AlwaysOn is proud to announce its seventh annual OnHollywood 100, representing the top companies that are disrupting the establishment and creating viable business models for the digital entertainment marketplace. The AlwaysOn editorial team, along with partners in the venture capital and investment community and entertainment industry experts across the globe, went out into the entrepreneurial ecosystem to find the top 100 private companies in digital entertainment that are continuing to innovate an increasingly digital Hollywood and disrupt an entrenched legacy institution.

The Rise of Silicon Beach
Today’s mobile consumers are demanding a new kind of entertainment, and the Global Silicon Valley is rising to the challenge of pushing digital entertainment startups into new, creative directions. Artists and content producers are creating their own voices and using today’s online and mobile products to bring a more personal and involved experience to their fans.

The lines have blurred between the traditional forms of television and film-Internet shorts and full-length serials are becoming more popular and gaining in quality and reach. This year’s innovators are taking advantage of a the surge in mobile technology, social networking, and cloud infrastructure. Musicians use social media to connect directly with audiences and distribute their work when and how they want. Game developers can deliver full-length sophisticated epics or quick, casual shorts on-demand. Today’s digital entertainment pioneers can now focus on high-quality entertainment products of all kinds, knowing they can host their art on stable, speedy platforms.

Silicon Beach has firmly established itself as the place where the entertainment innovation community comes to develop quality television, film, and music and deliver it to a global audience. Today’s connected, mobile audience is discovering that digital entertainment entrepreneurs are wherever and whenever the fun is happening.

Hollywood is Everywhere
This year’s OnHollywood 100 companies were selected based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz. Every day, more and more artists, producers, and distributors move into the digital sphere, creating new kinds of entertainment and connecting with viewers across a wide range of platforms and services.

Congratulations to all the 2013 OnHollywood 100 winners. These top venture capital-backed digital entertainment are bringing a stream of disruptive technologies to the world, developing new ideas and creating new companies with outstanding growth potential. Freed from the confines of traditional TV, music distribution, gaming, and film, the companies will inspire even more artistic innovation and serve new kinds of consumer audiences.

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The winners of this competition will be honored at:

OnHollywood Powerfest 2013
November 13, 2013
The Bel-Air Bay Club
Pacific Palisades, CA

Register today to secure your ticket for the OnHollywood Powerfest at the lowest possible rate while tickets are still available!

Contact Shannon Calvin ([email protected], 954.663.2086), Grant Gunderson ([email protected], 916.217.0427), or Paul Hamadeh ([email protected], 415.269.3738) for details on how your company can participate.

For more information on group rates or to make reservations by phone, please contact the AlwaysOn Concierge, John Schwartz, at 310.721.9451 or by e-mail at [email protected].

Now is the time to get on board. Whether you are looking for new investments, strategic partners, or clients in the digital entertainment space, the OnHollywood Powerfest is the insider event you won’t want to miss. We hope to see you there!

The conference is next week away—Register today.

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Introducing the OnHollywood 100:

Consumer Company of the Year

SoundCloud
soundcloud.com
Headquarters: Berlin, Germany
CEO: Alexander Ljung
Year Founded: 2007
Employees: ca. 200
Investors Include: Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, GGV Capital

B2B Company of the Year

Maker Studios
www.makerstudios.com
Headquarters: Culver City, CA
CEO: Ynon Kreiz
Year Founded: 2009
Employees: ca. 375
Investors Include: Time Warner Investments, Greycroft Partners, Upfront Ventures, Downey Ventures, Ynon Kreiz, Daher Capital, Jon Landau, Canal+, SingTel Innov8, Astrolabe Ventures, Lakestar, Northgate Capital

Advertising, Marketing, and Distrubution

Badgeville
badgeville.com
Redwood City, CA

Big Frame
www.bigfra.me
Hollywood, CA

Brand Affinity
www.brandaffinity.net
Irvine, cA

Digitalsmiths
www.digitalsmiths.com
Durham, NC

Extreme Reach
www.extremereach.com
Needham, MA

Fullscreen
fullscreen.net
Culver City, CA

Gigya
www.gigya.com
Mountain View, CA

Janrain
www.janrain.com
Portland

Mass Relevance
www.massrelevance.com
Austin, TX

Milyoni
www.milyoni.com
Pleasantan, CA

NewsCred
www.newscred.com
New York, NY

RAMP Holdings
www.ramp.com
Boston MA

Shift
shift.com
Santa Monica, CA

Simulmedia
www.simulmedia.com
New York, NY

SponsorPay
sponsorpay.com
Berlin, Germany

Viggle
www.viggle.com
New York, NY

Visible Measures
www.visiblemeasures.com
Boston MA

Consumer Services

Aereo
www.aereo.com
Long Island, NY

BuzzFeed
www.buzzfeed.com
New York, NY

Complex Media
www.complexmediainc.com
New York, NY

Cooliris
www.cooliris.com
Palo Alto, CA

Eventbrite
eventbrite.com
San Francisco, CA

Eventup
eventup.com
Santa Monica, CA

Flipboard
flipboard.com
Palo Alto, CA

Foursquare
foursquare.com
New York, NY

Funny or Die
funnyordie.com
San Mateo, CA

GetGlue
getglue.com
New York, NY

Givit
www.givit.com
San Diego, CA

IndieGoGo
www.indiegogo.com
San Francisco, CA

Kickstarter
www.kickstarter.com
New York, NY

Music Mastermind
www.musicmastermind.com
Calabasas, CA

N3TWORK
www.n3twork.com
San Francisco, CA

Pinger
www.pinger.com
San Jose, CA

Pinterest
www.pinterest.com
Palo Alto, CA

Ranker
www.ranker.com
Los Angeles, CA

Shazam
www.shazam.com
London, U.K.

Snapchat
www.snapchat.com
Pacific Palisades, CA

Songza Media
songza.com
Long Island, NY

SoundHound
www.soundhound.com
San Jose, CA

SpinMedia
www.spinmedia.com
Hollywood, CA

Spotify
spotify.com
Luxembourg

Stipple
stipple.com
San Francisco, CA

StumbleUpon
www.stumbleupon.com
San Francisco, CA

StyleSaint
www.stylesaint.com
Venice, CA

Sulia
sulia.com
New York, NY

TastemakerX
www.tastemakerx.com
San Francisco, CA

TuneIn
tunein.com
Palo Alto, CA

UberMedia
ubermedia.com
Pasadena, CA

Viddy
www.viddy.com
Venice, CA

Content Delivery Platforms

7Echo
www.7echo.com
New York, NY

Backplane
thebackplane.com
Palo Alto, CA

Conviva
www.conviva.com
San Mateo, CA

Disqus
disqus.com
San Francisco, CA

Dropcam
www.dropcam.com
San Francisco, CA

EdgeCast Networks
www.edgecast.com
Santa Monica, CA

Fan TV
www.fan.tv
San Mateo, CA

FilmTrack
www.filmtrack.net
Studio City, CA

FreeWheel
www.freewheel.tv
San Mateo, CA

Hillcrest Labs
hillcrestlabs.com
Rockville, MD

Hulu
www.hulu.com
Los Angeles, CA

Imgur
imgur.com
San Francisco, CA

Instart Logic
instartlogic.com
Mountain View, CA

Jawbone
jawbone.com
San Francisco, CA

Kaltura
www.kaltura.com
New York, NY

Longtail Video
www.longtailvideo.com
New York, NY

MobiTV
www.mobitv.com
Emeryville, CA

Nimble TV
watch.nimbletv.com
New York, NY

Ooyala
www.ooyala.com
Mountain View, CA

Roku
www.roku.com
Saratoga, CA

Samba Tech
www.sambatech.com
Belo Horizonte, Brazil

ShareThis
www.sharethis.com
Palo Alto, CA

Sonos
www.sonos.com
Santa Barbara, CA

Ustream
www.ustream.tv
San Mateo, CA

Digital Content Publishers

DECA
www.deca.tv
Santa Monica, CA

GameSalad
www.gamesalad.com
San Francisco, CA

JibJab
www.jibjab.com
Venice, CA

Justin.tv
www.justin.tv
San Francisco, CA

Legendary Entertainment
www.legendary.com
Burbank, CA

Relativity Media
www.relativitymedia.com
West Hollywood, CA

Songkick
www.songkick.com
London, U.K.

Zefr
www.viddy.com
Venice, CA

Gaming

Big Fish Games
www.bigfishgames.com
Seattle, WA

Booyah
www.booyah.com
San Francisco, CA

Kabam
www.kabam.com
Redwood City, CA

Machinima
www.machinima.com
West Hollywood, CA

Riot Games
www.riotgames.com
Culver City, CA

Rovio Entertainment
www.rovio.com
Espoo, Finland

Smule
smule.com
Menlo Park, CA

Supercell
www.supercell.net
Helsinki, Finland

TinyCo
www.tinyco.com
San Francisco, CA

Mobile

July Systems
julysystems.com
San Francisco, CA

Kargo
www.kargo.com
New York, NY

Kik Interactive
kik.com
Waterloo, Ont., Canada

Path
path.com
San Francisco, CA

Phunware
www.phunware.com
Austin, TX

Scopely
www.scopely.com
Los Angeles, CA

Tango
www.tango.me
Mountain View, CA

textPlus
www.textplus.com
Marina del Rey, CA

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The winners of this competition will be honored at:

OnHollywood Powerfest 2013
November 13, 2013
The Bel-Air Bay Club
Pacific Palisades, CA

Register today to secure your ticket for the OnHollywood Powerfest at the lowest possible rate while tickets are still available!

Contact Shannon Calvin ([email protected], 954.663.2086), Grant Gunderson ([email protected], 916.217.0427), or Paul Hamadeh ([email protected], 415.269.3738) for details on how your company can participate.

For more information on group rates or to make reservations by phone, please contact the AlwaysOn Concierge, John Schwartz, at 310.721.9451 or by e-mail at [email protected].

Now is the time to get on board. Whether you are looking for new investments, strategic partners, or clients in the digital entertainment space, the OnHollywood Powerfest is the insider event you won’t want to miss. We hope to see you there!

The conference is next week away—Register today.