Paris, 27 May 2011. ATEME announced today that its selection as a winner of the Red Herring’s Top 100 Europe award, a prestigious list honoring the year’s most innovative European private technology ventures.

The Red Herring editorial team selected the most innovative companies from a pool of over 700 from across Europe. Finalists were evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and penetration into their respective industries.

Previous winners of the Red Herring Top 100 award include technology leaders such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, Skype, Salesforce.com, YouTube, and Ebay.

The award recognizes a link between innovation and long term commercial success. Red Herring, more so than any other publication has studied how well executed innovation leads to sustained and profitable growth among small companies.

“We are absolutely delighted to win this award and be internationally recognized by Red Herring for our continuous innovation in video processing” said Michel Artières, CEO of ATEME. “Whether it is MPEG-4 4:2:2 10-bit compression for broadcast contribution or high density adaptive streaming for multi-screen delivery, we will continue to release industry first technology breakthroughs on our Kyrion and TITAN product lines.”

About Red Herring

Red Herring is a global media company uniting the world’s best high-technology innovators, venture investors, and business decision-makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine, an online daily technology news service, technology newsletters, and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider’s view of the global innovation ecosystem, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy.

About ATEME

ATEME is a world leading provider of MPEG-4 / H.264 and MPEG-2 bandwidth efficient compression technology. ATEME encoding solutions are deployed widely for broadcast contribution links, distribution, multi-screen live streaming, OTT and VOD applications.

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