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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 developer of the first customizable Webtop platform in sync with live broadcast television programming, 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’s customizable Webtop 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.
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“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 a WebTop 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
OnHollywood is where cutting-edge technology CEOs from the back streets of Silicon Valley meet the Hollywood digital entertainment and media elite. This two-and-a-half-day executive event features high-level debates on which forces are disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities, content strategies and monetization schemes in the video, music, gaming, search, and mobile industries. Our editors will also honor the OnHollywood 100 Top Private Companies and feature the Best of Broadband "BOB" Awards. Fifty of the top CEOs from the OnHollywood 100 will pitch their market strategies to a panel of industry experts in our "CEO Showcase."
About Jacked, Inc.
Jacked™ is the developer of the first customizable Webtop platform in sync with live broadcast television programming. The company’s first product, Jacked’s SportsTop™, currently supports all NBA, MLB, NFL and NHL games, as well as NCAA Division 1 Football and Basketball games, with real-time, contextually-generated, synchronous programming. Jacked has partnered with numerous broadcasters and sports leagues including NBC, CBS, Versus, Fox’s Fuel TV, Raycom Sports and the NHL.
Jacked was recently recognized by media company AlwaysOn as both one of the OnMedia 100 and OnHollywood 100 Winners and was also selected as one of 30 leading technology companies to join the Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program. Jacked is a venture-backed company with funding from Provenance Ventures, Core Capital Partners and Gabriel Venture Partners. Jacked was founded in June 2006 and is based in Santa Monica, Calif.
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.