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Ripe Digital Entertainment Selected by AlwaysOn
as OnMedia Top 100 Winner
Recognized for Game-Changing Strategies
in Advertising, Marketing, and Promotion
LOS ANGELES
January 23, 2008
Ripe Digital Entertainment (www.ripedigital.com),
a leader in On Demand digital entertainment and the first to develop
a multi-platform video network, 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. Ripe Digital 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.
Ripe Digital
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."
"It is an honor to be selected as an OnMedia Top 100 Company," stated
Ryan Magnussen, CEO of Ripe Digital. "As we have continued
to solidify our position as a leader in the Digital Media industry
with innovative programming and our unique Connective Advertising(R)
formats, we feel that OnMedia's recognition of our efforts and exceptional
success reflects our commitment to the revolution of television
programming."
Ripe Digital's multi-platform video networks,
RipeTV, OctaneTV and FlowTV, are available on over 115 million
television, Broadband
and mobile screens nationwide. With extraordinary distribution
partnerships, the Company's networks have achieved more than 60
million views
per month and continue to experience significant growth across
all platforms. Ripe Digital is poised to take the industry to an
all
new level with inventive, integrated advertising models and original
programming that appeals to the most sought-after audiences in
the world, 18-34 year-old adults.
"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.
A full list of all the OnMedia 100
winners can be found on the AlwaysOn Web site at http://www.alwayson.goingon.com/
About
Ripe Digital Entertainment (RDE)
A leader in On Demand digital
entertainment and the first to develop a multi-platform video network,
RDE (www.ripedigital.com) aggregates
and produces short-form programming targeted at young adult audiences
with simultaneous distribution over cable, broadband and wireless
platforms. Since introducing RipeTV(R) in 2005, RDE has launched
two additional networks, OctaneTV and FlowTV, with content available
on over 115 million television, Broadband and mobile screens nationwide.
RDE pioneered Connective Advertising(R) to give marketers and viewers
an enhanced video experience across all platforms. Based in Los
Angeles, CA, RDE networks can be found on Time Warner and Comcast
On Demand and online at www.ripetv.com, www.octanetv.com and www.flow.tv.
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.
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