vivid News -- Friday, January 21
Modem Acquires vivid
We're thrilled to announce our marriage to Modem Media. Modem's
proven abilities in guiding worldwide e-business development
for Fortune 500 businesses with vivid's proven incubation
and development of online ventures reinforces Modem Media's leadership
as a full service provider of e-business building and marketing
services for both global companies and well-backed Internet start-ups.
We announced the news in December and will let you know of any updates as they happen.
Front Page NEW YORK TIMES
So, we realized we were popular, but recruiters are now attempting
to hire some of vivid's office pets. The highly respected
New York Times
covered attempts like these to capture valuable employees in
this competitive market. We've been extremely successful in retaining
our family and are pleased with the coverage.
vivid and Adweek celebrate
launch of OpenAuto.com
We've just launched OpenAuto.com,
an online automotive bidding site, and boy are we happy about
it (especially the team, whom we're certain will be very excited
once they're all caught up on their sleep). For a behind-the-scenes
chronicle of the adventure, check out the feature story "Birth.com"
in Adweek.
vivid in the News
Forbes recently praised vivid client American Century
as the best of mutual fund web sites. Congratulations to the
American Century team.
Fortune Magazine recently stopped by to check out one of our patented vivid parties. See the September 27 issue article "Valley of the Dollars" for a picture of our last get together.
Past client Arthur Andersen's Knowledgespace recently won a much acclaimed Cannes Lions Award from the 46th International Cannes Advertising Festival.
Chief Creative Officer Nathan Shedroff continues to receive press. With a recent issue of Fast Company, Nathan appears in the supplement to the magazine, "Net Company" in an article on personal websites.
USYellow.com named vivid one of the Top 100 companies redefining business .
VP of Engineering Dave Mitchelhill shares his thoughts on lightweight browsers in Internet Week, and Senior VP of Business Development Sarah Cooper was quoted in Business Marketing's feature, Web developers explain RFP process.
FinAid and HealthAxis Honored
Two websites created by vivid were recently awarded: HealthAxis
won a silver award in the World Wide Web Health Awards, and vivid-redesigned
FinAid was
chosen as the top financial aid site in Yahoo Internet Life's
recent guide to The Net's Top 10 study resources. This just in...Forbes
has listed FinAid listed as the Top College Planning Web site.
The Scoop on Buying Web
Services
Our very own Senior VP of Business Development Sarah Cooper contributed
a chapter to the just-published Buying Web Services. Amazon.com calls the book
"the whole scoop on finding and using freelance Web talent,
setting goals for the Web site, evaluating vendors, and wading
through the 'legalese' of vendor contracts and letters of agreement."
