Paris, France – Akamedia, today announced that it has been awarded “Red Herring Global Winner 2008”. Red Herring 100 Global Winners are companies chosen from winners and finalists of the previous North America, Europe and Asia Red Herring Top 100. Out of 1,800 successful and highly eligible companies, the Red Herring editorial team deployed a detailed process to drill-down the best companies first to 200 finalists, then to the Top 100 winners of this global award. Evaluations were made on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, innovation, management, global strategy, and ecosystem integration. The announcement of the winners was made at the Red Herring 100 Global taking place in San Diego in January.
“We were so pleased to announce Akamedia as a Red Herring Top 100 Global Company,” commented Red Herring publisher Alex VIEUX. “Akamedia has proven to be a company excelling in its industry and its ripples have turned into waves. We are pleased to have included Akamedia in our list of promising companies. We look forward to the changes it make to its industry in the future.”
“We are very honored to receive this amazing Award that pointed out in the past leaders like Google, eBay, Skype or Salesforce,”
About Red Herring
Red Herring is a global media company, which unites the world’s best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine, an online daily technology news service, technology newsletters and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider’s access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy.
More information about Red Herring is available on the Internet at www.redherring.com.
For additional information please contact:
Anam ALEPENIA
Phone: +1 650-428-2900 Phone:
Email: aalpenia@redherring.com Email:
About Akamedia
Akamedia provides advance distribution solutions for audiovisual productions. Harnessing the power of the Internet as well as the latest developments in video compression, audiovisual processing and broadband transmission, Akamedia facilitates the trade of video material globally. The company has received many awards including the prestigious 'Red Herring Global Winner 2008'.
Akamedia runs an online news service www.newspusher.com providing to TV broadcasters and new media companies premium video productions and news footage. Akamedia:
Aggregates 24/7/365 in excess of 200 sources from all over the world;
Indexes, references and displays more than 500 clips per day for online search and previewing;
Syndicates the usage worldwide of more than 60,000 clips.
More information on Akamedia's Corporate website: www.akamedia.net and Akamedia's News Service: www.newspusher.com
For additional information please contact:
Dorota SMAGGIA, Head of business development
Email: dorota.smaggia@
Phone: +33 1 4606 4040
