Sponsors & solution providers
Check out the cutting-edge solution providers that participated in SMX Next in 2022!
Title sponsors
Bruce Clay, Inc. - https://www.bruceclay.com
Bruce Clay's innovative search marketing methodology allows businesses of all sizes around the world to reach their target markets online with speed and efficiency. Founded in 1996 by Bruce M. Clay, known as "The Father of SEO," Bruce Clay Inc. is a world leader in SEO training, proprietary SEO tools, and fully customized, ROI-driven search marketing campaigns. Their proprietary technology and methodology have been utilized by thousands of companies and top name brands worldwide. Bruce Clay Inc. is headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in Japan, Australia, India, and the U.A.E. For more information, visit www.bruceclay.com.
Categories: Agency Services and Consulting, SEO Platforms and Solutions
Google - https://about.google/
Today, billions of people will turn to Google for help in moments big and small. Google is there throughout the consumer journey across Search, YouTube, Gmail, Maps, and more. We take this responsibility seriously - we've built privacy and security into every product we make. Google Ads helps you show up for consumers in the moment of relevance with engaging experiences, whether people are searching, watching, or discovering. Especially in today's ever-changing world, Google Ads solutions help equip your business for the digital transformation needed to drive results today, while building long-term resilience and growth. Plus, our smart technology and automation will help you improve your ads over time to get more of the results that matter to your business. We’ll also provide reports, insights, and ongoing tips, so you can track your progress and make your ads even more successful. There are more moments to connect with consumers today than there have ever been before, and Google wants to help you be there in the moments that matter.
Categories: Marketing Automation Platforms and Solutions, PPC and Marketplace Advertising Platforms and Solutions, Digital Commerce Marketing Platforms and Solutions
Internet Marketing Ninjas - https://www.internetmarketingninjas.com
Do you want more traffic from Google Search? Do you want to rank higher in Google Search? Have you seen a drop in rankings from Google? Do you need to increase your domain authority? Do you want to make your site rich with assets that attract traffic and links? Do you want to work with a team of experts and get expert assistance? If so, then we can help.There are few (if any) other companies in the industry with more experience than the Ninjas. In what started as a one-man company back in 1999, it now consists of 42 employees. The average tenure of current employees is just over 9 years, and the combined time of all ninjas at our company is close to 400 years of experience...all under 1 roof.... well, we used to be under 1 roof, until Corona... But we're one big family, even if we're not in the same building anymore... we are a well-oiled machine. We have many team members who are honestly experts in their specialized SEO area of expertise, so as a client, you are getting a team of SEO's, who can assist your site to gain more traffic via relevant searches from Google. Talk to us, let's see if we can help. We're honest, transparent, and we'd love to earn your trust. Peace, Love, and Respect, Jim Boykin
Categories: Link Building , Content Marketing Platforms and Solutions, Agency Services and Consulting
Lucidworks - https://lucidworks.com/
Lucidworks believes that the core to a great digital experience starts with search and browse. Lucidworks captures user behavior and utilizes machine learning to connect people with the products, content, and information they need. The world’s largest brands, including Lenovo, Red Hat, Reddit, and Cisco Systems rely on Lucidworks’ suite of products to power commerce, customer service, and workplace applications that connect users to their goals and help them discover highly relevant information along the way. Learn more at Lucidworks.com.
Categories: Customer Experience and Relationship Mgmt, Content Marketing Platforms and Solutions, Customer Journey Orchestration Platforms and Solutions
Microsoft - https://about.ads.microsoft.com/en-us
Represent your brand at its best with advertising solutions guided by an uncompromising respect for privacy, brand safety, and data security. Microsoft Advertising provides intelligent solutions that empower you to deliver engaging, personalized experiences to over a half a billion people worldwide. Bing powers billions of searches monthly on the Microsoft Search Network, including Verizon Media properties (AOL, Yahoo), platforms like Amazon and Apple, and on Microsoft services like Windows, Office and Microsoft Edge. Extend your reach and campaign performance with Microsoft Audience Network, high-quality native placements across devices on premium sites like MSN, Outlook.com, Microsoft Edge, and select publisher partner properties. Only Microsoft Advertising offers LinkedIn Profile targeting on search and native to help you find highly relevant audiences based on their company, job function and industry. With Microsoft Advertising, gain access to in-depth insights, intelligent advertising tools that use AI to improve campaign performance and audience targeting solutions to create more personalized advertising experiences. Microsoft Advertising. Intelligent connections.
MNTN - https://mountain.com/
MNTN builds advertising software for brands to drive measurable conversions, revenue, site visits and more through the power of television. MNTN Performance TV is the world’s first and only Connected TV advertising platform optimized for direct-response marketing goals. It redefines what advertisers can do with television, giving them the power to tie performance directly to their TV campaigns.
Television is the most powerful ad medium in the world. We believe that it belongs right alongside paid search and social in advertisers’ direct-response marketing strategies. That’s why we applied our years of experience building performance marketing software to create an ad platform that combines the precision of digital with the impact of television. MNTN Performance TV offers a suite of targeting, measurement, and automated optimization technology designed to deliver the results marketers expect from their performance channels. Our mission isn’t just to ensure your TV campaigns hit your goals, it’s to leave a lasting impact that helps you drive business for years to come.
Categories: Attribution and Marketing Performance Mgmt, Paid Media Mgmt Platforms and Solutions, Digital Asset Mgmt and Brand Mgmt Platforms
Gold sponsors
Siteimprove - https://www.siteimprove.com/
Siteimprove empowers marketing teams to optimize their content for accessibility, user experience, and marketing performance, so they can expand their brand's reach, exceed their marketing goals, and work towards a future with purpose.
Siteimprove instills confidence in marketing teams by setting them up for success throughout their workflow, automating time-consuming tasks, and providing a single place where teams can look at the same data and collaborate. That allows marketing teams to trust their work, trust each other, and prioritize the work that makes the biggest impact.
Over 7,000 companies use Siteimprove to optimize their content for every outcome—and the experts have taken notice. Forrester Consulting found that our customers get 275% ROI when using Siteimprove and we’re regularly recognized as a G2 leader across the board.
Categories: Content Marketing Platforms and Solutions, SEO Platforms and Solutions, Attribution and Marketing Performance Mgmt
Silver sponsors
Adalysis - https://adalysis.com/
Adalysis is an award-winning PPC Tool that helps you get the most out of your Google Ads and Microsoft Ads accounts.
Automated recommendations make it easy for you to find and apply quick wins across your account. Data Analysis tools allow you to gain insights from your data. Scale tools allow you to easily build, analyze, and manage your account no matter how small or large your accounts.
Take a free trial of Adalysis, the tool built by the PPC Pros for PPC Pros.
Categories: Marketing Automation Platforms and Solutions, Attribution and Marketing Performance Mgmt
Adlucent - https://www.adlucent.com/
Adlucent is the performance marketing agency that proves outperformance has no limit. Powered by our purpose-built platform, Deep Search™, Adlucent unifies the best of human and machine for a scientific approach to marketing. We work transparently in partnership with B2C and B2B retailers and brands to create custom, predictive programs that drive ever-better outcomes. Our services include paid search, shopping, social, Amazon, display media, video, performance creative, consulting, and measurement. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Adlucent is part of Advantage Solutions and ranked one of the top marketing companies in the U.S. by AdAge.
Categories: PPC and Marketplace Advertising Platforms and Solutions, Paid Media Mgmt Platforms and Solutions, Attribution and Marketing Performance Mgmt
Adthena - https://adthena.com
Founded in 2012, Adthena is the market-leading intelligence platform for paid search advertising. Our unique combination of patented, AI-driven technology and world-class industry expertise help businesses across the globe drive more value from their PPC budgets.
We give our customers a clear view of the competitive landscape, so they can set their paid search strategies for success. Our solutions are powered by our market-leading technology: Whole Market View creates a unique market map of a client’s entire search landscape, and Smart Monitor automatically detects threats and opportunities every day.
Backed by Updata Partners, Adthena works with 250+ clients across a wide range of industries including finance, retail, gaming, automotive and technology. Brand customers include Bupa, Citibank, L’Oreal, M&S, Nespresso, Qantas, Volkswagen, and Volvo. Agency customers include Dentsu, GroupM, and OMD.
Adthena holds several leading industry awards, including the Global and European Search Award for Innovation in Local Search in 2021, Drum Search Award USA, the Search Engine Land Award, and was shortlisted for the US Search Awards in 2021. For more information please visit: adthena.com.
Categories: Marketing Automation Platforms and Solutions
DemandJump - https://www.demandjump.com/
DemandJump is a pillar-based marketing strategy platform showing you the exact content to create to increase first page rankings and drive outcomes.
Categories: Content Marketing Platforms and Solutions, SEO Platforms and Solutions
Hawksearch by Bridgeline - https://www.hawksearch.com/
Hawksearch powers digital experiences for some of the world’s largest brands. Our innovative site search solution goes above and beyond any other search tool in the market. Hawksearch enables companies to capture greater traffic, increase order value, and drive conversion. Our suite of digital experience solutions provide feature-rich eCommerce and content management capabilities, turn-key site search and merchandising, SEO optimization tools and more – all designed to keep your revenue climbing.
Categories: Digital Commerce Marketing Platforms and Solutions, Optimization and Personalization Platforms and Solutions, SEO Platforms and Solutions
Invoca - https://invoca.com
Invoca’s Active Conversation Intelligence platform enables marketing, eCommerce, sales, and customer experience teams to understand and immediately act on the information consumers share via conversations. Through deep integrations with leading technology platforms, revenue teams can turn conversation data into automated action to enhance every digital touchpoint and human interaction, leading to better experiences, more conversions, and higher revenue. Invoca is trusted by top brands like Dish Network, Mayo Clinic, Mutual of Omaha, PODS, and SunTrust Bank.
Categories: Call Analytics Platforms and Solutions, Analytics Platforms and Solutions, Attribution and Marketing Performance Mgmt
Jasper - https://www.jasper.ai/
Hi! I’m Jasper, an AI sidekick that helps you and your team create better content 10X faster. Trusted by 80K businesses and rated 4.9/5 stars.
Categories: Content Marketing Platforms and Solutions, SEO Platforms and Solutions, Social Media, Influencer, Reviews Platforms and Solutions
Lumar (formerly Deepcrawl) - https://www.lumar.io/
Lumar (formerly Deepcrawl) is an enterprise-scale
website intelligence platform used by businesses
worldwide. Powered by the fastest website crawler
on the market, the platform helps businesses uncover
their websites’ full commercial potential with a
command center for monitoring and improving
websites’ technical health and search performance.
Lumar is used by some of the world’s best-known
brands, including teams at eBay, Microsoft, PayPal,
and Deloitte.
Categories: SEO Platforms and Solutions, Agency Services and Consulting, Analytics Platforms and Solutions
Milestone Internet Marketing, Inc. - https://www.milestoneinternet.com/
Milestone helps businesses create, organize, and amplify their digital information. By enhancing digital presence, we make information more accurate, consistent, and visible, and help you be everywhere your customers are. We do this with a digital presence platform and add to it as much or as little service as you need. We work with major brands and mid-size businesses across industries to drive traffic, engagement, and revenue through omnichannel marketing fueled by SEO Our state-of-the-art technology and solutions drive revenue and ROI for clients across the globe. Over 2,000 companies world-wide do business with Milestone, including leading hotel chains, major retailers, and financial services companies. Milestone has garnered over 300 awards and a reputation for blending outstanding design with advanced technological capabilities.
Categories: Digital Experience Platforms and Solutions , SEO Platforms and Solutions, Local Marketing Platforms and Solutions
Shopper Approved - https://results.shopperapproved.com/
Shopper Approved is an eCommerce Rating and Review company based in the USA that collects Seller Ratings, Product Reviews, and Video Reviews since 2010, and has been a Certified Google Review Partner since 2013 for both Seller and Product Reviews. In addition to collecting and syndicating search-optimized reviews, Shopper Approved also offers a highly search-optimized Q&A tool and website security seal.
All of our tools help improve both paid and organic traffic, and conversion rates. The Q&A tool, for example, is designed to show the answer to the product search question in the Featured Snippet.
Shopper Approved has collected over 110 million reviews for over 26,000 eCommerce websites, and has been recognized by Inc. as one of the 500 fastest-growing companies for 2-years in a row, while also being recognized by G2 and Capterra as the highest-rated review platform on the web.
Try it Seller Ratings free for 45-days, no credit card required, or schedule a personalized demonstration to see how it can work for you.
Categories: Social Media, Influencer, Reviews Platforms and Solutions , SEO Platforms and Solutions, Customer Experience and Relationship Mgmt
Wrike - https://www.wrike.com
Wrike, the world’s most versatile collaborative work management solution, has transformed the way marketing teams work together. Bringing everyone into a single digital workspace makes it easy to monitor progress, identify dependencies, and keep collaboration and projects on track. With Wrike, marketers can increase agility and velocity by automating workflows to achieve aggressive growth goals. Create and launch complex, integrated campaigns at scale across multiple channels and geographies knowing you’re maintaining visual brand consistency and quality. Improve external and internal customer experience no matter how complex your campaigns are or how many marketing channels you’re operating. Wrike accelerates creative production, increases on-time delivery, and makes maintaining brand consistency easier.
Categories: Marketing Automation Platforms and Solutions, Content Marketing Platforms and Solutions
Bronze sponsors
Advanced Web Ranking - https://www.advancedwebranking.com/
Advanced Web Ranking is a powerful online rank tracker suitable for digital agencies and in-house SEO teams. Used by more than 24.000 companies worldwide, it provides accurate and reliable search engine ranking results.
Here are some of the companies who have chosen to grow their business with Advanced Web Ranking: Digitas, GroupM, Ogilvy, Screaming Frog, Microsoft, BBC, Amazon, Hilton, DailyMotion and many more.
Categories: SEO Platforms and Solutions, Analytics Platforms and Solutions, Attribution and Marketing Performance Mgmt
Page One Power - https://pageonepower.com
Page One Power is an SEO agency specializing in sustainable link building and strategic content creation. We create custom campaigns for brands committed to winning in search — designed to capture authority, improve rankings, and grow traffic.
We provide full transparency and consistent communication throughout all our campaigns because you need a partner you can trust with the experience, expertise, and commitment to doing search right. With over ten years of experience, we have the proven ability to build pages that earn visibility and links online, with stable processes to secure the links your pages deserve.
Better Links. Better Content. Better Results.
Categories: Link Building , Content Marketing Platforms and Solutions, SEO Platforms and Solutions
SEO Vendor - https://seovendor.co
SEO Vendor is an award-winning white label marketing agency developing predictive AI analysis to dramatically improve SEO results. In the last 15 years, SEO Vendor completed over 7000 projects in partnership with over 170 agencies worldwide. The company has strategized with small businesses and Fortune 500 companies alike, raising traffic, scoring leads and developing long-term scalable solutions. The "Agency's Firm" provides a free agency platform supported by a team of over 55 talented experts in the fields of SEO, PPC, website development, and sales funnels.
Categories: Agency Services and Consulting, SEO Platforms and Solutions, Marketing Automation Platforms and Solutions
Stacker Studio - https://studio.stacker.com/
Stacker Studio is a storytelling newswire, partnering with brands to create data-driven content and distribute it to thousands of respected news sites across the country.
The result? Hundreds of SEO-friendly media pickups and a scalable way to increase brand awareness and authority.
Since 2017, Stacker has been producing and distributing newsworthy content to high-authority publishes like Chicago Tribune, MSN, SFGate, and more, plus 2,500+ local news sites.
Now they help brands who don't have the resources to develop their own internal content operations. By sticking to strict editorial standards, Stacker Studio is able to create stories on behalf of brands that appeal to publishers -- a rare and powerful win-win.
Categories: Link Building , Content Marketing Platforms and Solutions, Agency Services and Consulting