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Jacked, Inc.™ Selected by AlwaysOn as an OnHollywood 100 Top Private Company Award Winner

Recognized for leadership in emerging technology for digital entertainment and media

Santa Monica, Calif. – June 5, 2008 –Jacked, Inc.™, the leading producer of interactive broadcasts, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the OnHollywood 100 Top Private Companies.  The OnHollywood 100 is a power list of the top private emerging technology companies in digital entertainment and media. Jacked, Inc. was handpicked by the AlwaysOn editorial team based on a set of five criteria--innovation, market potential, customer adoption, media buzz and investor value creation.

Jacked, Inc., along with the rest of the OnHollywood 100, will be honored at the OnHollywood & BRiM event on June 10-11, 2008 at the Sofitel Hotel in West Hollywood, California.  OnHollywood gathers executives from both the entertainment and the technology industries to identify and debate emerging trends in addition to building relationships and taking advantage of potential new business partnerships. The first annual Broadband Rights Marketplace (BRiM) will launch an online network that supports new creative projects and offers a digital-rights exchange and auction.

“This year’s OnHollywood 100 represents the brightest of the innovators in the new media space.  We are enthusiastic about gathering the leaders in a collaborative environment that fuses these two industries together, culminating in the richest, most progressive conversations on Hollywood’s digital movement,” said Tony Perkins, founder and CEO of AlwaysOn.

The OnHollywood 100 was selected from more than 1000 companies, peer-nominated by leading venture capitalists, investment bankers and industry analysts.

Jacked offers the first customizable Webtop contextually synchronized with live broadcast television programming.  The platform embraces the growing trend of active viewing where viewers of a television program use their PC to search for related information to what they are watching, while they are watching it.  The company’s first product, Jacked’s SportsTop™, dynamically synchronizes contextually-relevant programming for sports broadcasts.   Jacked’s SportsTop™, which currently supports all NBA, MLB, NFL and NHL games, as well as NCAA Division 1 Football and Basketball games, monitors and aggregates live broadcasts to publish relevant content to consumers in real time.  The platform presents a unique opportunity for advertisers to extend their brand to consumers online when they are most engaged in the broadcast experience via a real-time engagement, response and measurement solution.  Ads can be tied to contextual events during the broadcast, geo-targeted and eventually synchronized within broadcast commercials.

“We are honored to be recognized by AlwaysOn as an OnHollywood 100 Winner,” said Bryan Biniak, CEO of Jacked, Inc.  “Jacked.com strives to advance the dynamic relationship between online advertising and the live broadcast model, and we have successfully implemented an interactive broadcast solution for sports fans that is attractive to both consumers and advertisers alike.”

A full list of all the OnHollywood 100 companies can be found on the AlwaysOn Web site at: http://onhollywood.goingon.com/

 About OnHollywood 2008
June 10-12 @ The Sofitel Hotel, West Hollywood, California

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Jacked, Inc. is NOT associated with or authorized by any of the television broadcast companies, networks, or cable companies or the amateur, collegiate, or professional sports teams, athletes, or leagues. Jacked, Inc. is a completely independent news and information service provided to individuals like YOU who seek greater connection and interaction. Jacked uses team and league names and logos solely to identify them and to provide information, and those names and logos do not indicate any sponsorship or licensing connection or any other connection between Jacked and those teams or leagues. Jacked, Inc. is the first provider of a state-of-the-art system to make it possible to receive the information you need while you are watching other media. The Jacked TVTop™, the Jacked SportsTop™, and Jacked are registered trademarks of Jacked, Inc.