Lightcast, Inc. Honored As Stevie® Award Winner In 2013 American Business Awards

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Sept. 20, 2013 - PRLog -- San Francisco, California – September 17, 2013 – Lightcast, Inc. (http://www.lightcast.com/) was presented with a Stevie® Award in the category “Internet/New Media” in the 11th  Annual American Business Awards.

The American Business Awards are the nation’s premier business awards program. All organizations operating in the U.S.A. are eligible to submit nominations – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small.

Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word for “crowned,” the trophies were presented to winners during a gala banquet on Monday, September 16 at the Julia Morgan Ballroom in San Francisco.  More than 250 nominees and their guests attended.

This year’s American Business Awards were presented at two awards events.  Awards for marketing, customer service, human resources, and other disciplines were announced in Chicago in June.  Last night’s event focused on the technology and new product awards categories.

More than 3,200 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories, including Most Innovative Company of the Year, Management Team of the Year, Best New Product or Service of the Year, Corporate Social Responsibility Program of the Year, and Executive of the Year, among others.  Lightcast, Inc is nominated in the category “Internet/New Media” for the Company of the Year.

"We are very proud having received this prestigious award from the American Business Award Association. Receiving this kind of recognition from industry leaders is very affirming for us, knowing that we are on the right path. Most of all I am very thankful for every single person on our amazing team who brought us to this place. This award is their achievement!"
- Andreas Kisslinger, Founder & CEO of Lightcast.com

Stevie Award winners were selected by more than 320 executives nationwide who participated in the judging process.

“So many remarkable stories of success and innovation were told in the nominations submitted to this year’s American Business Awards,” said Michael Gallagher, president and founder of the Stevie Awards.  “We congratulate all of this year’s Stevie Award winners, and thank them for the inspiration provided by their achievements.”

Details about The American Business Awards and the lists of Stevie Award winners who were announced on September 16 are available at www.StevieAwards.com/ABA.

About Lightcast, Inc (http://www.lightcast.com/).
Lightcast, Inc. is a premium online media provider and worldwide CDN, delivering bitrate adaptive live-streams, VOD and 24/7 streams at transparent and budget-minded costs for publication on websites, social sites, mobile apps, SmartTVs and set-top boxes in order to extend the reach of its clients locally and worldwide with hard-fact viewership statistics and intuitive viewer-response mechanisms.

About the Stevie Awards
: Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service.  A fifth program, the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, will debut this month. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide.  Learn more about the Stevie Awards at www.StevieAwards.com.

Sponsors and partners of The 2013 American Business Awards include the Business TalkRadio Network, Callidus Software, Citrix Online, Dynamic Research Corporation, Experian Consumer Services, John Hancock Funds, LifeLock, PetRays, and SoftPro.