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Social Media Week is remodelling the conference format and in-turn creating new opportunities for brands to engage with an incredibly broad and diverse audience consisting of hyper-social influencers. For sponsorship information and to learn how you can engage with Social Media Week London’s audience, please fill out our sponsorship questionnaire.
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City Supporting Sponsors
Vitrue is the leading social marketing platform, offering software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions to help brands and agencies harness the marketing potential of social and manage their expanding and sophisticated social communities on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube and emerging platforms. The industry-leading VitrueSocial Relationship Management (SRM) platform is currently managing over one billion
collective social connections for it’s clients in 100 countries. READ MORE
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Betapond is a Facebook marketing technology company. We make applications that are social by design for global brands that live in the real world.
We’re recognised experts at helping brands inspire their consumers to share stories of real world experiences in social media. Our team’s heritage in product engineering means we tend to think beyond the next campaign to social products of lasting value.
And we’re as comfortable talking to CIOs as CMOs.
Betapond is a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer. Our clients include M&S,
Unilever, Intel, Avis, Red Bull, Tourism Ireland, The Met Office, Paddy Power.
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Founded in 2001 and part of the Syzygy Group, Unique is a full service digital marketing agency. We bring the innovation, performance and close client relationships of an independent backed by the strength of the WPP network.
Unique represents some of the world’s best brands across an array of industries
from travel, retail, and finance to luxury, technology, and FMCG. We have some
of the best people in the business, most multilingual, covering 40 countries and
23 languages. We are bold, not afraid to take a few risks to reap some big rewards,
and never forget that creativity, strategy and technology are ultimately about very
human interactions and relationships. READ MORE
Hub Supporting Sponsors
Constant Contact wrote the book on Engagement Marketing™ – the new marketing success formula that helps small organizations create and grow customer relationships in today’s socially connected world. More than half a million small businesses, not-for-profits and associations worldwide use the company’s online marketing tools to generate new customers, repeat business, and referrals through
email marketing, social media marketing, event marketing, local deals, digital
storefronts, and online surveys. Only Constant Contact offers the proven combination
of affordable tools and free KnowHow, including local seminars, personal coaching
and award-winning product support. The company further supports small organizations
through its extensive network of consultants/resellers, technology providers, franchises
and national associations. READ MORE
EngageSciences is a social marketing platform provider with a difference. Avoiding the rigid templates of the first generation of vendors, brands can deliver exceptionally rich social experiences to engage consumers. Using social data to build up a unique picture of how people are interacting with brands and how they are influencing their friends to engage, EngageSciences gives marketers the tools to run ongoing
advocacy programs to increase the lifetime value of fans.
With offices in London, Oxford and New York the company has clients in over 50
countries including brands such as Net A Porter, Play.com, Nokia, Stella Artois,
Daily Mail Group and Home Shopping Network. The capabilities of the platform
are backed-up by a world-class services team of experienced social marketers.
During Social Media Week, EngageSciences will be providing a sneak preview of
the latest version of the platform, due for launch in Q4 2012, to get feedback from
the social media community. We believe that our new release provides significant
innovations in how to bridge community management and marketing, helping
social media managers win more influence with senior management. Come see us,
we want your feedback! READ MORE
Hub Supporting Partners
Campus, powered by Google, offers seven floors of flexible work spaces, free high speed internet and all the support you need to fuel your ideas. We host mentoring programmes, speaker series, networking events and much much more. So if you’re a London-based startup or are just passing through town, we invite you to join the Campus community. Let’s fill this town with startups. READ MORE
Engine is the UK’s largest and fastest growing independent communications company, providing a full breath of marketing services covering advertising, social media, sponsorship, marketing, brand reputation, public relations and brand consultancy. We have 13 agencies in the group, who between them work with one in five of the UK’s top 100 marketing spenders.
Engine has offices in London, New York, Shanghai, Hong Kong, San Francisco,
Brussels and Edinburgh. Wherever we are we are recognised as leaders of our respective
fields. Channel agnostic, technology agnostic and geographically flexible. But always
the best. READ MORE
Exmouth House Social, formed as part of the Feb ‘12 Social Media Week London event, is a collaboration of digital and social agencies who practise under one roof, at Exmouth House, Farringdon.
For over a decade, Tempero has provided social media management for some of the
world’s largest brands and organisations such as the BBC, Sony, British Airways,
Activision, McDonald’s and many more. Our core services of strategy, insight,
moderation and engagement come together to form the complete suite of elements
required to run effective and efficient social media activity, 24/7 in over 15 languages.
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Founded in 2004, Facebook’s mission is to make the world more open and connected. People use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what’s going on in the world, and to share and express what matters to them. READ MORE
Hub Westminster launched in October 2011, as a place for peer collaborations, with a mission to help 1,000 entrepreneurs, impact ventures & changemakers to drive their inventions and innovations from idea to action and impact. We are a community of inventors, venture capitalists, community activists, designers, engineers, scientists and policy makers working together to deliver world changing projects ranging from democratising financial tools, to smart energy devices and public service innovation.
We are located in Pall Mall, right in the heart of London, with 12,000 sq ft of superstudio
space with 160 touchdown workspaces, cafe lounge, innovation greenhouses, strategy
theatre, 100Mbs hi-speed wifi and 100 person lecture space, hosting weekly events, Hub
Academy – a top up learning programme for startups, seminars and lectures from leading
business and innovation experts.
The Hub is a global community of 5000 changemakers, social startups and entrepreneurs
in 26 locations across 5 continents, seeking to create ventures and solutions to the most
intractable social, cultural and economic challenges and opportunities facing our world.
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The state-of-the-art O2 Workshop provides a relaxed space to get business advice and support when you need it. The O2 Workshop offers two drop in workstations, meeting booths and private rooms which play host to business events seven days a week. We offer free these space free of charge including free O2 Wi-fi, refreshments and printing facilities.
O2 Workshop staff have been given Sight Loss Awareness and Deaf Awareness
training, as supported by the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) and
Action on Hearing Loss (formerly the Royal National Institute for the Deaf – RNID).
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The Social Partners exists to help you become the brand your customers want you to be.
From listening panels and blogger out-reach initiatives to influencer identification and social CRM programmes, we offer a full range of specialist end-to-end social marketingservices and solutions to help you adapt to the new social economy.
Winner of the first WARC Global Grand Prix for Word of Mouth Marketing. Gold Euro
EFFIE winner. Winner of the European Excellence Award. READ MORE
Unruly is the award-winning global platform for social video advertising. With offices in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, London, Berlin, Paris, Stockholm, Amsterdam, and Sydney, Unruly has delivered, tracked & audited 1.65 billion video views and executed 2,000+ successful social video campaigns for global brands and agencies, including
T-Mobile’s acclaimed Life’s for Sharing series, Evian’s global Roller Babies hit and
Heineken’s Open Your World campaign. Unruly distributes video and rich media formats
across platforms, including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, premium publisher sites,
influential blogs and mobile applications. With a global audience of 917 million monthly
unique visitors, Unruly has a worldwide reach of 62.1% (Comscore, Media Metrix,
April 2012). Unruly’s mission is simple: to deliver the most awesome social video
campaigns on the planet. READ MORE
SMWLDN Knowledge Partner
McKinsey & Company is a management consulting firm that helps leading corporations and organisations make distinctive, lasting and substantial improvements in their performance. Over the past eight decades, the Firm’s primary objective has remained constant: to serve as an organisation’s most trusted external advisor on critical issues facing senior management. With consultants deployed from over 90
offices in more than 50 countries, McKinsey advises companies on strategic,
operational, organisational and technological issues. The Firm has extensive
experience in all major industry sectors and primary functional areas as well as
in-depth expertise in high-priority areas for today’s business leaders.
Closing Party Sponsor
Adobe® Social combines the key capabilities of social marketing within one application, including the ability to publish content across social networks, amplify that content with social ads, listen to the conversation, and respond in real time. Most importantly, Adobe Social gives marketers visibility beyond what happens on social networks, allowing them to understand how their social media efforts are impacting
purchases and brand value. With these components working in concert, Adobe
Social helps brands simplify their efforts at scale, discover what works, and execute
social media based on business results. READ MORE
SMWLDN Hotel Partner
Sanderson, the second hotel founded by Ian Schrager in London, is an extraordinary “Urban Spa”—the first of it’s kind—that represents the “Next Wave” of hotel. It is an ironic combination—a balancing act—between extravagance and pure simplicity. This modern classic offers a “New Luxury” that celebrates opulence, glamour, and style as well as spirituality and well-being, but all in a way that is pared down and tempered with
a healthy dose of wit and restraint. Sanderson, which followed the triumphal opening of
Morgans Hotel Group’s electric and thrilling St Martins Lane, is a magical and serenely
elegant sanctuary, a genuine “Oasis” in the midst of one of Europe’s busiest, most
cosmopolitan cities. READ MORE
Premium Event Partners
Open to Export is an innovative new online service giving you access to a wealth of information, helping you to consider new markets and find new customers overseas. If you have a question about exporting, then post it on the Open to Export platform. You’ll receive answers from UKtrade officers in Embassies and High Commissions, as well as recognised experts around the world.
Register for free today for the help you need to grow your business overseas.
Premium Pass Partner
Eventbrite is an online service that people everywhere use to create, share, and join any event imaginable. Whether it’s a photography class with a local artist, or a sold-out concert in a city stadium, Eventbrite makes it happen. We enable event creation, promotion and ticket sales. We help people discover events that match their passions. And we let everyone share the events they’re creating or joining, bringing more people
together around the world.
Transport Partner
Founded by three London cabbies and three tech entrepreneurs, Hailo is a mobile app and black cab driver community that enables Londoners to hail licensed taxis with ‘just two taps’ from practically anywhere. No more flailing arms in the cold and rain, trying their luck with cab roulette.
Customers can use cash, cards or account and pay just the meter, with no hidden
or extra fees. Hailo cabs arrive (and even wait for 5 minutes) before turning on the
meter. For London’s 23,000 black cabbies, the Hailo app is a real driver’s companion –
offering jobs, credit card processing, driver-generated traffic and demand alerts, private
stats and social features.
The Hailo app is free to download for both passengers and drivers and is now available in
Dublin with launches also planned for New York, Toronto, Chicago and Boston.
Careers Day Supporting Sponsor
JobisJob is an online marketing tool in the recruiting ecosystem. Since 2007 we have been driving high quality candidates to job Boards and recruiters worldwide, as we’re present in 22 countries. As a succesful job search engine, we increase our customers visibility and their job listing exposure. United Kingdom is one of our main markets in which we offer more than 1M job offers to candidates and we’re positioned as one of
the TOP10 job sites (september 2012- Hitwise data).
Media Partners
BusinessZone.co.uk is a leading online community offering free, practical and no-nonsense advice on starting and growing a business. Through engaging video content, interviews with leading entrepreneurs and extensive opportunities for networking, the website is a small company owner’s indispensable guide to business success.
Founded in 1999, Econsultancy has grown to become the world’s leading source of independent advice and insight on digital marketing and ecommerce. At the core of the business is a community where the world’s digital marketing and ecommerce professionals meet to sharpen their strategy, source suppliers, get quick answers, compare notes, help each other out and discover how to do everything better online. Our
reports, events, online resources and training programs help more than 130,000 members
to make better decisions, build business cases, find the best suppliers, look smart in
meetings and accelerate their careers.
The Fetch helps professionals discover what’s happening in their city. It uncovers the community, bringing the best info, events and opportunities in one place. Subscribe to a biweekly must-read email digest to get everything you need to know.
The Guardian Media Network provides cutting-edge insight, comment and networking for professionals working in global media and technology.
A community like no other, the Guardian Media Network engages with media and tech professionals like you in the UK and worldwide. As a member you’ll be brought up to
speed with progress and the latest trends in your sector, develop your career and your
skills and network with your peers internationally both on and offline with
international peers, prospects and competitors. Join your colleagues in this free
community and be the first to hear breaking news, gain exclusive event discounts and
get a first look at tailored job roles. Sign up for free here.
The Financial Times (FT), one of the world’s leading business news organisations, is recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. Providing essential news, comment, data and analysis for the global business community, the FT has a combined paid print and digital circulation of almost 600,000 (Deloitte assured, 2 April 2012 – 1 July 2012) and a combined print and online average daily readership of 2.1
million people worldwide (PwC assured, May 2012). FT.com has more than 4.8 million
registered users and over 300,000 paying digital subscribers. The newspaper has a
global print circulation of 290,765 (ABC, July 2012).
Mobile Monday London is the community for people involved in building and deploying mobile products, services and experiences. We have put on over 80 free events since November 2005 and through our online presence, we’ve helped Mobile Monday members track topical trends and meet the right people. We provide a forum within which funding, mergers & acquisitions and fruitful partnerships take place. Visit
our Website http://mobilemonday.org.uk for information about the community and past
events and follow us on Twitter to keep up to date @MoMoLondon. READ MORE
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Founded in January 2008, 
Newspepper is a four-year-old Internet media company specializing in marketing, PR and content creation around online video. Video has been a huge area of growth in the past few years and we believe it’s the future of communicating your products or services to your next generation of clients. Our focus is in video production, livestreaming, guerilla marketing, and the optimization of content,
making sure it gets in front of the right eyeballs.
Our Social Times is one of the UK’s leading social media agencies. Founded and run by Luke Brynley-Jones and based in Cambridge, the company provides social media consultancy and runs high value conferences and workshops around
Europe along with providing in house training. Consultancy clients include Orange
Business Services, Rank Interactive (whose brands include Blue Square and
Mecca Bingo) and The Telegraph Media Group.
No-one will dispute that social media has transformed the way companies communicate with their customers and their employees. And it’s done so in a few short years. Social Media Influence’s editors have been documenting this transformation since the beginning and today SMI is considered essential reading for both FTSE 100 communication executives looking for insight and analysis on social media and the
many agencies and social business enterprise firms now providing social media
services, tools and expertise.
SMI delivers must-read reports, analyses and original research on the latest digital/
social/mobile trends impacting today’s business leaders. SMI is an influential voice
in the social sector. SMI’s original research, insights and reports have been quoted
by Reuters, US News & World Report, The Guardian, Fortune, Ad Age, Newsweek,
CNN, ReadWriteWeb, BBC and The Washington Post, plus scores of industry blogs.
Contact info@socialmediainfluence.com for details.
StartUp Britain is a national campaign by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, harnessing the expertise and passion of Britain’s leading businesspeople to celebrate, inspire and accelerate enterprise in the UK. The campaign was founded by eight entrepreneurs and launched on 28th March 2011 by the Prime Minister, with the full support of the Chancellor and HM Government, although it is completely funded by their private-sector
sponsors (AXA, Dell, Intel, Intuit, Magento Go and PayPal). StartUp Britain are truly
passionate about promoting entrepreneurship and its benefits to our economy and
they do this by highlighting the myriad of support that is available to those who wish to
start or grow a business, galvanising support where they see a demand and by acting as
a voice for small businesses to Government.
TNW is a blog network with its roots in the annual conference of the same name in Amsterdam. We invite thought leaders and Internet entrepreneurs from all around the world to share their views on the future of the web. Covering technology news, business and culture the blog has grown to serve 1.5 million unique readers every month and developed a reputation for breaking major Internet news stories from around the globe.
Our network of writers across Europe, Australasia, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and
North & South America means that if it’s worth hearing about – you’ll hear it from us.
We Are Social We Are Social is a conversation agency with offices in New York, London, Paris, Milan, Munich, Singapore, Sydney & São Paulo. We help brands to listen, understand and engage in conversations in social media.
We’re a new kind of agency that combines an innate understanding of social media with digital, PR and marketing skills. With an international team of over 240, we work with
clients worldwide including adidas, Heinz, Unilever, Heineken, eBay, Jaguar, Intel, Moët &
Chandon and Expedia on global, regional and local projects.
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