Critical Mention Selected by AlwaysOn as an AO100 Top Private Company Award Winner

Critical Mention Selected by AlwaysOn as an AO100 Top Private Company Award Winner

Recognized for Leadership in Emerging Technology and Global Business Potential

NEW YORK, July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Critical Mention, providers of the most comprehensive Web-based television search and broadcast monitoring platform, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the AO100 Top Private Companies for 2007. The fifth-annual elite AO100 list was compiled by the AlwaysOn editorial panel. In order to be eligible for the AO100 list, companies had to be peer-nominated, with AlwaysOn receiving more than 1,000 nominations from venture investors, investment bankers and other industry experts.

Critical Mention and the AO100 Top Private Companies for 2007 will be honored at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit to be held July 31 - Aug 2, at Stanford University. The Stanford Summit is a two-and-a-half-day executive gathering that highlights the significant economic, political and commercial trends affecting the global technology industries. The idea behind the AO100 top private companies list is to identify the most promising entrepreneurial opportunities and investments in the global technology industry.

Critical Mention has the most comprehensive, sophisticated data-capture network in the industry, digitizing the world's broadcast news in real-time and making it accessible and searchable within seconds. The platform continuously digitizes live broadcast footage and transcripts in real-time, then indexes and stores it in the industry's largest real-time broadcast media content collection. Users are able to perform keyword searches (a company name, product, person, topic, etc.) and have the results instantly displayed within the platform.

A full list of all the AlwaysOn Top 100 Private Companies can be found on the AlwaysOn Web site at: http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/15899

"We are honored to be recognized by AlwaysOn as one of the AO100 Top Private Companies for 2007," said Sean Morgan, founder and CEO of Critical Mention. "Critical Mention has experienced 100% revenue growth year-over-year since inception, and continues to innovate to provide the most robust offering to our customers, who are the market leaders in corporate communications, financial services, professional services industries, as well as political, non-profit and government entities."

About The AlwaysOn Stanford Summit: The Stanford Summit is a two-and-a- half-day executive gathering that highlights the significant economic, political and commercial trends affecting the global technology industries. The Stanford Summit features the most innovative companies, eminent technologists, influential investors and journalists in keynote presentations, panel debates and private company CEO showcases. The Stanford Summit's goal is to identify the most promising entrepreneurial opportunities and investments in the global tech industry.

About Critical Mention

Critical Mention Inc., providers of the most comprehensive Web-based television search and broadcast monitoring platform, is changing the way corporate communications and business intelligence professionals search, track and view critical information from television news. Never before has TV been made available as a searchable medium, to be incorporated as a vital component to intelligence gathering & crisis management. Critical Mention provides clients the ability to search over 5 million clips and 50 terabytes of indexed television information, watch a clip within seconds of airing, and securely share clips with colleagues and clients. Critical Mention currently serves more than 500 clients, including Fortune 500 companies and market leaders in corporate communications, financial services, professional services industries, as well as political, non-profit and government entities. Founded in 2002, Critical Mention (http://www.criticalmention.com/) is privately held, with headquarters in New York City.

About AlwaysOn

AlwaysOn ignited the open-media revolution in early 2003 by being the first media brand to launch a global blog network. In 2004, AlwaysOn continued to lead the media industry in innovation by introducing a social network where members can connect and engage. AlwaysOn is also revolutionizing the media business by applying its open-media principles to its executive event series (Stanford Summit, AlwaysOn Hollywood, AlwaysOn Media and GoingGreen) and quarterly print "blogozine" by empowering its members to post and share their ideas and meet each other online. As our loyal readers know, AlwaysOn is committed to the free-market, merit-driven approach to reporting and event programming. No other media brand has dared to create such open interaction with its readers and event participants.

Source: Critical Mention

CONTACT: Sharon Tolpin of Critical Mention, +1-917-826-2894,
stolpin@criticalmention.com; or Elizabeth Anderson of A&R Edelman for AlwaysOn
Stanford Summit, +1-650-762-2800, eanderson@ar-edelman.com

Web site: http://www.criticalmention.com/
http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/15899

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Profile: International Entertainment