Seesmic Selected By AlwaysOn As an OnHollywood 100 for Content Delivery Platform
SAN FRANCISCO, May 29 /PRNewswire/ — Seesmic (http://www.seesmic.com/), the enabler of online video conversations, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the OnHollywood 100 Top Private Companies for its Content Delivery Platform. The OnHollywood 100 is a power list of the top private emerging technology companies in digital entertainment and media.
Seesmic along with 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. OnHollywood gathers executives from both the entertainment and the technology industries to identify and debate emerging trends in addition to building relationships and taking advantage of potential new business partnerships. The first annual Broadband Rights Marketplace (BRiM) will launch an online network that supports new creative projects and offers a digital-rights exchange and auction.
"This year’s OnHollywood 100 represents the brightest of the innovators in the new media space. We are enthusiastic about gathering the leaders in a collaborative environment that fuses these two industries together, culminating in the richest, most progressive conversations on Hollywood’s digital movement," said Tony Perkins, founder and CEO of AlwaysOn.
The OnHollywood 100 was selected from more than 1,000 companies, peer-nominated by leading venture capitalists, investment bankers and industry analysts. Seesmic, powering online video conversation, is leading the charge of redefining communication for a social internet. The company’s pioneering work in new approaches for conversing online recently caught the eye of Hollywood when the entire cast from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Crystal Skull appeared on Seesmic prior to the film’s release.
"The way media is consumed and experienced is changing, and communication has changed along with it," said Loic Le Meur, Founder and CEO of Seesmic. "We will continue to find new ways to enhance and deliver scalable conversation across the web that respects the user. It’s exciting to have our efforts recognized by some of the most well respected names in online marketing."
A full list of all the OnHollywood 100 companies can be found on the AlwaysOn Web site at: http://onhollywood.goingon.com/.
About Seesmic
Until now, online communication has lacked personality because it’s been limited to text (IM, SMS, email). Now, Seesmic brings conversation alive through video. See and hear people share their experiences straight from their webcams, join in live conversations, and engage in real interactions with real people. It’s so easy: record a video directly on Seesmic’s website, or upload an existing video straight from your computer, or link to a video posted on a social network, whatever works for you, works for us. Join the Seesmic community and experience a new way to express yourself, to make friends, and to be seen and be heard. Conversations can also be simultaneously broadcast via Twitter and soon via other platforms. Be seen. Be heard. Be on Seesmic.
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."
Seesmic
CONTACT: Joan Lockwood of Seesmic, +1-415-819-2905, joan@seemic.com
Web site: http://www.seesmic.com/http://onhollywood.goingon.com/