform that helps media companies grow, engage, and monetize their audiences.
Our end-to-end solution connects the journey between audience growth and engagement, data containment and augmentation, segmentation, activation, and monetization, giving you the leverage you need to close advertisers and capture significant incremental revenue.
The comprehensive platform powers a broad cross-section of audience engagement experiences, simplifying your tech stack and ensuring your data is clean and compliant.
Sales Contact: Creighton Green, Co-Founder - Audience
2025 GOLD SPONSOR
A Marketing Resource LLC
Gold Sponsor
www.4amr.net
A Marketing Resource is a market leading outsourced contact center and marketing provider for the Newspaper, Cable, Energy, and Utility marketplace. Our infrastructure and technology are custom designed to deliver outstanding assistance to our clients based on their business requirements.
Most recently, AMR has received numerous accolades and industry awards for their "Cash Discount Program". Originally launched at the Star Advertiser in Honolulu, HI in 2020, the patented technology behind the Cash Discount program has been launched -- in partnership with Indigo Trigger as an implementation partner -- and is now available for media companies worldwide.
Sales Contact: Ed Spagnola, President
2025 GOLD SPONSOR
GROUNDTRUTH
Gold Sponsor
www.groundtruth.com
GroundTruth is a media platform that drives in-store visits and other real business results. Using observed real-world consumer behavior, including location and purchase data, GroundTruth creates targeted advertising campaigns across all screens for advertisers. GroundTruth then measures how consumers respond to the campaigns, including if they physically show up to a store location or website, to understand the real business results generated by a brand’s advertising. Learn more at groundtruth.com.
Sales Contact: Will McEachern - Senior Director, GroundTruth
2025 GOLD SPONSOR
UPLAND SECONDSTREET
Gold Sponsor
https://uplandsoftware.com/secondstreet/
Second Street helps thousands of companies grow revenue, consumer databases, and engage with their audiences through viral digital promotions including giveaways, quizzes, best of ballots, polls, photo and video contests, surveys, and more.
Create smart and engaging interactive campaigns that capture actionable zero-party consumer insights and deliver proven, measurable ROI for your advertisers. Choose from over 1,000 ready to go customizable templates, and access Second Street LAB, an online customer portal filled with playbooks, best practices guides, and contest ideas.
Second Street not only gives partners an extremely easy to use platform to do this on their own, but also helps ensure their success with expert strategy and support along the way. Learn more at https://uplandsoftware.com/secondstreet
Sales Contact: Tom McLaughlin, Account Executive
2025 GOLD SPONSOR
IPROMOTE
Gold Sponsor
www.ipromote.com
iPromote’s proprietary technology has broken down the barriers to online advertising by automatically creating professional advertising packages using the relevant content of a web page. This allows businesses and consumers the ability to reach their customers locally, regionally, nationally or even globally.
Through its relationships with global publishers, the iPromote™ Ad Network gives the advertisers the power to reach millions of unique potential customers. In addition, the AdXpert™ Serving Technology, developed over more than a decade of online advertising research, adjusts when and where ads are displayed to maximize each one’s conversion potential.
Sales Contact: Kristine Pratt, Director of Marketing
2025 GOLD SPONSOR
FLUENCY
Gold Sponsor
www.fluency.inc
Fluency is the first and only digital advertising operating system for organizations that manage complex paid media portfolios.
As the only solution that combines purpose-built Robotic Process Automation for Advertising with secure and integrated AI, Fluency eliminates repetitive and time-consuming tasks and enables precision execution.
The result drives groundbreaking scalability, time savings, operational efficiency, and profitability for the agencies and brands we serve.
Sales Contact: Heather Chevalley, Vice President, Growth
2025 PARTNER SPONSOR
CHARTBEAT
Partner Sponsor
www.chartbeat.com
Sales Contact: Amanda Montgomery, North America Commercial Director
2025 PARTNER SPONSOR
IPUBLISH MEDIA
Partner Sponsor
www.ipublishmedia.com
iPublish Media is the industry leader in self serve advertising. In fact we currently work with hundreds of publishers every day to process thousands of jobs. Finally, a self serve advertising platform that is easy to use and provides the performance and versatility to create and sell any print, digital or social advertising campaign, for any product or platform, 24/7/365.
Sales Contact: Malcolm McGrory, Business Development
2025 PARTNER SPONSOR
MIRABEL TECHNOLOGIES
Partner Sponsor
www.mirabeltechnologies.com
Mirabel Technologies is a privately owned international software company that empowers businesses to grow. Mirabel Technologies began in 2003 with the original vision to help magazine publishers in a challenging media environment. Drawing from experience in the publishing industry, Mirabel President Mark McCormick introduced Mirabel’s first product: The Magazine Manager. It was the first web-based publishing CRM and now serves more 24,000 publications worldwide.
Since then, the suite of SaaS products grew to include DigitalStudio, Digital Media Manager, The Newspaper Manager, Flip & Share, Mirabel’s Marketing Manager, and Clean Your List. Each product expands Mirabel Technologies into new industries to provide clean, streamlined solutions to marketing, sales, and more.
Contact: Jakob Fenger, Technical Sales Director
2025 PARTNER SPONSOR
AFFINITYX
Partner Sponsor
www.affinityx.com
AffinityX is the global leader in results-driven marketing and advertising solutions. Utilizing our proprietary performance data derived from millions of engagements and driven by next-generation technology, the AffinityX team simplifies the complexity of omnichannel marketing for clients of all sizes, resulting in high-impact solutions crafted with precision to achieve your goals efficiently and cost-effectively.
Sales Contact: David McTarnaghan, CEO, AffinityX
2025 PARTNER SPONSOR
RIBEYE
Partner Sponsor
www.ribeye.media
Founded in 2023, Ribeye's team of industry veterans is dedicated to developing cutting-edge programmatic advertising solutions tailored for the local media marketplace.
By learning from the shortcomings of legacy ad tech platforms, Ribeye provides solutions that are user-friendly, seamlessly integrate into your company’s workflow, and offer complete transparency to ensure confidence in the inventory you buy and sell.
Sales Contact: Jen Scilabro, Chief Growth Officer
2025 PARTNER SPONSOR
SEMIFY
Partner Sponsor
www.semify.com
From 5-client agencies to enterprise level orgs with thousands of campaigns who need high-caliber, dependable results for their white label SEO, PPC, Facebook Ads, and TikTok Ads, Semify handles any niche and industry to supercharge your business and get top-notch results.
Sales contact: Sara Droke, SVP, Sales
2025 PARTNER SPONSOR
BURT INTELLIGENCE
Partner Sponsor
www.burtintelligence.com/
Burt Intelligence is the only decision intelligence platform built specifically for media professionals. Burt helps ad ops, programmatic yield, and sales teams take back their Monday and get out of VLOOKUP jail by putting all the data they need in one place. Burt enables the world's largest media businesses to make data-driven decisions, driving revenue growth and operational efficiency.
Founded in Sweden, the Burt Intelligence team is now distributed globally with headquarters in New York, supporting its growing base of customers across all time zones.
Sales contact: Richard Conklin, Sales Director
2025 PARTNER SPONSOR
VCITA
Partner Sponsor
www.vcita.com
Vcita is an SMB technology company dedicated to helping small businesses thrive in today’s digital world. Its AI-driven platform empowers SMBs to manage leads, scheduling, billing, marketing, and client engagement more efficiently.
For enterprises that serve SMBs, vcita offers inTandem: a customizable, white-label platform that brings these tools under their brand. With inTandem, publishers, media companies, agencies and telcos can deliver real value to SMB clients, unlock new recurring revenue, and reduce churn. Trusted by hundreds of thousands of SMBs worldwide, vcita enables partners to stand out with solutions that drive growth for their clients and themselves.
Sales contact: Dawn Trubow, Business Development Manager
2025 PARTNER SPONSOR
MEDIAOS
Partner Sponsor
www.mediaos.com
MediaOS blends CRM precision with CDP intelligence, giving you everything you need to engage readers, close deals and grow your business.
With a suite of solutions designed to meet the specific challenges of the publishing industry — including ad operations, audience engagement, subscription/membership management and cutting-edge publishing tools — MediaOS is built around industry best practices and emerging trends. We have one goal in mind: Maximizing your revenue.
Sales contact: BOOK A DEMO
2025 PARTNER SPONSOR
NINJA CAT
Partner Sponsor
www.ninjacat.io
The NinjaCat is the AI-Enabled Data & Analytics Platform Made for Marketing. Powered by the industry’s most transformational data model for multi-channel digital marketing performance analytics, NinjaCat connects hundreds of marketing data sources into a single platform for AI-powered analysis. Marketers using NinjaCat can build and automate beautiful reports and dashboards at scale. By eliminating manual data wrangling and accelerating time to insight, NinjaCat’s reporting and campaign monitoring solutions empower teams to communicate quickly and insightfully to prove the effectiveness of their marketing efforts to business stakeholders.
See NinjaCat in Action; https://www.ninjacat.io/forms/demo-request
2025 PARTNER SPONSOR
BRIDGE
Partner Sponsor
www.thebridgecorp.com
BRIDGE is the people-based marketing platform that helps you rise above advertising complexity. We can connect you to your true buying audience. Because we already know your next customer.
Sales contact:
2025 HAPPY HOUR SPONSOR
MARFEEL
Happy Hour Sponsor - Friday
www.marfeel.com
Marfeel offers no-code analytics solutions for more than 100 publishers in North America, Latin America and Europe. Developed specifically for publishers and through multiple unique flows and dashboards, Marfeel’s lightning-fast platform makes it possible for teams to make data-driven decisions in a heartbeat. Teams easily align around effective strategies with everything they need for content production, audience development, SEO, subscriptions and monetization — all in one place.
Sales Contact: Julio Medrano, Sr. Director, Business Development
2025 HAPPY HOUR SPONSOR
VISTAR MEDIA
Happy Hour Sponsor - Thursday
www.vistarmedia.com
Vistar Media is the home of out-of-home. Out there, in the streets, ad space intersects time and place. It’s a part of life. OOH campaigns inform, entertain, attract - and they can change the course of someone’s afternoon. At Vistar Media, we facilitate that serendipity hundreds of thousands of times a day. Our goal is simple: to help marketers leverage OOH’s unique ability to motivate and delight. Persuade and captivate. Stand out and blend in. Through our truly intelligent platform that hosts the world’s most extensive OOH inventory, we provide the scale, data, and expertise that allow brands to capture a better, gentler kind of attention. We believe that OOH is both timeless and future-proof. Why? Because it speaks to the human need to look up and around, but it’s always evolving and improving, infusing novelty into everyday life and opening up new opportunities. With Vistar, OOH is not only the most enduring channel in media, it’s also getting better every day. We’ll see you out there.
Sales Contact: Dave Rivera, Head of Channel Partnerships
2025 AWARD SPONSOR
POPMOUNT
Award Sponsor
As a strategic partner we will add value to your business and your product by expanding on what you already offer – Articles, “Best Ofs”, Celebrations, Advertorials and more. The work is already done, by monetizing your existing content we help you take it to the next level.
Sales Contact: Danielle Jongewaard, Business Development
INDUSTRY PARTNERS
EDITOR & PUBLISHER
Industry Partner
Editor & Publisher (E&P) Magazine has been the authoritative voice of the news publishing industry for more than 140 years, serving as the go-to resource for leaders navigating change. Every month, more than 50,000 professionals visit our website, thousands read our print and digital magazine, and 32,000+ receive our daily newsletters — a powerful cross-platform reach unmatched in the industry. Our audience includes C-suite executives, publishers, editors, and revenue leaders across every segment of local news publishing, from family-owned community papers to regional media groups and digital-first startups.
Sales Contact: Kim Safran, Chief Revenue Officer, Editor & Publisher Magazine