Digitalsmiths, the video metadata experts in management, packaging and distribution, announced today its selection as a finalist for the 2010 Red Herring North America 100 award, a prestigious list honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures.
"This year was especially difficult," said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. "Despite the global economic situation, there were many great companies producing really innovative and amazing products that we had a difficult time narrowing the pool and selecting the finalists. Digitalsmiths shows great promise, and therefore deserves to be among the finalists. Now we’re faced with the difficult task of selecting the Top 100 winners of Red Herring North America award. We know that this year’s crop will grow into some amazing companies that are sure to go far."
Finalists for the 2010 Red Herring 100 North America award are selected based on the company’s technological innovation, management strength, market size, investor record, customer acquisition, and financial health. During the months leading up to the announcement, hundreds of companies in the telecommunications, security, Web 2.0, software, hardware, biotech, and clean tech industries sent in submissions to qualify for the award.
“With the proliferation of connected devices, consumer electronics like the iPad, BlackBerry and Nintendo Wii are fueling the market demand for rich digital media on demand,” said Ben Weinberger, CEO and co-founder, Digitalsmiths. “Digitalsmiths’ recognition to be considered for this accolade demonstrates the business community’s increased understanding, appreciation and enthusiasm around metadata management solutions that can edit, publish and manage high-end digital media content, and the profitable potential it holds for Hollywood studios.”
The finalists are invited to present on winning strategies at the Red Herring North America Conference in San Diego, June 22-24, 2010. The Top 100 winners will be announced at a special awards ceremony on June 24 at the event.
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About Digitalsmiths
Digitalsmiths provides the industry’s only studio grade digital media analysis, operations and publishing solution with an advanced, time-based metadata framework that empowers digital media companies to distribute premium video content across multiple platforms, open up new revenue streams for film and TV assets, and build audience.
The company’s flagship product, VideoSense®, powers the digital media operations, publishing and analytics for today’s leading Hollywood studios, broadcasters, distributors and publishers including Warner Bros., Telepictures and TMZ.com. Digitalsmiths was named one of the "Top 45 Companies to Watch" by Dow Jones, one of the “OnHollywood Top 100” and “OnGlobal 250” by AlwaysOn, "Technology of the Year" by North Carolina's Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED), and winner of the "Streaming Media Readers' Choice Awards." http://www.digitalsmiths.com/