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This past Friday at midnight, we rolled out a brand new PRWeb.com.  This launch was the result of countless hours of effort logged by a wide variety of individuals – from developers, to designers, to writers and more, this was truly a collaborative effort that spanned the company.
Also worth noting is that the launch is [...]

Filed under: Distribution, Multimedia, News Release Features, SEO, Updates, User Experience, Visibility, Web site by Jiyan
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In Fall 2008, we rolled out a newsroom product in beta. The newsroom was a fairly lightweight tool that was initially envisioned as a hub for PRWeb news releases. The newsroom was developed with the intention of providing customers with a place to put additional information about their company that bloggers and journalists [...]

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Last Summer, we began having conversations with customers as well as a handful of influentials in the communications space, regarding how to effectively revise the PRWeb news release template.  Concurrently, we also launched internal research efforts that focused on tracking a variety of key performance indicators for PRWeb news releases and attempting to correlate positive [...]

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For the past several years we have offered podcast production and syndication services through PRWeb. In the past two years or so, a number of factors have resulted in declining usage of our podcast services.
Most notably, our launch of video integration has resulted in increasing numbers of customers focusing on video as opposed to [...]

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For several years now, we have allowed customers to select a Web page that is displayed in a frame at the bottom of the news release.  Out initial goal was to provide those reading the news release with an easy way to interact with a customer’s Web site by placing it directly within the release.  [...]

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This Friday we are going to be rolling out several additional updates to our analytics dashboard including the following:

Hovers for ‘impressions breakdown’ – We will be adding hover menus with help text over the various fields in the breakdown table for impressions to better explain what those different values mean.
Table with exact counts for impressions, [...]

Filed under: Analytics, News Release Features, SEO, User Experience by Jiyan
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Today we are announcing the launch of our updated news release creation tool.  I wanted to take this opportunity to provide background into the thinking and effort that went into this update, which is probably one of our most significant user experience enhancements we have made in the past several years.
Planning for this revision [...]

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This is just a note that we are phasing out Technorati and Keyword tags from PRWeb news releases.  Our rationale for doing so is as follows:
Why We Removed Technorati Tags
The initial function of the Technorati tags was to serve as a directional tool for news release visitors who might want to see what was being [...]

Filed under: News Release Features, Social Media by Jiyan
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We are rolling out a number of great new feature enhancements designed to provide you with an improved user experience, more scheduling options, and increased visibility for your images. Here are the new features now available through PRWeb:
Draft Mode
All PRWeb news releases are hand-reviewed by our dedicated editorial team to ensure each release [...]

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We have made it easier for visitors to your press release page and the corresponding PRWebPodcast.com page to quickly and easily listen to your podcast. Embedded in these pages is a podcast player that will stream the content to your audience without requiring any special software or waiting for the file to download first.

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