Sucess Magazine
By: Steven Strauss
April 2010

A Big Risk for a Big Payoff

It’s the hope of many an entrepreneur: Get your product not only into one of the big-box stores, but into the epitome of the big-box store, Costco. The murmurs of the crowd begin. “If we could get our stuff in Costco,” they dream, “just about everything would be well in the world.”

Fast Company
February 19, 2010
By Mark Borden and Paul Hochman

You have to hand it to a company whose monomania for cost savings has almost single-handedly plunged LG, Sony, Panasonic, Pioneer, and Samsung into corporate despair.

Men's Health
December 1, 2009

Vizio clawed its way out of the bargain bin to become the number one manufacturer of LCD TVs in the world, and sets like this one are why. 

I4U News
By: Shane McGlaun
November 18, 2009

Vizio has announced that it has continued sticking it to the big name brands and has again grabbed the top spot on the list of LCD TV shippers in America. 

VIZIO, America’s #1 LCD HDTV Company, announced today that it remains the #1 shipper of LCD HDTVs to the U.S. through the 3rd quarter of 2009 according to iSuppli’s Q3 2009 U.S. TV unit shipments*.

Digital Trends
By: Stewart Wolpin
Award | September 19, 2009

A milestone HDTV, this 55-inch LED backlit LCD set includes a number of choice enhancements.

Business Wire
Award | August 12, 2009

The largest company on the list, flat-panel-TV maker Vizio, broke the $2 billion revenue mark. Complete results of the Inc. 500, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found on Inc.com.

OC METRO
Award | May 1, 2009

Irvine businesswoman Laynie Newsome is taking America’s HDTV service by storm. Under Newsome’s direction as co-founder and vice president of sales for VIZIO, the HDTV provider has skyrocketed to the No. 1-selling brand of flat-panel HDTVs in North America and is the first American brand in more than a decade to lead major categories in 2007 U.S. TV sales.

The Orange County Business Journal
By: Courtney Baird
Award | March 19, 2009


The Business Journal honored seven entrepreneurs—six of whom are beating the odds in industries especially hurt by the recession—at its eighth annual Excellence in Entrepreneurship Awards on Wednesday.
William Wang, chief executive of Irvine-based flat-panel TV maker Vizio Inc., gave the keynote speech.

Award | March 5, 2009
Trender Research announces the winners of their first annual Trender Awards. At final count, almost 100 tech products and services were submitted for consideration by Trenders or the vendors themselves. From these candidates, we compiled a short-list of finalists that were announced last week.