OnHollywood 100 Winner
Move Networks Named to OnHollywood 100 by AlwaysOn
Move Networks Handpicked as a Top Private Company Paving the Way for Digital Entertainment and Media
Salt Lake City, UT — May 1, 2007
Move Networks (www.movenetworks.com), the leader in providing continuous long form and live video via the Internet, today announced that it has been selected 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. Move Networks was chosen by the AlwaysOn editorial team from more than 1,000 peer-nominated companies based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, customer adoption, media buzz, and investor value creation.
“We are honored to have been selected by AlwaysOn for this prestigious recognition,” said John Edwards, CEO of Move Networks. “Our market traction, as well as recognition from OnHollywood, proves Move Networks is dramatically improving the economics of online live and on-demand video for media companies and giving consumers the best viewing experience on the Web full-screen, nearHD quality video.”
In less than a year, Move Networks’ new Web video delivery platform went from trials to production deployment by ABC, FOX (24 owned and operated Fox stations and on MySpace), Televisa (Mexico’s largest broadcasting networks), Time-Warner/CW, and more.
Move Networks and the OnHollywood 100 will be honored at the OnHollywood digital entertainment and media event, to be held May 1–3, 2007 at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, California. OnHollywood 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.
Edwards will be on two panels during the event:
May 2 – 9:30 am PT
CEO Showcase: Content Delivery Platforms – Film & Video
John Edwards, CEO, Move Networks
Aaron Cohen, CEO, Bolt Media
Alex Rowland, CEO, CozmoTV
Mark Pascarella, CEO, Gotuit
Daniel Graf, CEO, Kyte
Sean Morgan, CEO, Clip Syndicate
May 3 – 3:15 p.m. PT
IPTV Goes Primetime
Moderator: Michael Montgomery, President, Montgomery & Co
John Edwards, CEO, Move Networks
Elisabeth Bentel Carpenter, VP, Brightcove
Nick Troiano, VP Sales and Business Development, Maven Networks
Rex Wong, CEO, Dave.TV
“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 big-time studio, telco, and consumer electronics executives, venture capitalists, and media. At OnHollywood, AlwaysOn’s 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 the “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 Move Networks
Move Networks, Inc. is a leading provider of video services that drive the growth and support of online audiences for leading broadcasters and publishers. The video technologies and services developed and managed by Move Networks enable leading brands to deliver live and on-demand programming to millions of people without the buffering, stalling, and low-quality viewing experiences common with competing technologies. Backed by key investors, including Walt Disney Corporation’s Steamboat Ventures, LLC (NYSE: DIS) and Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Move Networks, Inc. is a private company.