Jelli Named AlwaysOn Global 100 Companies to Watch

RADIO ONLINE | Tuesday, July 7, 2015 | 2:42pm CT

Jelli has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the AlwaysOn Global 100 "Companies to Watch" winners. Inclusion in the AlwaysOn Global 100 "Companies to Watch" signifies leadership amongst its peers and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets. Jelli was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and industry experts spanning the globe based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value and media buzz.

Jelli and the AlwaysOn Global 100 Companies to Watch will be honored at AlwaysOn's 13th annual Silicon Valley Innovation Summit at the Computer History Museum on July 8 and 9. The event gathers the brightest minds for a lively exchange on the top trends, along with identifying the most promising entrepreneurial opportunities and investments in the global tech industry.

"The AlwaysOn Global 250 are the best-of-breed private companies in consumer and business-to-business applications, and cloud and mobile infrastructure sectors -- representing the fastest growing and most highly valued new companies on the planet," explained AlwaysOn founder and editor, Tony Perkins. "The consumer companies continue to explode, along with the mobile boom and the proliferation of billions of other connected devices that make of the long heralded as 'Internet of Things.'"

"We're honored to be recognized by AlwaysOn as a 'Global 100 Company to Watch' this year and commended for our current achievements and future potential," said Jelli CEO Mike Dougherty. "Jelli is on a mission to transform audio advertising into a medium on par with digital, one that has even greater reach than the major web platforms."

Jelli was recently selected as the technology partner to power programmatic and automated ad buying platforms for iHeartMedia and its 858 radio stations, and for Expressway from Katz, the first industrywide programmatic buying ad exchange for broadcast radio at scale launched by Katz Media Group.