Millennial Media Selected by AlwaysOn as OnMedia Top 100 Winner
Recognized for Game-Changing Strategies in Advertising, Marketing and Promotion
Baltimore, MD, January 22, 2008 – Millennial Media, a leading cross-platform mobile advertising company, 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. Millennial Media 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.
Millennial Media 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 CEOs 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 CEOs 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.
Millennial Media provides mobile advertising solutions that effectively deliver the greatest reach to advertisers, mobile ad revenue to publishers and incremental revenue to mobile operators.
A full list of all the OnMedia 100 winners can be found on the AlwaysOn Web site at http://www.alwayson.goingon.com/
"With 17% of the OnMedia 100 list comprised of mobile advertising companies, it displays that mobile advertising has received the hype that the technology industry loves," said Paul Palmieri, President & CEO of Millennial Media. "We are glad that among that hype, the very few key companies who have real traction in the space such as Millennial Media were recognized."
About Millennial Media
Millennial Media is the industry's leading mobile media networks company - leveraging its quality advertising networks and extensive reach of the lucrative "millennial" audience to define the mobile advertising industry. With Millennial Motion rich media for engaging user experiences, the MBrand network for targeted audiences across premium content and Decktrade™ for performance-driven campaigns, Millennial Media has the solution designed to meet any advertising need. The company is committed to growing the mobile advertising marketplace by becoming the preferred partner to all advertisers seeking to reach mobile consumers, all publishers seeking to maximize ad revenue, and all mobile operators seeking to further monetize their networks. For more information, please visit www.millennialmedia.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.