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SPONSORS & PARTNERS

We thank the sponsors, media sponsors, partners and consultants of the 16th Annual Webby Awards for their generosity and dedication to our mission. They support us. We encourage you to support them.

Interested in sponsoring The Webby Awards? Contact Susan Slocum, Chief Revenue Officer, via email Susan Slocum or phone +1-646.918.5003.

Official Sponsor:

Make all the marketing you do on Google better with Google+, a new way of using Google. Ads can become more relevant with personal recommendations and can be linked with your page and site so that anytime a consumer interacts with you brand, it adds up. Sharing and recommendations aren’t limited to a single destination, but are made available across the web where they are most useful. With over 120 integrations into other Google products and new Google+ features added every day, this is just the beginning.

Official Sponsor of the Webby People's Voice:

Yahoo! attracts hundreds of millions of users every month through its innovative technology and engaging content and services, making it one of the most trafficked Internet destinations and a world class online media company. Yahoo!'s vision is to be the center of people's online lives by delivering personally relevant, meaningful Internet experiences. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, visit http://pressroom.yahoo.com or the company's advertising blog, http://www.yadvertisingblog.com.

Official Career Sponsor:

We have a simple philosophy at Vitamin T: to personally place the best creative talent in the best jobs for the best companies. Since we’re massively nerdy fans of creative, this sort of thing comes naturally to us, which means as a client, you get hand-picked talent perfectly suited to your job, and as talent, you get freelance work that doesn’t make you want to wash your eyes out with hand sanitizer. Win-win! Visit us at vitamintalent.com.

Official After Party Sponsor:

Live Nation Entertainment is the world’s leading live entertainment and ecommerce company, comprised of four market leaders: Ticketmaster.com, Live Nation Concerts, Front Line Management Group and Live Nation Network. The company reaches 19.1 million unique online visitors and 6.3 million mobile users per month, has 2 million social-media followers, produces over 22,000 shows annually for more than 2,300 artists globally and represents over 250 artists. These live event, artist and digital platforms allow advertisers to tap into nearly 200 million consumers annually. For additional information, visit www.livenation.com/investors.

Official Sponsor:

There is no social without sharing. ShareThis is the largest platform for sharing and influence across the web, reaching more than 400 million users across more than 1.4 million web sites and 120 social channels. ShareThis is changing the way information is navigated and organized according to the way people interact and relate to each other online. Leverage the social quality of content and amplify your messages. Learn more at www.sharethis.com

Official Sponsor:

AOL is a leading-edge web services company, including a network of premium and niche content sites, and an extensive offering of world-class tools and platforms. AOL's business spans the Internet with online and local content, innovative products and valuable services for consumers, publishers and advertisers. With one of the industry's largest advertising networks, AOL engages consumers with online advertising services on both AOL's owned and operated properties and third-party websites.

Official Social Media Suite Partner:

Mashable is a leading source for news, information and resources for the Connected Generation. Mashable reports on the importance of digital innovation and how it empowers and inspires people around the world. Mashable’s 20 million unique visitors and 6 million social media followers have become one of the most engaged online news communities. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco.

Meme of the Year Partner :

BuzzFeed is a new kind of media company for the social world. BuzzFeed is building the definitive social publishing site. Our technology powers the viral distribution of content, detects what is trending on the web, and connects people in realtime with the hottest content of the moment. Our site is a rapidly growing hub for viral media that reaches over 20 million monthly unique visitors and our viral media network reaches an additional 300M. BuzzFeed was founded by Jonah Peretti, a cofounder of the Huffington Post.

After Party Partner:

VICE Media is a leading global youth media company operating in over 30 countries, and includes the world’s premier original online video destination, VICE.com; an international network of digital channels; a television and film production studio; a record label; an in-house creative services agency; and a book publishing division. VICE’s digital channels include The Creators Project, dedicated to arts and creativity; Motherboard, covering cultural happenings in technology; and Noisey, a new music channel.

Official Music Partner:

Ghostly is at heart a cultural filter, expressed currently thru vehicles of a record label, a music publisher, and a durable goods store with a strong eye toward design. Ghostly pairs world-class talent, be they musicians, sculptors, filmmakers, designers, painters, manufacturers, and brands together. Our mission is to discover and share the work of unique artists, through creative platforms, to enrich lives. Find out more at http://www.ghostly.com.

Official Creative Partner:

JWT is the world's best-known marketing communications brand. Headquartered in New York, JWT is a true global network with more than 200 offices in over 90 countries employing nearly 10,000 marketing professionals. JWT consistently ranks among the top agency networks in the world and continues its dominant presence in the industry by staying on the leading edge - from producing the first-ever TV commercial in 1939 to developing award-winning branded content for brands such as Smirnoff, Macy's, Ford and HSBC.

JWT's creative philosophy of making things inspired by the world enables the agency to forge deep relationships with clients including Bayer, Bloomberg, Cadbury, Diageo, DTC, Ford, HSBC, Johnson & Johnson, Kellogg's, Kimberly-Clark, Kraft, Nestle, Nokia, Rolex, Royal Caribbean, Schick, Shell, Unilever, Vodafone and many others. JWT's parent company is WPP (NASDAQ: WPPGY). www.jwt.com.

Official Design Partner:

Shotopop is an inspired illustration boutique who specialize in creating unique innovative solutions for clients from tactile paper creations, through hand drawn and digital illustration, to motion graphics and back again. They’ve got micro brewery beer in the fridge, Cannes Lions in the window and  heads brimming with creative ideas waiting to spill out.

Vote Tabulation Consultant:

PricewaterhouseCoopers consulting professionals leverage our network of global resources and industry knowledge to help clients implement their business strategies and priorities to build effective organizations, innovate and grow profitably, reduce costs, manage risk and regulation, and leverage talent. As business integrators, we look across the entire organization -- focusing on strategy, structure, people, process and technology -- to help our clients drive sustainable change that yields measurable results.

Official Live Stream Partner:

MLB Advanced Media LP (MLBAM) is the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball. MLBAM manages the official league site, www.MLB.com, and each of the 30 individual Club sites to create the most comprehensive Major League Baseball resource on the Internet, including up-to-the-moment statistics, award-winning mobile applications, fantasy games and live full-game video streaming. MLB.com powers more live events on the Internet than other website in the world.

Official Media Partners:

Funny Or Die's "The Occasional" is the very model of a modern day humor magazine. The interactive & digital magazine for the iPad harkens back to the early days of Mad Magazine, designed specifically for tablets. It is a magazine not simply to be read but experienced. Features include, celebrity interviews, political commentary, movie reviews and plenty of new comedic twists on conventional magazine themes. Contributors have included Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms, Nick Offerman, Tom Lennon, Marc Maron, Billy Eichner, Megan Amram and more. So stop reading this and go subscribe! You deserve it.

The Financial Times, 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 605,402 (Deloitte assured, 3 January 2011 to 3 April 2011) and a combined print and online average daily readership of 2.1 million people worldwide (PwC assured, November 2010). FT.com has over 3.4 million registered users and 224,000 paying digital subscribers. The newspaper, printed at 23 print sites across the globe, has a daily circulation of 372,076 (ABC figures April 2011).

Business Insider: What you need to know.
Developed and written exclusively for today's thought-leaders, Business Insider provides continuous real-time news, analysis, original commentary and live business conferences with a distinctive voice. It is thefuture of business news.

The Daily is a first-of-its-kind daily national news publication built exclusively as an application for tablet computing and emerging digital platforms. Now an app for tablets, phones, and Facebook, The Daily provides readers the engaging experience of a magazine combined with the immediacy of the web and the need-to-know content of a newspaper, all while elevating the user experience beyond the printed word. The Daily is a subscription-based news product published 365 days a year. It is the winner of the 2012 Appy Awards for Best Consumer Magazine/Newspaper in 2011, and has been nominated and selected for numerous editorial and design awards. For more information visit, www.thedaily.com, and The Daily on Facebook: http://apps.facebook.com/dailysocial/

Official Development Partner:

The Atom Group is an application development firm specializing in web-based and mobile solutions for clients and creative services agencies. The company's top-notch developers take a holistic approach to building desktop and mobile websites as well as custom applications encompassing everything from elegant front-end styling to robust backend programming. The firm's focus on efficient and agile development practices allows it to rapidly bring solutions to market that deliver positive business results. Recent engagements, such as database development and integration, product launch storefronts, social media promotions, content management systems, and native iOS applications keep the firm nimble and true to its entrepreneurial spirit.

Official Hosting Partner:

Why compromise for performance, uptime or service when you can simply have it all? At 2Advanced.Net we have amassed the industry's finest experts to design and deliver our superior next-generation network platform. Built from the latest in Cisco high-speed data communications technologies and reliable IBM server class systems, you can rest assured that 2advanced.net is the hosting solution for peace of mind.

Interested in sponsoring The Webby Awards? Contact Susan Slocum, Chief Revenue Officer, via email Susan Slocum or phone +1-646.918.5003.