PRWeb Adds New Partners, Enables Customers to Target Vertical Markets

PRWeb Adds New Partners, Enables Customers to Target Vertical Markets

Leading Online News Distribution Service Broadens Offering with New Content Syndication Partnerships, Strengthens Vertical Reach

Lanham, MD, (PRWeb) July 15, 2009 -- PRWeb, a Vocus, Inc. (NASDAQ: VOCS) company and leader in online news release distribution, today announced it has added four additional news distribution partners including Docstoc, State Newslines, Trust Earned Travel and Visibility. The new partners add unique readership segments to an already impressive and broad news release distribution network (http://www.prweb.com/pr/news-distribution/index.html), which counts top tier channels ranging from search giants, like Google News and Yahoo! News, to more traditional media outlets such as the Associated Press.

This vast network makes news and press releases available to an audience of more than 70 million unique visitors in the United States alone. In addition to the PRWeb syndication network, PRWeb news releases are distributed to an audience of more than two million visitors each month on PRWeb.com, 250,000 RSS subscribers, and 35,000 reporters and bloggers.

"Each of these new content distribution partners afford PRWeb customers an enhanced ability to segment and target their news distribution to a specific vertical market." said Jiyan Wei, director of product management for PRWeb. "Business, travel, education and SEO for example, are all unique niches to which these distribution partners respectively cater too. We are thrilled to have these fine outlets as our newest partners."

The four new PRWeb distribution customers include the following:

• Docstoc (http://www.docstoc.com/) is the premier online community to find and share professional documents. Docstoc provides a platform for users and businesses to upload and share their documents; it will be hosting PRWeb news releases in Adobe's PDF format.

• State Newslines (http://www.statenewslines.com/) operates a portfolio of localized Web properties. They will now carry and syndicate the full range of PRWeb releases.

• Trust Earned Travel (http://www.tet.org/) - A site that educates and protects travelers -- and helps businesses that serve the traveling public (e.g. lodging facilities, restaurants, attractions, transportation companies, tour services, travel agencies, etc.). TET will carry PRWeb travel-oriented news release.

• Visibility Magazine (http://www.visibilitymagazine.com/aboutUs.aspx) - One of the leading guides to the latest trends in online marketing. The magazine conducts interviews with CEOs, shares opinions, reviews new products and services, rates the best agencies in our industry, and will now also carry PRWeb SEO or online marketing - related releases.

These partnerships are part of PRWeb's ongoing initiatives to continue building what has become the industry's leading online network for news distribution. For more information on our distribution partners, please visit our news release distribution network and partnerships (http://www.prweb.com/pr/news-distribution/index.html) page of our Web site.

News content is freely available to via RSS on PRWeb.com. For more information about more publisher solutions (http://www.prweb.com/publisher.htm) please visit the Publisher Solutions section of our Web site.

About PRWeb

PRWeb is recognized as a leading online news and press release distribution service worldwide. Since 1997, PRWeb has been changing the way businesses, marketing departments and public relations firms think about press releases. PRWeb was the first company to develop a distribution strategy around direct-to-consumer communication and to build and offer a search engine optimized platform for press release distribution. PRWeb, located in Ferndale, WA, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vocus, Inc., a leading provider of on-demand public relations management software. For more information, go to www.prweb.com.

About Vocus, Inc.

Vocus, Inc. (NASDAQ: VOCS) is a leading provider of on-demand software for public relations management. Our web-based software suite helps organizations of all sizes to fundamentally change the way they communicate with both the media and the public, optimizing their public relations and increasing their ability to measure its impact. Our on-demand software addresses the critical functions of public relations including media relations, news distribution and news monitoring. We deliver our solutions over the Internet using a secure, scalable application and system architecture, which allows our customers to eliminate expensive up-front hardware and software costs and to quickly deploy and adopt our on-demand software. Vocus is used by more than 3,500 organizations worldwide and is available in seven languages. Vocus is based in Lanham, MD with offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information please visit www.vocus.com or call 800.345.5572.

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Contact Information Frank Strong

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