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Gigya Wins AlwaysOn OnHollywood 100 Top Private Company Award
President & Co-Founder Rooly Eliezerov to Participate in OnHollywood's "Socializing Online Entertainment Demo Competition"
| Source: Gigya, Inc.
PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwire - June 3, 2008) - Gigya, the leading widget and social
technologies company, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn
as one of the 2008 OnHollywood 100 Top Private Companies. Rooly Eliezerov,
President & Co-Founder of Gigya, will be demonstrating Gigya's technologies
at the "Socializing Online Entertainment Demo Competition" on June 10th at
the OnHollywood conference. The OnHollywood 100 is a power list of the top
private emerging technology companies in digital entertainment and media.
Gigya 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.
Gigya, 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 1000 companies,
peer-nominated by leading venture capitalists, investment bankers and
industry analysts.
Gigya recently announced the launch of Gigya Socialize, a technology that
offers website owners the tools to easily implement popular features found
on social network sites. Gigya Socialize helps users connect and interact
with friends, discover and share website content, and see what friends are
doing via a newsfeed. Gigya Socialize also gives site owners a choice:
implement plug and play components or access the Open API for complete
control.
"We are honored to receive the OnHollywood 100 Top Private Company Award,"
stated Rooly Eliezerov, President and Co-Founder of Gigya. "While our
innovative widget distribution technology brings content to social
networks, Gigya Socialize brings social networks directly to the content
that already exists on the Internet. Our widget technology reaches more
than 120 million unique widget users, and our offerings will truly
revolutionize how users find, share and interact with content online."
A full list of all the OnHollywood 100 companies can be found on the
AlwaysOn Web site at: http://onhollywood.goingon.com/
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."
About Gigya
Gigya is the leading widget and social technologies company, serving brand
advertisers, media companies, and widget developers. Gigya's content
sharing and advertising platform helps publishers and advertisers increase
reach and engagement, distributing widgets to any platform and providing
powerful social features to any website. Gigya serves the world's largest
brands with a full-service widget advertising model covering design,
development, hosting, distribution, viral promotion, tracking and
optimization. Gigya's Wildfire technology installs hundreds of thousands of
widgets per day and tracks billions of impressions per month. Gigya's
partners include EyeWonder, DoubleClick, EyeBlaster, Electronic Arts,
RockYou!, Webshots, Snapvine and many others. To learn more or to get
started, 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 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.