CORRECTING and REPLACING AlwaysOn Names 2008 OnHollywood 100 and Overall Winner iLike; Honors New ''Best Up & Coming Company'' Ustream.TV
2008-05-29 23:57:20 -
www.alwayson.goingon.com - Last company, "Consumer Services" list should read: Zivity (sted Zavity).
The corrected release reads:
ALWAYSON NAMES 2008 ONHOLLYWOOD 100 AND OVERALL WINNER ILIKE; HONORS NEW ''BEST UP & COMING COMPANY'' USTREAM.TV
AlwaysOn today announced its coveted OnHollywood 100 Top Private Companies and named leading social music discovery service iLike as the AlwaysOn OnHollywood Overall Winner. A new award for "Best Up & Coming Company," highlighting an emerging technology pioneer, went to internet broadcast platform Ustream.TV. iLike, Ustream and the rest of the OnHollywood 100 will be honored at the OnHollywood & BRiM event on June 10-11, 2008 at the Sofitel Hotel in West Hollywood, California.
"We are proud to present our top honors to iLike after seeing the magnitude of the company's presence online and the scope of their business," said Tony Perkins, founder and CEO of AlwaysOn. "iLike represents the best of the digital entertainment industry, showcasing how technology combined with music can make a profound impact on the ways entertainment is consumed, shared and discovered."
As one of the most widely used social networking applications, iLike has redefined online music discovery. Twin brothers Ali Partovi (CEO of iLike) and Hadi Partovi (President of iLike) seized the opportunity to build a transformative music application on the Facebook(R) platform, which quickly became the dominant music service on Facebook. They then went on to build number one ranked music applications on leading social networks worldwide, demonstrating that iLike is one of the most successful and quickly growing applications in social networking today. iLike, which began as indie music site Garageband.com, is now poised to play an important role in the reinvention of the music industry.
"We appreciate AlwaysOn's recognition," said Ali Partovi, CEO of iLike. "We're excited about the momentum we've experienced. We now have more than 27 million users who have enjoyed recent high profile content exclusives from leading artists across multiple genres of music. We look forward to continuing to help fans and artists connect online in innovative and fun ways."
A new award for "Best Up & Coming Company" highlighting the most innovative, emerging company on the horizon. "Ustream is a company that the editorial team is very much impressed by," said Perkins. "Their service has been adopted quickly by technology leaders as well as business leaders, showing its versatility, reliability, and potential."
Ustream provides an online venue for a variety of new shows and events, produced live and in mid-to-long form formats, moving away from YouTube snacking to real viewing online. This rapidly growing Internet broadcasting network boasts millions of viewers and hundreds of thousands of broadcasters and contributors, offering a shared space for entertainment innovation. Ustream promotes new hybrid content types as well as new independent shows, producing a pool of talent and creativity eager to be both enjoyed and discovered.
"We're honored to be named as the first OnHollywood 'Best Up & Coming Company,'" said John Ham, Ustream founder. "In the year since our launch, we have hosted everyone from Presidential candidates and Hollywood entertainers to Fortune 50 CEOs, parents, grandparents and even the Dalai Lama, and our continued growth shows the significant impact live broadcasting has on the way people use the Web to connect and interact. We're committed to continuing to build the Web's most innovative media platform, and we thank AlwaysOn for its important recognition and support."
AlwaysOn editors compiled the third annual elite OnHollywood 100 list with assistance from KPMG's emerging business practice, KPMG VC Practice. Together more than 500 venture investors, investment bankers, and technology insiders were surveyed, who then nominated hundreds of companies to determine the OnHollywood 100 winners. Companies demonstrating significant market traction and game-changing technology in the following sectors were selected to be part of the OnHollywood 100: Consumer Services, Content Delivery Platforms, Digital Content Publishers, Enabling Tools and Mobile. All innovators in their given technology sectors, each of the OnHollywood 100 winners demonstrated leadership among their peers in the following areas: innovation, market opportunity, commercialization, media buzz, and stakeholder value creation.
The top 100 OnHollywood digital media and entertainment companies chosen by AlwaysOn are (listed in alphabetical order by category):
Consumer Services
Buzznet
CafeMom
CastTV
Eyespot
The Filter
First30Days
Flixster
FriendFeed
Ibeatyou
iLike
I'm In Like With You
JibJab
The MEN7 Network
Outspark
PlaySpan
PluggedIn
Sidereel
Slide
TidalTV
Virsona
WeeWorld
Yardbarker
Zivity
Content Delivery Platforms
BitGravity
Edgecast
Gamefly
HIRO-Media
Jacked
Jaman
Live Gamer
Mixercast
Move Networks
PureVideo Networks
RockYou
SaysMe
SeeqPod
Seesmic
Sezmi
Songbird
Songza
TVU networks
Ustream.TV
VUDU
We7
zynga
Digital Content Publishers
60Frames
Adap.tv
Areae
Blowtorch Media
Boston.TV
Channel M
FountainHeadNetworks
Generate
GorillaSpot
HotChalk
Kongregate
Mochi Media
Next New Networks
One True Media
ON Networks
Or Die Networks
PlayFirst
QD3 Entertainment
Revision3
RipeTV
Social Gaming Network
Trion World Network
Turbine
Worldwide Biggies
Enabling Tools
4HomeMedia
Attributor
Backchannelmedia
Delivery Agent
Eye-Fi
Gigya
GridNetworks
Imagespan
Link3
MaMoCa
MovieSet
Next.tv
Ooyala
Quantcast
Spot Runner
Transpera
Visible Measures
Vuze
Wetpaint
Mobile
Access 360 Media
Apptera
GoTV Networks
Greystripe
MobiTV
MocoSpace
Mozes
Qik
SiBEAM
Thumbplay
Vlingo
Zannel
For more information on all of the OnHollywood 100 winners as well as the upcoming OnHollywood conference, visit alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/27325.
About OnHollywood 2008
June 10-12 @ The Sofitel Hotel, West Hollywood, California
OnHollywood is where cutting-edge technology CEOs from the back streets of Silicon Valley meet the Hollywood digital entertainment and media elite. This two-and-a-half-day executive event features high-level debates on which forces are disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities, content strategies and monetization schemes in the video, music, gaming, search, and mobile industries. Our editors will also honor the OnHollywood 100 Top Private Companies and feature the Best of Broadband "BOB" Awards. Fifty of the top CEOs from the OnHollywood 100 will pitch their market strategies to a panel of industry experts in our "CEO Showcase."
About iLike
iLike is the Web's leading social music discovery service and the dominant music application on the Facebook(R), Orkut, hi5 and Bebo platforms. With more than 26 million registered users, iLike helps people share music recommendations, playlists, and personalized concert alerts. The iLike Sidebar for iTunes and Windows Media Player suggests new music, creates automatic playlists, and connects people through music. iLike offers musicians and labels a Universal Artist Dashboard(TM) from which to reach fans and manage their presence across multiple channels: Facebook, Orkut, hi5, Bebo, iLike.com, Ask.com, iLike Sidebar plugins for iTunes and Windows Media Player, and iLike's iPhone application. By leveraging iLike's "artist-fan graph," a vast database of connections between consumers and their favorite artists, iLike helps artists reach their fans and cultivate the viral spread of their music. iLike, inc also runs indie music site GarageBand.com.
About Ustream
Ustream is the leading internet broadcasting platform. Ustream's proprietary technology powers an easy-to-use, web-based interface, allowing anyone with a camera, computer and Internet connection to broadcast live to the world. Integrated with a host of interactive tools including chatrooms, co-host, and shout meter, Ustream's platform delivers real-time, social experiences on the web. Since its beta launch in March 2007, Ustream has grown to 260,000 registered users broadcasting 8,000 - 10,000 live shows a day. Ustream.TV is headquartered in Los Altos, California, and is privately held. For more information, please visit: www.ustream.tv.
About AlwaysOn
ALWAYSON ignited the open-media revolution in early 2003 by being the first media brand to launch a global blog network. In 2004, ALWAYSON continued to lead the media industry in innovation by introducing a social network where members can connect and engage. ALWAYSON is also revolutionizing the media business by applying its open-media principles to its executive event series (STANFORD SUMMIT, ALWAYSON HOLLYWOOD, ALWAYSON MEDIA and GOINGGREEN) and quarterly print "blogozine" by empowering its members to post and share their ideas and meet each other online. As our loyal readers know, ALWAYSON is committed to the free-market, merit-driven approach to reporting and event programming. No other media brand has dared to create such open interaction with its readers and event participants.
Terpin Communications (For OnHollywood)
Elina Heng, 310-821-6100 ext. 108
elina@terpin.com
or
Eastwick Communications (For Ustream)
Lyda Velez, 650-480-4074
lyda@eastwick.com
