As everyone knows it's impossible to build up a conference as big as next conference all alone. But luckily we're surrounded by great partners supporting us and it's about time to mention them and say a genuine thank you to our sponsors, media partners and event partners right now.

We really appreciate the great support and help. Thus we are able to set up next10 just the way we were hoping to. We're looking forward to guiding our partners through the final planning of their presences in Berlin.

Here's to a great conference on May 11 & 12!

You should definitely have a close look at our valuable sponsors at next10 to explore new products and services:

• Projekt Zukunft
Projekt Zukunft is an initiative for structural change in Berlin as an information and knowledge society. The goal is to develop the city into an internationally recognised, competitve and attractive location. The campain is an initiative of the Berlin Senate for Economics, Technology and Women's Issues. The communication, media, and creative industries cluster of Projekt Zukunft oversees one of the most successful fields of Berlin's economic policy.
• Jung von Matt
Jung von Matt was founded in 1991. Today, the advertising agency offers a complete repertoire of marketing communication services: brand identity, direct marketing, events, film, literature, media, music, online, public relations, planning and, as always, advertising. When it comes to awards for creativity and effectiveness, Jung von Matt has been the most successful agency in German-speaking Europe for the past 20 years. The company slogan says: A good idea is like the Trojan Horse. It's so attractive that people gladly let it in. But at its core, it only has one goal: conquest.
• spot-media
spot-media is a fast-growing, independent interactive agency in Hamburg. It was founded in 1996 and became part of the SinnerSchrader Group in February 2008. The two major business areas in the interactive business are: the ongoing maintenance of large Internet shops and portals on the one hand, and consultation and the development and implementation of websites and Internet applications for small- to medium-sized businesses on the other.
• Scholz & Friends
Scholz & Friends is a workshop of ideas, all designed to maximise the success of big brands with the aid of excellent creation and orchestrated communication. Since it was founded in Hamburg in 1981, the agency has enjoyed unprecedented success, starting in Germany and gradually spreading across Europe. Today, Scholz & Friends has around 800 employees and is active all over the Europe.
• AOE media
AOE media is a market leader in the provision of TYPO3 services to its many corporate and institutional clients worldwide. The enthusiastic band of highly qualified developers/programmers has installed many hundreds of TYPO3-based Enterprise Content Management solutions worldwide. AOE media was the first to apply TYPO3 services to big-scale projects for major commercial customers, implementing complex e-commerce and Open Source Business applications in TYPO3.
• SapientNitro
SapientNitro, part of Sapient, is the world's first customer experience company. SapientNitro creates and engineers highly relevant experiences that accelerate business growth and fuel brand advocacy for our clients. By combining multi-channel marketing, multi-channel commerce, and the technology that binds them, SapientNitro influences customer behavior across the spectrum of content, communication, and commerce channels, resulting in deeper, more meaningful relationships between customers and brands.
• Scout24
The Scout24 Group provides innovative e-business in the seven marketplaces AutoScout24, ElectronicScout24, FinanceScout24, FriendScout24, ImmobilienScout24, JobScout24, TravelScout24 and the Jobs.de and Local24 portals. Both private and business customers gain in their e-business activities from the group of companies' product portfolio and numerous services.
• ImmobilienScout24
ImmobilienScout24 is Germany's largest internet real estate marketplace, offering extensive services for every aspect of housing and relocation. The portal brings together vendors and property seekers. For every conceivable aspect of real estate, ImmobilienScout24 allows property seekers to make quicker and sounder decisions, and provides sellers a economical and comfortable platform with which to market property.
• neofonie
Neofonie is one of the leading providers of innovative technologies and converged applications in the areas of search, social media, mobile applications and e-publishing. It develops and creates a new generation of services and products that respond not only to market demands, but in the pioneering work previously unimagined uses.
• Microsoft Advertising
Microsoft Advertising is a new form of media partner for a new form of media. The company stands for: unbeatable reach and precision targeting; innovative new advertising formats and equally innovative costing models for maximising your ROI; scaleable solutions across online, mobile, email, IM, social networks and all other digital media.
• CoreMedia
In 1996, CoreMedia was founded as a spin-off from Hamburg University of Science and Technology. Today the company offers a total solution for creating dynamic websites, building communities and engaging people in a way that creates added value for them and greater returns for enterprises. The CoreMedia Web Content Management (WCM) enables enterprises to engage users as individuals, seamlessly across all touchpoints. Ith helps managing every aspect of digital communications.
• plista
plista is an Ad Network founded in July 2008 with the objective to establish a new and successful advertising format for publishers and advertisers on the Internet. The new ad format offers a new and innovative solution, in order to better market website and products. It provides relevant content in a relevant context and a CTR between 8 and 12 per cent.
• Smaato
Smaato is a pioneering mobile advertising company that operates the mobile ad optimization platform called SOMA™ - Smaato Open Mobile Advertising and partners with mobile publishers, mobile developers, mobile ad networks and mobile operators. SOMA's unique feature is the aggregation of multiple leading mobile ad networks globally to maximize mobile advertising ARPU.
• ZOONERS
Looking for a great concert, a chilling café or a good museum? Here you are right! Zooners is a platform where users find local business cards - called Zooncards - of good events and places in their city. Your personal pin board allows you to share single cards or the whole wall with friends or business clients. Programmed as a widget, every Zooncard can be placed via iframe on other websites.
• Madvertise
Madvertise is a specialist in mobile advertising and provides a broad reach of mobile websites and applications for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The company is primarily specialising in adaptations to the mobile needs and provides technology and platform. Mobile banner ads are their strength.
• SEOlytics
The SEO-controlling software SEOlytics is a tool for website search engine optimisation. The software supports online marketers as well as portal and shop owners to analyse the visibility of their website in search engines on a daily basis, to identify potential and so to increase their business success. The tool is offered as a license in three packages.


• OTTO
For many people, the OTTO name is synonymous with mail order. Mail-order sales have always been the mainstay of OTTO's business, and they still are. Its product range covers areas as varied as fashion, furnishings and technology. One main factor in the corporation's success is its focus on customer orientation, which results in high-quality products, excellent value for money and top-class service. With two main catalogues and some 60 specialist catalogues appearing every year, OTTO gives its customers access to up-to-the-minute trends specifically geared towards particular target groups. The successful multichannel retailer is also active in over-the-counter retailing and has numerous OTTO shops.
• Yiid.com

This year's Blogger Lounge is sponsered by Yiid.com. It will be an attractive meeting point for speakers and journalists as well. Yiid.com rolls out the "next poker" during the Official next10 Party. A Texas Hold'em Poker competition will be held and the winner will be rewarded. Yiid.com is a social aggregation service and recently launched the open dislike button.
• VZnet Netzwerke
With more than 16 million registered members on three platforms VZnet Netzwerke is market leader in Germany. studiVZ.net, schuelerVZ.net and meinVZ.net keep on growing, with thousands of new users joining every day. VZnet Netzwerke Ltd. was created in October 2005 as studiVZ Ltd. and has belonged to the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group since January 2007.
• Deutsche Post
Deutsche Post, Germany's only universal provider of postal services, is part of Deutsche Post DHL, the world's leading mail and logistics Group. Via its nationwide network of retail outlets Deutsche Post provides a range of postal, financial and telecommunications services.
• next commerce
next commerce is a subsidiary of SinnerSchrader, a leading interactive agency in Germany. Under the slogan "from Google to your door" next commerce provides the development and operation of web shops, online marketing, innovative and promotional product representation and a premium implementation of the ordering process. The consistent brand communication across all contact points is in the foreground. next commerce develops and manages all relevant business processes for successful online sales from a single source.




• construktiv

construktiv is one of Germany's leading owner-managed advertising and online agencies. Founded by Kai Tietjen in 1997, it has now more than 60 employees working in both Bremen and Berlin.
The agency's three main divisions are advertising, online marketing and social media. Innovative and effective campaigns for some of Germany's most interesting brands are their passion. In 2006 construktiv founded the online portal Mister Wong which then became an independent company in 2009. Another brand by construktiv is online marketing specialist trafficmaxx.