Connecting Software Companies
with Software Buyers
Every month, nearly 20 million intent-driven viewers visit SourceForge to find software.
Graham Hoffman
Digital Marketing Manager
POS Nation
From our partnership with SourceForge, we’ve been able to generate high quality leads for our Product Specialist Team and grow our brand awareness in our key industry verticals. I definitely recommend SourceForge to any organization or marketing team looking to expand their lead generation efforts in an effective and scalable way.
Jessica L.
Technology Director LexisNexis
Risk Solutions
We view SourceForge as one of our most valuable partners. Over the last few years, SourceForge has easily driven 2-3x the conversions of competitive sites for half the advertising spend.
Grow Faster, Acquire
New Customers
A set of powerful solutions to drive in-market buyers to your website, generate new customers build trust and authority, and gather intent data. Generate new customers, downloads, free trials, registrations, and more. Interested viewers are sent directly to your landing page where they take action.
SourceForge Listing Benefits
Upgrading your SourceForge listing will supercharge the amount of exposure your product gets on SourceForge. Along with detailed buyer intent data, your product will be placed directly in front of buyers at every step of their buying journey, and we'll drive qualified in-market buyer traffic directly to your website.
Categories
When potential buyers are viewing your category, your software will be ranked above all other basic listings, and will feature a prominent Visit Website button.
Your exact position is determined by the price of your plan.
Product Page
Enhance your product page by removing all competitor advertising from the page, adding a beautiful cover photo, and 2 call to action buttons to drive buyer traffic directly to your website or forms (Demo, Free Trial, Download, Contact Us, Request a Callback,etc.)
Comparison Pages
When users compare your software versus other software, your software will have a Visit Website button right at the top, sending buyer traffic directly to your website.
Potential buyers can find comparison pages on SourceForge, or come in to these pages straight from Google.
Alternatives Pages
When users are viewing alternatives to similar software or software from your competitors, your software will be ranked above all other basic listings, and will feature a prominent Visit Website button.
In this example, Your Software is an alternative to Salesforce. You can designate which competitor's alternatives pages your software will appear on. Our algorithm will also place your software at the top of many other software products that are similar to your software.
Your exact ranking is determined by the price of your plan.
Competitor Listings
When users are viewing your competitors' listing, or listings of software similar to yours, your software will appear right at the top of their listing, and feature a prominent Visit Website button.
In this example, Your Software is an alternative to Salesforce. You can designate which competitor's alternatives pages your software will appear on. Our algorithm will also place your software at the top of many other software products that are similar to your software.
Your exact ranking is determined by the price of your plan.
Integration Pages
When users are viewing a list of integrations for software that your software integrates with, your software will be ranked above all other basic listings, and will feature a prominent Visit Website button.
Your exact ranking is determined by the price of your plan.
Showcase your assets
Upgraded listings on SourceForge have several ways to display marketing materials and assets.
Show off your downloadable assets and case studies, while capturing potential customer information when they download them.
Link directly to thought leadership articles written by your team and published on SourceForge
Display videos and photos to really illustrate and explain what your value proposition is.
Build your reputation
with user reviews
Leverage your reputation by showcasing verified user reviews. With an upgraded listing, SourceForge provides you the tools and incentives to generate reviews from your customers. Your user reviews can be showcased on your software listing as well as your own website using the SourceForge Review Widget.
Earn awards for excellence
Get your software recognized as a Leader or Top Performer when you collect enough positive user reviews. Earn award badges that appear on your listing, and which you can use in marketing materials, promotional pieces, and your company website. When your software earns an award, you’ll receive a co-branded press release template that you can issue through the news wire or post on your own website or blog.
20+ million visitors
per month
Get your software seen by the most possible potential buyers, right when they’re looking to buy on the world’s most visited business software comparison website by traffic. SourceForge gets roughly 20 million visitors per month. Third-party statistics provided by SimilarWeb.
Put your data to work
You’ll get access to detailed data about which companies are researching your software or category on SourceForge. Activate this data to run powerful retargeting campaigns, ABM campaigns, and hone in your sales team on in-market buyers when it matters most.
Reach active buyers and
discover buyer intent.
Identify who's buying
SourceForge provides the tools you can use to see which companies are evaluating your software, your category, or your competitors' software.
Active buyer intent data
Download and activate the buyer intent data you generate from SourceForge in third-party ABM campaigns, or let us do it for you.
Detailed data on
in-market companies
Get a comprehesive overview of which types of companies are viewing your listing or category on SourceForge. Company names, industries, seniority levels, intent topics, job titles, countries, revenues, signals, and more.
Segment buyer intent
data by categories
or competitors
View buyer intent data to see which companies and potential buyers are researching your not only your software, but you can also see which companies and potential buyers are viewing your categories, and even your competitors.
Surround your buyers
with retargeting
Retarget buyers with
ABM-based retargeting
Retargeting viewer audiences that view your categories, competitors, and profile pages via Display and LinkedIn Social Advertising.
We'll retarget viewers and companies that have viewed or engaged with your listing and content, ensure your brand remains at the forefront of your prospect's mind.
More than 90% of buyers require extra touchpoints to recapture their attention, drive engagement, and convert to a sale.
Reach nearly half a million
readers via email
Amplify your message to a captive audience of engaged technology professionals. Get your product offer included in our bi-monthly email newsletter that goes out to over 400,000 technology professionals.
Your exact ranking is determined by the price of your plan.
Evergreen thought
leadership article
Publish your expertise
Get the opportunity to showcase your software, your expertise, and the problems your software solves by publishing an evergreen industry thought leadership article in the SourceForge Articles publication.
SourceForge Podcast
Build your brand on the largest reaching B2B software podcast
Join us on an episode of the SourceForge Podcast. Get interviewed and build your brand on the SourceForge Podcast, published to over 1.5 million users across YouTube, Linkedin, X, Facebook, Instagram, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify.
Episodes are 30-60 minutes and you’ll also receive the full professionally produced video file for use in your own marketing efforts, as well as a permanently published article on SourceForge