Leading Content Optimization Company recognized as among the top global companies pioneering the digital media and entertainment category.
Woburn, MA, July 20, 2010 – RAMP, the industry’s leading Content Optimization Company today announced that it has been chosen as winner by AlwaysOn for its 2010 AlwaysOn Global 250 Top Private Companies award. The AO Global 250 comprises domestic and international companies pioneering in on-demand computing, digital media and entertainment, and greentech.
The AlwaysOn Global 250 winners represent the top emerging companies in the Global Silicon Valley that are demonstrating significant market traction and pursuing game-changing technologies in on-demand computing, digital media, and greentech.
The AlwaysOn editorial team, along with partners at Manatt, Morgan Stanley, The Blackstone Group, KPMG, Silicon Valley Bank, Sonnenschein, and Bridge Bank, as well as industry experts across the globe, scoured the entrepreneurial community to identify the top 250 private companies that are taking old notions of doing things and forging solutions that will lead to industry shake-up and huge value-creation opportunities. 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 2010 list.
“After examining the companies that are on the AO Global 250 list, it’s obvious that innovation is not only alive and well in the Global Silicon Valley, it’s accelerating in economic power and scope,” says Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. “The companies certainly represent some of the highest-growth opportunities in the private company marketplace.”
The winners of this competition will be officially announced at The AlwaysOn and STVP Summit at Stanford 2010, July 27th-29th, 2010 held at the Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
RAMP is pioneering the category of Content Optimization that defines how large media companies, broadcasters and publishers enable 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, Thompson-Reuters, and others.
“RAMP is pleased to be part of the distinguished 2010 AlwaysOn Global 250 winners that represent technology and business leaders pioneering their industry category,” said Tom Wilde, CEO of RAMP. “RAMP Content Optimization solutions continue to set the pace for how large broadcasters, publishers and media companies capitalize on online media as a business and as an important segment of advertising and audience development within the digital media and entertainment category.”
