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GRC Media PLATINUM Sponsor

AT GRC Media, we help large media organisations diversify their online revenue streams.
We work with some of the world’s largest media companies to help them utilize their strong online presence by integrating and operating white label integration projects in the finance and iGaming verticals.
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GOLD Sponsors

PlagiaShield GOLD Sponsor

PlagiaShield helps large news sites protect their content from plagiarism. Find all thieves, get rid of them, rank better.
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iZooto GOLD Sponsor

iZooto is an audience development and engagement platform built for news and media publishers. 15,000+ editors and audience managers trust iZooto to drive repeat traffic and keep their readers engaged across channels.

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SILVER Sponsors

BRUCE CLAY SILVER Sponsor

Bruce Clay Inc. (BCI) is a well-known search marketing company providing SEO services and consulting, pay-per-click (PPC) advertising management, content development and social media marketing services. In business since 1996 and offices worldwide, we are a company of 100% experts, each analyst with over 10 years experience. We can help.
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YOAST SILVER Sponsor

Yoast SEO is a WordPress plugin that helps you optimize your website to improve your chances of ranking in search engines! With over 13 million active downloads worldwide, the Yoast SEO plugin is one of the most popular WordPress plugins worldwide. The plugin offers many advanced SEO tools and features to help site owners increase their site’s visibility. Yoast SEO comes for free, but also has a paid Premium plan. Yoast’s mission? Making SEO available for everyone! Whether it be through the widely used SEO software or the online SEO training courses: Yoast is there to help you do SEO and get the most out of your website!
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Bright Sites SILVER Sponsor

We make FLOW, the innovative digital publishing platform, with smart SEO tools, AI recommendations and rapidly evolving roadmap. Features include best-of-breed publishing interface, e-commerce, live blogging and translation tools. Trusted by The Independent, Evening Standard and National World.
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WordLift SILVER Sponsor

WordLift is a startup founded in 2017 that developed the first artificial intelligence-based SEO platform. Our technology makes it easy and fast to capture structured data, mark it up and integrate it into any website. This allows you to create a customized Knowledge Graph. It ensures your company’s data is recognized and searched by Google and other search engines, improving the user experience on the website and increasing the time spent on it. The result is an increase in organic website traffic and conversions.

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Media Partners

Search Engine Journal

ABOUT #NESS / the first event dedicated to SEO for news publishers

The News and Editorial SEO Summit (NESS) is the first event of its kind, dedicated to all the things news publishers need to know to help them grow their organic search traffic.

NESS brings the best minds of the SEO and publishing industries together to share their insights and expertise.

From Google News to Discover, from Top Stories to news apps, you will learn what it takes to grow your presence in all organic locations where news is shown.

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Event Speakers / more speakers will be announced soon

John Shehata

Global VP of Audience Development Strategy & Partnerships, Condé Nast

Barry Adams

Specialised SEO Consultant for News Publishers

Alli Berry

Senior Director of Content Marketing, TheStreet

Louisa Frahm

SEO Director, ESPN

Koray Tuğberk GÜBÜR

Holistic SEO & Digital

Claudio Cabrera

VP Audience and Newsroom Strategy, The Athletic

Joost de Valk

Founder Yoast, Investor at Altha

Carolyn Shelby

VP of Growth, Dawn Patrol LLC

Paul Shapiro

Team Lead, Technical SEO & Growth Marketing, Shopify

Mark Burka

Senior SEO Content Manager, Angi

Chris Moran

Head of Editorial Innovation, the Guardian

Lily Ray

Senior Director, SEO & Head of Organic Research, Amsive Digital

Leonie Roderick

Editor of Audience Reach, The Times and Sunday Times

Ben Dilks

Homepage Editor, The Times

Pontus Sandberg

CEO, GRC Media

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RED CROSS UKRAINE FUNDRAISING / NESS is matching donations

As part of NESS 2022, there will be a fundraising campaign for the Red Cross’s Ukraine relief efforts. We encourage all attendees to donate and will match donations up to $5000.

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Testimonials / this is what attendees said about NESS 2021

“This was the most relevant SEO conference I’ve attended in a very long time! It’s all focused on News and featured good gender diversity, as well as good diversity of backgrounds from presenters.”

“A great mix of editorial and technical content. Every single session was helpful and valuable – very different to other conferences where there is barely News SEO Content.”

“The variety of speakers from many different renowned publishers, the focus specifically on news. The speakers were all chosen very well. All of them were fluent, clear and informative.”

“Everything about the conference surpassed my every expectation. The organization, the speakers, the general spirit of honesty and investment in quality content, the airmeet platform, the breakout tables, the commitment to answering questions – all of it was 100% brilliant! I’m well impressed!”

Event FAQS / find your answers

The News & Editorial SEO Summit 2022 is an online event dedicated to all things SEO for news publishers. Organised by John Shehata and Barry Adams, NESS 2022 is the second event after the success of the 2021 edition. It will feature speakers from global and local news publishers, sharing their insights into editorial SEO, technical SEO, live coverage, Google Discover, careers in news SEO, content strategies, commerce in publishing, and much more.
Yes, the News and Editorial SEO Summit 2022 will be a pure online, virtual event. All talks will be livestreamed through the Airmeet online event platform. When you register, you will receive a link to enter the virtual event space on the event days where you can see every talk live and ask questions to our speakers. There will also be virtual networking tables to meet other attendees.
Yes, we will record all the talks and allow attendees to view them later whenever they want. We will be offering recordings-only tickets for sale after NESS 2022 has ended, which will give you access to the recorded talks. Of course, we still encourage you to attend live so you can ask questions and engage with the speakers and panelists.
Get in touch with us to discuss special rates for buying tickets in bulk (10+).