Announcing the 2012 OnMedia 100 Top Private Companies

Announcing the 2012 OnMedia 100 Top Private Companies

Posted on February 22, 2012

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Coupled with the socialization of everything, Madison Avenue is boldly charging into the future, reinventing the establishment with new, invigorating products and services.

AlwaysOn is especially excited to announce this year's OnMedia 100-the top emerging companies creating new business opportunities in the world of media, advertising, marketing, branding, and public relations.

The AlwaysOn editorial team, along with partners at DFJ Gotham Ventures, Azure Capital, Flybridge Venture Capital, Greycroft Partners, Canaan Partners, FirstMark Capital, NEA, KPMG, Highland Capital Partners, and industry experts across the globe, scoured the entrepreneurial community to identify the top 100 private companies that are disrupting the digital media and advertising world with new products and services, while at the same time creating high-growth businesses that offer huge upside potential for investors.

This year's OnMedia 100 represents mature, forward-thinking media companies in a year charged with disruptive change. Web-fueled TV is finally becoming a reality and, coupled with robust social platforms, provides a rich, new consumer base open to creative, targeted advertising and marketing products. Smartphone and tablet adoption continues to accelerate, challenging the entertainment and content world to transform itself into a global, consumer-focused industry.

As entrenched, legacy institutions are faced with the socialization of everything, this year's digital media, advertising, and marketing startups are boldly charging into future, ready to reinvent the establishment with new, invigorating products and services. On the back end, analytics companies are gaining access to a richer, deeper pool of data and providing marketers and advertisers with consumer profiles that deliver on the promise of reaching specific audiences with meaningful, actionable messages.

This year's OnMedia 100 companies are leaders amongst their peers and developing game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to push outside the bounds of existing markets. Companies were selected based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.

Congratulations to all the 2012 OnMedia 100 winners. As the top venture capital-backed media companies continue to bring new, innovative products and services to the world, they're pioneering new ways to provide quality content and reach engaged audiences with meaningful messages. The OnMedia 100 companies are keeping pace with new technology developments, once again proving that the Global Silicon Valley is driving the transformation of digital media and entertainment.

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The winners of this competition will be officially honored at:

OnMedia NYC
Where Silicon Valley Meets Madison Avenue
February 21st-22nd, 2012
Time Warner Center, New York, NY

The sixth annual OnMedia NYC is a two-day executive event, featuring New York's power players and top digital media CEOs, who will engage in high-level debates on how the Internet is disrupting the world of media, marketing, advertising, and branding. OnMedia also showcases the emerging entrepreneurial CEOs who are revolutionizing the way media is being created, distributed, consumed, and analyzed.

Click here to see current program, reserve your ticket, or learn more about this year's OnMedia NYC.

To find out how your company can join the OnMedia NYC distinguished group of sponsors and for detailed information on the CEO Showcase opportunity, please contact Shannon Calvin (shannon@aonetwork.com, 954.663.2086) or Grant Gunderson (grant@aonetwork.com, 916.217.0427) for details on how your company can participate.

For more information on group rates or to make reservations by phone, please contact the AlwaysOn Concierge, John Schwartz, at 310.721.9451 or by e-mail at john@aonetwork.com.

Now is the time to get on board. Whether you are looking for new investments, strategic partners or clients in the digital media space, OnMedia NYC is the insider event you won't want to miss. We hope to see you there!

The conference is only two weeks away. Register today to secure your 33% discount.

Introducing the OnMedia 100

Overall Winner

Pinterest
www.pinterest.com
Category: Consumer Services–Community Platforms
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
CEO: Ben Silbermann
Year Founded: 2008
Employees: ca. 15
Investors Include: FirstMark Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz

B2B: Advertising Analytics

Baynote
www.baynote.com
Cupertino, CA

C3 Metrics
www.c3metrics.com
New York, NY

Collective[i]
www.collectivei.com
New York, NY

Compass Labs
www.compasslabs.com
San Jose, CA

Echo System, The
www.theechosystem.com
New York, NY

eXelate
www.exelate.com
New York, NY

InfiniGraph
www.infinigraph.com
Menlo Park, CA

Monetate
www.monetate.com
Philadelphia, PA

Quantcast
www.quantcast.com
San Francisco, CA

Searchmetrics
www.searchmetrics.com
New York, NY

STELLAService
www.stellaservice.com
New York, NY

Trendrr
www.trendrr.com
New York, NY

Visible Measures
www.visiblemeasures.com
Boston, MA

Webtrends
www.webtrends.com
Portland,OR

B2B: Advertising Networks

[x+1]
www.xplusone.com
New York, NY

Adconion Media Group
www.adconion.com
Santa Monica, CA

Adknowledge
www.adknowledge.com
Kansas City, MO

Adnetik
www.adnetik.com
Boston, MA

Apptera
www.apptera.com
Sunnyvale, CA

BlueKai
www.bluekai.com
Cupertino, CA

BrightRoll
www.brightroll.com
San Francisco, CA

Collective
www.collective.com
New York, NY

CPX Interactive
www.cpxinteractive.com
New York, NY

DOmedia
www.domedia.com
Columbus, OH

JiWire
www.jiwire.com
San Francisco, CA

LiveIntent
www.liveintent.com
New York, NY

mediaFORGE
www.mediaforge.com
Salt Lake City, UT

Medialets
www.medialets.com
New York, NY

MediaMath
www.mediamath.com
New York, NY

Millennial Media
www.millennialmedia.com
Baltimore, MD

Mogreet
www.mogreet.com
Venice, CA

Peer39
www.peer39.com
New York, NY

PulsePoint
www.pulsepoint.com
New York, NY

RadiumOne
www.radiumone.com
San Francisco, CA

Rocket Fuel
www.rocketfuel.com
Redwood City, CA

Smaato
www.smaato.com
Redwood Shores, CA

Specific Media
www.specificmedia.com
Irvine, CA

Tremor Media
www.tremorvideo.com
New York, NY

YuMe
www.yume.com
Redwood City, CA

B2B: Technology Enablers

Act-On Software
www.actonsoftware.com
Beaverton, OR

Altruik
www.altruik.com
New York, NY

AppNexus
www.appnexus.com
New York, NY

BrightEdge
www.brightedge.com
San Mateo, CA

Buddy Media
www.buddymedia.com
New York, NY

ClickSquared
www.clicksquared.com
Boston, MA

Conductor
www.conductor.com
New York, NY

Crowd Factory
www.crowdfactory.com
San Francisco, CA

Evidon
www.evidon.com
New York, NY

ExactTarget
www.exacttarget.com
Indianapolis, IN

Fiksu
Boston, MA
www.fiksu.com

Get Satisfaction
www.getsatisfaction.com
San Francisco, CA

Kaltura
corp.kaltura.com
New York, NY

Manilla
www.manilla.com
New York, NY

Marketo
www.marketo.com
San Mateo, CA

Martini Media Network
www.martinimedianetwork.com
San Francisco, CA

Meebo
www.meebo.com
Mountain View, CA

Revinate
www.revinate.com
San Francisco, CA

Sailthru
www.sailthru.com
New York, NY

ShareThis
www.sharethis.com
Mountain View, CA

Simulmedia
www.simulmedia.com
New York, NY

Spiceworks
www.spiceworks.com
Austin, TX

Square
www.squareup.com
San Francisco, CA

WhichBox Media
www.whichboxmedia.com
Dallas, TX

Zuberance
www.zuberance.com
San Carlos, CA

Consumer: Community Platforms

7Echo
www.7echo.com
New York, NY

AdKeeper
www.adkeeper.com
New York, NY

BiteHunter
www.bitehunter.com
New York, NY

DailyWorth
New York, NY
www.dailyworth.com

foursquare
www.foursquare.com
New York, NY

GetGlue
www.getglue.com
New York, NY

MyCityWay
www.mycityway.com
New York, NY

MyLife
www.mylife.com
Los Angeles, CA

Quora
www.quora.com
Palo Alto, CA

Shazam
www.shazam.com
London, U.K.

SkyGrid
www.skygrid.com
Sunnyvale, CA

Tumblr
www.tumblr.com
New York, NY

Twitter
www.twitter.com
San Francisco, CA

Twitvid
www.twitvid.com
San Francisco, CA

Yelp
www.yelp.com
San Francisco, CA

Consumer: Online Content Publishers

Aereo
www.aereo.com
New York, NY

BlogHer
www.blogher.com
Belmont, CA

Boxee
www.boxee.tv
New York, NY

BuzzFeed
www.buzzfeed.com
New York, NY

Everyday Health
www.everydayhealth.com
New York, NY

Glam Media
www.glam.com
Brisbane, CA

Consumer: Social Commerce

500friends
www.500friends.com
San Francisco, CA

Bespoke Post
www.bespokepost.com
New York, NY

Beyond the Rack
www.beyondtherack.com
New York, NY

Birchbox
www.birchbox.com
New York, NY

Cartera Commerce
www.cartera.com
Lexington, MA

Etsy
www.etsy.com
Brooklyn, NY

Gilt Groupe
www.gilt.com
New York, NY

Kiip
www.kiip.me
San Francisco, CA

LivingSocial
www.livingsocial.com
Washington DC

Lot18
www.lot18.com
New York, NY

One Kings Lane
www.onekingslane.com
San Francisco, CA

Shopify
www.shopify.com
Ottowa, Ont. Canada

Totsy
www.totsy.com
New York, NY

Yipit
www.yipit.com
New York, NY

The 2012 OnMedia Ones to Watch:

Bluefin Labs
www.bluefinlabs.com
Cambridge, MA

BranchOut
www.branchout.com
San Francisco, CA

Brilig
www.brilig.com
New York, NY

CampaignGrid
www.campaigngrid.com
Fort Washington, PA

Complex Media
www.complexmedia.com
New York, NY

Conviva
www.conviva.com
San Mateo, CA

Crowd Science
www.crowdscience.com
San Jose, CA

Dynamic Signal
www.dynamicsignal.com
San Bruno, CA

EmpowHER
www.empowher.com
Scottsdale, AZ

Group Commerce
www.groupcommerce.com
New York, NY

Have to Have
www.havetohave.com
New York, NY

Moat
www.moat.com
New York, NY

NetShelter Technology Media
www.netshelter.com
San Francisco, CA

numberFire
www.numberfire.com
New York, NY

Personal
www.personal.com
Washington DC

Segment Interactive
www.segmentinteractive.com
Los Angeles, CA

SinglePlatform
www.singleplatform.com
New York, NY

TouchStorm
www.touchstorm.com
New York, NY

Unruly Media
www.unrulymedia.com
London, U.K.

Webloyalty
www.webloyalty.com
New York, NY