Kaltura Named as a Finalist for "Best Project for Multimedia" in SourceForge.net 2009 Community Choice Awards

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - June 25, 2009) - Kaltura, Inc. (http://www.kaltura.com), developer of the first open source video platform, today announced that it has been named a finalist for the "SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards" under the "Best Project for Multimedia" category. The community is invited to vote for Kaltura here: http://sourceforge.net/community/cca09/vote/?f=464. Voting closes on July 20th.

The winners of the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards will be announced on July 23rd during the OSCON 2009 conference, taking place in San Jose on July 21-25. Kaltura is a proud sponsor of OSCON, and will be exhibiting at booth #207. In addition, Kaltura's Dr. Shay David will be presenting "A Guide to Free, Self-hosted Online Video Apps" on Wednesday July 22nd at 11:35am in Meeting Room C2. http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009/public/schedule/detail/9399

"The Kaltura community is showing tremendous growth on a daily basis -- we are seeing cool new ideas for innovative features and new video apps being developed by the global developer community, as well as a slew of video plugins and extensions for CMS platforms," said Shay David, Vice President of Business and Community Development, Kaltura. "It is a great honor to be a Finalist in the Community Choice Awards. We're looking forward to making some great announcements and further promoting the concept of open source video at OSCON. Vote Kaltura!"

Kaltura provides an open source alternative to proprietary online video platforms in the market. Since its founding in 2006, Kaltura's platform has been integrated by more than 30,000 publishers worldwide. With hundreds of new publishers joining weekly, Kaltura is the fastest growing online video platform in the industry, allowing publishers to get more out of their video platform, pay less for it, and remain in control, whether as a SaaS offering or self-hosted solution, behind the firewall.

In addition to hosting its own open source community on www.kaltura.org, Kaltura is also a founding member of the Open Video Alliance (OVA), a group of organizations, developers, creators and academics all seeking to foster the open source online video revolution. Last week, the OVA conducted the first ever Open Video Conference, a two-day gathering of more than 800 global leaders in technology, business, public policy, art, and activism to explore the future of online video. The conference included attendees, speakers, organizers and sponsors from leading open source players such as Mozilla, Red Hat, Creative Commons, Level3, Akamai, Kaltura, Yale Internet Society Project, Participatory Culture Foundation (creators of the open source Miro internet TV player), the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and more.

About Kaltura

Kaltura provides the world's first Open Source Online Video Platform. With more than 30,000 active publishers, Kaltura's flexible framework empowers any site with advanced video functionality. Founded in 2006, Kaltura's open source code is available as a free Software Development Kit and as downloadable packages for leading platforms -- such as Drupal, WordPress and MediaWiki. Kaltura also provides supplementary paid services including maintenance, support, integration, professional development, streaming and hosting, ad serving, content syndication, and aggregation of related third party services. Since its public launch, New York-based Kaltura has won numerous awards, such as Microsoft and TheMarker's 'Most Promising Start-up in Israel' for 2009, TechCrunch40 People's Choice award, Mashable's 'Open Web' award, AlwaysOn's top 250 global company and top 100 media company awards, and TV Week's 5 Video Startups to Watch in 2009. For more information, visit www.kaltura.com.

Contact Information: Contact: Lisa Bennett Kaltura (212) 981-3965 lisa.bennett@kaltura.com