Archive for the 'Online Distribution' Category
Promoting your Book Online
Got a tip from the kind folks at ZexSports the other day who I met at ad:tech last week, that Ypulse had a great list of tips for self-promoting your book, including a nice toss-in about using PRWeb to get your press release out.
At one of the recent trade shows we participated in, we connected with a customer who had a truly compelling success story using PRWeb to get some top-line media exposure. Our core story has always been about PRWeb’s direct-to-consumer potential, its SEO applications, multimedia and social media functionality, etc. Still, we are always [...]
I’m pleased to announce the official launch of Billboard Publicity Wire’s new premium level of service, the ‘Media Visibility Release.’
Back in November of last year, we initially launched Billboard Publicity Wire to help publicists, marketers, and artists in the music and entertainment industries publicize their news and information using the PRWeb engine.
The main differentiator was [...]
PRWeb in Plain English
Several months ago I was perusing through my RSS feeds when I stumbled upon Shel Holtz’s blog about a short video that explained wikis in a fun and informative manner, produced by Seattle-based CommonCraft. I became excited when I saw the video because they managed to explain a commonly misunderstood information technology in [...]
I was having lunch the other day with Sylvia and John Todor, a couple of PRWeb clients when our conversation turned towards the social media release. Sylvia was describing an anecdote in which a friend of hers’ had created a story around her musical practice, framing it as a solution to the negative emotional effects [...]
Online Video Q&A
I recently moderated a webinar that explored online video, with an amazing trio of participants including Bart Feder from the FeedRoom, Stephen Harris from TLC, and Lee LeFever from Common Craft. It turned out to be a raging success and were flooded with questions that we didn’t have the time to answer due to [...]
Following on last week’s exciting article from Fortune, on PRWeb, we got a mention in today’s Wall Street Journal Online’s Small Talk, which discussed how PRWeb can be a tool for getting publicity on a budget.
Rocking Fortune
Wow.
Fortune did a great piece on Vocus and PRWeb, focusing on the changing environment for online news distribution.
An excerpt from the article:
PR Newswire and BusinessWire are the Big Two of press release land, and together they still control roughly 70% of the market in the U.S. It’s this quasi-monopoly position position that no doubt attracted [...]
Issues Wire
We publicly announced the launch of Issues Wire yesterday, which is powered by PRWeb. Issues Wire is going to be news distribution oriented towards the political and policy folks and we are going to be looking at adding vertical distribution points in the coming months. Initially, there are a number of issues-focused RSS feeds we [...]
So last week Market Wire purchased an online news service called “Press Release News Network.” A couple of days later, Brian Solis shared his thoughts on the PRNN purchase and on the Market Wire announcement on his blog. The basic gist of it was that Solis was critical of the excessive ’social media’ [...]

