This is a guest post by our Director of Product Management at Vocus, Natalia Dykyj. Businesses all around the world share one inexorable challenge – how to reach and engage new (and existing) audiences. With the proliferation of new technologies, media platforms, social networks, and other methods for sharing and receiving information, there are a [...]
Filed under: News Release Features, SEO by Stacey Acevero
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Humbled. Honored. Speechless. Proud. These are just a few words to describe to how we feel about PRWeb’s big announcement today: we’ve ascended to the #1 spot in terms of online press release distribution. Among news release services, we’re now the largest by volume, are highest-rated for SEO, have the most-trafficked site and our releases [...]
Filed under: Global, News Release Features, User Experience by Stacey Acevero
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Online press releases have marathon-ready legs when it comes to reaching the far corners of the internet. Incorporating the right elements can especially increase the visibility and the reach of your news. Take it from this infographic that illustrates all the stops a news release takes on its online journey:
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Sometimes you have to change things that are perfectly good just to make them your own. – Jack Donaghy, 30 Rock Towards the end of the second quarter in 2010, we made a difficult decision to move forward and transition PRWeb to our host Vocus environment. At that point in time we knew that this [...]
Filed under: News Management Console, News Release Features, Strategy, User Experience by Jiyan
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Back in November, we foreshadowed the launch of the next version of PRWeb and invited users to participate in the beta. There have certainly been hiccups along the road but the overall feedback has us all very excited. Here’s what some beta customers are saying: PRWeb has taken their website to the next level, the [...]
Filed under: News Management Console, News Release Features, User Experience, Web site by Jiyan
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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 [...]
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 would find [...]
Filed under: News Release Features by Jiyan
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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 [...]
Filed under: Multimedia, News Release Features by Jiyan
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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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