Adknowledge Selected by AlwaysOn Media as Top 100 Private Company Award Winner
Recognized for Leadership in Emerging Technology
KANSAS CITY, MO -- (MARKET WIRE) -- January 17, 2007 -- Adknowledge, a leading marketplace for
Internet advertising, announced today it has been chosen by AlwaysOn Media
as one of the AO Media 100 Top Private Companies. AO Media 100 is a power
list of the top private digital media companies. Adknowledge was handpicked
by the AO Media editorial team based on a set of five criteria --
innovation, market potential, customer adoption, media buzz and investor
value creation.
Adknowledge and the AO Media 100 will be honored at the AO Media executive
summit January 29-31, 2007 at The Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York City.
The summit will focus on the forces that are disrupting user behavior and
creating new opportunities in marketing, branding, advertising, and public
relations. The event will also showcase top innovative private companies
that are changing the way media is created, distributed and consumed.
"The AO Media 100 are creating new revenue opportunities in the more than
$16.4 billion online advertising market by disrupting traditional media and
advertising models," said Tony Perkins, founder and editor in chief of
AlwaysOn. "They are innovating by applying game-changing technology to key
sectors including user-generated content, technology-enablers, mobile
marketing, community platforms, Web analytics and online advertising
services."
The AO Media 100 was selected from over 1,000 companies, peer-nominated by
leading venture capitalists, investment bankers and industry analysts.
"Adknowledge is thrilled to be recognized by AO Media for its contribution
in the Internet advertising space. We act as the one-stop shop for
thousands of search engine advertisers looking to expand their reach beyond
just Google and Yahoo," Scott Lynn, CEO, said. "We are honored to be
recognized for both our technical and industry success."
About Adknowledge
Adknowledge operates an online auction to allow advertisers to bid for
traffic on all Internet channels, including websites, smaller search
engines and email. To date, more than 25,000 advertisers have used
Adknowledge's easy-to-use marketplace available at www.bidsystem.com. For
more company information, please visit www.adknowledge.com.
About AO Media 2007: January 29-31 @ The Mandarin Oriental Hotel, NYC
This two-and-a-half-day executive event features CEO presentations and
high-level debates on which forces are disrupting user behavior and
creating new opportunities in the marketing, branding, advertising, and
public relations industries. At AlwaysOn Media, our editors will also honor
the AO Media 100 Top Private Companies.
About AlwaysOn
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.
Contact Information: Contact Information:
For Adknowledge
Rick Ramos
816-777-1182
Email Contact
For AO Media
Edelman
Renee Edelman
212-704-8249