WideOrbit Inc. received the Deloitte 2008 Technology Fast 500 award as one of the fastest growing technology companies in North America. In its 14th year, the Technology Fast 500 is a ranking of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, and life sciences companies in North America. Rankings are based on percentage of fiscal year revenue growth over five years, from 2003-2007. WideOrbit is ranked on the list based on growth of 523% over the past five years.
WideOrbit drives the business of selling advertising - maximizing advertising profitability and sales efficiencies. Media companies around the globe rely upon WideOrbit software to manage their entire sell side advertising business from order entry through collections. WideOrbit software simplifies and automates the sales, traffic and billing of advertising and enables a wide range of advertising mediums today and in the future. WideOrbit manages more than $12 billion in advertising revenue and is currently used by more than 1,300 television stations, radio stations and cable networks, as well as mobile devices and digital display networks.
In October of this year, WideOrbit also received The Silicon Valley Technology Fast 50 award, recognizing the company as one of the fastest growing technology companies in the San Francisco Bay Area.
"To receive Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 and The Silicon Valley Technology Fast 50 is a tremendous tribute to the hard work of WideOrbit employees. There are many exceptional, high growth, technology companies in North America and it's a privilege to be listed as part of the Fast 500 group," says Eric R. Mathewson, Founder and CEO, WideOrbit.
"Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 recognizes companies who have achieved extraordinary growth in North America's most innovative and competitive market sectors," said Phil Asmundson, Deloitte LLP vice chairman and national managing partner for Technology, Media and Telecommunications. "We congratulate WideOrbit on this significant accomplishment."
About WideOrbit
WideOrbit provides advertising infrastructure software that empowers media companies anywhere in the world to improve yield management and maximize advertising revenue. WideOrbit delivers flexible software solutions that address the needs of a wide range of advertising mediums today and in the future. WideOrbit simplifies and automates the sales, traffic and billing of advertising with proven software solutions and delivers to customers unprecedented control and visibility into their advertising inventory across a variety of ad mediums.
WideOrbit manages the advertising sales process for television stations, radio stations, cable networks, cable interconnects, mobile video, movie theaters and digital display networks. WideOrbit's client list includes: NBC, Telemundo, Hearst-Argyle Television, Gannett, Meredith Corporation, Madison Square Garden, Transit TV, Scripps Television Group, and Qualcomm/MediaFlo.
WideOrbit was founded in 1999 and has offices in San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, London, England and Chennai India.
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