ImageSpan Selected by AlwaysOn as OnMedia Top 100 Winner
Recognized for game-changing strategies in advertising, marketing, and promotion
Sausalito, CA, January 22, 2008 – ImageSpan Inc., 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. ImageSpan 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.
ImageSpan 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.
ImageSpan's enabling infrastructure for content licensing addresses a major barrier to profitability for advertising and media companies: today's manual processes for digital content licensing. Current manual processes do not work for transactions on complex, distributed networks. Built for the Web 2.0 world of mashups and multi-copyright-holder content projects, ImageSpan can track and distribute millions of royalty payments to affiliates, content partners, creators and advertisers. ImageSpan uses patent-pending license token technology, running as a managed service. Enterprise partners using the ImageSpan platform include Omnicom, Visible World and online advertising agencies. ImageSpan also is deploying with Adobe Systems, among others.
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 excited to be recognized for addressing a massive need for licensing and the self-provisioning of licensing intellectual property," said Iain Scholnick, chief executive officer, ImageSpan. "Both LicenseStream, our simple-to-use, online content licensing service, and CurbStream, our hyperlocal video production network services, streamline the process of accessing and managing rights-cleared so advertisers and media companies can meet changing market conditions and make the most of their digital assets."
For more information about the LicenseStream service, go to www.licensestream.com
About ImageSpan
ImageSpan independently offers a comprehensive suite of applications and tools for use with all types of media, connecting buyers and sellers to find, buy and legally settle royalty payments in minutes, rather than months. ImageSpan is a trusted solution provider and is the exclusive provider of license registry services to the PLUS Coalition, the multi-nation and multi-industry standard for image licensing. For more information, please go to www.imagespan.com or call 1-415.259.4529.
About Always On
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.
ImageSpan Media Contact:
Laura Evenson
415.465.2711
levenson@imagespan.com
