Bloom Consulting is a company 100% specialised in Nation and Place Branding headquartered in Madrid, with offices in London, Lisbon and Sao Paulo. The specialisation in Country Branding makes Bloom Consulting one of the most advanced and globally renowned companies in the sector with more than 70 projects implemented across 5 continents.

Bloom Consulting publishes its own Country Brand Ranking, with the aim of analyzing the Brand performance of 180 Countries and the Digital Country Index and Digital City Index which measure the digital identity of Nations and Places.

Nation Brand Builders, Bloom Consulting's latest book is available on Amazon.

Brand Finance is the world’s leading brand evaluation and strategy consultancy. We help place brands measure their marketing activities and develop successful strategies. Headquartered in the City of London, we are present in 25 countries worldwide.

We have published the Brand Finance Nation Brands study into the strength and value of the world’s top nation brands for 20 years. In 2020, we launched the Global Soft Power Index – the world’s most comprehensive research study on perceptions of nation brands, surveying opinions of 150,000+ respondents in 100+ markets and ranking all 193 member states of the United Nations. Our Brand Finance City Index – published for the first time in 2023 will be extended in the coming years to cover more city brands in regional rankings across all continents.

C Studios delivers digital marketing services for economic development organizations across investment attraction, trade promotion and talent attraction. With expertise from working with hundreds of cities, regions and countries, we guide our clients through their demand and lead generation challenges with confidence and clarity. C Studios is a joint venture between two best-in-class-agencies: OCO Global, a technology enabled advisory firm focused on trade, investment and economic development, and DCI, marketing specialists in economic development, talent attraction and tourism. Together, we combine more than 80 years of combined agency history and 250 experts from around the world. We’re a global team solving global challenges.

Epsilon is a people-based marketing platform and sits at the heart of Publicis Groupe. By combining Epsilon’s data and technology capabilities with the Groupe’s media and creative firepower, we provide a truly differentiated offering to the market.

Epsilon offers a full-service data centric digital media platform (display, mobile, video/CTV, social) which enables brands to replace ineffective retargeting budgets with full funnel customer targeting using AI to deliver 1:1 personalisation. In addition, the solution leads the market by focussing on incremental measurement to make a genuine difference to client revenues.

Epsilon is also the only loyalty provider in the industry to be named a leader in both Loyalty Technology and Loyalty Services by Forrester. Epsilon’s comprehensive loyalty offering helps brands to create lasting connections with customers through personalized interactions at every step of their journey.

Miles Partnership is a strategic marketing consultancy focused exclusively on travel and tourism. Our mission is to enrich lives through travel by positively impacting communities and travelers with audience-focused, results-driven solutions. Our team is skilled in every aspect of travel and tourism, from marketing and communications to destination management and sustainability.

Today we work with more than 150 destinations, hospitality businesses and other travel industry clients worldwide to develop marketing and management strategies that amplify local experiences, boost visitation, improve community relations and increase overall economic impact.

MMGY Global is the world’s leading integrated global  marketing firm specializing in the travel, hospitality and entertainment  industries. With eight operating brands across the world, the award-winning  organization maintains a global communications practice in all marketing  channels, serving many of the world’s premier travel and tourism brands. As a  company dedicated to the global travel industry, MMGY Global strives to create  a connected, inclusive and peaceful world by promoting travel as a cultural bridge  of understanding.

As leading advisors in economic development, tourism and real estate for more than a decade, Resonance combines business strategy and marketing creativity to help shape the future of countries, cities and regions around the world.

Our team has advised destinations, communities and governments in 20 states and more than 70 countries. We provide leading public and private sector organizations with consumer research, strategic planning, marketing strategy, place branding and economic development strategy to help places realize their full potential.

Simpleview is the worldwide leading provider of CRM, CMS, website design, digital marketing, revenue generation, and mobile technologies for destination marketing organisations (DMOs). The company employs 325+ staff and works with 900+ travel, tourism and convention marketing customers on six continents, from towns of less than 30,000 to world capitals, including Los Angeles, New York and 14 more of the top 20 U.S. meetings destinations, Dubai, East Sweden, Guadalajara, Melbourne, Prague, Reykjavik, South Africa and the countries of Malaysia, Norway and Scotland. 

For more than 15 years TOPOSOPHY has been inspiring and supporting clients to transform places, whether these are neighbourhoods, cities, regions or whole countries, through the design, development and delivery of innovative and impactful placemaking and marketing solutions that are built to last.

Our in-house team of 20 dedicated professionals, and global network of 20+ associates, includes some of our industry’s most experienced researchers, analysts, strategists, marketeers, designers and field experts. We have delivered place-based projects in 40+ countries across four continents and are trusted advisors to some of the world’s leading international organisations, multinational brands and government agencies.