We proudly present this year’s OnHollywood 100. With this list of top private companies, AlwaysOn’s editors and our panel of industry experts introduce a new generation of game-changing players in the digital entertainment space.

These 100 companies have emerged in an exciting year in the world of digital content and entertainment. Google’s $1.6 billion acquisition of YouTube and the introduction of the Apple iPhone are just two examples of watershed events that are driving a new wave of video entertainment out on the Internet and onto your cell phone. Other companies on the 2006 OnHollywood 100 list also achieved success this year: Shutterfly and DivX both went public, while Glu Mobile has filed for its IPO.

In last year’s first-round list, enabling technologies (both enabling tools and content delivery platforms) dominated. This year, with more of the platforms in place, digital content publishers (23% of the list) and consumer services (19%) are taking center stage. More and more, we’re seeing production and content companies geared specifically to digital content; examples include ManiaTV, MobuzzTV, and GoTV.
 

The mobile sector continues to grow, particularly in the United States. Users’ high expectations that their mobile phones will do everything they need, and entertain them too, mean that 14% of our list this year consists of mobile content, marketing, video/ gaming, and advertising companies.

When we look at the list in terms of geography, California is again strongly represented, with 54% of companies making their headquarters there. Other parts of the U.S. comprise 34% of the list, while non-U.S. companies make up 12% of the list, with several winners hailing from the U.K. (4%), Israel (3%), and Australia (2%).

Close to one thousand private companies were nominated by dozens of top venture capital firms and a wide breadth of digital entertainment insiders. To make the final selection, companies needed to demonstrate that they excelled in our five primary evaluation criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value creation, and media attention or “buzz.” In addition to AO editors, the panel included top partners and executives from Atlas Ventures, KPMG’s Emerging Markets Services practice, Bridge Bank, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, Jeffries, DeSilva & Phillips CIBC, Fenwick & West and Montgomery & Company.

The OnHollywood 100 winners will be honored at OnHollywood, an executive summit presented by AlwaysOn and The Hollywood Repoter on May 1st-3rd at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, CA. Check out the full program for OnHollywood here.
Tickets to OnHollywood are still available—click here to for more information.

Full coverage of the OnHollywood 100 companies will also appear in the Spring issue of AO’s print magazine that will be premiered at OnHollywood. Click here to learn how to get a copy of this issue.

Congratulations to all the OnHollywood 100 winners! AlwaysOn and our partners look forward to honoring you at OnHollywood on May 1st.

Aaahaa Media
Abazab
Akimbo
Amie Street
Amp’d Mobile
Azureus
BiggerBoat
BitGravity
BitTorrent
Blog Talk Radio
Blue Frog Mobile
Blue Lithium
Boonty
Brightcove
Buzznet
CinemaNow
ClickTV
Conduit Connect
Dave Networks
Delivery Agent
DesiHits
Doppelganger
Double Fusion
eJamming
Entertainment Media Works
Exent Technologies
ExtendMedia
Eyespot
Fabrik
Flixster
Fora.tv
Frontier Silicon
Gaia Online
Glam Media
Gotuit
GoTV
Gracenote
Groove Mobile
Handango
Hands-On Mobile
iAmplify
Ibiquity Digitial
IGA Worldwide
iLike
iLoop Mobile
Joost
King.com (formerly Midasplayer)
Last.fm
Linden Lab (Second Life)
Major League Gaming
ManiaTV
Maven Networks
mBlox
MediaZone
Mercora
Metacafe
MobiTV
Mobuzz tv
Modulus Video
Motionbox
Motricity
Move Networks
Multiply
Muvee
MyWavez
Navio Systems
Newport Media
Next New Networks
OnNetworks
Oregan Networks
Ortiva Wireless
Pando
Passalong
Photobucket
Pixsy
Podshow
Promptu (formerly Agile TV)
PureVideo
Qmecom
Revver
RGB Networks
Ruckus Network
SageTV
SayNow
Sennari Entertainment
Simplestar
Slide
Sling Media (top overall)
Snocap
Solid State Networks
Songbird
Sonos
Spot Runner
Streamcast Networks
Thumbplay
TileFile
Veoh Networks
Vidavee
VideoEgg
Zing