Call for Sponsors

WordFest Live – a global 24-hour celebration of WordPress – will bring our community together in a safe environment. We are enabling freedom of movement to connect with people within the virtual event space.

This is your opportunity to be part of something unique, view packages.

WordFest Live is the Festival of WordPress, and you will have the opportunity to be featured during sessions, on stage, and backstage in our virtual ‘tents’. Connect with more than 3,000 attendees from the WordPress community.

Your support will go towards the Big Orange Heart Foundation, a registered non-profit. 100% of the money raised will go directly into the further development of
the BOH Support Hub, the delivery mechanism for our free well-being and mental health support into the remote working community.

Where and when?

Featuring guests, speakers and sponsors from six continents.

WordFest Live is an online festival designed to be accessible for all. The event will kick off on July 23, 2021, from 00:00 UTC; see your local time here. Below are the local times as we travel.

We start in Australia at 9:30 AM – 1:30 PM ACST.
Then onto Asia arriving 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM IST.
Next up it’s Africa from 10 until 2 PM CAT.
Then to Europe at 1 PM through 5 PM BST.
The next stop is South America starting 1 PM to 5 PM BRT.
Then finally to North America at 3 PM until 7 PM CDT.

You can also chill out in Antarctica all day (see what we did there)! Yes, our unique Community Tent is a great place to chill out with friends and colleagues and connect with potential customers directly.

This will be the second time around for WordFest Live in 2021. The first event over-delivered in every possible way – smashing our attendee target by more than 17%! So now you have a unique opportunity to feature across WordFest Live.

Sponsorship Packages

Check out the quick overview, and then toggle for more details. Interested in hearing more? Reach out to the team for a discussion.

Overview

Details

Support Packages

Offered as a whole package option.

	Global Package 24-hour access, 6 total	Continental Package Per continent access, 12 total
Donation	Below are classed as a tax-deductible donation into 501(c)(3).
Logo on sites	$1,500	$1,000
Logo in marketing emails	$1,000	$650
Games Tent (made possible by)	$1,000

Advertising	Below are classed as a purchase of advertising within the event.
Community Tent	$1,200	$250
Community Interview	$700
Promotional Video	$600	$100
Games Tent (branded page)	£250

Total Package Cost	$6,000	$2,000

Additional Options

Offered individually.

	Quantities	Cost
Donation	Below are classed as a tax-deductible donation into 501(c)(3).
Live Captioning	6	$2,500
Photo Booth	2	$1,500

Advertising	Below are classed as a purchase of advertising within the event.
Per Session “Thank You”	48	$250
Micro-sponsorship	28	$250

The Support Packages

Logo on sites – your brand will feature across all websites associated with the WordFest Live event you are a supporter of. The logo will link to your website. Be featured in the run-up, during and after the event.

Logo in marketing emails – as we market WordFest Live to our community, your logo will feature prominently on all emails, thanking your brand for supporting WordFest Live.

Games Tent (made possible by) – your support of the Games Tent will feature your company’s logo prominently. It will also give you access to an exclusively branded Games Tent page.

Community Tent – connect with the WordFest Live community in our exclusive Community Tent. Your brand will feature across the virtual tables, where you will be able to run your own sessions and speak with attendees live.

Community Interview – based on feedback from our previous event, we have introduced a new session within the Schedule – the Community Interview – a dedicated session to discuss a mutually beneficial and agreed topic. Featuring interviewees of your choosing.

Promotional Video – as a Global supporter, a dedicated 30-second promotional video will be aired a minimum of 36 times across the 24 hours. Our Continental supporters will have their 15-second promotional video aired a minimum of 6 times for the duration of their chosen continent.

Games Tent (branded page) – within your exclusively branded Games Tent page, you will be able to run one of several pre-selected lead generation games, offering prizes to the WordFest Live audience.

Additional Options

We’re introducing new elements to our support packages to introduce greater flexibility, beneficial functionality for attendees, and new ways to be featured across the event as a supporter.

Live Captioning – we want to make WordFest Live as accessible as we possibly can. To do this, we need help from the community to fund Live Captioning across the whole event. Live Captions benefits all attendees, not just those with hearing impediments. As a Live Caption Supporter, your brand will feature prominently as a thank you. Emcees will also thank you for your support of our accessibility features across the event.

Photo Booth – we’re introducing a bit of fun to enable attendees to jump in our virtual photo booth and take a snap of them at WordFest Live. As a thank you for your support, we’ll add your logo to the photo frame. We’ll encourage attendees to share their WordFest Live experience on social media with their photo booth snaps.

The following items will be made available to all supporters and attendees.

Per Session “Thank you” – is a way for most businesses within our ecosystem to be featured across WordFest Live. Your logo will be presented on the session page, with a message of thanks, limited to one brand per session, based on a first-come, first-served basis.

Micro-sponsorship – another opportunity for any company or individual to increase their support of the event. As a Micro-sponsor, your brand will feature on the Attendees page, with a link of your choosing.

All sponsorship is offered at the complete discretion of the Big Orange Heart Foundation. We reserve the right to refuse acceptance of support without limitation. All prices quoted are $ USD.

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What the community are saying:

WordFest Live represents the best of the WordPress Community and giving back - 48 speakers from around the globe joining attendees and volunteers all in together supporting an important cause. Definitely an event to be proud of!

Not having any WordPress events meant that I couldn't see so many friends and colleagues that I was used to seeing. WordFest Live was such a fun day, I did chair yoga, hopped in many of the sponsor tents and interacted in the chat. I learned new things and got to check on all my friends, it was such a great day!

I am enamoured by the support and love of this WordPress community called Big Orange Heart. The WordFest Live event was a roller coaster of amazing proportions. We got practical information and great tips to take our skills to the next level in one QUICK 24 hour flash! My head is spinning from the amazing presentations. I am smarter now by losing sleep!

WordFest Live was a great way to stay connected with the WordPress Community and get inspired with great topics. The speakers really now their stuff and I learned a lot. Thanks for the great 24 hours! I really hope it was not the last WordFest Live.

Great event, and just what was needed to kick off 2021. I'm looking forward to whatever comes next!

Kudos to each and every team member of WordFest Live 2021 for organizing this event and putting lots of effort to make this event a grand success. It was really an amazing experience for being speaker at this event and I am so grateful for all the organizing team members for giving this opportunity. Thank you so much!

WordFest Live 2021 made me feel like I was at a live WordCamp event (at least as close to it being virtual!). It was the first online event I've attended where I felt deeply connected to the entire community. I felt welcomed into new space and conversations with open arms and encouraged to share my voice. The speakers had a wealth of information to share and the sponsors, emcees, and volunteers were all lively, engaging, and fun to be with. I loved WordFest Live 2021!

Really awesome event for everybody who loves WordPress! Engaged and professional speakers with very interesting topics. Will participate again, no doubt!

Amazing teamwork and coordination to run such an ambitious festival of all things WordPress. As a speaker, I felt very welcomed and supported throughout the whole event. Thank you for giving me this opportunity.

WordFest Live was a bright spot of community in the midst of such a dark and lonely time.

I loved the format of online WordFest Live: 24 hours, different time-zones, fantastic speaker selection, very well organized. The sponsor tents/tables were really good.