YouMail Selected by AlwaysOn as OnMedia Top 100 Winner
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Recognized for Game-Changing Strategies in Advertising, Marketing and Promotion IRVINE, Calif.--(Business Wire)--YouMail, Inc. (www.youmail.com), the mobile industry's premier consumer voicemail service today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the OnMedia 100 Winners. Inclusion in the OnMedia 100 signifies major developments in the creation of marketing tools, services, venues, and advertising, branding and public relation campaigns. YouMail was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and other industry experts spanning the globe, based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value and media buzz. YouMail and the OnMedia 100 Top Private Companies will be honored at the OnMedia conference scheduled to occur on January 28-30, 2008 at The Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York City. This two-and-a-half day executive event will feature technology CEOs from Silicon Valley, leading presentations and high-level debates with the global advertising and media establishment, about disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities in the marketing, branding, advertising, and public relations industries. Fifty of the top CEOs from the OnMedia 100 will present their market strategies to a panel of industry experts in a "CEO Showcase." "The OnMedia 100 winners have excelled in key strategic areas in the advertising, marketing, public relations, and promotion industry," said Tony Perkins, founder and CEO of AlwaysOn. "We congratulate them for their success in introducing new tools, services, and venues for marketers to have at their fingertips and for use to take their business to the next level in innovation." The OnMedia 100 was selected from over hundreds of companies, nominated by a panel of industry experts in the online ad service, technology, community platform, mobile advertising, marketing and Web analytic sectors from around the world. YouMail provides consumers with a free cell phone voicemail service that allows them to better express their personality and be more productive. YouMail users can personalize greetings based on caller ID -- recording greetings themselves, or easily choosing from a large and growing library of user-generated greetings and away messages. YouMail lets users express themselves differently to their friends, family and co-workers, while maintaining a standard greeting for unknown callers. YouMail users can also access their cell phone voicemail over the Web or in their e-mail, to easily share special voicemails and save them forever. "YouMail is honored to be named to the AlwaysOn OnMedia 100, one of the industry's most well-respected recognition programs," said Alex Quilici, CEO of YouMail. "We strive to create the most compelling consumer voicemail experience and over the last year we have rolled out a steady stream of new features and functionalities to meet this goal. This recognition underscores the strength of our technology and business opportunity." A full list of all the OnMedia 100 winners can be found on the AlwaysOn Web site at http://www.alwayson.goingon.com/. About YouMail YouMail, Inc is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, CA. YouMail provides a free, dramatically better cell phone voicemail service that allows users to better express their personality and be more productive through a collection of unique and powerful features, and the leveraging of the YouMail community of users. The service has a growing set of distribution partnerships with major mobile service and content providers. To learn more and sign up for the free YouMail service, go to http://www.youmail.com. About AlwaysOn AlwaysOn ignited the open-media revolution in early 2003 by being the first media brand to launch a community blog network. In 2004, AlwaysOn continued to lead the industry in innovation by engaging its bloggers in a social network. AlwaysOn is also revolutionizing the media business by applying its open-media principles to its executive event series (OnMedia NYC, Venture Summit East and West, On Hollywood, The Broadband Digital, Stanford Summit, and Going Green) and quarterly print "blogozine". No other media brand has dared to create such open interaction with its readers and event participants. Racepoint Group for YouMail Derek Brookmeyer, 415-694-6702 dbrookmeyer@racepointgroup.com or Voce Communications for AlwaysOn Leah McLean, 415-308-7928 lmclean@vocecomm.com Copyright Business Wire 2008
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