Sorenson Media Takes Home Streaming Media Readers' Choice Award for Encoding Software

Sorenson Media today announced that its Sorenson Squeeze application won the 2009 Streaming Media magazine Readers’ Choice Award for Encoding Software under $1,000 for the third year in a row. In addition, the Sorenson 360 Video Delivery Network was one of only three finalists in the Online Video Platform category just six months after its debut.

“The Streaming Media Readers' Choice Awards are the only awards of their kind in the online video industry,” said Streaming Media magazine editor Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen. “While other awards focus exclusively on content, this is the only awards program that honors the technology that makes it all possible, and it’s definitely the only one where the people decide who wins. And this year, more than 5,000 votes were cast for more than 200 nominees. Clearly, people care deeply about the tools they use to get their jobs done.”

Sorenson Squeeze is widely recognized as the industry’s gold standard video encoding software and enables users to quickly and easily encode video files for online, DVD or mobile delivery in the largest selection of formats, including Flash, QuickTime, Windows Media, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4, and in HD for MPEG-2, Flash, VC-1, and H.264 formats. Introduced in May 2009, the Sorenson 360 Video Delivery Network provides users a simple and powerful online video platform to affordably publish the highest quality video content on the Internet.

“We are thrilled to be recognized by the readers of Streaming Media magazine for the third year in a row, especially because this award comes directly from those who use the software most, which is the best endorsement we could ask for,” said Peter Csathy, president and CEO of Sorenson Media. “Being recognized in both categories further illustrates the power of our solutions and the loyalty of our customers. We continue to focus on their needs and are absolutely dedicated to continue providing the highest quality and easiest to use video publishing solutions that meet their needs.”

Streaming Media magazine released the winners of its annual Readers' Choice Awards at last night’s special reception at Streaming Media West 2009. More than 5,000 Streaming Media magazine and streamingmedia.com readers voted on this year’s award nominees. Readers cast their votes on the top performing vendors in each of 22 different categories related to online video and streaming solutions in today’s marketplace.

For more information about Sorenson Squeeze or Sorenson 360, visit www.sorensonmedia.com. For more information about the Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards, visit www.streamingmedia.com.

About Sorenson Media

Sorenson Media (www.sorensonmedia.com) offers comprehensive, award-winning solutions that empower businesses and video professionals to easily and affordably publish the highest-quality video to the Internet and other media. Included among its products and services are the Sorenson 360 Video Delivery Network (VDN), Sorenson Media’s re-imagined video publishing platform; Sorenson Squeeze, the gold-standard for video encoding applications; Sorenson Squish and SquishNet, which together create an easy-to-use browser-based video publishing platform for user-generated content; and Sorenson Spark, the industry’s most widely used video codec, which enables mobile devices and other consumer products to playback the largest selection of video on the Internet today. Since its inception in 1995, Sorenson Media has been instrumental in bringing Internet video to mainstream applications and is committed to dramatically improving the online video experience for both content creators and consumers.