NEW YORK, July 8, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Unified, an award-winning marketing technology company, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the AlwaysOn Global 250 winners. Inclusion in the AlwaysOn Global 250 signifies leadership amongst its peers and game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players in the Global Silicon Valley. Unified was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and industry experts spanning the globe based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.
Unified and the AlwaysOn Global 250 companies will be honored at AlwaysOn's 13th annual Silicon Valley Innovation Summit at the Computer History Museum today and tomorrow. This exclusive event gathers the brightest minds for a lively exchange on top trends, along with identifying the most promising entrepreneurial opportunities and investments in the global tech industry.
"The AlwaysOn Global 250 are the best-of-breed private companies in consumer and business-to-business applications, and cloud and mobile infrastructure sectors—representing the fastest growing and most highly valued new companies on the planet," explained AlwaysOn founder and editor, Tony Perkins. "The consumer companies continue to explode, along with the mobile boom and the proliferation of billions of other connected devices that make of the long heralded as 'Internet of Things.' The business market continues to be reinvented by a new generation of big data and analytics companies and new efficiencies in cloud technology and services."
"Marketing data and analytics are creating important new opportunities for Fortune 500 marketers, and we're delivering them the technology they need to drive success," said Sheldon Owen, CEO, Unified. "We're thrilled that AlwaysOn has selected Unified as one of the world's top privately held companies for the second year in a row."
The AlwaysOn Global 250 winners were selected from among thousands of domestic and international technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists, and industry insiders. The AlwaysOn editorial team conducted a rigorous three-month selection process to finalize the 2015 list. A full list of all the AlwaysOn Global 250 winners can be found on the AlwaysOn website at www.aonetwork.com.
About Unified
Unified is an award-winning marketing and analytics technology company. Unified provides professional marketers with powerful advertising, data, and intelligence tools built on the industry's most advanced data platform. Unified serves over 600 customers, including Global 2000 enterprises and their advertising agencies, from its offices in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and New Orleans. For more information, visit www.UnifiedSocial.com.
About AlwaysOn
AlwaysOn is the leading business media brand connecting and informing the entrepreneurial community in the Global Silicon Valley. Founded by Red Herring founding editor, Tony Perkins in 2003, AlwaysOn's mission is to continue to lead the industry by empowering its readers, event participants, sponsors, bloggers, and advertisers like no other media brand.