Sponsors

UPM delivers renewable and responsible solutions and innovate for a future beyond fossils across six business areas: UPM Biorefining, UPM Energy, UPM Raflatac, UPM Specialty Papers, UPM Communication Papers and UPM Plywood. We employ around 19,000 people worldwide and our annual sales are approximately EUR 10.5 billion. Our shares are listed on Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. UPM Biofore – Beyond fossils.

PressReader is an all-you-can-read digital media platform that reaches millions of readers who use PressReader to read, share and talk about news. Full issues of 7,000+ global newspapers and magazines can be read online or downloaded to any smart device through the app. PressReader HotSpots offer sponsored access to PressReader at thousands of libraries, hotels, corporate offices, airlines, cruise lines and businesses worldwide. If you’re looking to grow global reach and revenues for your digital content, let’s talk!

AdvantageCS has been developing subscription management solutions for the information industry since 1979. The comprehensive functionality, adaptability, and scalability of our Advantage software helps leading publishers around the world manage their businesses more effectively. They rely on us for superior software, the expertise of our people and our dedication to true partnership–we want to make our clients happy for years and years and we’ll do whatever it takes. Members Advantage, a fully-integrated AMS, is the latest addition to the Advantage solution.

Axate is a federated payment wallet for digital media. Publishers can use it to enable casual, instant payments for their digital products. Users can take their wallet to any participating site and pay effortlessly for what they want – without commitment. As the network grows, so do the opportunities and rewards for all. Axate is a better way for people to pay the price you choose for the journalism you create. Simple.

Better than Paper is a digital publishing platform which rapidly creates fully personalised magazines across all devices. The platform is cost effective, simple to use, quick to set up and integrates seamlessly with existing publisher IT systems. Our publishing platform has powerful tools to rapidly launch and successfully manage digital publications. These enable you to create meaningful personal relationships with your readers by using the latest AI technology, automated content tagging, geo-synchronised content, active and passive personalisation tools, polls and surveys with personalised push notifications, and e-newsletters.

With no more expensive production or maintenance costs, publishers can unlock the real value of their editorial content through continuous and real-time publishing. By removing the need for costly developers and designers, combined with the inclusion of drag and drop features, we save valuable time and costs on production, editorial workflows, IT and design. Our publishing product caters for all types of budgets and we can tailor a solution for specific requirements.

Be it creating royal family bookazines with Reach PLC (the UK’s biggest newspaper group), securing a JV for a Singaporean educational publisher to launch their pan-Asian kids newspaper, sourcing video content for Chinese steaming services, or resurrecting advertising sales for The National Enquirer’s foreign edition, we’ve done it.

As the analytics partner for more than 50,000 leading media sites around the globe, Chartbeat helps you strengthen the connection between article and audience to deepen reader engagement and take content to new heights.

Department for International Trade (DIT) is the Government department that helps UK businesses export and grow into global markets. It also helps overseas companies locate and grow in the UK. DIT provides access to a regional network of international trade specialists across the UK, live export opportunities on the exportingisgreat.gov.uk website and programmes for tradeshow access, overseas market introductions, e-exporting, high value opportunities and bidding for international aid agency projects.

DIT London Region supports small to medium businesses (SMEs) in London to develop their international sales. We help first time or experienced exporters enter new markets. Our International Trade Advisers (ITAs) provide advice and support to businesses through services tailored to their needs and sector specialism.

Everlytic is a digital communication platform that helps your business communicate personally, reliably, and automatically over email, SMS, and voice broadcasting – at scale.

With Everlytic, bulk digital communication is quick, easy, and targeted. The platform gives you the tools to create personalised email, SMS, and voice campaigns that can send automatically to as many (or as few) contacts as you want; building rich relationships throughout the communication journey.

Future is a global platform for specialist media with scalable, diversified brands. We connect people to their passions through the high-quality content we create, the innovative technology we pioneer and the engaging experiences we deliver. We’re the name behind successful brands in specialist consumer and B2B sectors including: knowledge, technology, gaming & entertainment, music, creative & photography, home interest, education and television. Every year we attract millions of consumers to our brands’ websites, magazines, events and social spaces. Our partners look to us to make unique and valuable connections in a number of ways including creative advertising solutions, memorable live experiences, superior eCommerce technology, and innovative media services.

Immediate Media Co is the special interest content and platform company. Our fast-growing, multi-platform media business is home to over 1,300 people across eight divisions. We own and operate some of the best-loved brands in the UK. And we only focus on special interest markets, engaging over 19 million passionate consumers each month, offering them world-class content and innovative new products and services – including ecommerce and TV shopping.

Immediate operates over 75 consumer brands. We sell over 76 million magazines each year and engage 35 million unique users every month. With over 1.3 million active subscribers, our audiences are affluent and loyal to their favourite brands. And with more than 80 licensed editions globally, the universal appeal of our content and brands make us one of the largest licensors of magazine media brands in Europe.

Our wholly-owned brands include Radio Times, olive, Homes & Antiques, hitched, Cycling Plus, JewelleryMaker, Bike Radar, MadeForMums, You&YourWedding and Mollie Makes. We publish BBC Top Gear, BBC Good Food, and BBC EasyCook on behalf of BBC Worldwide as well as BBC History, BBC Gardeners’ World, BBC Focus and the CBeebies portfolio, under licence. Immediate also publishes Lonely Planet Traveller magazine for LPGL.
Immediate was named Media Company of the Year at the 2015 British Media Awards and Digital Publisher of the Year at the 2017 AOP Awards.

KameraOne™ provides trending and engaging short-form video stories every day, capturing the latest global news/events, recent discoveries and innovation, amazing performances, funniest moments and much more. We empower digital publishers to engage their audiences across multiple platforms, increasing eyeballs, user retention, maximising ad revenues and driving growth.

We partner with digital publishers across more than 20 countries in multiple languages, empowering them to inform, educate and entertain 500M+ consumers.

Our daily curated selection of brand-safe professionally produced video stories are sourced from our ‘unique’ premium content network and seamlessly delivered, allowing stories to be customised or instantly published.

Discover the power of KameraOne and engage your audience with captivating video stories every day!

Magazines Canada is the national trade association representing the leading Canadian-owned, Canadian content consumer, cultural, specialty, professional and business media magazines in the country. Hundreds of French and English member titles span a wide range of topics including business, professional, news, politics, sports, arts and culture, leisure, lifestyle, women and youth. The association concentrates on government affairs, services to the advertising trade, circulation marketing and professional development.

Our global presence allows to sustain our brand thanks to our unique mindset, established values and most importantly, our people. At Mather, we encourage confidence and a unique vision to empower positive change in our processes. We have built a collaborative environment that allows us to celebrate our clients success.

Meredith Corporation has been committed to service journalism for more than 115 years. Meredith uses multiple distribution platforms—including broadcast television, print, digital, mobile and video—to provide consumers with content they desire and to deliver the messages of its advertising and marketing partners. Meredith’s National Media Group reaches more than 190 million unduplicated American consumers every month, including over 90 percent of U.S. millennial women. Meredith is the No. 1 magazine operator in the U.S. and owner of the largest premium content digital network for American consumers. Meredith’s Local Media Group includes 17 television stations, reaching 11 percent of U.S. households. Meredith’s brands also reach audiences in 70 countries around the world through international editions and other brand extensions.

Permutive is only data management platform built with edge computing. It’s designed to protect user privacy, future proof your business against the decline of third-party cookies and increase data driven ad revenues. Our clients include BuzzFeed, BurdaForward, Business Insider, The Guardian and The Economist.

Pugpig is the publishing platform behind the biggest names in media from The Economist and NewsCorp to Conde Nast, Hearst Magazines and Tortoise. Our fully hosted SaaS platform provides you with everything you need to launch and run publishing websites and mobile apps with no effort at all. Pugpig brings together your content, members, live events and so much more to give you a truly end-to-end publishing platform in a box. We’re so much more than digital editions…

Readly is a digital subscription service that lets customers have unlimited access to nearly 5,000 national and international magazines – all in one app. Readly is today one of the leading companies in digital magazine subscriptions in Europe with users in 50 markets. In collaboration with around 800 publishers worldwide, Readly is digitizing the magazine industry.

Our purpose is to bring the magic of magazines into the future, enabling the discovery and survival of quality content. During 2019 Readly distributed more than 120,000 issues of magazines that have been read 83 million times.

sub(x) makes using AI-based Machine Learning for online customer acquisition a reality for any size of business.

We deliver Machine Learning as-a-service that’s no more taxing than using familiar tools to augment existing team capabilities.

What makes us different is our Universal Machine Learning Model.

Our advanced approach delivers AI-based customer acquisition at a fraction of the time and cost of doing it in-house for online businesses who wish to engage more customers onsite and convert more transactions.

Syno International was founded in 2014 by a group of professionals with an extensive experience in technology and market research. Offices in London, Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Stockholm, Tokyo, Vilnius and Warsaw serves clients in a broad range of industries with data solutions to support their business needs. Our current work includes advertising evaluations, concept evaluations, KPI tracking and reporting, data integrations, user identity matching, opinion polling, community administration and much more.We work closely with clients within the following sectors and industries: Beverages, FMCG, medical products, management consultants, media agencies, publishers, adtech, PR agencies, research companies among others.

Media companies and content creators struggle to monetise their audiences in a sustainable way. Tipser’s e-commerce technology turns digital audiences into revenue and valuable consumer data. We are experts in enabling embedded shopping experiences on any platform.

Tipser is an innovative Scandinavian tech company with an international team working on the future of content monetisation. Our head office is based in Stockholm with further locations in Wroclaw and Barcelona. Tipser’s monetisation technology helps keep Europe’s leading media houses independent.

Wright’s Media provides award and editorial licensing solutions to businesses such as Conde Nast, Hearst, Meredith Corporation, Informa and U.S. News & World Report, that drives revenue and steers brands to the forefront of content licensing. Whether seeking to outsource reprints, monetize current content or build new licensing programs, Wright’s is one of the publishing industry’s most respected providers of multimedia and content management solutions.

Established in 1986, Air Business is a market-leader in global mail, fulfilment, distribution and subscription management. In 2011, we acquired a well-established global subscription management bureau, formerly known as Quadrant Subscription Services, with over 45 years’ experience in its field. We serve many of the UK’s leading businesses across a diverse range of sectors such as publishing, memberships, associations and e-commerce. Our unique end-to-end service portfolio includes subscriber acquisition and marketing strategy, worldwide postal and courier distribution, digital and mail fulfilment solutions and warehouse and freight logistics, all with exceptional and seamless customer service at its heart.

We are a wholly-owned subsidiary of An Post, the Irish Post Office, one of the world’s leading postal services renowned for its quality of service and infrastructure. This gives us the best of both worlds; having the freedom to operate independently whilst also benefiting from the backing and support of a national post office.
As strategic partner of the Professional Publishers’ Association (PPA) since 2010, we are committed to being more than just a supplier. We are a visible and active supporter of the industries we serve.

Axel Springer is a media and technology company and active in more than 40 countries. By providing information across its diverse media brands (among others BILD, WELT, BUSINESS INSIDER, POLITICO Europe) and classifieds portals (StepStone Group and AVIV Group) Axel Springer SE empowers people to make free decisions for their lives. Established by the publisher of the same name in 1946, today, the transformation from a traditional print media company to Europe’s leading digital publisher has been successfully accomplished. The company is headquartered in Berlin and employs more than 16,000 people worldwide.

Bloomberg Media Distribution provides the Bloomberg Terminal, as well as video, text news, photos and data, to publishers, broadcasters and other media companies in more than 130 countries. Providing clients with a single destination for Bloomberg and partner content, Bloomberg Media Distribution’s content offerings span business and finance, politics, technology, entertainment, music, sports and health and science discoveries. The group is also responsible for linear video distribution and branded partnerships around the globe.

For more than a decade, BlueToad has been the digital content partner of choice for thousands of publishers in the U.S. to create and monetize beautifully responsive digital editions and web content. BlueToad is now bringing its robust solution and partner-focused service to Europe with the opening of an office in London. Trusted to deliver content to millions of readers on browsers and devices across the globe, BlueToad is leading the industry in emerging technologies like mobile editions, responsive web content, audio articles, and (coming soon) virtual reality. BlueToad’s Lily Platform is a mature, industry-leading product designed specifically to create rich and engaging mobile editions from print-ready PDFs in just three business days. The BlueToad Platform is built on HTML 5 and native app technologies and offers a variety of unique monetization opportunities.

The Cloud-based ad sales platform.BrightMedia, built by BrightGen, is a solution to help you sell ad space more efficiently. With BrightMedia publishers can sell ad space across any media channel, check available inventory at the click of a button and monetise audience to generate additional revenue. It’s integrated with all major accounting and print/digital ad operations solutions, is fully mobile and built on Salesforce, the number one cloud platform in the world.

A Salesforce Platinum Partner for 11 years, BrightGen helps organisations get the most value from Salesforce through a full range of services from strategy, consulting and implementation to custom application development and managed support. BrightGen provide the expertise and strategic thinking that enable organisations to transform and power ahead. We are the number one choice for businesses that need results fast. Our Media clients include Northern & Shell, Guardian News & Media and Hubert Burda Media.

CCI Europe provides the platform that supports the evolving needs of cross-channel publishing as well as print and digital distribution. Our scalable solutions help magazines and media brands all over the world create engaging content and optimize their business strategies. Multi-channel publishing is a given in the CCI Magazine solution — and so is intuitive, easy access to all content, no matter its destination. Thanks to the way our solution organizes content, teamwork and collaboration can blossom – from planning to publication. The monetization of content across channels and brands could not be easier, reaching social media platforms and brand events, too. The CCI Magazine solution provides you with optimal tools for content organization, storage and reuse, layout editing, flat planning, image and video editing, text production, proof-reading, planning, collaboration and more.

CDS Global is the leading provider of end-to-end business process outsourcing. With more than 40 years of expertise, we manage 182 million consumers for more than 1,000 brands across the globe.

We are a Universal, Smart Content Management software vendor that supplies a content and marketing platform to global brands such as Dyson, Jaguar Land Rover, Kohls and Hearst Magazines that has enabled their digital transformation to provide multi-channel, multi-language, personalized communication to their audiences.

Dennis’ vision is to be the most dynamic media company in the UK. We are dedicated to growing Britain’s best loved media brands, restlessly innovating across different platforms to bring our audience new sources of inspiration, information and entertainment. Dennis has transformed its approach from its traditional print publishing roots to a multi-platform publishing and ecommerce business.Our portfolio of over 30 brands, operates in four areas of excellence: Current Affairs, Technology, Automotive and Lifestyle, reaching over 50 million unique users and selling over 2.5million magazines every month.Dennis brands are innovative, challenging and ambitious: that’s what makes us Brilliantly different… Creative to our fingertips and professional to the core.Dennis brands include The Week, EVO, Octane, Alphr.com, Cyclist and Viz. Dennis has been nominated for over 94 awards in the last year alone, and is the current holder of the PPA Digital Publishing Company of the Year, AOP Digital Publishing Company of the Year for 2015 & 2016, and the British Media Awards Media Company of the Year 2016 titles. For more information, go to Dennis.co.uk

Desk-Net (www.desk-net.com) is an editorial calendar software which assists newsrooms around the world to efficiently plan, assign, and manage content across any number of platforms.Desk-Net is used every day by thousands of users in hundreds of newsrooms and communication departments. Our clients include traditional local, regional and national publishers as well as online portals and specialized publishers such as Time Inc, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 20minutes.fr and even the L.A. Times.Our cloud-based editorial calendar software is customizable and is regularly updated to reflect the ever-evolving needs of our customers.

Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 125 years and today has one of the world’s largest news gathering operations globally. It produces leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America’s largest newspaper by paid circulation; Factiva, Barron’s, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Penta, Financial News, DJX, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, and Dow Jones VentureSource.

Editoriale Domus is one of Europe’s leading multi-platform publishing houses and has traditionally looked outside Italy to expand the reach of its category-leading media properties. We already cooperate internationally by means of distribution, content and licensing deals, editorial agreements and joint activities. With our portfolio of first-class special interest brands, all category leaders in their respective market segments, we offer distribution, licensing and content syndication services across print, web and mobile platforms. We work with some of the world’s leading publishers for our brands Domus, Quattroruote, Dueruote, Meridiani, Il Cucchiaio d’Argento and we are looking forward to discussing new international opportunitites.

Eidosmedia is a global leader in content management and publishing solutions. Our future-oriented platforms are designed for digital-first, and cover the creation, design and publication of engaging content for publishers, corporate and marketing departments. Our solutions power media brands all over the world with intuitive and accessible tools, delivering to the complete range of digital and traditional channels, from web and mobile to social and interactive media, as well as printed publication with highest demands on quality and productivity. The systems are used by large international organizations as well as regional groups with more than 30,000 users worldwide.

Erak Global Works Limited is dedicated to providing international services for publishers and media companies, ranging from licensing services and support, outsourcing, media translations, media support for publishers outside their own territories, international digital publishing support and content creation for both print and digital.

eZ Systems is a global content management platform provider that is dedicated to helping businesses maximize the value of their content and deliver digital experiences that foster growth. Our software eZ Platform helps developers, editors and marketers create content-rich websites and web applications—from brand sites, e-commerce and native apps to intranets, web portals and the Internet of Things. With eZ you have the tools to build long-lasting relationships with your end users throughout the customer journey—no matter the platform, channel or device.

EzyInsights has changed the way newsrooms work. Journalists and editors now react faster and more dynamically than ever before. EzyInsights is the fastest, most accurate content discovery tool available for publishers. Find out what to post, when to post, how to post it and how often.

Foremost 4 Media is a London based company focusing on the editorial and publishing needs of audience and clients in China and Europe. It’s publishing China Report, a monthly current affairs magazine on political and socio-cultural changes in China and their impact on the world. It also advises a publishing house on Chinese language learning and China-theme books and materials. Multicultural, Multi-lingual and multi-media, Foremost 4 Media serves as a bridge between Chinese and European businesses, cultures, media and societies.

FORTUNE is a global media company that grew out of the iconic magazine founded by Henry Luce in 1929. We help business leaders navigate rapid change in today’s business landscape, and improve their overall contributions to society. Today, FORTUNE serves nearly 20M business leaders via an extensive multiplatform media operation and a conference division that convenes global executives around the world.

In December 2018, the company was bought by Thai businessman Chatchaval Jiaravanon, and is held by FORTUNE Media Group Holdings in Hong Kong.

FORTUNE publishes daily on www.fortune.com and www.fortunechina.com

Haymarket is the world’s best specialist media company. With over 100 franchise, licence and syndication partnerships in over 30 countries, creating content for digital, mobile, print and live events across our market-leading portfolio of brands. Haymarket can be your advantage in your market, using our franchise approach to global brand development across a range of Haymarket’s brands and content.

InPublishing serves the UK newspaper, magazine and online publishing community, through its bi-monthly magazine, weekly email newsletter and website.

Kono is a digital magazine platform focusing on delivering the best magazine reading experience on mobile. With our Smarticle™ technology, Kono can efficiently extract magazine articles from PDF or other formats with assistant of AI. We have built up one of the largest magazine article database for reflow (better user experience), re-sale (article or curation based sales), and re-purpose (e.g. article based recommendation) to increase the value of these contents.Currently, Kono has partnered with 200+ major publishers in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China and Japan to deliver their contents on our platform using our technologies. We are also a consumer all-you-can-read magazine platform and our app is among one of the best rated magazine reading apps in both iOS and Android with more than 200 magazines from TW, HK and 100 magazines from Japan. Kono was funded in 2011 and headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley, Mountain View, California. We also have office in Taipei, Taiwan.

Kreatio has a full suite of platform based services that help publishers unlock the full potential of digital media. Our products enable editorial teams to be more productive and to work collaboratively and for marketing and sales teams to get a better insight into the audience and monetize them more effectively. Currently, we support publications in all continents, except Antartica.

Kreatio platform offerings include a multi-title capable CMS, Digital subscriptions management, easy email newsletter creation, easy charts and tables creation for data journalism, and directory services. Our CMS comes with lightning fast image and asset management capabilities that make your work easy, using Artificial intelligence and Machine learning. Our commenting system increases your ability to manage and monetize comments. Our services are fully hosted and managed with 24×7 support and incident response.

For publishers of all sizes, we offer all the features and functionalities that highly custom built solutions offer, at a fraction of the cost.

Le Figaro is the number 1 general daily newspaper distributed every day with more than 310 000 copies*. Every weekend, the Figaro Daily is distributed altogether with Le Figaro Magazine, Madame Figaro and TV Magazine which constitute the set of Les Figaro Weekend with 410 000 copies*. The diversification of the group around Le Figaro brand is important: spin-off stands alone, Health magazines, History, conferences, collections, travels… Lefigaro.fr is the leader of online news portals with nearly 18 million unique visitors each month**. At the end of 2015 with the acquisition of Group CCM Benchmark, Figaro Group became the number 1 French digital media group. The global audience on all its digital channels surpasses 32 million unique visitors**. In 2016, Figaro Group continued its diversification with the acquisition of Les Maisons du Voyage, an upscale tour operator specialized in tailor-made trips.
*Numbers OJD – DSH 2016
**Mediametry Global Internet December 2016

Lineup Systems caters to many of the biggest, most iconic and innovative media organizations in the world. Our first-of-its-kind media sales solution, Adpoint, is credited with transforming media companies by helping to increase revenue, improve productivity and reduce costs.Adpoint combines order management with a media-focused CRM, finance and analytics suite. No more “swivel chair syndrome” – instead, manage your ad sales from lead to billing from one easy-to-use, customizable solution.Our customers include top media groups such as Hearst, News UK, Bonnier Corp, Metro Media, Mansueto Ventures, Time Out and many more.

Media Carrier is a digital content distributor sourcing and composing tailor-made portfolios for well-known international airlines, lounges and luxury hotel chains.Media Carrier makes e-papers available on all web-enabled mobile devices like tablets, smartphones and laptops. The service enables higher ranges within a high-quality target group and the gain of new customers. Media Carrier provides full transparency through instant reports concerning the number of downloads and access times. The company belongs to the MELO Group, which has emerged from the Munich-based press wholesaler Trunk. MELO as an international full-service-supplier in the fields media and logistics, currently employs over 2.000 employees at twenty locations in six countries.

mGage brings 17+ years of global mobile customer engagement to the industry and are prominent in North America and Europe. We empower mobile customer interactions at all stages of the lifecycle, from acquisition through to retention. Our unique data analytics platform provides insight that no other mobile marketing company can offer, measuring the full effectiveness of a campaign. Our mobile-first solutions allow publishers such as CDS Global, Now TV, Immediate Media and Play Films to promote and retain weekly, monthly and annual subscriptions via mGage’s frictionless 2-click mobile payment solution. mGage is a tier 1 mobile operator connected to 550+ networks globally.
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3 key solutions:
Connect API. Messaging Gateway (SMS & MMS) directly connected to operators globally offering brands to connect to mobile operator services. API driven.
Communicate PRO. Campaign Management platform. Cross-channel engagement solution: our cloud-based application delivers interactions across multiple channels including; SMS, MMS, push notifications, voice, WiFi, social messaging apps (OTT), and social media. Location-based services. Text Chat, Chat bots, Broadcast offers/vouchers, live page messages. API enabled.
Pay. Premium Rate SMS Services or Direct Carrier Billing (Web based mobile billing). Billing service where brands can get payment from their customers via a mobile phone account.

Mondadori International Business is the worldwide expansion project of Mondadori Group, one of the largest consumer magazine publishers in Europe, with more than 70 print and digital brands in Italy and France, that for the most part are market leaders in their segments. With the aim to globally export the style, quality and excellence of Italian fashion and design, today Mondadori International operates in 28 markets through licenses and joint ventures with 33 successful editions. Grazia was the first title developed internationally; the women’s magazine was launched in Italy in 1938 and is currently published in 24 countries worldwide through the Grazia International Network, headed by International Editor in Chief Carla Vanni.Mondadori International Business has also launched other titles internationally in different editorial segments, such as Interni, interiors and design magazine, Icon, the men’s magazine for fashion, style, culture and Il Mio Papa, focused on the Pope’s life.

National Geographic Partners LLC (NGP), a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company and the National Geographic Society, is committed to bringing the world premium science, adventure and exploration content across an unrivaled portfolio of media assets. NGP combines the global National Geographic television channels (National Geographic Channel, Nat Geo WILD, Nat Geo MUNDO, Nat Geo PEOPLE) with National Geographic’s media and consumer-oriented assets, including National Geographic magazines; National Geographic studios; related digital and social media platforms; books; maps; children’s media; and ancillary activities that include travel, global experiences and events, archival sales, licensing and e-commerce businesses. Furthering knowledge and understanding of our world has been the core purpose of National Geographic for 131 years, and now we are committed to going deeper, pushing boundaries, going further for our consumers … and reaching millions of people around the world in 172 countries and 43 languages every month as we do it. NGP returns 27 percent of our proceeds to the nonprofit National Geographic Society to fund work in the areas of science, exploration, conservation and education. For more information visit natgeotv.com or nationalgeographic.com, or find us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Pinterest.

Ontario Creates, an agency of the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport is the central catalyst for the province’s cultural media cluster including book publishing, film and television, interactive digital media, magazine publishing and music industries.

SocialFlow is a social distribution & monetization platform that is purpose-built for media companies. Our technology enables the world’s most successful publishers to easily distribute engaging social content while providing them monetization opportunities across multiple social networks.Our publishing software is used by tens of thousands of journalists across the world and extends the reach and engagement of editorial content and stories to the social sphere. When you see a news item in your social feed, the odds are good that it came through SocialFlow.SocialFlow’s advertising products help publishers create new revenue streams from their social efforts. With native solutions & AttentionStream sponsored post ads, SocialFlow helps media companies leverage the unmatched scale and distribution of social channels.Founded in 2009 and based in New York, SocialFlow’s client roster includes half of the top 150 media companies including Condé Nast, Meredith, CNN, The Associated Press, and the BBC. To learn more, visit SocialFlow.com.

The New York Times Licensing Group (NYTLicensing) empowers companies to connect with their audiences, harnessing The Times’s world-class journalism and content curation to elevate experiences and engage customers. From political reporting and business, to culture and travel – we give audiences access to expert analysis and global perspective through stories that inform, entertain, and inspire. Our range of New York Times journalism and curated content is available in an array of formats to help organizations of all sizes streamline communications, supplement existing marketing campaigns and drive growth.

Vindicia, an Amdocs company, brings enterprise-class innovation to consumer-facing subscription billing to help businesses acquire and retain more customers by making payments seamless, secure and easy. Vindicia® CashBox® and Vindicia Select™ subscription billing and customer retention solutions keep consumers connected to the subscriptions they love, and businesses connected to the revenue they need. Vindicia’s trusted SaaS-based platform increases recurring revenue and reduces customer churn. The company has processed over $21 billion globally for its clients, providing them with more than $90 million in annual incremental revenue. Clients include BBC, Lionsgate, Comic-Con International, TransUnion Interactive, Allrecipes, IAC, Vimeo, and Texture.

Wibbitz is the leading automated video solution for publishers. The platform uses advanced text-to-video technology to automatically produce premium videos in seconds. Wibbitz’s platform enables publishers to produce videos more efficiently, using intuitive editing tools and top-quality licensed media from providers including Reuters and Getty Images. Wibbitz supports production for thousands of videos every day, allowing partners like Reuters, Forbes and Time Inc. to increase ad revenue and audience engagement with video. Wibbitz has been awarded Best Mobile Publishing Product at the Mobile World Congress, and the Grand Prix Award by UNESCO for Worldwide Innovation. Founded in 2011, Wibbitz has offices in New York & Tel Aviv and is backed by Horizon Ventures, NantMobile, Initial Capital, lool Ventures, and Kima Ventures among others. To find out more, visit http://www.wibbitz.com/

Wochit is a video creation platform empowering newsrooms, editorial and social media teams to capture and expand audience attention through the power of short-form video. With Wochit, videos are created quickly, using rights-cleared assets from AP, Reuters, Getty, and social networks like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. The powerful video editor enables any storyteller to create on-brand, professional videos that are optimized for the different digital and social platforms.

More than 500 media brands create videos with Wochit, including Gannett, Time Inc., CBS, Condé Nast, Der Spiegel, ProSieben, The Huffington Post, Singapore Straits Times, and La Repubblica. Wochit customers produce more than 30,000 videos every month for distribution across owned and operated websites as well as via OTT, mobile apps, and social networks. On Facebook alone, socially-optimized videos created using Wochit and posted in 2017 have received more than 1.3 billion views and 20.4 million shares.

WoodWing is a global market leader in providing solutions to streamline multichannel content creation. Working with top editorial publishers, brands and agencies, WoodWing encompass a customer-first approach to ensure products are constantly addressing business challenges, reducing costs, increasing quality and driving the future of content creation.

With experience in the publishing industry for over 17 years, partners in over 100 countries and more than 1,000 customers, WoodWing is a recognised and trusted name. Beginning life to assist print publishers with improving their publishing workflow, WoodWing now produce products to assist a range of organizations with their print and digital content creation, and digital asset management.

WoodWing is a long-standing Adobe Technology Partner and provides best-in-class integration with Adobe InDesign and InCopy. In addition, their products easily integrate with third-party applications. Thousands of companies all over the world trust WoodWing to help them remain competitive, leverage new opportunities and consistently grow their business.

X-CAGO (www.x-cago.com) – is a Media Solutions Company that has developed, commissioned and deployed internationally recognised technology solutions that bridge the gap between the print, archive and online worlds. X-CAGO’s speciality is to generate unified content (XML) from print PDF’s.

X-CAGO is committed to the delivery of solutions for publishers to contribute to the commercialisation and monetisation of their content by successfully and securely capturing, unifying, storing, retrieving, publishing, distributing and syndicating this content from both Print, Analogue and Digital Media (including XML, PDF, RSS & website).

X-CAGO’s advanced patented software and technologies manage growing volumes of media content by providing clients the capacity to organise and catalogue this information to deliver ‘knowledge on demand’.
Headquartered in Roermond, the Netherlands and with full client services and sales offices located in Australia, Germany and the USA, X-CAGO’s clients worldwide include the world’s leading Publishers, Press Clipping Agencies, Libraries, Corporate Archives, Public Relations Departments, News & Advertisement Tracking Firms, Trade Associations and other content professionals in public and private organisations.

Zissor is a world leading company developing software specially designed for magazine and newspaper digitisation. We are a Norwegian based company with 20 years of experience in newspaper and magazine digitisation. Our advanced digitisation SW is developed to fully automate the process of generating  XML from PDF, and also to digitised your old paper and PDF based publications archive, to make them fully searchable for your readers and journalists. The Zissor SW includes our own developed unique page segmentation that automatically find and extract articles with metadata, e.g. article headlines, subtitles,  journalists, pictures, captions  etc.  In addition to offer our SW for your local installation we also offer service, both for daily PDF to XML conversion and for Archive digitisation.

ZINIO brings innovation and inspiration to the world of magazine publishers and consumers by delivering the ultimate digital reading experience on any device. As pioneers of the digital publishing industry for over a decade, ZINIO leads the digital magazine market in breadth of content and accessibility on any platform.

For magazine publishers, ZINIOpro converts print magazines to digital content through a SaaS platform that converts PDF to XML, offering publishers complete flexibility in managing and delivering their content in branded, native magazine applications for tablet, smartphone and desktop, in searchable article databases, or on the growing network of ZINIOpro distribution partners.

For magazine consumers, ZINIO operates online newsstands and award-winning iOS, Android, Windows and Kindle apps in more than 30 languages, providing the broadest selection of digital magazines accessible on any platform that can be read online or offline, synced across multiple devices and searched for archival content.