Sorenson Media today announced its Sorenson Squeeze 5 application received the 2008 Vanguard Award from Digital Content Producer magazine. Fourteen video-related products were featured in the December issue of the magazine and online at digitalcontentproducer.com. Sorenson Squeeze 5 was the only video encoding software recognized by the judges.

“Our annual Vanguard Awards recognize the disruptive moves, the technological leaps and the product introductions that initiate a new path,” the article states. The judges noted Sorenson Squeeze 5’s accessibility and “output quality that’s best-in-class.”

“The Vanguard Award highlights the qualities that our customers have come to rely on from Sorenson Squeeze, namely ease-of-use, reliability and unsurpassed quality,” said Matt Cupal, president and COO of Sorenson Media. “This award is especially exciting because it comes from editors and reviewers who have used dozens of different software products and know the industry inside and out.”

For more information about Sorenson Squeeze 5, visit www.sorensonmedia.com . For more information about the Vanguard Awards, visit www.digitalcontentproducer.com .

About Sorenson Media

Sorenson Media ( www.sorensonmedia.com ), the global leader for encoding and compression applications, provides hardware and software solutions that enable users to easily and affordably compress, manage and deliver high-quality video over the Internet and to CDs, DVDs, mobile devices and other formats. The company also creates innovative Web applications for publishing, editing and managing user-generated video content, and for the development of customizable media sharing sites. From its inception in 1995, Sorenson Media has been at the forefront of leading trends offering award-winning technology and products that dramatically improve the Internet experience for developers and users alike.