RAMP Selected by AlwaysOn as an OnMedia Top 100 Winner


Recognized for creating new opportunities in marketing, branding, advertising, and publishing.

Woburn, MA, January 19, 2010RAMP, the industry’s leading Content Optimization company today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the OnMedia Top 100 winners.  Inclusion in the OnMedia 100 signifies leadership amongst its peers and game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players. RAMP 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.

RAMP and the OnMedia Top 100 Companies will be honored at AlwaysOn’s OnMedia NYC event on February 1st, 2010, at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York City.

This two-and-a-half-day executive event features CEO presentations and high-level debates on which forces are disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities in the marketing, branding, advertising, and public relations industries.

“Our view is that we are still moving up a very steep Internet innovation curve, which means the media world will continue to be radicalized.” said Tony Perkins, founder and CEO of AlwaysOn.  “We congratulate the OnMedia 100 winners for their success in introducing the tools, services, and platforms that continue to disrupt the old ways of Madison Avenue for the benefit of marketers and content consumers alike.”

The OnMedia 100 winners were selected from among hundreds of other technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists and industry insiders.  The AlwaysOn editorial team conducted a rigorous three-month selection process to finalize the 2009 list.

RAMP is pioneering the category of Content Optimization that defines how large media companies, broadcasters and publishers enable their content to be monetized online through highly advanced publishing workflow, discovery and engagement solutions enabled by RAMP’s Content Optimization SaaS platform.  RAMP uniquely enables all types of content – audio, video, text and images – to be made discoverable and relevant to users’ search and browsing behavior to drive higher user metrics relevant to publishers’ and advertisers’ audience development initiatives.  With a growing portfolio of technologies, products and solutions based on more than 19 issued patents in speech-to-text and natural language processing, RAMP Content Optimization integrates with publishers’ existing systems through industry standard API’s.  RAMP has been deployed by the leading names in broadcasting, publishing and digital media, such as NBC, FOX, Meredith, Thomson-Reuters, and others.

A full list of all the OnMedia Top 100 winners can be found on the AlwaysOn website at:

http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/34216

“RAMP is pleased to be part of this distinguished OnMedia Top 100 group of companies that represent leadership in shaping the future technology landscape for media and advertising,” said Tom Wilde, CEO of RAMP.  “RAMP Content Optimization solutions are fast becoming the cornerstone of how large broadcasters, publishers and media companies capitalize on online media as a business and as an important segment of advertising and audience development.”

About RAMP

RAMP is an advanced Content Optimization SaaS platform providing publishers’ workflow, discovery and engagement solutions to drive monetization of online content to users’ search and browsing behavior.  RAMP offers publishers an open, flexible and modular capability to optimize large amounts of content, including text, audio, video and images, within dynamic publishing environments.  As a result, publishers’ content becomes positioned for discovery and precise targeting, both on search engines and within publishers’ own websites.  Users rely on such precision to discover and engage with content, thereby increasing the commercial viability of content for publishers while curtailing publishing costs.

Leading publishers using RAMP include – FOXNews, NBC, DowJones, Meredith, and others.  For more information visit:  www.RAMP.com, or contact us at info@RAMP.com.

About AlwaysOn

AlwaysOn is the leading business media brand networking the Global Silicon Valley. AlwaysOn helped ignite the social media revolution in early 2003 when it launched the AlwaysOn network (alwayson.goingon.com). In 2004, it became the first media brand to socially network its online readers and event attendees.  AlwaysOn’s preeminent executive event series includes the Summit at Stanford, OnMedia, OnHollywood, OnDC, OnDemand, Venture Summit Silicon Valley, Venture Summit East, GoingGreen, GoingGreen East, and GoingGreen Europe.  The AlwaysOn network and live event series empower readers, event participants, sponsors, and advertisers to spearhead the global innovation economy.

Media Contact – RAMP:

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