First Media Co-Founders Guy Oranim and Sharon Rechter Honored as EY Entrepreneur of the Year® 2019 in Greater Los Angeles
First Media Wins Among Strong Category Featuring Finalists from Jukin Media and pocket.watch
LOS ANGELES, June 28, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- EY announced that CEO & Co-Founder Guy Oranim and President & Co-Founder Sharon Rechter of First Media, a lifestyle media company dedicated to inspiring millennial woman, received the Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2019 Award in the Emerging Media category in Greater Los Angeles. The awards, selected by an independent panel of judges, were presented at a special black-tie awards gala at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills on June 20, 2019. Fellow finalists in the category included leading Los Angeles businesses pocket.watch and Jukin Media.
As the world's most prestigious business awards program for entrepreneurs, Entrepreneur Of The Year recognizes entrepreneurs who are excelling in areas such as innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities, while also transforming our world.
From a single linear cable channel to operating four brands that reach 115 million people worldwide, First Media has scaled remarkably -- 259% in revenue and 563% in headcount since 2016. Rechter and Oranim have also dedicated the company to social impact, using their audience, platform and team to do good at scale.
"Receiving EY's Entrepreneur of the Year Award is an honor and a testament to our team's ability to adapt and grow through challenging times in the streaming industry," President Sharon Rechter said. "A big thanks goes out to our wonderful partners who believed in First Media's vision that today's discerning women and mothers deserve high-quality, inspiring content that makes their lives easier and more fun." Oranim added, "15 years ago, Sharon and I had a dream to launch a TV network in America. 60 million homes,115 million fans on social media, and a team of 200 brilliant minds later, this honor proves that we are now living the American dream to its fullest."
As a Greater Los Angeles award winner, Guy Oranim and Sharon Rechter are now eligible for consideration for the Entrepreneur Of The Year 2019 National Awards. Award winners in several national categories, as well as the Entrepreneur Of The Year National Overall Award winner, will be announced at the Entrepreneur Of The Year National Awards gala in Palm Springs, California, on November 16, 2019. The awards are the culminating event of the Strategic Growth Forum®, the nation's most prestigious gathering of high-growth, market-leading companies.
Now in its 33rd year, the Entrepreneur Of The Year program has expanded to recognize business leaders in more than 145 cities and more than 60 countries. To learn more about the Greater Los Angeles program, please visit http://www.ey.com/us/eoy/greaterla. Join us in congratulating this year's winners on social media by following @EY_EOYUS and using #EOYGLA
About First Media
First Media is dedicated to inspiring the do-it-all millennial woman with four media properties focused on clever ways to live better. Its growing communities of 110 million fans worldwide play with their food with So Yummy, life hack with Blossom, make beauty a breeze with Blusher and watch baby blossom on BabyFirst. Online, fans generate 1.5 billion views and 40+ million engagements each month. Its high-quality, highly shareable content makes First Media social brands #1 in views and shares per video*. In 2017 and 2018, First Media branded campaigns ranked first on Facebook as the best performing sponsored videos out of more than 150k campaigns on the platform. In 2018, four of its videos for Wal-Mart ranked in the Top 20 on Facebook. First Media's clients include Wal-Mart, Unilever's Breyers, Dunkin Donuts, Sony, FinishLine, ABC and Facebook's Portal. BabyFirst, First Media's linear TV channel, is available in 60+ million homes on cable and satellite television and on OTT platforms like Apple TV, Amazon Prime, Roku and more. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles and has seen exponential year-to-year growth since its launch in 2006. For more information, visit http://www.first.media. *Tubular Labs
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