Mountain View, Calif., January 22, 2008 ñ Kosmix today announced that AlwaysOn has selected the company as one of the OnMedia 100 Winners. Inclusion in the OnMedia 100 signifies major developments in the creation of marketing tools, services, venues, and advertising, branding, and public relation campaigns. Kosmix was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and other industry experts spanning the globe, based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.
Kosmixís health consumer site, www.righthealth.com, and its auto site, www.rightautos.com, have seen strong consumer momentum. RightHealth is one of the top ten sites on Hitwise and receives more than 3.9 million visitors a month according to Quantcast. The recently launched RightAutos site receives over two million unique visitors a month. Kosmixís core technology is a sophisticated algorithm-based categorization engine that combs through billions of Web pages and structured data points to create and deliver a rich topic home page featuring images, videos, blogs, forums and news, dramatically changing the online experience for consumers.
As the Web continues to explode, users are looking for easier and more effective ways to navigate the vast amounts of data and get to the most relevant results be it the latest diagnosis in depression or the most fuel-efficient car on the market,î said Venky Harinarayan, co-founder of Kosmix. At Kosmix, we are focused on making the consumer experience in our vertical markets the richest and most comprehensive for online users.î
The OnMedia 100 was selected from over hundreds of companies, nominated by a panel of industry experts in the online ad service, technology, community platform, mobile advertising, marketing, and Web analytic sectors from around the world.
The OnMedia 100 winners have excelled in key strategic areas in the advertising, marketing, public relations, and promotion industry,î said Tony Perkins, founder and CEO of AlwaysOn. We congratulate them for their success in introducing new tools, services, and venues for marketers to have at their fingertips and for use to take their business to the next level in innovation
Kosmix and the OnMedia 100 Top Private Companies will be honored at the OnMedia conference, January 28-30, 2008 at The Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York City. This two-and-a-half day executive event will feature technology CEO ís from Silicon Valley leading presentations and high-level debates with the global advertising and media establishment, about disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities in the marketing, branding, advertising, and public relations industries.
A full list of all the OnMedia 100 winners can be found on the AlwaysOn Web site at http://www.alwayson.goingon.com/
AlwaysOn ignited the open-media revolution in early 2003 by being the first media brand to launch a community blog network. In 2004, AlwaysOn continued to lead the industry in innovation by engaging its bloggers in a social network. AlwaysOn is also revolutionizing the media business by applying its open-media principles to its executive event series (OnMedia NYC, Venture Summit East and West, On Hollywood, The Broadband Digital, Stanford Summit, and Going Green)and quarterly print blogozineî. No other media brand has dared to create such open interaction with its readers and event participants.
About AlwaysOn
Voce Communications
Leah McLean
415-308-7928
lmclean@vocecomm.com
Every organization has a home page on the Web, every person can have a Web home page, then why not every topic? Kosmix's mission is to create the unofficial home page for every topic on the Web, giving consumers a starting point from which to explore and discover new content online. More information can be found at www.kosmix.com.
For further information, please contact:
Kosmix Media Contact
Chris Fucanan
Atomic PR
415-439-4219
chris.fucanan@atomicpr.com
