iCrossing, formerly Spannerworks in the UK, is a digital marketing company that helps brands attract, engage and acquire customers. Our connected digital marketing programmes deliver compelling brand experiences and outstanding return on investment by combining;

• Natural Search
• Paid Search
• Social Media
• Content
• Display advertising
• User Experience

Our heritage in natural search spans back ten years. Combine this with our work in social media along with our talent and world-class technology, and the possibilities are exciting...

• 1000% 'extra' visibility for HBOS in just one year increasing top ten rankings by 1175% and boosting online quote requests by 127% in six months
• Brussels Airlines online bookings soar 420% through natural and paid search campaign
• More Th>n see 69% increase in search traffic and 780% increase in natural search referrals through a bold and ambitious social media engagement programme

In 2007, we joined forces with iCrossing, one of the USA's most successful digital marketing companies, and re-branded as iCrossing this year. Based in London and Brighton in the UK, we have 13 offices worldwide with more than 550 people sharing knowledge, best practice and technology.

Together, we are able to better serve our global client base that currently includes BT, EA Games, Sainsbury's Bank, The Coca-Cola Company and Virgin.

iCrossing
1 Palace Place
Brighton
BN1 1EF
T: +44 (0)1273 828100
F: +44 (0)1273 828101
E: results@icrossing.co.uk

Attentio is a fast growing market intelligence company based in Brussels, founded in 2004. We are pioneers in Europe in the world of Social Media monitoring, measurement and analysis. We have developed the award winning platform –the Attentio Dashboard –enabling the real time monitoring and measurement of social and mainstream media. We help companies understand what is being discussed on blogs, forums, and news; what is being shared through video logs (i.e.: YouTube) and how to benefit from that knowledge. We are working with some of the biggest brands including Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Samsung, Toyota and with all the main European PR and digital agencies.

Remember:

• Your customers are online.
• They’re having conversations about you.
• Keep track of your brands in Social Media.

W: www.attentio.com
E: attenticontact@attentio.com

Nielsen Online, a service of The Nielsen Company, delivers comprehensive, independent measurement and analysis of online audiences, advertising, video, consumer-generated media, word of mouth, commerce and consumer behavior, and includes products previously marketed under the Nielsen/NetRatings and Nielsen BuzzMetrics brands. With high quality, technology-driven products and services, Nielsen Online enables clients to make informed business decisions regarding their Internet, digital and marketing strategies. For more information, please visit nielsen-online.

W: www.nielsen-online.com

Peregrine Communications is an award winning financial public relations group providing specialist media communications for alternatives management firms, selected listed investment companies and retail and institutional asset managers.

Clients of Peregrine benefit from a senior team of talented professionals whose backgrounds include agency pr, financial services, in-house communications and journalism.

Peregrine’s business is built on a record of proven performance. This is why your day-to-day account contact will always be a senior agency manager who possesses the depth of knowledge and practical experience needed to produce results.

Peregrine clients can also draw on a proven global network of affiliated communications professionals in North America, Europe, South East Asia, Asia Pacific and EMEA.

Please contact: Anthony Payne
E: anthony.payne@peregrinecommunications.co.uk
T: +44 (0) 20 3178 6869 for more information.

Winner:
Best Public Relations Firm in Hedge Funds
2007 Hedge Fund Journal Awards

Winner:
Best Financial Communications Campaign
2001 Chartered Institute of Public Relations Excellence Awards

Peregrine Communications Group
48 Charlotte Street
London
W1T 2NS

T: +44 (0) 20 3178 6868
W: www.peregrinecommunications.co.uk

STRATEGIC APPROACH – SENIOR DELIVERY – SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE

OUT-LAW.COM is part of international law firm Pinsent Masons. It is a site that provides 8,000 pages of free legal information, mainly focused on technology law and law for technology businesses. It is among the most popular law firm websites in the world.

W: www.out-law.com

Chinwag – connecting new media people

The Chinwag community is a focal point for digital media practitioners. We aggregate expertise, fact and opinion, and act as a connecting rod for ideas and talent across the new media industries.

The site provides aggregate RSS feeds for the key interest areas e.g. mobile, advertising & branding, search & tech as well as a directory of industry events and many more handy features to come.

Chinwag also runs Chinwag Jobs (http://jobs.chinwag.com), the leading recruitment website dedicated to the digital industries, featuring over 900 roles in creative, technical, account management, business development, marketing, mobile and search.

W: www.chinwag.com

StrategyEye's is a next-generation real-time intelligence platform, based on a unique visual mapping system that enables users to understand any market development and deal activity in digital media at a glance.

Providing a highly contextual view of any M&A, VC and Partnership deals globally, StrategyEye couples proprietary technology for rapid scanning and indexing of expert blogs, news and research feeds with human analysts to give a definitive view of all market activity.

The StrategyEye platform is used by a variety of successful clients across the World - from Corporates and Investment Banks to VCs and high growth Start-Ups.

You can request your own two week trial of StrategyEye at www.strategyeye.com.

All Social Media Influence 08 delegates will qualify for a 20% discount on all StrategyEye subscription products, please contact sales@strategyeye.com and reference SMI08 for a quote.

W: www.strategyeye.com

The IAB is the trade association for online advertising, run for the leading media owners and agencies in the UK internet industry. Online is an exciting and fast-growing medium and our job at the IAB is to work with members to ensure marketers can identify the best role for online, helping them engage their customers and build their brands. Through the dissemination of research, working groups, councils and the organisation of regular events, we aim to put online on the agenda of every marketer in the UK, acting as an authoritative and objective source for all internet advertising issues.”

E: info@iabuk.net

WOM UK is the independent not for profit organisation representing the word of mouth marketing and communication industry in the UK. WOM UK was set to mirror the success of the USA’s WOMMA in establishing a member owned trade association designed to help he WOMM business grow in the UK. We do this by promoting ethical practices, skills development and access to the leading practitioners. Our membership includes a wide range of organisations including brands, creative agencies, research firms through to data bureaux.

Member companies include: Unilever, Royal Mail, Experian, Nielson, Edelman, 1000heads, Weber Shandwick, Golin Harris, Wildfire, BzzAgent UK, Dubit, Face Group, Guardian News and Media, neoco, Market Sentinel, WARC, BzzAgent, Spring Research and RAMP Industry amongst others. See www.womuk.org for a full list of members.

For more information, contact Andrew Macdonald, Operations Director on andrewm@womuk.org

gorkana provides you, the PR, with the tools you need to help you do your job efficiently and effectively. As a business founded by ex-PRs, we know what it’s like on your side of the fence. We understand your priorities, your deadlines, your needs. As such we have developed a whole range of products and services to help save you time and effort: from the daily gorkana alerts highlighting the latest journalist moves, to the gorkana database providing detailed and accurate information on the media.

To find out more about our full range of products and services please visit www.gorkana.com or call us on 020 7420 6882.

W: www.gorkana.com
T: 020 7420 6882

Internet Retailing is a bi-monthly magazine mapping the developments in the main streams of internet retail, analysing news and events in the sector and profiling key companies, initiatives, suppliers, people and trends. Internet Retailing is a source of ideas, competitive intelligence, briefing and analysis on this sector. Internet Retailing is written by experts in retail, technology, customer insight and logistics. While we are specialists we are writing for a general, knowledgeable business audience. Internet Retailing is the 'watering hole', the nexus where the many professions in a modern business can meet to develop internet retailing

Frequency - Bi-Monthly

Circulation - 5,000

Internet Retailing Magazine
6 Laurence Poultney Hill
London
EC4R 0BL

Tel: 0207 933 8999
Fax: 0207 933 8998
Email: robp@stjohnpatrick.com
Web: www.internetretailing.net