Maven Networks Selected by AlwaysOn as an OnHollywood 100 Top Private Company Award Winner

Recognized for leadership in emerging technology for digital entertainment and media

Cambridge, Mass. – April 19, 2007 – Maven Networks 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. Maven 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.

Maven Networks and the OnHollywood 100 will be honored at the OnHollywood digital entertainment and media event, May 1-3, 2007, at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, California. OnHollywood delves into the challenges, opportunities and business models of the digital era, and showcases the most innovative private companies that are changing the way entertainment and media is created, distributed, consumed and monetized.

“OnHollywood is an important forum that presents and debates the critical issues surrounding the transformation of the entertainment economy to one based on digital technology,” said Tony Perkins, founder and CEO of AlwaysOn. “Digital technology has transformed the way content is created and delivered to consumers everywhere. The OnHollywood Top 100 companies are an elite group of innovators who are using this technology to revolutionize the industry.”

The OnHollywood 100 was selected from more than 1,000 companies, peer-nominated by leading venture capitalists, investment bankers and industry analysts.

Maven Networks sets the industry standard for the broadest and deepest set of Internet TV publishing, syndication and monetization capabilities and has been adopted by over 500 major media company affiliates to power their online video distribution and advertising businesses. The world’s leading media companies rely on Maven’s technology platform to quickly launch sophisticated Internet TV channels that build mass audience reach through syndication, drive consumer engagement and viral awareness, and generate significant new revenue streams in what is projected to be a $6 billion online video advertising market by 2010.

“We’re proud to be recognized as a leader in media technology by AlwaysOn,” said Hilmi Ozguc, founder and CEO of Maven Networks. “This is further validation of the critical value that the Maven Internet TV Platform offers our customers and partners as they build out their businesses in the exploding online video market.”

A full list of all the OnHollywood 100 companies can be found on the AlwaysOn web site.

About OnHollywood 2007: May 1-3 @ The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood, CA

OnHollywood is where cutting edge technology from the backstreets of Silicon Valley converges with Hollywood’s media and entertainment elite. The two-and-a-half day event borrows from the “film market” tradition by providing an open environment for digital media and entertainment entrepreneurs to meet the big-time studio, telco and consumer electronics executives, venture capitalists and media. At OnHollywood, our editors will also honor the OnHollywood 100 Top Private Companies. 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 Maven Networks

Maven Networks (www.maven.net) is powering the Internet TV revolution. As a critical technology partner, Maven enables professional media companies to quickly and easily create, distribute and profit from direct-to-consumer Internet TV channels and networks. The Maven Internet TV Platform™ is used by industry-leading organizations around the globe such as 20^th Century Fox, A&E Television Networks, CBS’s CSTV, Hearst, Sony Pictures Television, The Weather Channel and Univision Online.

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.

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