Contact Information: For Gigya, Inc. David Libby 510.868.4903 For AlwaysOn: Voce Communications Leah McLean 415-308-7928
Gigya Selected by AlwaysOn as OnMedia Top 100 Winner
Recognized for Game-Changing Strategies in Advertising, Marketing, and Promotion
| Source: Gigya, Inc.
PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwire - January 22, 2008) - Gigya,
the leading provider of tools for tracking and boosting widget
distribution, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of
the OnMedia 100 Winners. Inclusion in the OnMedia 100 signifies major
developments in the creation of marketing tools, services, venues, and
advertising, branding, and public relation campaigns. Gigya was specially
selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and other industry experts spanning
the globe, based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential,
commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.
Gigya and the OnMedia 100 Top Private Companies will be honored at the
OnMedia conference scheduled to occur on January 28-30, 2008 at The
Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York City. This two-and-a-half day executive
event will feature technology CEO's from Silicon Valley leading
presentations and high-level debates with the global advertising and media
establishment, about disrupting user behavior and creating new
opportunities in the marketing, branding, advertising, and public relations
industries.
Fifty of the top CEO's from the OnMedia 100 will present their market
strategies to a panel of industry experts in a "CEO Showcase."
"The OnMedia 100 winners have excelled in key strategic areas in the
advertising, marketing, public relations, and promotion industry," said
Tony Perkins, founder and CEO of AlwaysOn. "We congratulate them for their
success in introducing new tools, services, and venues for marketers to
have at their fingertips and for use to take their business to the next
level in innovation."
The OnMedia 100 was selected from over hundreds of companies, nominated by
a panel of industry experts in the online ad service, technology, community
platform, mobile advertising, marketing, and Web analytic sectors from
around the world.
Gigya, the leading provider of tools for tracking and boosting widget
distribution, recently announced its widget
distribution network, which connects advertisers and the social web to
deliver and track results-driven, viral widget advertising campaigns. Mainstream
advertisers from entertainment to CPG companies to retailers are now using
Gigya's full-service solution for engaging social media users in branded
viral marketing campaigns.
A full list of all the OnMedia 100 winners can be found on the AlwaysOn Web
site at http://www.alwayson.goingon.com/
"We are honored to be chosen as an OnMedia 100 Top Private Company," states
Eyal Magen, CEO of Gigya, Inc. "Our game-changing technologies are helping
social media users, brand advertisers and content publishers discover,
leverage and monetize the social web."
About Gigya
Gigya is a social marketing solutions company delivering scale and results
to publishers and advertisers. Gigya's infrastructure connects brand
advertisers, content publishers and an enormous audience of active social
media users. Gigya serves the world's largest brands with a full-service
widget advertising model covering design, development, hosting,
distribution, viral promotion and tracking. Gigya's partners include
EyeWonder, RockYou!, Webshots, Snapvine and many others. The company is
funded by Benchmark Capital and First Round Capital. To learn more or to
get started, go to: www.gigya.com
About Wildfire
Gigya's free Wildfire technology gives content publishers easy-to-use tools
for boosting and tracking widget distribution. Its unique Wildfire on Page
and Wildfire in Widget quick-post interface gives people the power to
quickly and easily grab and share the widgets they want. Currently,
Wildfire installs hundreds of thousands of widgets per day from over 400
widget sites to the top social networks and blogs, and tracks more than two
billion widget impressions per month. To learn more about Wildfire go to
www.gigya.com
About AlwaysOn
AlwaysOn ignited the open-media revolution in early 2003 by being the first
media brand to launch a community blog network. In 2004, AlwaysOn
continued to lead the industry in innovation by engaging its bloggers in a
social network. AlwaysOn is also revolutionizing the media business by
applying its open-media principles to its executive event series (OnMedia
NYC, Venture Summit East and West, On Hollywood, The Broadband Digital,
Stanford Summit, and Going Green) and quarterly print "blogozine". No other
media brand has dared to create such open interaction with its readers and
event participants.