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Vercel vs DigitalOcean

Vercel and DigitalOcean compared: the outlets each sponsors, the ones they share, and the ones where only one appears.

45Vercel3 newsletter · 5 podcast · 37 event“The autonomous stack for every app and agent.” Source
23DigitalOcean13 newsletter · 1 podcast · 9 event“Run AI products in production with a unified stack for agents, inference, and cloud—built for control, performance, and economics at scale.” Source

Where each ran Newsletter and podcast placements, last 12 months.

VercelDigitalOceanLane
1
7AI newsletters
4
1Technology podcasts
2
2Software & developers newsletters
0
4Startups & venture newsletters
1
0Business podcasts

In common 4 outlets with both on record.

OutletTypeVercelDigitalOcean
AI Engineer World's FairEvent21
Superhuman AINewsletter12
Confidential Computing SummitEvent11
Open Source Summit KoreaEvent11

Only one on record Not on record means we haven’t seen it, not that the other doesn’t buy there.

Vercel · 34 outlets

Acquired2
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth2
AI Engineer Code Summit1

DigitalOcean · 11 outlets

TLDR AI5
This Week in Startups Newsletter3
AI Council1
See every outlet · Company Research

Counts are the ads and listings we’ve found. They don’t show spend.