Tastemaker Conference 2024 Sponsors

Tastemaker Conference is only a few weeks away! And we can’t wait to see so many of you there. Don’t have your ticket yet? We still have a handful left, so be sure to grab your ticket here. 

Tastemaker Conference sponsorship provides us with a majority of our resources that enables us to plan and host our annual conferences and events, webinars, our Collaborative network, and more. We appreciate the financial support our sponsors provide so we can keep this community going!

Our Presenting Title Sponsor

Mediavine is our presenting sponsor! Check out their blog to stay up to date on Protecting Your Content, GA4 affecting RPMS, and more. 

Our Title Sponsor

Microsoft Clarity is a powerful tool that helps website and app owners understand how users interact with their products. By using heatmaps and session replays, Clarity shows you how users spend time on your site and what they’re interested in. Clarity’s content insights, such as reader type and reader behaviors, can help you find patterns and identify areas for improvement.

All Other Sponsors

RankIQ – AI-powered SEO toolset is built for just for bloggers. It tells you what to put in your blog post and title, so you can write perfectly optimized content in half the time. RankIQ also has a hand-picked library of the lowest competition high traffic keywords for every blog niche (over 1200 niches and counting).

Rocket.net – Rocket.net is an all-in-one managed WordPress hosting platform widely known for our blend of speed, security, and customer service. Currently fueling the success of some of the largest food blogs in the industry, Rocket.net is the secret ingredient for those who savor high-performance WordPress hosting. 

ThermoWorks – Thermoworks believes temperature affects your daily life. And that great thermometers can make life better. Temperature is probably the most widely measured physical parameter. It affects the quality of daily life in more ways than most people imagine. All thermometers are not the same. You need the right instrument and the right sensor for your specific job.

Thermomix – Why have a kitchen full of gadgets when you can have one that does it all? 🙌 Introducing the Thermomix® TM6® – your kitchen’s new best friend. With the TM6, transform ingredients into memorable moments. Real Food, Real People, Real Simple. 💚

Simply Organic – We are Simply Organic. The original, all-organic spice brand that lives up to the promise of our name in all we cultivate and bring to the table. We believe in nourishing lives and preserving the Earth for generations to come, all through inherently better food. Pure and simple.

NerdPress – WordPress support that feels like family!  We believe that your website should empower you to build a better life, and we’re here to help make it happen. With our WordPress Support plans, you’ll… stop stressing about your site; have a faster, more reliable website; ace those Core Web Vitals scores; partner with an expert team who has your back; and enjoy more time doing what you love. Be sure to stop by the NerdPress Recharge Lounge at Tastemaker with your tech questions — our friendly and knowledgeable team will be happy to help out!

​ConvertKit – ConvertKit is an email marketing platform built for creators, by creators. As the hub for creator businesses, ConvertKit centers its platform around your most important asset—your audience. We build simple yet powerful tools so you can learn about, connect with, and sell to your audience with ease.

Planoly – Planoly is the first social media management tool built for creators, by creators. Think of the new Planoly as every creator’s hyper-organized, social-savvy sidekick. Spend less time planning your social content and more time creating it. 

Lodge Cast Iron – For over 125 years, Lodge Cast Iron has been trusted to make the cookware folks are proud to bring to their table. Our skilled team brings each piece to life on our campus in South Pittsburg, TN, our hometown since the very beginning. And while we stand by the timelessness and versatility that have given us a name in kitchens around the world, we never stop looking for ways to innovate and reimagine cast iron cooking for the next generation. 

Seedlip – Seedlip is on a mission to change the way the world drinks with the highest quality non-alcoholic options. The pioneering movement of offering those not drinking alcohol a sophisticated, adult option has since become a segment all its own: the ever-growing no & low alcohol category. And since, Seedlip has been embraced by the world’s best bars, restaurants, hotels and retailers across the globe. What began in a kitchen in the woods is now leading a worldwide revolution–changing the way we drink.

21Seeds – Hi, I’m Kat. I created 21 Seeds because it’s what I wanted to drink – something smooth, simple, and casual with a fresh, natural flavor that made drinking infused tequila as approachable as a glass of wine. Before it was a brand it was just a couple of bottles infused in my kitchen with things I had on hand. Cucumbers, jalapeños, oranges, and grapefruit all worked in flavored tequila cocktails, so why not just add them straight to the tequila?

​Chicory – As the leading contextual commerce advertising platform, Chicory transforms recipe content into commerce media. Our contextual commerce solutions make it easy to monetize your recipe content with relevant in-recipe ads and enhance your site experience with shoppable recipe technology. Installation is simple and no minimum site traffic is required.

Baileys – Meet NEW Baileys Chocolate Liqueur. This Double Gold award-winning product combines two beloved treats – Baileys Original Irish Cream and real Belgian chocolate – to bring the pleasures of enjoying dessert to the bar. Best served in a chocolate martini, chilled, or as a yummy addition to your coffee, we hope you look forward to sipping your dessert with Baileys Chocolate.

CultivateWP – We create fast, beautiful websites for bloggers. While we’re known for our work on some of the biggest food blogs, we’re most excited about our newest service, Cultivate Go. At $5,000 our semi-custom Cultivate Go theme & white glove site setup provides the exact same features, functionality, and technical solution as themes costing up to 10x as much. That means your Cultivate Go site can compete on an even technological playing field with bloggers who have millions of monthly visitors. 

Flodesk – Flodesk makes simple, intuitive software tools to help creators start, grow, and monetize their email list. We’re on a mission to make small business owners more successful through good design.

​BigScoots – All Fully Managed Web Hosting Is Not Created Equal. The dedicated time and attention we put into each and every one of our clients is what sets us apart from “the other guys.” Being passionate about our client’s success drives us to deliver ideally optimized web hosting environments that are faster and more reliable than they’ve ever had before.

Feast Design Co. – Feast+ is your branding toolkit for helping you define your brand, and apply it in a beautiful and consistent way across your homepage, categories and posts.

ContentYum – Welcome to ContentYum, debuting at Tastemaker as the next revolution in content marketing! Our promise? To serve you content that converts. Whether it’s topic ideation, SEO content briefs, content writing, or link building, our team of experts have whipped up content solutions that satisfy both search engines and hungry audiences. Taste the difference with ContentYum, where every content strategy is a recipe for success. Visit our booth for a special promo (and some pretty epic swag!)!

Cookie Finance – We’re the accountant specifically for content creators and influencers! We lift the weight of write-offs, taxes and finances off your shoulders so you can focus on what you do best: creating content.

MediaWyse – Individual consultancy ran by 24-yr experienced SEO expert Casey Markee. The firm is 100% devoted to providing site auditing and SEO expertise to the food and lifestyle niche.

SimplePin Media – We’re a Pinterest marketing agency helping people get better at Pinterest so your business can grow. We have marketing services, products, and a podcast — the Simple Pin Podcast. 

Watermelon Board – The Watermelon Board represents 700 watermelon growers, shippers and importers nationwide with a mission to increase consumer demand for watermelon – meaning we want people to enjoy watermelon every day of the year! We are a resource hub dedicated to celebrating and promoting everything wonderful about watermelons. 

Idaho Potato Commission – Since 1937 the Idaho Potato Commission has represented the growers, shippers, and processors of fresh, frozen, dehydrated, and refrigerated 100% grown-in Idaho potatoes.  Idaho provides a unique combination of soil, weather and water to produce one-of-kind high solids, low-moisture potatoes. 

Barrett Brooks – Business is a powerful force for good under the right leadership. I write about the common challenges and questions leaders of mission-driven companies face. Get my Saturday newsletter on becoming a world-class leader below.

Email Crush – Email Crush provides email marketing consulting, personal coaching, courses, and done-for-you email marketing services to some of the world’s top creators.

The Inspired Home Show – Our partner in this event gets you a media pass to their amazing home show the weekend of our event. Be sure to register asap for the event. 

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital – This year, Tastemaker is partnering with a Charitable organization to help give back to those in need. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is a comprehensive cancer center in the United States dedicated exclusively to children and is the first and only WHO Collaborating Centre for Childhood Cancer.

Want to learn more about sponsors or even become a sponsor? Check out our Sponsorship Page here.