Platinum Sponsor

Future Sources is one of Australia’s leading mailing houses.   For 20 years they have been building process, driving technological improvements and refining the art of direct mail,  With investment in some of the world’s latest technology, Future Sources offer comprehensive mailing services from the supply of mailing lists to lodgment with local and international mail carriers. Services include high level programming for statements, notices, archiving of laser images via various means plus high level laser printing. Future Sources also offers offset and inkjet printing, onsite guillotining and shrink wrapping, database management, mailing lists, envelopes, folding, bursting and trimming, batching, fulfilment, intelligent inserting and sealing, fulfilment.

“ It is a philosophy of continual improvement and a focus upon quality outcomes that has made us one of Australia's leading mail houses"

 

 Gold Sponsors

With a history that stretches back to 1809, Australia Post is the oldest continually operating organisation in Australia – and is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading postal businesses. Australia Post delivers around 20 million items of mail every working day to 10.9 million addresses across Australia. With 4,419 outlets, it also operates the nation’s largest retail network. Beyond the delivery of mail, Australia Post offers a broad range of parcel services, financial services, identity services, government services and retail merchandise. The postal corporation is currently building a Digital MailBox service that will be available, free for all Australians, in late 2012.

The team behind BrandMail have been operating in the online space in the US, UK and Australia since 1997.  The wealth of experience has brought a number of online services to many small to medium, corporate and blue chip international clients.  Developed to enable businesses to keep their marketing in a central place, easy to manager, simple to use but incredibly powerful.  BrandMail can assist in developing the concept, design, creating content opportunities and viral campaigns that cross boundaries from email, SMS, web, social media and more.  The sole focus from our services is to grow and motivate your audience.

Privately and independently owned by the Caxton Group with a long history in the printing sector dating back to 1921, the directors and senior management team have vast experience  With an extensive range of contemporary press and finishing equipment, CaxtonWeb delivers a significant ‘in-house’ production capability across a wide range of printed material, from press finished product to flush finished perfect bound catalogues.

“We understand that building strong relationships based on trust is a long term proposition. Trust needs to be earned, and we wouldn’t want it any other way"

First Creek Wines, situated in the Hunter Valley, have been crafting wines of exceptional regional quality since 1996. The talented and highly acclaimed team of Winemakers at First Creek are led by Liz Jackson and Greg Sikman. Liz was awarded the prestigious Hunter Valley Winemaker of the Year award in 2011.

MY WINE WAREHOUSE

MyWineWarehouse  is a direct online wine buying site which has been established by wine industry specialists to provide an opportunity to buy some unique wine offers from some of Australia's small to medum boutique wineries,who have a passion for their wines and who offer outstanding value directly to you

“We have worked with some of your members over recent months in support of reader subscriptions and see the publishing industry as a great ally. We will continue to offer opportunities for the publishing industry to both leverage revenue and improve customer service by offering deals for subscription drives and passive income from wine sales to their data bases.”

 

INTEGRATED PUBLICATION SOLUTIONS

Integrated Publication Solutions (IPS) offers a sustainable future for all involved in the magazine distribution industry. IPS provides Publishers with a unique distribution model offering improved sales efficiencies, no early returns, fast turnaround time on publication sales revenue and providing closed sales data in a fraction of the time of other distributors. IPS is the new player in the industry and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fairfax Media Ltd.
 

 OOMPH

Oomph is the hero division of Mogeneration, an Australian company founded in 2008. The award winning Oomph digital publishing platform was created in 2010 in time for the launch of the iPad. It is now used by designers, media agencies, publishers and corporations to create world-class media apps on tablet devices. Oomph powers more than 100 apps for over 60 clients worldwide, including Harper's Bazaar, Gourmet Traveller, FourFourTwo, Adidas Onside, News Corp, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Reed Business and more. OomphHQ.com.

"We created the Oomph platform because we saw how touch devices could transform the way content is consumed. We're passionate about helping publishers and brands find new ways to wow and engage with their readers while generating new revenue streams."

SCEC In the heart of Sydney, overlooking Darling Harbour, is ideally located within a short distance of a wide range of hotels and accommodation. Offering more than 30 flexible meeting rooms, ranging from smaller spaces suitable for events for up to 50 people, to an auditorium accommodating 3,500 the SCEC also features six exhibition halls and offers a total exhibition space of 30,000 square metres. With its award winning banquet and catering services and AV services the SCEC is one of Australia’s leading events venues.|

 Silver Sponsors

DAN SHARP PRODUCTIONS

 With over 15 years experience in Australia and Europe, Dan Sharp Productions is an award winning creative production studio, producing premium cross-platform video content for business and television.

“We take pride in helping our clients to understand the creative processes of video content production and the business execution needed to make it truly successful whilst delivering 'world class' visual content on a manageable budget"

REALVIEW

Established in 1999 Realview is run by people with a passion for print media who also love online. Headquartered and Australian owned, with offices in Sydney, New York and London, Realview deliver dynamic magazines, newspapers, catalogues, client and staff communications with their web based digital publishing suite. Their robust, flexible digital publishing solution is used by publishers all over the world, with clients such as Conde Naste, National Geographic, Newscorp and Fairfax.

“Working with us, publishers gain higher audited circulation, marketers develop innovative cross platform campaigns, and advertisers capture truly measurable consumer engagement" 

Collaborative Partners

AUSTRALIAN MARKETING INSTITUTE

Established in 1933, the Australian Marketing Institute (AMI)  represents professional marketers throughout Australia, including practitioners from all marketing functions and industries. The AMI’s leadership role in advancing the marketing profession has resulted in the emergence of Certified Practising Marketer (CPM) accreditation as a practising benchmark, the establishment of a Code of Professional Conduct, and the move towards defined practising standards for marketers and marketing metric organisations.

“Through our unified voice, the Institute has established strong links with business, academia and government to become the voice of the marketing profession”

MEDIABIZNET

MediaBizNet is a free networking search and information tool for the media and marketing industry.. MediaBizNet encompasses directories of marketing, publishing, media services, news, events. It is a free service. MediaBizNet works with and is endorsed by leading industry bodies such as the Australian Marketing Institute (AMI), Publishers Australia (PA) and the Australasian Promotional Products Association (APPA).