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.”

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.”

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.