Some Stack Exchange sites have a 'sponsored by' logo just under the top bar:
Which sites in the network are/were sponsored, by which company/organization/product and when did that start?
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Which sites in the network are/were sponsored, by which company/organization/product and when did that start?
These sites in the network are sponsored through the formal site sponsorship program:
Site | Company | Start date | End date |
---|---|---|---|
Salesforce | Gearset | July 1, 2021 | September 30, 2023 |
Database Administrators | AWS | September 27, 2021 | December 31, 2022 |
Super User | AWS | September 27, 2021 | December 31, 2022 |
Unix & Linux | AWS | September 27, 2021 | December 31, 2022 |
Information Security | Auth0 | April 21, 2022 | December 31, 2022 |
Artificial Intelligence | AWS | July 18, 2022 | December 31, 2022 |
Cross Validated | AWS | July 18, 2022 | December 31, 2022 |
Data Science | AWS | July 18, 2022 | December 31, 2022 |
Server Fault | AWS | July 18, 2022 | December 31, 2022 |
Ask Different | AWS | July 22, 2022 | December 31, 2022 |
Ask Ubuntu | AWS | July 22, 2022 | December 31, 2022 |
Web Applications | AWS | July 22, 2022 | December 31, 2022 |
Additionally, three sites are sponsored informally, under special agreements that were negotiated before SE launched the formal site sponsorship program:
Site | Company | Start date |
---|---|---|
Ask Ubuntu | Canonical (more information) | October 11, 2010 |
Ask Patents | U.S. Patents & Trademarks Office | September 20, 2012 |
CS50 | edX | somewhere before May 2014 |
The following sites have been sponsored in the past:
Data Science, by Intel, started November 11, 2021 and ran until February 7, 2022.
Server Fault, by Octopus Deploy, started October 30, 2020, and ran until September 10, 2021.
Unix & Linux, by IBM, started February 4th, 2021, and ended within three months (May 3rd, 2021 in Wayback Machine shows no IBM banner).
Cross Validated, by AWS machine learning, lasting from January 3rd, 2020 until March 26th, 2020 (no official announcement).
DevOps, by New Relic, starting July 31st, 2020, for a period of three months (but was seemingly extended until December 17, 2020; December 18, 2020 in Wayback Machine shows no New Relic banner). On January 7, 2021, the sponsorship was extended for another three months, from January through March 2021 (April 10, 2021 in Wayback Machine shows no New Relic banner).
Software Engineering, by Stack Overflow for Teams, from July 18th, 2019 until about January 16th, 2020.
Quantum Computing, by Strangeworks, from March 12th, 2018 until about May 21st, 2021.
Startups (first iteration, now closed), by OnStartups, from December 7, 2009.
Other edX course forum sites (now closed), by edX, until about April 2014.