AlwaysOn Unveils 2009 AO Global 250 Winners.

Quantcast Named Overall Winner Among AO Global 250 Companies

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- AlwaysOn (AO), open-media pioneer and creator of the AlwaysOn executive event series, today announced its coveted AlwaysOn Global 250 Top Private Companies Awards, naming audience-measurement service Quantcast the AO Global 250 overall winner. Other category winners include:

* Cast Iron Systems - Cloud and Infrastructure

* Mint - Consumer Internet

* Knewton - Digital Education

* Twofish - Digital Media

* EveryZing - Enabling Tools and Devices

* BrightSource Energy - Greentech

* uTest - SaaS and Enterprise

* Skyhook Wireless - Wireless

The AlwaysOn Global 250 Private Companies will be honored at a reception at the AlwaysOn & Stanford Technology Ventures Program Summit at Stanford taking place on July 28-30, 2009 at Stanford University.

"We are proud to present our top honors to Quantcast after seeing the quality of their product and the scope of their business," said Tony Perkins, founder and CEO of AlwaysOn. "Quantcast has already created one of the most widely-used audience measurement services, and is now poised to bring both breadth and granularity to the targeted advertising marketplace."

In 2006, Quantcast arrived onto the scene offering a free service that gave Web publishers data on the type of people visiting their sites via a digital pixel it placed on these sites. The company began by measuring sites too small to be noticed by larger services such as Nielsen and comScore, but the service quickly signed up top media companies as well, including Hulu, ABC Television Group, FOX, NBC, CBS, MTV Networks, CNNMoney.com, and People.com. Quantcast now claims it is measuring more than half the top 100 ad-supported sites on the Web.

After spending quite a bit of time (and venture funding) building up its audience-measurement service, Quantcast is taking what it has gathered and applying it toward its first revenue-generating product, becoming the frontrunner in realizing the potential for advertising analytics in the digital age. The Quantcast Media Program lets its clients -- advertisers and marketers -- define their own audience, then buy it, wherever it is on the Web.

With assistance from KPMG's emerging business practice, KPMG VC Practice, hundreds of venture investors, investment bankers, and technology insiders were surveyed, and these respondents nominated more than 1,000 companies to determine the AO Global 250 winners. Companies demonstrating significant market traction and game-changing technology were selected to be part of the AO Global 250. All innovators in their given technology sectors, the AO Global 250 winners all demonstrated leadership among their peers in the following areas: innovation, market opportunity, commercialization, media buzz, and stakeholder value creation.

A full list of all the AO Global 250 winners can be found on the AlwaysOn Web site here: http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/32719.

About the 2009 AlwaysOn & STVP Summit at Stanford

July 28-30, 2009 at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California

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

About AlwaysOn

AlwaysOn ignited the open-media revolution in early 2003 by being the first media brand to launch a global blog network (alwayson-network.com). 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 applying its open-media principles to its executive event series (Summit at Stanford, OnDC, OnHollywood, OnMedia, GoingGreen East and West, and Venture Summit East and Venture Summit Silicon Valley) and quarterly print "blogozine." These venues empower its members to post and share their ideas and meet each other online. As our loyal readers know, AlwaysOn is committed to a 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.