Create a Co-Branded Site

Another exciting and unique feature that VentureBeat Profiles offers is the ability to create your own co-brand site. Integrating with VentureBeat Profiles through a co-branded site means that visitors to your site or blog will have access to all of the information in the VentureBeat Profiles community while staying closely linked to your website's content and brand.

Here is an example of our co-branded site with Sociableblog.com:

VentureBeat Profiles Co-Branded site with Socialblog.com

By simply visiting this link to our Co-brand Site Request Page, you can request your own co-brand site in just a few minutes!

If you aren't logged-in to your VentureBeat Profiles profile already, then you will have to do that first. Once you are logged in, visit the link above and click "Request New Cobrand". After that, it's just 6 easy steps:

  1. Under "Your web site or domain address", enter the URL for your site or blog.
  2. Under "Cobrand Name", enter the name that you want your co-brand site to be called.
  3. Under "Cobrand Logo", upload the logo of your co-brand (required). In the case of SociableBlog, as shown above, their co-brand logo looks like this:

    When users click on this logo, they will be redirected from wherever they are on the VentureBeat Profiles site to your co-brand home page.

  4. Under "URL to return your users", enter the page on your site to which you want users to return after they have visited your VentureBeat Profiles co-brand site.
  5. Under "Return Logo", upload the logo that will link users back to your Return URL. As we see above, SociableBlog chose this logo:

    When users click on this logo, they will be sent back to the home page of your site.

  6. If you wish to put advertisements on your co-brand site, you can use the "Script URL to banner ad" field to enter the URL that would link to the ad normally shown on your site.
  7. Click the "Create Cobrand" button, and that's it!

If you've followed these steps, then you've submitted all the information necessary to create a co-brand site with VentureBeat Profiles. The co-brand site will go live as soon as your request has been approved, and users will be able to access it via VentureBeat Profiles widgets and links on your site or blog.