SlideShark Wins People's Choice Stevie® Award in 2014 American Business Awards(SM)

WALTHAM, Mass., Sept. 23, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Brainshark, Inc., the leader in cloud-based business presentations, today announced that its SlideShark app – for showing and sharing PowerPoints from the iPad, iPhone and other devices – has won a People's Choice Stevie® Award for "Favorite New Products" in the 12th Annual American Business Awards (ABAs). For the third year in a row, SlideShark also took home a gold-level Stevie® award at the ceremony in the "Best New Product of the Year: Mobile On-Demand Application" category.

The American Business Awards are the nation's premier business awards program. All organizations operating in the U.S.A. – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small – are eligible to submit nominations.

Esteemed judges evaluated more than 3,300 entries from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry this year. In addition, the general public cast more than 57,000 votes in the ABAs' People's Choice Stevie Awards program.

"As a presenter's best friend, SlideShark helps millions of users in more than 160 countries deliver, manage and measure the effectiveness of their presentations," said David Klein, Brainshark's vice president of product management. "We're gratified by these honors from both the formal judging panel and the community at large – and owe a special thanks to our users, whose feedback and use continue to spur our product innovation."

With more than 7.5 million presentations and 200 million slides uploaded to its service, SlideShark lets mobile professionals show and share presentations – accurately and professionally every time – while serving as an enterprise-class platform to securely distribute, track and manage content in the cloud. Recent industry-leading features recognized by this year's judges include SlideShark's presentation broadcasting capabilities, integrations with cloud storage providers and in-depth presentation analytics. Brainshark also recently introduced SlideShark Anywhere – letting SlideShark Team Edition users take advantage of key app benefits on their PCs, Macs and Windows 8 tablets.

In addition to its People's Choice Award and gold award recognition, SlideShark also won a bronze Stevie in this year's ABAs in the "Apps: Utilities & Services" category. Since its launch three years ago, SlideShark has received more than 40 industry awards – recognizing its industry-first capabilities, customer success stories, benefits for sales teams and more.

"We're delighted to recognize so many innovative companies, new products, technical achievements and technology executives this year," said Michael Gallagher, president and founder of the Stevie Awards.  "We congratulate all of the Stevie Award winners and thank them for the inspiration their achievements have stimulated."

Details about the ABAs, including the lists of Stevie Award winners, are available at www.StevieAwards.com/ABA. For more information about SlideShark, please see www.slideshark.com.

About the Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in six programs: The American Business Awards, the German Stevie Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service, and the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at www.StevieAwards.com.

About Brainshark, Inc.
Brainshark enables companies to improve productivity with cloud-based business presentation solutions for sales, marketing and training. With Brainshark's easy-to-use solutions, customers transform static documents such as PowerPoints into dynamic, mobile-ready content that can be accessed quickly and viewed as on-demand video presentations or presented live – anytime, anywhere. They can also measure the effectiveness of their communications in ways never thought possible and use these insights to take action. Thousands of companies – including half of the Fortune 100 – and millions of individuals rely on Brainshark to increase the impact and reduce the cost of their business communications. Learn more at www.brainshark.com.

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