RAMP-The Content Optimization Company

FOX Sports Interactive Media adds RAMP’s Content Optimization solutions across three FOX Sports Interactive Media destination sites

Woburn, MA, July 21, 2010 – RAMP, the industry’s leading Content Optimization platform for major online media publishers, announced today that existing customer, FOX Sports Interactive Media (FSIM), has chosen to expand the search and publishing solutions provided by RAMP to three Web properties including FOXSports.com, and the websites of the FOX Soccer Channel and FOX Sports En Espanol.  FOX Sports Net plans to launch the RAMP search and publishing solutions on their Regional sports sites later this year.

As a result of this expanded agreement, the FSIM web sites will integrate the enhanced user experiences that RAMP’s Content Optimization delivers, including improved search engine discovery, dynamic topic pages adapted to users’ search and browsing behavior, and granular transcript based navigation within audio and video files.  All such usability is provided within RAMP’s universal publishing approach with audio, video, text and images integrated towards a complete end-user experience.

“Competing on the Web today requires that content be searched and discovered easily across the major search engines and social networks, and also on publisher and partner sites,” said Matt Calos, Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer for FSIM.  “RAMP’s Content Optimization solutions have enabled us to address these challenges at scale, allowing us to focus on creating great content and improving the overall experience for our users.”

With RAMP’s award-winning platform, FSIM is able to deliver search and engagement experiences across all types of content – audio, video, images and text, including:

• Comprehensive site search, including access to 100% of the text, image, audio, and video content across the sites, indexed in real time as new content is published;
• Time stamped video search, allowing users to locate and “jump-to” the precise point in videos where relevant search terms are mentioned;
• Universal topic index pages, allowing users to follow topics of interest such as teams, players, tournaments and more;
• Automated cross-site linking, promoting topics to users contextually within articles, as well as maximizing search engine optimization efforts.

“We are thrilled to be expanding our relationship with FOX Sports Interactive Media,” said Tom Wilde, RAMP CEO.  “Sports is a highly competitive vertical on the Web, and RAMP enables FOX Sports Interactive Media to deliver the best possible user experience and ensure its high quality content can be easily found and consumed.”

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 27^th-29^th, 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.”

RAMP CEO to discuss use of metadata for magazine publishers’ online initiatives at Magazine Publishers of America (MPA) event in NYC

Woburn, MA, June 15, 2010 – RAMP, the industry’s leading Content Optimization platform for major online media publishers, announced today that RAMP CEO, Tom Wilde, will be a featured speaker at the Dimensional to Digital (D2D) conference organized by the Magazine Publishers of America on June 16 to discuss digital platforms and publishing for the magazine industry.

The panel entitled- “Metadata Rules:  The Rules for Making Metadata the Currency of Digital Content”, will be held at 9:25 am at the Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 W 18^th Street, New York City.

Other featured panelists are: Chris Grosso, SVP, Emerging Digital Business, NBC Universal; Nate Treloar, Principal Search Technology Evangelist, Microsoft; and Seth Earley, President, Earley & Associates.

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.  RAMP maximizes the value of publishers’ content while reducing costs.

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

RAMP Social Publishing Framework enables discovery and recommendations of publishers’ content on Facebook and other social networks

Woburn, MA, April 12, 2010 – RAMP, the industry’s leading Content Optimization platform for major online media publishers, announced today the release of its Social Publishing Framework “RAMP SPF” enabling major publishers to harness the increasing influence of social media to drive higher page views and monetization of content through recommendations and discovery on popular social networks such as Facebook.

“Creating community around content has become absolutely critical,” said Jessica Schell, SVP Strategy for NBC Universal.  “RAMP now offers a simple tool that will enable our properties to further leverage the Facebook audience to drive engagement and to build online audience.”

Internet research company Hitwise recently reported that for the first time Facebook has more total visits than Google.  Correspondingly, many large publishers and broadcasters are witnessing more site referrals from Facebook and the effects of social networking than organic search engine traffic from Google and other search engines.  With this phenomenon gaining strength, major publishers need to augment traditional SEO and search based publishing with new capabilities that are based on social media features and user behavior on social networks.

“The importance of social networks and social media sites to major content publishing has just reached the tipping point, and RAMP SPF is the most suitable solution for harnessing the power of these platforms for major publishers’ audience development and content monetization objectives,” said Tom Wilde, CEO of RAMP.  “RAMP Content Optimization platform is the most comprehensive and flexible solution for dynamic web publishing, and adding RAMP SPF to this platform demonstrates how we empower major content publishers stay on top of the fast evolving landscape of web publishing.”

With Facebook being the first supported social networking platform, RAMP SPF provides turnkey integration of the full suite of Facebook’s publisher API’s, and enables the Web’s top publishers to tap into Facebook’s 350MM global user base.  RAMP SPF provides the following key capabilities to major online publishers for social media enablement:

• Full integration of Facebook content sharing across RAMP’s award-winning integrated topic page publishing solution, RAMP:discover ;
• Integrated Facebook commenting to leverage Facebook’s 350MM global user base and drive increased site activity at minimal cost;
• Integrated, bi-directional content sharing between a publishers user base and the Facebook user base to maximize social content referrals;
• A full suite of RAMP social widgets that can be deployed across a publisher’s entire site to display Facebook user activity for the publisher’s content on a real time continuous basis;
• RAMP SPF analytics to assist publishers in analyzing social discovery to direct editorial and publishing efforts.

RAMP SPF is currently in beta with select customers.  RAMP will be demonstrating the application at its suite at the Encore Las Vegas in conjunction with the NAB Show, April 12-15, 2010.  Demonstrations can be arranged by contacting RAMP at NAB2010@ramp.com.  For additional demonstrations and inquiries please contact info@RAMP.com, or visit www.RAMP.com.

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.  RAMP maximizes the value of publishers’ content while reducing costs.

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

Woburn, MA, March 4, 2010 – RAMP, the industry’s leading Content Optimization platform for major online media publishers, has expressed support for YouTube’s release of auto transcription of videos using speech recognition that YouTube announced today at its press conference in San Bruno.  As the leading provider of speech recognition technologies using speech-to-text and auto transcription for close captioning, video search, SEO, targeted advertising and other applications, RAMP has championed speech recognition as the most effective way to manage the online discovery, engagement and consumption of large video libraries.  RAMP currently provides such services to large media publishers such as NBC, FOX News, Meredith, Thomson- Reuters, and others. 

“RAMP was founded on the promise that speech recognition is a vital core technology to address the unique needs of online video,” said Tom Wilde, CEO of RAMP.  “YouTube’s announcement is a clear indication of the growing importance of a scalable strategy for making video content accessible, and evidence this technology has become a mainstream requirement for publishers seeking to fully leverage the exploding demand for web video.”

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.

Media Contact – RAMP:
Sam Vasisht
21TechMedia
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People’s Choice Awards to use RAMP Content Optimization for 36 years of Hollywood red carpet interview archives on their website

Woburn, MA, January 25, 2010 – RAMP, the industry’s leading Content Optimization platform for major online media publishers, today announced the addition People’s Choice Awards to its fast growing roster of major entertainment brands and premium content providers.

The People’s Choice Awards’ (PCA) – www.peopleschoice.com has selected RAMP to provide comprehensive site search across more than 1500 PCA red carpet interviews from their 36 years of show archives using RAMP’s Content Optimization solutions.

“Our deployment with People’s Choice Awards’ is significant in that it represent the strength of our Content Optimization platform for entertainment content in addition to our successful deployments with major brands in online news, business media, and infotainment,” said Tom Wilde RAMP CEO.  “As media companies continue to focus on leveraging the web to drive new opportunities, RAMP provides critical solutions to help them achieve this goal across the spectrum of online content and programming.”

For PCA, RAMP applied its patented and proprietary MediaCloud ^TM technology to comprehensively index all of the video, audio, text and image content on the sites and create rich metadata including automatic transcripts, tags, and thumbnails of all content.  This metadata is then used to deliver powerful site search and publishing solutions to drive enhanced discovery of content across the major web search and social media sites, increased user engagement through universal site search and content recommendations, and enhanced advertising.

On November 18, 2009, the company announced the launch of RAMP as a platform based Content Optimization solution comprising its core technologies that have been deployed and tested in the market with major publishers and media companies such as NBC, FOX, Meredith and Thomson Reuters since 2006.  Since then, RAMP’s Content Optimization platform has won the Streaming Media Readers’ Choice award, FierceMarket’s Fierce15 award, and AlwaysOn OnMedia Top 100 award.

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.

Media Contact:

Sam Vasisht

21TechMedia LLC

sam@21TechMedia.com

+1 617 840-6788

RAMP’s award winning solutions for web publishing being showcased at the syndicated television industry’s event for the first time.

Woburn, MA, January 20, 2010 –RAMP, the industry’s leading Content Optimization platform for major online media publishers, announced today that it will be demonstrating its award winning solutions designed for web publishing, discovery and monetization at the National Association of Television Programming Executives (NATPE) annual Market & Conference being held at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, January 25^th – 27^th, 2010.

RAMP recently announced a series of industry awards for its Content Optimization platform, including Streaming Media Readers’ Choice award, Fierce Markets’ Fierce 15 award, and AlwaysOn OnMedia Top 100 award.

RAMP’s demonstration station at NATPE showcasing its MediaCloud® based solutions for optimizing content workflow towards solutions offering enhanced discovery, engagement and monetization of content for scalable and dynamic publishing environments will be located in the Demo Station Area of NATPE, at station 210-A.  RAMP’s executives will be in attendance to meet with prospective customers and members of press.  Advanced appointments can be scheduled with Tom Wilde, CEO of RAMP, by contacting Denise Williamson at 781-376-6738, or via email at: dwilliamson@RAMP.com.

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.

Media Contact:

Sam Vasisht

21TechMedia LLC

sam@21techmedia.com

+1 617 840-6788

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

Woburn, MA, January 19, 2010 – RAMP, 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 1^st, 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:

Sam Vasisht

21TechMedia

Sam@21techmedia.com

+1 617 840-6788

New customers including Newsweek, Comcast, RedOrbit, and Freedom Communications added to existing portfolio of leading brands since the recent launch of its RAMP Content Optimization platform and rebrand of the company.

Woburn, MA, December 14, 2009 – RAMP, the industry’s leading Content Optimization platform for major online media publishers, announced today continued customer momentum following the announcement of its award-winning Content Optimization platform.

“Continued growth in our core market is very gratifying, and we are thrilled to announce our new customer wins,” said Tom Wilde, RAMP’s CEO.   “As major media companies continue to focus on leveraging their businesses online, our Content Optimization solution has moved front and center as the most cost-efficient approach for unlocking the value of our customers’ unique content assets.”

RAMP’s new customers represent continued success across its core market verticals in news, local, entertainment, and web media.  RAMP’s recent customer deployments include delivering the following benefits:

• Universal site search – RAMP delivers the web’s first solution for delivering integrated site search, blending text, image, video, and audio content into a single search box experience and driving dramatic increases in video streams and pageviews per user session.
• Automatic video transcription and tagging- RAMP’s patented ability to generated time-stamped transcripts and tags from audio and video content delivers a “lean-forward” video experience for end users
• Video search engine optimization- RAMP’s metadata production and indexing capabilities delivers dramatic improvement in video search engine rankings and organic traffic
• Automated topic page publishing  – RAMP continuously and automatically organizes content of all formats into topically organized pages which are optimized for search engine discovery.

On November 18, 2009, the company announced the launch of RAMP as a platform based Content Optimization solution comprising its core technologies that have been deployed and tested in the market with major publishers and media companies such as NBC, FOX, Meredith and Thomson Reuters since 2006.

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.

Media Contact:

Sam Vasisht

21TechMedia LLC

sam@21techmedia.com

+1 617 840-6788

RAMP voted as the best Search and Indexing Platform by Streaming Media publication readers for 2009 garnering another win for the award winning platform.

Woburn, MA, November 19, 2009 – RAMP, the industry’s leading Content Optimization platform, announced today that it has won the Streaming Media 2009 Readers’ Choice Awards in the category of Search and Indexing Platform for its MediaCloud technology.

“The Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards are the only awards of their kind in the online video industry,” says Streaming Media magazine editor Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen. “While other awards focus exclusively on content, this is the only awards program that honors the technology that makes it all possible, and it’s definitely the only one where the people decide who wins. And this year, more than 5,000 votes were cast for more than 200 nominees. Clearly, people care deeply about the tools they use to get their jobs done.”

MediaCloud is offered as the core technology within RAMP:workflow, the foundation of RAMP’s award winning Content Optimization platform that is used by the leading broadcast, publishing and media brands such as FOX, NBC, Meredith, Thomson Reuters, and others to create unique online publishing experiences for their audiences. These include discovery and engagement solutions for all types of media, including video and audio, towards creating higher audience metrics and content monetization.

“This award is recognition that not only is our technology the most advanced in the industry for optimizing all types of content and giving publishers unique advantages in delivering meaningful experiences to their audiences, but also that users of technology tools recognize the value of our contribution to the industry,” said Tom Wilde, CEO of RAMP.  “RAMP (formerly EveryZing) continues to garner awards and we are proud to have the support of Streaming Media readers who are among the most informed critics of the universe of media technologies available today.”

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.

Media Contact:

Sam Vasisht

21TechMedia LLC

sam@21techmedia.com

+1 617 840-6788