ExtendMedia Selected by AlwaysOn as an OnHollywood 100 Top Private Company Award Winner
Recognized at Award Ceremony Today for Leadership in Emerging Technology For Digital Entertainment and Media
BOSTON MA - (May 1, 2007) - ExtendMedia Corporation (http://www.extend.com) today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the OnHollywood 100 Top Private Companies. The OnHollywood 100 is a power list of the top private emerging technology companies in digital entertainment and media. ExtendMedia was handpicked by the AlwaysOn editorial team based on a set of five criteria--innovation, market potential, customer adoption, media buzz and investor value creation.
ExtendMedia and the OnHollywood 100 will be honored later today at the OnHollywood digital entertainment and media event, May 1-3, 2007, at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, California.
ExtendMedia provides OpenCASE, a digital media services platform that is purpose-built to satisfy the demanding needs of the media market for an end-to-end, enterprise-class, digital content service delivery platform. Built on a service-oriented architecture, OpenCASE can be rapidly deployed and integrated with existing operational systems - giving customers unrivaled flexibility and versatility to create, control and securely deliver high-quality media services. ExtendMedia's solutions are used by SHOWTIME, Hewlett Packard, ClickStar, Cablevision, Nelvana Entertainment, Bell Canada, Manitoba Telecom Services, and more.
"We're proud to earn a berth among the top innovators in the digital media universe with our OnHollywood 100 award designation," said Keith Kocho, founder of ExtendMedia. "As the industry transitions away from traditional packaged media, it needs deep, rich expertise and solution sets for end-to-end enterprise-class, digital content service delivery. Extend has the technology and proven track-record to help content players debut the new commerce models of tomorrow."
The OnHollywood 100 was selected from more than 1,000 companies, peer-nominated by leading venture capitalists, investment bankers and industry analysts. The annual OnHollywood event delves into the challenges, opportunities and business models of the digital era, and showcases the most innovative private companies that are changing the way entertainment and media is created, distributed, consumed and monetized.
"OnHollywood is an important forum that presents and debates the critical issues surrounding the transformation of the entertainment economy to one based on digital technology," said Tony Perkins, founder and CEO of AlwaysOn. "Digital technology has transformed the way content is created and delivered to consumers everywhere. The OnHollywood Top 100 companies are an elite group of innovators who are using this technology to revolutionize the industry."
A full list of all the OnHollywood 100 companies can be found on the AlwaysOn Web site at: http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/12780
About OnHollywood 2007: May 1-3 @ The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood, California
OnHollywood is where cutting edge technology from the backstreets of Silicon Valley converges with Hollywood's media and entertainment elite. The two-and-a-half day event borrows from the "film market" tradition by providing an open environment for digital media and entertainment entrepreneurs to meet the big-time studio, telco and consumer electronics executives, venture capitalists and media. At OnHollywood, our editors will also honor the OnHollywood 100 Top Private Companies. 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 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.
About ExtendMedia, Corporation
Headquartered in Boston, MA, ExtendMedia provides a digital content service delivery platform that enables content rights holders and distributors to quickly create, manage, secure, and monetize content services across broadband, TV and mobile devices.
The company's flagship product offering, OpenCASE, is purpose-built to satisfy the demanding needs of the media market for an end-to-end, enterprise-class, digital content service delivery platform. Built on a service-oriented architecture, OpenCASE can be rapidly deployed and integrated with existing operational systems giving customers unrivaled flexibility and versatility to create, control and securely deliver high-quality media services. The product is available as an ASP or as an enterprise-licensed, on-premise offering.
ExtendMedia has over 15 years of experience working closely with the world's most successful and innovative communications and media companies including: SHOWTIME, Hewlett Packard, Cablevision, Nelvana Entertainment, Bell Canada, Manitoba Telecom Services and ClickStar. For more information, please visit us at http://www.extend.com
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Contacts:
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Mike Coulson ExtendMedia Corp. 416-535-4222 x2210 press@extend.com |
Mary Kae Marinac MKM Corporate Communications 978-685-3136 mkmarinac@comcast.net |
Renee Edelman Edelman (for OnHollywood) 212-704-8249 renee.edelman@edelman.com |
