Sponsors

For information about sponsorship opportunities, please contact Charles Pelton at 510-832-1761 or email .

The sponsorship kit can be downloaded here:
2008 Ypulse National Mashup Sponsorship Opportunities


Anchor Sponsor


Fuse Marketing
Fuse is an award-winning youth marketing agency that connects brands with youth through sports, music, fashion and other relevant youth cultural interests. We strive to help brands reach a mass audience while maintaining credibility with key influencers. For more information, please visit www.fusemarketing.com.

Sponsors


Teens Eyes

TeensEyes® offers expert teen and tween research, specializing in both qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Fully immersed in the teen demographic, TeenEyes®' specialized analysts combine research expertise with a deep understanding of the teen demographic. They are committed to understanding this ever-changing group and this expertise serves as the foundation for all their research—from survey design, to results analysis—giving you the insights you need to most effectively reach your target.

TeensEyes® is a division of C&R Research, a full service marketing research company.


Worldwide Teen Lab
The Worldwide Teen Lab is an innovative primary research program focused on understanding technology and end-user experiences from the highly coveted youth market. Lab Members are from all over the world, ranging in age from pre-teen to young adult. Our ethnographic research is qualitative and includes surveys, diaries and videos.

Premise Immersive Marketing
Premise is the immersive marketing partner for brands targeting youth.

We focus on authentically immersing youth in online/offline brand experiences that are engaging and have a positive impact. Some of our immersive on/offline solutions include: consumer insights, brand building, word of mouth campaigns, viral content, guerilla promotions, experiential marketing and sponsorship integration.

The premise is simple: our agency is built upon the core philosophy of targeting from the inside out, a strategy that separates us from the pack. Visit us online www.premisemarketing.com



Mr Youth
Mr. Youth® leverages critical relationships and unparalleled experience to provide marketing, partnership, and promotional solutions to corporate marketers looking to reach the elusive 14-22 demographic. Mr. Youth serves as a powerful resource in the development and execution of promotional tactics designed to build brand awareness, drive retail traffic, generate buzz and PR coverage. Mr. Youth has just been named to the prestigious Inc. 500 List of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. PROMO Magazine ranked the company number 16 in its 2007 PROMO 100, a list of the top promotional agencies in the U.S. In 2004, Mr. Youth was awarded the prestigious International Globes Award for Best Use of Event Marketing in the world.


MyYearbook
myYearbook specializes in creating engaging campaigns for brand advertisers. myYearbook.com is the third largest social network in the United States with more than 5+ million US uniques and 1+ billion pageviews per month. The average myYearbook member visits the site 8 times per month and spends 30 minutes per visit.

Whateverlife.com
WhateverLife.com is an online graphic and community resource website, built with passion and creativity. We offer anything from web layouts, tutorials, to a FREE user generated ONLINE magazine for teenage girls and young adults alike. Build your own website or catch up on political and celebrity news. WhateverLife.com receives over 200,000 unique users daily, 60 million page views a month! Check it out! WhateverLife.com -Anything, Everything, Anytime!

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Chat Room Sponsor


Meebo
Meebo is the Web's live communications platform where you can keep in touch with friends you know on any instant messaging network at meebo.com, or reach out and have live conversations with anyone at any website with Meebo Rooms and Meebo Me. In March 2008 more than 30 million people used Meebo to the tune of 5 billion messages.

Exhibitors


Monitor Promotional Products
Monitor is a leading resource for youth, event and mass market promotional items. Monitor staff across the US work with brands and agencies to develop, source and produce innovative promotional products, and provide related services. With over ten years experience in the marketing services field, Monitor's mission is to make its clients look like heroes by providing great ideas, reliable service and rush service when needed. Learn more or contact us to help with an upcoming project at MonitorPremiums.com.

OneSeventeen Media
OneSeventeen Media is the first social network providing a proven methodology for sharing what's on youths' minds. Targeted for kids 8 to 14, it's providing a place for kids to "grow" versus just a place for them to "go". Join our latest community building event - The National Youth Film Competition.

Zest Books

Viz Media

Shonen Jump

Shojo Beat
SHONEN JUMP and Shojo Beat magazines reach American teens passionate about manga (Japanese comics), video games and Japanese popular culture. JUMP appeals to action-seeking teen boys and Beat attracts females with stories of romance and drama. Part magazine, part graphic novel, both are published by VIZ Media, LLC, an entertainment-industry leader in publishing, animation and licensing.

Digital Blue
Digital Blue Global is an integrated event production company specializing in custom meetings, conventions, and tradeshows.

We help our clients turn ideas into memorable, interactive experiences with their customers. Combining strategy, technology and obsessive attention to detail, we tailor our creative and tactical services to ensure guests, sponsors and audiences walk away engaged and motivated.

Partners


Experimental Marketing Forum
Welcome to the Experiential Marketing Forum (EMF) We're an international community of professionals, students and people who share ideas and keep abreast of the newest trends and exciting things happening in the world of media. Feel free to invite all of your co-workers and friends to join this great think tank and share ideas that benefit marketers and their customers on a global level.

Experiential marketing gives customers an opportunity to engage and interact with brands, products, and services in sensory ways that provide the icing on the cake of providing information. The term "Experiential marketing" refers to actual customer experiences with the brand/product/service that drive sales and increase brand image and awareness. When done right, it's the most powerful tool out there to win brand loyalty.

Please invite your friends, students and co-workers to sign up and experience the EMF for themselves. We have lots of brilliant minds in this group. We're looking forward to tapping into yours


Youth Markets Alert
With Youth Markets Alert you'll discover the most effective ways to reach pre-schoolers (and their parents and grandparents), tweens, teens and college kids. What's cool among America's youth changes as fast as those kids change the television channel. And capturing their attention is challenging at best. Twice monthly, each issue provides a comprehensive look at the current trends in youth marketing, abstracts of key demographic and psychographic research, case studies of who's doing what, and scores of contacts so you can follow-up with sources and deal-makers. Let Youth Markets Alert be your guide to success in this ever-changing market. To subscribe or download a free sample issue visit www.epmcom.com/yma

Media Post

MediaPost Communications is an integrated publishing and content company whose mission is to provide an array of resources to super-serve media planners and buyers.

  • Mediapost.com is the leading advertising and media Internet portal providing free tools, news, and directories to help more than 50,000 members better plan and buy both traditional and online advertising.
  • MEDIA Magazine examines and explores the world of media. Covering all forms of broadcast, print and online Media, MEDIA helps 15,000 media professionals plan and buy more effectively, efficiently, and easily.
  • OMMA Magazine stands tall as the only trade magazine dedicated to the business of online media, marketing and advertising. Readers are online advertising professionals who are key media and marketing decision makers purchasing search, email, rich media, behavioral targeting, e-marketing solutions, wireless, interactive tv, ad management solutions, portals, consumer and b-to-b websites, and everything interactive.
  • MediaPost Events, including the OMMA and Forecast Conferences, deliver the same level of content and expertise found on our sites and publications.

Saturday Night Magazine
Saturday Night Magazine is a monthly lifestyle and entertainment publication with a growing reading base of over 390,000 college students and twentysomethings across California and Arizona. It can be found on over 70 different college campuses in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Phoenix and Tucson, as well as at many off-campus retail locations such as Virgin Megastore, Gold's Gym, Amoeba Music and Pinkberry. Created over four years ago, Saturday Night Magazine is an authentic, compelling voice that reflects and influences the interests of 18-29 year-olds. Covering what's now and what's next, it features celebrity interviews, fashion, career advice, movies, young entrepreneurs, music, politics, travel, technology and the essential guide to a great night out in the city, all with a fresh approach and attitude. Visit us online at www.snmag.com

901 am
901am.com is a blog that covers new media news, the web and blogging. Published by Splashpress Media, it is read by thousands of unique visitors every day. www.901am.com

New Music TipSheet
NEW MUSIC TIPSHEET is the music industry's leading resource for new release information, packed with release dates, radio charts, tour schedules, TV listings, and headlines from the top music news and blogs. The Tipsheet is the go-to site for anyone who relies on music to fuel their business or their life - daily readers include VIPs from radio, retail, press, advertising agencies, music supervisors, booking agents, concert promoters, and all the online music services.

BAVC
The Bay Area Video Coalition is a non-profit organization that connects diverse communities to media creation and innovation. We teach more than 600 classes a year in diverse technologies from Final Cut Pro to Maya and Pro Tools to Photoshop. We empower creative expression through subsidized access to post-production equipment and resources. We preserve the past through our audio and video preservation center. And we develop future media and media makers through our Next Generation programs for low-income and at-risk youth. Learn more at www.bavc.org

Canadian Music Week
Rogers Wireless Canadian Music Week is Canada's leading annual entertainment event dedicated to the expression and growth of the country's music, media and entertainment industries. The event combines two information-intensive conferences; a cutting edge trade exposition; four awards shows and the nation's largest New Music Festival. Canadian Music Week festivities will return for a four-day period March 11 - 14, 2009 at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel and various downtown Toronto venues, attracting participants from across the globe. For more information, visit www.cmw.net

SDForum

SDForum has been instrumental in setting the high tech industry agenda for more than 24 years. As the oldest and largest non-profit in Silicon Valley dedicated to educating and creating relationships within the technology community, SDForum reaches 12,000 professionals in technology annually, through more than 300 events. These programs provide insights into emerging technology trends and best business practices as well as exceptional access to resources for entrepreneurs. Long standing relationships in Silicon Valley include the City of San Jose, multinational technology entrepreneurs (Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Nokia, SAP, and HP), and venture investment firms, as well as technology startups and service providers. www.sdforum.com

Digital Media Quarterly: Following up on last year's highly successful conference, join SDForum for this new quarterly dinner series as we track what's happened since then and delve deeper into the hot topics related to the business and technology behind digital media today. What are the business models that will sustain digital media companies going forward? Where are the pitfalls/ and what technologies are driving new media? Who controls the content? These topics and many more will be addressed in this quarterly evening series. Digital Media Dates/Topics: July 15, 2008 - The Recipe Book for being Acquired Successfully. October 14, 2008 - Cool Technologies Driving Mobile Media Registration Link: www.sdforum.com/digital Discount Code: Digital08


Association of Booksellers for Children
The Association of Booksellers for Children (ABC) is a national membership association that offers a support network for professional independent children's booksellers who share the goal of encouraging quality and service within the children's book industry. ABC activities include workshops and networking; promoting excellence in children's literature with the annual E. B. White Read Aloud Award for Picture Books and The E. B. White Read Aloud Award for Older Readers; and partnering with other organizations on literacy initiatives including "The Most Important 20 Minutes of Your Day...Read With a Child." The ABC Best Books for Children catalog is produced once a year for the use of its member stores. Membership in ABC is open to independent retail stores directly engaged in the retail sale of children's books, publishers of children's literature, authors and illustrators of children's literature, publisher's representatives, librarians, wholesalers, literary agents, distributors, and prospective booksellers. For information about membership or sponsorship, contact Kristen McLean, ABC Executive Director, at 617-390-7759 or . www.afcf.com

Kids at Play Summit
Kids@Play: Building a Smarter World is coming to the 2009 International CES, January 8-11, in Las Vegas. Today's kids have digital power like no generation before. How can we make sure that they grow into creative, responsible digital citizens, and not just button pushers? Join us at CES Kids@Play for this important dialog. You'll walk away with a great understanding of the daily life of a digital kid. Held at the world's largest consumer technology tradeshow, Kids@Play is an unparalleled opportunity to meet with retailers, content providers, distributors, game developers, hardware manufacturers, educators, policy makers and the thought leaders who drive the world that digital kids inhabit. This year, we're looking forward to another conference led by the most influential people in the kid's technology business. See the tools that today's kids will use to build tomorrow's digital world and get hands on time with the products kids love, from virtual worlds, to digital toys, to educational products, handhelds and game machines. Kids@Play is the successor to the popular Sandbox Summit held at the 2008 CES.www.kidsatplaysummit.com

What Teens Want
What Teens Want, hosted by Adweek, Brandweek, Mediaweek, Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter, is the definitive marketing summit to learn how to target today’s trendsetting teens through social networking, cause branding, mobile/digital technology, fashion, music, movies, sports and video games. Join over 300 marketing, agency, media and retail executives and business managers at this 6th annual event.

Top Reasons To Attend:

  • Discover how to use social networking and other online marketing tools to build a big buzz about your brands on a small budget
  • Hear exclusive research from Nielsen Mobile and The N/The MTVN Kids & Family Group
  • Learn how to anticipate major market trends in order to keep your brands relevant to teen consumers
  • Get straight answers to your questions from a live panel of teen boys and girls
  • Connect with leading brand and agency experts at the MarTEENi Networking Reception

For the complete agenda and to register, please visit www.whatteenswant.com. The Ypulse community is invited to register using the code YP899 to receive a special rate.


JacketFlap
JacketFlap is the world's most comprehensive children's book resource and social networking web site for people in the children's book industry. Over 2,200 published authors and illustrators are members, as well as many librarians, agents, editors, publicists, booksellers and publishers.
  • Network with PEOPLE in the children's book industry
  • Read 700+ Children's book-related BLOGS
  • Search our Database of 900,000+ CHILDREN'S BOOKS
  • See reviews of books on Members' BOOKSHELVES
  • Get Published by one of 20,000+ BOOK PUBLISHERS
  • Search our Database of 200,000+ CHILDREN'S BOOK CREDITS

Join now(it's free).


American Association of Young People

Announcement
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Agenda At a Glance

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