Sorenson Media Chosen as 2011 AlwaysOn Global 250 Top Private Company

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sorenson Media today announced that the company has won a spot on the 2011 AlwaysOn Global 250 Top Private Companies list, which recognizes leadership and contributions to global technology and innovation.

“We’ve had a tremendous year at Sorenson Media focusing on creating solutions that make publishing videos easier and better than ever for our customers. As always, we continue to strive to maintain our global reputation for delivering the highest-quality video across every platform and device”

Winners of the annual AlwaysOn Global 250 are selected based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value and media buzz. Recently, Sorenson Media released three versions of its Sorenson Squeeze Server – cloud-based, on-premise and hybrid options – which offer the full power and functionality of the gold-standard Sorenson Squeeze video encoding engine in a scalable and flexible solution.

Additionally, in the past year Sorenson Media has released a bevy of other products and services, including updated customizable features to its Sorenson 360 Online Video Platform, enhancements to the company’s Preset Exchange, and the launch of Vid.vu, the first feature-rich URL shortening service designed specifically for professional online video.

“We’ve had a tremendous year at Sorenson Media focusing on creating solutions that make publishing videos easier and better than ever for our customers. As always, we continue to strive to maintain our global reputation for delivering the highest-quality video across every platform and device,” said Peter Csathy, CEO of Sorenson Media. “With Squeeze Server, we have offered the world’s first truly enterprise-grade video encoding solution in the cloud, and the additions we have made to our Sorenson 360 Online Video Platform enable our clients to truly customize their experience to fit their specific needs and achieve their desired results. We are delighted to be recognized for our innovations by AlwaysOn, which showcases our leadership in video encoding for video professionals, small- and medium-sized businesses and the enterprise.”

“This year’s AlwaysOn Global 250 are companies driven by the biggest mega-trends, including the accelerating growth of mobile users, cloud computing, and SaaS offerings, globalization, and the socialization of commerce and basically everything online,” said Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. “This year’s winners clearly represent some of the highest-growth opportunities we’ve seen in the private company marketplace in the history of the global Silicon Valley.”

Earlier this year, Sorenson Media also garnered a spot on the AlwaysOn OnMobile 100 list of emerging companies transforming industry and developing compelling business models for the mobile marketplace. The company’s new Mobile Reference Apps, part of Sorenson Squeeze Server, enable users to easily capture video content from any major mobile device – including iOS and Android-based phones and tablets. The content can then be uploaded, encoded and published to virtually any destination, including content delivery networks (CDNs), online video platforms (OVPs), or any selected folder or over entire networks.

The AlwaysOn Global 250 winners were selected from among thousands of domestic and international technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists and industry insiders. Winners will be honored at AlwaysOn’s ninth annual Innovation Summit at Santa Clara University on July 28, 2011, at the Louis B. Mayer Theatre at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, Calif.

About Sorenson Media

Sorenson Media (www.sorensonmedia.com) is an award-winning provider of the highest quality, differentiated video encoding solutions. With highly scalable cloud- and server-based encoding solutions and desktop applications, Sorenson Media empowers the enterprise and video professionals to easily and cost-effectively encode, transcode, manage and deliver the highest-quality video online and to mobile devices. Since 1995, Sorenson Media has been at the forefront of bringing online and mobile video into the economic and cultural mainstream. As video rapidly proliferates online, businesses and video professionals increasingly rely on Sorenson Media's innovative solutions and legacy of trust to meet their evolving needs.