Mozes Selected by AlwaysOn as an OnHollywood 100 Top Private Company Award Winner
Mobile Marketing Innovator Recognized for Leadership in Emerging Technology for Digital Entertainment and Media
PALO ALTO, CA -- 06/05/08 -- Mozes, Inc., (www.mozes.com), the service that connects people to what they love right from their mobile phones, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the OnHollywood 100 Top Private Companies. The OnHollywood 100 is a power list of the top private emerging technology companies in digital entertainment and media. Mozes was handpicked by the AlwaysOn editorial team based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, customer adoption, media buzz and investor value creation.
Mozes, along with the rest of the OnHollywood 100, will be honored at the OnHollywood & BRiM event on June 10-11, 2008. The event gathers entertainment and technology industry executives to identify and debate emerging trends, network and develop new business partnership opportunities.
"This year's OnHollywood 100 represents the brightest of the innovators in the new media space. We are enthusiastic about gathering the leaders in a collaborative environment that fuses these two industries together, culminating in the richest, most progressive conversations on Hollywood's digital movement," said Tony Perkins, founder and CEO of AlwaysOn.
The OnHollywood 100 was selected from more than 1000 companies, peer-nominated by leading venture capitalists, investment bankers and industry analysts.
"We appreciate being named to OnHollywood 100 which reflects our creation of a unique and compelling mobile service that is producing breakthrough results in media and entertainment," said Mozes CEO Dorrian Porter. "We look forward to discussing the future of mobile with other leading technology and entertainment companies at OnHollywood."
Mozes enables anyone to make their campaigns more powerful and interactive by using its comprehensive marketing platform, which includes voice, text and the web. With over 40 record labels partnering with Mozes as customers, Mozes is rapidly expanding on its success in the music industry and deploying the service in other markets including sports, entertainment and retail. As of May 2008, more than 1.5 million unique US and Canadian mobile users have experienced Mozes, reaching as high as 175,000 unique US phones in a single day.
A full list of all the OnHollywood 100 companies can be found on the AlwaysOn Web site at: http://onhollywood.goingon.com/
About OnHollywood 2008
June 10-12 @ The Sofitel Hotel, West Hollywood, California
OnHollywood is where cutting-edge technology CEOs from the back streets of Silicon Valley meet the Hollywood digital entertainment and media elite. This two-and-a-half-day executive event features high-level debates on which forces are disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities, content strategies and monetization schemes in the video, music, gaming, search, and mobile industries. Our editors will also honor the OnHollywood 100 Top Private Companies and feature the Best of Broadband "BOB" Awards. Fifty of the top CEOs from the OnHollywood 100 will pitch their market strategies to a panel of industry experts in our "CEO Showcase."
About Mozes, Inc.
Founded in 2005, Mozes is service that connects people to what they love right from their mobile phones. Comprehensive mobile campaigns that incorporate voice, text and web are built on an easy-to-use marketing platform and are further extended by online widgets that integrate a mobile campaign with online properties like MySpace and Facebook. Using Mozes anyone -- from bands to fans to brands -- can make their campaigns, promotions or events more powerful and interactive using the mobile phone and the web. Initially focused on the music industry, Mozes is used by nearly 4,000 major label and independent artists, including Chris Brown, Colbie Caillat, Daughtry, Nelly and Rascal Flatts. Mozes is permission-based, spam-free and cost-free to consumers. The desirability of reaching consumers via cell phone is growing according to eMarketer which projects U.S. spending on mobile marketing to roughly double this year to $1.5 billion, and reach $4.4 billion by 2011. Subscribe to the Mozes blog for updates at http://www.mozes.com/blog.
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.
Andrea Roesch
Tier One Partners
650-644-1700
press@mozes-inc.com