Veritone Media Wins SIIA Business Technology CODiE Award for Best Native Advertising Platform or Service

Veritone Media Cognitive Media Platform Earns Prestigious Industry Recognition

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May 24, 2016, 06:47 ET

WASHINGTON, May 24, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Veritone Media's Cognitive Media Platform, an open cloud ecosystem of cognitive tools to harness the power of media, was named the best Native Advertising Platform or Service of 2016 as part of the 2016 SIIA CODiE Awards.

The winner announcement was made by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the principal trade association for the software and digital content industries, to an audience of over 300 leaders. 61 awards were given for products and services deployed specifically for B2B software, information and media companies.

Veritone Media was named the best Native Advertising Platform or Service of 2016 as part of the 2016 SIIA CODiE Award.

A SIIA CODiE Award win is a prestigious honor as each award winner was reviewed by a field of industry experts, whose evaluations determined the finalists. SIIA members then reviewed the finalists and their votes were combined with the scores from the industry experts' to select this year's CODiE Awards winners.

About our Award Winning Product
Veritone has created the world's first Cognitive Media Platform (CMP) - an open technology platform that enables software developers, businesses, and content owners to programmatically analyze public or private media to gain valuable insights, make decisions and take action - actions that increase revenue, improve operational efficiencies, and enhance customer experiences. Veritone optimizes the deployment of a portfolio of cognitive engines (such as natural language processing, speech recognition, sentiment analysis, facial recognition, object detection & classification, attribution, fingerprinting and others) and correlates the data derived from these engines with any third party data set to enhance understanding, formulate predictions, and optimize action.

Chad Steelberg, CEO, Veritone, said:
"Our mission to transform the world's media into actionable intelligence is a simple notion with profound implications. Our goal is to offer businesses a solution that will analyze media through various cognitive engines in near-real time to enable better decision-making and advanced business intelligence while providing unique monetization opportunities to partners and developers."

"SIIA's 2016 Business Technology CODiE Award winners are some of the most innovative products impacting businesses across the world. Recognized by their peers, the CODiE Winners should be proud of this prestigious accolade honoring excellence in business technology products," said Rhianna Collier, VP & Managing Director for the Software & Services Division at SIIA. "We congratulate all of this year's CODiE Award winners, and thank them for the contributions they have made to their industries."

Details about the winning products can be found at http://www.siia.net/codie/2016-Winners.

About the SIIA CODiE™ Awards
The SIIA CODiE Awards is the only peer-reviewed program to showcase business and education technology's finest products and services. Since 1986, thousands of products, services and solutions have been recognized for achieving excellence. For more information, visit siia.net/CODiE.

About SIIA
SIIA is the leading association representing the software and digital content industries. SIIA represents approximately 800 member companies worldwide that develop software and digital information content. SIIA provides global services in government relations, business development, corporate education and intellectual property protection to the leading companies that are setting the pace for the digital age. For more information, visit www.siia.net. The Software & Services Division of SIIA (SSD) represents companies that develop the applications, services, infrastructure and tools driving the success of today's high-tech industry. For more information, visit www.siia.net/SSD.

About Veritone
Veritone developed the world's first Cognitive Media Platform (CMP). The company is setting a new standard in the evolution of media by providing an open ecosystem for developers, businesses and content owners to collaborate and effectively monetize the insights gained by programmatic cognitive analysis of audio and video. Visit us at www.veritone.com.

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