Critical Mention Selected by AlwaysOn Media as Top 100 Private Company Award Winner

Critical Mention Selected by AlwaysOn Media as Top 100 Private Company Award Winner

Recognized for leadership in emerging technology

NEW YORK, Jan. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Critical Mention Inc., the leading Web-based real-time television news search and broadcast monitoring service, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn Media as one of the AO Media 100 Top Private Companies. AO Media 100 is a power list of the top private digital media companies. Critical Mention was handpicked by the AO Media editorial team based on a set of five criteria -- innovation, market potential, customer adoption, media buzz and investor value creation.

Critical Mention and the AO Media 100 will be honored at the AO Media executive summit January 29-31, 2007 at The Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York City. The summit will focus on the forces that are disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities in marketing, branding, advertising, and public relations. The event will also showcase top innovative private companies that are changing the way media is created, distributed and consumed.

"The AO Media 100 are creating new revenue opportunities in the more than $16.4 billion online advertising market by disrupting traditional media and advertising models," said Tony Perkins, founder and editor in chief of AlwaysOn. "They are innovating by applying game-changing technology to key sectors including user-generated content, technology-enablers, mobile marketing, community platforms, Web analytics, and online advertising services."

The AO Media 100 was selected from over 1,000 companies, peer-nominated by leading venture capitalists, investment bankers and industry analysts.

"Critical Mention is, by definition, a disrupter of marketing, branding, advertising and PR practices, and a market maker in the business intelligence market", said Sean Morgan, founder and CEO of Critical Mention. "We have turned the traditional model of broadcast monitoring on its head, and are building new, robust opportunities through the real-time digitization of broadcast news globally, marching it deep into the heart of business intelligence applications. Never before has it been possible for corporations, non-profits, politicians, government bodies and newsrooms to track TV news globally and in real-time, a vital component to intelligence gathering & crisis management. Real-time TV search has finally become a reality with the Critical Mention platform."

A full list of all the AO Media 100 companies can be found on the AlwaysOn Web site at http://www.alwayson.goingon.com/

About AO Media 2007: January 29-31 @ The Mandarin Oriental Hotel, NYC

AlwaysOn Media is where cutting-edge technology CEOs from the back streets of Silicon Valley meet the global advertising and media establishment. This two-and-a-half-day executive event features CEO presentations and high-level debates on which forces are disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities in the marketing, branding, advertising, and public relations industries. At AlwaysOn Media, our editors will also honor the AO Media 100 Top Private Companies. Fifty of the top CEOs from the AO Media 100 will pitch their market strategies to a panel of industry experts in our "CEO Showcase."

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, non-profit and government industries. 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 Inc.

CONTACT: Sharon Tolpin of Critical Mention, +1-917-826-2894,
stolpin@criticalmention.com; or Renee Edelman, +1-212-704-8249, or Leslie
Nakajima, +1-650-762-2940, both of Edelman, for AO Media

Web site: http://www.criticalmention.com/
http://www.alwayson.goingon.com/

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