Austrian online movie portal Flimmit wins “Red Herring Europe 100 Award“

(I-Newswire) May 28, 2010 - (Vienna, 28th May 2010) – With its ‘Film Search’ on www.flimmit.com Austrian Start Up Flimmit now itself stands in the spotlight: the online portal with information on more than 65,000 movies and more than 500 films for legal download and streaming wins the ‘Red Herring Europe 100 Award’. The award annually honours only 100 private technology ventures for their innovation, originality and success. A few hundreds are nominated for the award. “We are very proud to be one of the hundred most innovative companies in Europe”, say the founders Karin Haager, Ulrich Müller-Uri and Walter Huber. “Being winners of the ‘Red Herring Europe 100 Award’ we follow the steps of some great Start Ups. It proves that we are on the right way and gives us a huge motivation boost to carry on!”

The ‘Red Herring Europe 100’ list is an invaluable instrument for discovering and advocating the greatest business opportunities in the industry. Amongst the winners of past years were companies such as Google, Yahoo, Skype, Netscape, Salesforce.com and YouTube, during their Start Up time.

‘Film Search’ by Flimmit – get results simple and fast
The ‘Film Search’, available online since April 2010 on www.flimmit.com, was especially innovative for the ‘Red Herring’ jury. It simplifies the search for information on movies and products thereof. Users get all online available data easily and fast just by entering one search request. The results are clearly arranged on one page. All available products are listed according to their price and their regional availability.

About Flimmit:
Flimmit is a film portal and has committed itself completely to films. At www.flimmit.com Flimmit offers two services for its users: the Film Search with profound information on more than 65,000 films, and the legal Video on Demand (VoD) service with more than 500 films for download and streaming. Is the biggest legal Video on Demand (VoD) platform in Austria and offers films online for streaming and download. The goal of Flimmit is to deliver results on film search requests as accurately and extensively as possible, as well as to provide easy, trusted and legal access to buying or renting films via the VoD shop. Our slogan “Easy – Trusted – Legal” stands for our products: legally available within the region of the user, structured information, high-quality films and above all a straightforward handling. Flimmit’s project was supported by the AWS (Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH) during the call for “impulse XL 0902” as well as by the BMVIT (Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie/Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology) and the FFG (Austrian Research Promotion Agency/Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft) in the course of the programme “Austrian Electronic Network“.

Company Contact Information
Flimmit
Oliver-John Perry
Dreihausgasse 9/4.1 Vienna Austria
1150
Phone : +43/699/11798773