Directory:PatrickOrtman, Inc.

PatrickOrtman, Inc. is a full-service Los Angeles, California digital creative studio, aka a digital agency, specializing in creative and effective Internet and video marketing projects. They help businesses and organizations from California and the world solve marketing problems by the creative use of digital technology.

Service offerings include website design and redesign, web development, interactive application design, social media marketing, television commercials, Internet and web video, corporate video, and tradeshow/industrial video production.

The company is known as a web standards and online video marketing advocate, and for its cutting edge RED digital cinema video productions. They have worked with 8 Fortune 500 clients, and hundreds of smaller businesses and organizations.

In The Media

PatrickOrtman, Inc. has been featured in the following publications and networks:

Newsweek

Time Magazine

Japan's NHK Network

The Washington Post

The Toronto Star

USA Today

The New York Times

The Atlanta Journal & Constitution

Internet Australasia

PDN- Photo District News

The St. Petersburg Times

Discovery Channel

History

The company's history goes back to 1993, when it was founded as Empty Street Productions- one of the first web design companies in the USA. The company was founded in Atlanta, Georgia and relocated to Los Angeles in 1997. In 2008, Empty Street founder Patrick Ortman realigned the company more towards a digital agency model. PatrickOrtman, Inc. is a privately held corporation.

Notable Internet and Marketing Firsts

The first rock concert on the Internet (Hootie & The Blowfish, Moist, Matthew Sweet, Blues Traveler- in partnership with Atlanta's 99X radio station)

The first live newscast on the web (Freaknik, the spring break party, in partnership with FOX)

One of the first large corporate implementations of Shockwave (BellSouth)

One of the first commercial implementations of streaming audio (RealPlayer)

One of the first mobile TV shows (Deliverance By The Slice, on SprintTV)

One of the first successful web television series (Couch Cases)

Books

Company founder Patrick Ortman is available for speaking engagements, and has most recently been featured in a book by McGraw Hill Publishers about social media, along with the new book The Fabjob Guide to Being a Web Designer.