Czech technology company Geewa has received the Red Herring 100 Europe award, whose previous winners include the likes of Google, Skype and YouTube. The award is due, in part, as recognition of the unique video pre-roll ad space offered by Geewa online games. The advertising space is sold by Nova, the largest Czech commercial TV station.

Geewa, the Czech casual online games portal, has been recognized as a Red Herring 100 Europe award winner in Malta for 2008. The award was issued by the influential American new technology business magazine, Red Herring. The editorial team analyzes hundreds of progressive technology based companies of which a hundred are presented with the award. When selecting winners, Red Herring consider not only the technology involved, but also the economic results and management quality of the company. Previous recipients of the award include Google, YouTube and the Czech antivirus developer Grisoft.

"It's great to receive an award whose past winners include Google and YouTube. This will help our expansion into major international markets," said the Geewa CEO, Milos Endrle.

TV Nova CEO Petr Dvořák adds: "We like to cooperate with promising projects such as Geewa. We congratulate Geewa and are happy about the award. It clearly demonstrates how even a locally developed idea and product can bring a valuable service for users and advertisers alike".

Geewa develops and publishes multiplayer games on its portal Geewa.com and also supplies content to major regional portals like Seznam.cz, Atlas.cz, Zoznam.sk, TV Markíza in Slovakia, the biggest Hungarian portal Origo.hu and the ICQ instant messaging client. In addition, Geewa works with mobile operators T-Mobile and O2. In fact, thanks to its partnership with Geewa, T-Mobile Czech was the first operator to offer simultaneous cross platform multiplayer gaming via a cell phone and internet browser.

Geewa excels in providing community features on their multiplayer game portal. Social networking features like real-time global and private chat, a buddy list, player profiles and a top players table help make Geewa a true social gaming experience.