Leverage Software Selected by AlwaysOn Media as Top 100 Private Company Award Winner
San Francisco– January 14, 2007 – Leverage Software, a private-labeled social networking platform provider today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn Media as one of the AO Media 100 Top Private Companies. AO Media 100 is a power list of the top private digital media companies. Leverage Software was handpicked by the AO Media editorial team based on a set of five criteria--innovation, market potential, customer adoption, media buzz and investor value creation.
Leverage Software and the AO Media 100 will be honored at the AO Media executive summit January 29-31, 2007 at The Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York City. The summit will focus on the forces that are disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities in marketing, branding, advertising, and public relations. The event will also showcase top innovative private companies that are changing the way media is created, distributed and consumed.
"The AO Media 100 are creating new revenue opportunities in the more than $16.4 billion online advertising market by disrupting traditional media and advertising models," said Tony Perkins, founder and editor in chief of AlwaysOn. "They are innovating by applying game-changing technology to key sectors including user-generated content, technology-enablers, mobile marketing, community platforms, Web analytics, and online advertising services."
The AO Media 100 was selected from over 1,000 companies, peer-nominated by leading venture capitalists, investment bankers and industry analysts.
Leverage Software is the leader in private-labeled social networking and online community solutions, powering communities for more than 150 companies in the technology, media, consumer and services industries. Leverage Software helps companies empower their audience to meet one another, build relationships, share ideas, collaborate, provide real-time product feedback, and participate in the conversation - twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
A full list of all the AO Media 100 companies can be found on the AlwaysOn Web site at http://www.alwayson.goingon.com
"Marketing has changed forever as end users demand a voice and want to participate in the conversation." said Mike Walsh, founder and CEO of Leverage Software. "Readers, consumers and customers no longer rely solely on the marketing messages conveyed by a vendor or reporter, they rely on the conversation among their peers - and they wish to join and contribute to this conversation."
About AO Media 2007: January 29-31 @ The Mandarin Oriental Hotel, NYC
AlwaysOn Media is where cutting-edge technology CEOs from the back streets of Silicon Valley meet the global advertising and media establishment. 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. At AlwaysOn Media, our editors will also honor the AO Media 100 Top Private Companies. Fifty of the top CEOs from the AO Media 100 will pitch their market strategies to a panel of industry experts in our "CEO Showcase."
About Leverage Software
Leverage Software helps companies engage and learn from their single most important asset: the customer. Through an innovative suite of online community products, we help companies empower their audience to meet one another, build relationships, share ideas, collaborate, provide real-time product feedback, and share exactly what's on their mind - twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
Leverage Software is the leader in enterprise-class social networking and online community solutions, powering communities for more than 150 companies in the technology, media, consumer and services industries. With a robust suite of functionality which includes personal profile pages, people-matching, blogs, chat, polling, rss, discussion groups, file sharing, targeted advertising, and robust customer and community analytics, the private-labeled Leverage Community Platform empowers companies to create online communities where people can meet, build relationships, contribute and connect.
About AlwaysOn
ALWAYSON ignited the open-media revolution in early 2003 by being the first media brand to launch a global blog network. In 2004, ALWAYSON continued to lead the media industry in innovation by introducing a social network where members can connect and engage. ALWAYSON is also revolutionizing the media business by applying its open-media principles to its executive event series (STANFORD SUMMIT, ALWAYSON HOLLYWOOD, ALWAYSON MEDIA and GOINGGREEN) and quarterly print "blogozine" by empowering its members to post and share their ideas and meet each other online. As our loyal readers know, ALWAYSON is committed to the free-market, merit-driven approach to reporting and event programming. No other media brand has dared to create such open interaction with its readers and event participants.
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