Sorenson Media Chosen as 2011 AlwaysOn Global 250 Top Private Company

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 research and technology.

"We've had a tremendous year at Sorenson Media focusing on creating solutions that make publishing videos easier and better than ever for our clients. 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 in fact enterprise-grade video encoding solution in the cloud, and the additions we have made to our Sorenson 360 Online Video Platform enable our customers to certainly 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 at heart everything online," said Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. "This year's winners anyway you look at it 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 as well 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 at that time be uploaded, encoded and published to virtually any destination, including content delivery networks, online video platforms, or any selected folder or over entire networks.

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

Award-winning provider of the highest quality

Sorenson Media 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.