BIMA welcomes the following companies to the

3rd Annual Interactive Industry Career Fair 

 

 CompanIes To Date  Description
 

Aquent is the world’s leading marketing and creative staffing agency. For twenty years, we've matched professionals with freelance, contract, try-before-you-hire, and full-time job opportunities at top organizations around the globe. Our 75 offices represent talent in virtually every marketing discipline, from brand managers to copywriters, from data analysts to web designers. Our clients include two-thirds of the Fortune 500 and 90 of the Fortune 100.

 

Boston.com is part of New York Times Digital, the Internet division of The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT). New York Times Digital (NYTD) includes market leaders NYTimes.com, Boston.com and an archive distribution business. NYTD's mission is to provide a high-quality, worldwide online audience with trusted editorial content from The New York Times and The Boston Globe.
  

 

Carat is the only independent media agency network in the world and as we are free from agency ties, we can focus totally on what's best for our clients.   We passionately believe that communications have the powers to transform our clients' businesses.  Our clients can expect a team that continually finds new and better ways to connect our clients to their consumers.
 

 

Catalyst online, a WPP company, is a leading provider of search marketing services with nearly a decade of experience in both search engine optimization (SEO) and paid search services (PPC). Our clients include small, mid-size and multi-national organizations in the consumer package goods, entertainment, business to business, biotech and pharmaceutical industries, including Procter & Gamble, A&E Television, Iron Mountain, Pfizer and Novartis.
 

Charles River Interactive, founded in 2005, is made up of some of the top search engine marketing experts in the industry. Our search strategists are well known as industry leaders, and have experience working with both small niche sites and some of the world's largest and most complex sites. We are also marketers, who understand the importance of achieving sales and business goals. The basic foundation of advertising is reaching the right person, at the right time, with the right message. At Charles River Interactive, we believe there is no better way to do this than via effective search engine marketing campaigns. 
 

 

Commission Junction, a ValueClick company, is a global leader in the online advertising channels of affiliate marketing and managed search. We drive quality results, deliver superior service, and develop sustainable relationships for advertisers and publishers through our performance-based solutions. Commission Junction operates the only truly global network in affiliate marketing while setting the industry standard for network quality and providing the most sophisticated reporting tools available.

  

Compete is the only online market research firm that creates value for consumers and marketers. Our research is powered by millions of people who share their online behavior to create a more trusted, transparent and valuable Internet. Compete helps consumers directly benefit from clicksharing, and provides marketers with new insights into consumer behavior that help improve their marketing effectiveness.

 

Founded in 1980, Digitas—one of the world’s leading digital marketing and media companies—is at the forefront of the new digital age. As an independent global network within the Paris-based Publicis Groupe, the world’s fourth largest communications group, Digitas is the first global digital network with offices in the USA, Europe, and Asia.  Serving global marketing clients, we create brand experiences in digital and direct channels that engage and excite their customers. Through user-generated content, branded entertainment, digital video production, and social media programs and more we tap into people’s passions and create loyal, motivated relationships.

  e-Dialog is the proven provider of advanced e-mail marketing and database technologies, products, strategies, and services for permission-based e-mail marketers. Whether clients are looking for a full-service, self-service or collaborative relationship, we have the solutions to meet their needs. The NFL, BMG Music Service, American Eagle Outfitters, the TJX Companies (TJ Maxx, Marshalls, Bob's Stores) and SmartBargains.com, these are just a few of the 75 top marketers that rely on our flexible solutions to efficiently transform complex customer data into relevant e-mail campaigns that produce unbeatable results.
 
 

iProspect is the Original® Search Engine Marketing Firm. Our customized suite of services includes natural (“organic”) search engine optimization, pay per click advertising management, paid inclusion management, feed management, search leveraged public relations, and Web analytics. We improve website search engine placement, enhance user experiences, improve conversion rates, and maximize the return of our clients’ Internet marketing investments.

   LifeTips & ideaLaunch develop ideas that ignite interest, inspire action and keep visitors coming back. We execute those ideas with irresistible content and eye-stopping design. Then we continuously improve our solutions, using split testing and multivariate testing. We never stop looking for a harder-working solution. No one knows more than us about creating and executing universal search marketing campaigns. We're experts at hitting your target market no matter where they are – on the web, blogs, images, news, video or mobile.
 
 

Mad*Pow is a user-centered design studio based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Since 2000, the company has used its proven methodology to create powerful interactive and experience design for their clients. Mad*Pow partners with sales, marketing, and customer service organizations looking to leverage the interactive channel to support how customers, partners, and employees interact with organizations. The company’s services include e-business strategy, market research, user research, task flow analysis, information architecture, interaction design, visual design, and interactive media production. Mad*Pow works with global industry leaders, including Monster, McKesson, Fidelity, Timberland, Aetna, Autodesk, and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide as well as thriving start-ups in the high-tech industry, including Voicethread, GetSolo, and SheZoom.
 

  Media Contacts (“MC”) is the global interactive media network of Havas Media - the media division of HAVAS. MC provides data driven media solutions across all interactive channels. MC brings together professional expertise, proven strategic insight, and Artemis™, MC’s advanced proprietary technology platform, to maximize impact for the advertiser interactive media investment. Since 1997, and in 22 countries in 29 cities across Europe, North America, South America, Asia, and Oceania, Media Contacts is the trusted partner of more than 400 clients, including the market leaders in many industries, such as Dell, Expedia, Fidelity, ING Direct, Nike and VW, amongst others.
 
 

At Microsoft, there’s something we understand deeply: the intersection of the consumer and technology. After all, we built our company around it. As more and more consumers spend more and more time online—always connected, using multiple devices—we’ll help you reach them. The purpose of Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions is to empower you to connect with your target consumers across multiple digital touchpoints—and optimize your advertising impact through our world-class partnership services.
  

 

Since 1995 Neoscape has invented, and reinvented, dynamic marketing visualization assets for the highest profile projects throughout the United States and across the world.  Digital artists, designers, filmmakers, architects, and photographers in our Boston and New York studios combine artistry with technology to produce unsurpassed results across a range of visual and experiential media.  From stunning 3D illustrations that are greater than photo-real, to our signature immersive movies and lush animated virtual tours, to larger-than-life marketing environments, to our standout websites and vibrant print design, Neoscape has created an utterly new class of marketing tools and assets that demonstrably accelerates sales efforts. When each element not only stands on its own, but also complements all other elements, we create a whole which is even greater than the sum of its parts.
   

 

 

At Oasis, we believe there’s nothing more powerful than a great idea. Unless, of course, it’s the power of digital technology to distribute that idea in the most exciting, interactive and involving ways possible. We believe our unique combination of great conceptual thinking and world-class development makes us a fresh and intriguing resource for marketers as well as an exciting and challenging place to work. If the idea of conceiving strong, compelling, dare we say, fun ideas and then actually figuring out how to bring those ideas to life for a stable of large, national clients is what revs your engine...well, then we’d love to talk to you. The new digital age in which we live is changing all the rules about how to reach and move an audience. This new age needs someone to help figure out and write the new rules. Why not you?
 

 

One to One Interactive is one of the leading interactive marketing companies in the United States. Founded in 1997, One to One’s success is attributed to the vision of its leadership, work of its talented staff, dedication of its clients and strengths of its industry partnerships.
 

 

PermissionTV offers the world’s most flexible platform for delivering innovative and interactive video experiences on the Web. PTV tools empower companies to use video to capture new audiences, enhance relationships and maximize customer value. Corporations, agencies, media companies and public interest organizations use the PTV platform to design, manage, measure and continuously refine video interactions. Unlimited design options, robust publishing tools, an open integration framework, and sophisticated analytics converge to create a rich customer experience that drives profitable relationships.
  

  The Phoenix Media/Communications Group is a family of companies that work together to reach people who share a similar lifestyle. Cooperatively, they create a unique atmosphere for our readers. Our company reflects a commitment to new ideas rooted in a solid and broadly cooperative business model. Put simply, we think this is the way new media works. The Boston Phoenix was started in 1966 as a four-page arts-and-entertainment alternativen newsweekly. Today, it is one of the largest publications of its kind in the country. The Phoenix is nationally known for its award-winning, incisive journalism and publishes the most comprehensive arts-and-entertainment listings of any paper in New England.
  
 

TechTarget publishes integrated media that enable information-technology (IT) marketers to reach targeted communities of IT professionals and executives in all phases of the technology decision-making and purchase process. Through its industry-leading Web sites, magazines, conferences and its ROI-focused lead management services, TechTarget delivers measurable results that help IT marketers generate qualified leads, shorten sales cycles and grow revenues.
 

 

TripAdvisor, LLC, the largest travel community in the world, attracts more than 24 million monthly visitors (source: comScore Media Metrix, Digital Calculator Report, March 2007) across seven popular travel brands, tripadvisor.com™, bookingbuddy™.com, cruisecritic™.com, seatguru®.com, smartertravel™.com, travelpod™.com and travel-library™.com™. TripAdvisor.com features real advice from real travelers, with more than 5 million unbiased reviews and opinions, covering 250,000+ hotels and attractions and operates sites in the U.S. and in the U.K.
  

 

Valassis is one of the world’s largest integrated marketing services companies, working with 98 out of the top 100 advertisers in the country.  With approximately 7,500 associates in 21 states and nine countries, Valassis delights its customers with an array of print and digital products that connect consumers to brands.  Valassis has been named one of FORTUNE Magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” for the last nine years. 



Companies interested in exhibiting at the Career Fair please contact Amy Goodman at amy@mitx.org