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Sponsors
Check out the sponsors who participated in SMX Next 2025, and stay tuned for the 2026 lineup. Interested in joining? Learn more about becoming a sponsor of SMX.
Title sponsors
Microsoft - https://about.ads.microsoft.com/en-us
Microsoft Advertising offers scalable technology solutions, spanning search, native, display, video, and retail media, to reach consumers across all aspects of their digital lives. Connect with more than a billion people using Microsoft experiences that have a proven track record of higher buying power and online spending or reach any audience across the open web. We operate one of the world’s largest global marketplaces and are using our data-driven platforms, audience intelligence, and AI-capabilities to transform the industry. We are committed to making the web work for everyone – consumers, advertisers, publishers, and platforms alike. Our end-to-end solutions and globally scaled advertising business serves partner properties, and buyers and sellers of media to help them deliver business results.
Categories: PPC and Marketplace Advertising Platforms and Solutions
Silver sponsors
BrandPilot AI - https://www.brandpilot.ai/
BrandPilot AI helps brands maximize ROAS and eliminate ad waste through AI-driven marketing intelligence. Digital ad spend is leaking—up to 30% is lost to fraud, waste, and inefficiencies. BrandPilot gives you full visibility into where your dollars are going and the tools to optimize performance automatically by detecting and eliminating waste in real time, using AI to fine-tune campaigns, and helping you recover lost spend to boost ROI.
Categories: Paid Media Mgmt Platforms and Solutions, SEO/GEO Platforms and Solutions, Optimization and Personalization Platforms and Solutions
CallRail - https://www.callrail.com/
CallRail is the lead intelligence platform that makes it easy for businesses of all sizes to market with confidence. Serving more than 200,000 companies worldwide, CallRail’s solutions help businesses track and attribute each lead to their marketing journey, capture and manage every call, text, chat, and form, and use real-time insights to optimize their marketing.
Categories: Call Analytics Platforms and Solutions, Marketing Automation Platforms and Solutions, Analytics Platforms and Solutions
Found Search Marketing - https://foundsm.com/
Found Search Marketing specializes in transforming first-party data into powerful audience models and unified insights, then activates them through precision paid media that converts.
Found was born in 2006 when Julie Warnecke, one of the first employees on the Google Ads team, had a vision for creating a new kind of agency: one that aimed to serve as a seamless extension of their client teams. Nearly two decades later, this idea continues to fuel Found's success today. Based in the suburbs of Indianapolis, Indiana, Found has grown to include more than 60 employees-including three former Googlers-across 12 states, and manages more than $200M in paid media annually.
Categories: Paid Media Mgmt Platforms and Solutions, Attribution and Marketing Performance Mgmt, Agency Services and Consulting
Optmyzr - https://www.optmyzr.com
Optmyzr is an award-winning PPC management platform built for the age of AI-driven advertising. As ad platforms automate more decisions, Optmyzr empowers advertisers to stay in control while harnessing AI to move faster and make better decisions.
With Optmyzr Sidekick, our generative AI assistant, marketers can analyze performance, uncover insights, and generate optimization ideas grounded in real account data. For more advanced workflows, Optmyzr supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling seamless integration with AI tools like Claude, as well as a powerful API that lets teams build their own interfaces and automations.
Whether you use Optmyzr through our award-winning UI or “vibe code” your own solutions on top of our API, you benefit from the same deterministic business intelligence, proven optimization logic, and scalable infrastructure.
Every action remains transparent, traceable, and governed by robust guardrails so you can safely combine human strategy with AI-powered execution, without giving up control.
Categories: PPC and Marketplace Advertising Platforms and Solutions, Marketing Automation Platforms and Solutions, Paid Media Mgmt Platforms and Solutions
Semrush Inc. - https://www.semrush.com/enterprise/seo/
Semrush (NYSE: SEMR) is the leading brand visibility platform, empowering marketers to command their online presence and create measurable impact. Built on the industry's most expansive proprietary dataset, Semrush delivers AI-driven insights across SEO, Agentic Search Optimization, content marketing, paid media, and social strategy. Used by over 28 million users globally - from scaling startups to the Fortune 500 - Semrush provides the competitive intelligence needed to win visibility in an evolving digital landscape. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA with a global presence across North America, Europe and Asia.
Categories: SEO/GEO Platforms and Solutions, Analytics Platforms and Solutions, Marketing Automation Platforms and Solutions
Demo sponsors
MotiveMetrics - https://www.motivemetrics.com/
MotiveMetrics is a Boston-based technology company pioneering AI-driven solutions for paid search.
Founded in 2015, the company brings a decade of experience helping marketers understand what drives performance in an increasingly automated landscape.
Its flagship platform, MotiveMap, acts as an advertiser-side AI intelligence layer—giving brands visibility and control over how platform algorithms interpret and target their audiences. By translating search behavior into actionable insights, MotiveMetrics helps marketing teams refine targeting, messaging, and structure to improve results at scale.
Offered in self-service, hybrid, and managed models, MotiveMetrics combines automation with human intelligence—turning AI from a black box into a transparent, collaborative system that works for marketers.
Categories: PPC and Marketplace Advertising Platforms and Solutions, Generative AI for Content Creation, Marketing Automation Platforms and Solutions
Semrush Inc. - https://www.semrush.com/enterprise/seo/
Semrush (NYSE: SEMR) is the leading brand visibility platform, empowering marketers to command their online presence and create measurable impact. Built on the industry's most expansive proprietary dataset, Semrush delivers AI-driven insights across SEO, Agentic Search Optimization, content marketing, paid media, and social strategy. Used by over 28 million users globally - from scaling startups to the Fortune 500 - Semrush provides the competitive intelligence needed to win visibility in an evolving digital landscape. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA with a global presence across North America, Europe and Asia.
Categories: SEO/GEO Platforms and Solutions, Analytics Platforms and Solutions, Marketing Automation Platforms and Solutions
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