PRWeb to Extend Its News Distribution to AOL Money & Finance

Lanham, MD (PRWEB) November 25, 2008 -- PRWeb, the leading online news distribution service and a Vocus (http://www.vocus.com/content/index.asp) (NASDAQ: VOCS) company, today announced it will extend its press release distribution (http://www.prweb.com/learnmore.php) to AOL Money & Finance, http://money.aol.com. Through the agreement, AOL Money & Finance will now carry all breaking public company news distributed by PRWeb customers through the site's Relegence-powered real time news on the Quotes & Portfolio pages (http://money.aol.com/stock-quotes).

"With PRWeb's rapid growth and expansion, it is becoming a key goal for our customers to get their news to the financial community," said Bill Wagner, chief marketing officer of Vocus, Inc. "With over 15 million unique visitors each month to AOL's Money & Finance site, the partnership increases our customers' exposure in the financial community and helps generate interest among some of the top business investors and analysts."

"We are excited to provide an additional news source to ensure our consumers have the most comprehensive information available," said Marty Moe, senior vice president, AOL Money & Finance, News, Sports, Weblogs, and KOL. "PRWeb is a complement to our already robust real-time news offering with Relegence and adds an additional resource for investors to get the latest information about companies in which they have an interest."

PRWeb is the world's leading online newswire and a pioneer in direct-to-consumer distribution, search engine optimized press releases, and multimedia news. News releases are distributed through search engines, RSS feeds and directly to tens of thousands of journalists and editors through e-mail. Through partnerships with prominent news outlets like the Associated Press, AOL, and Yahoo! News, PRWeb news releases are available to an online audience of more than 70 million unique visitors in the United States alone.

AOL Money & Finance is one of the leading business sites in terms of page views and total visits, according to comScore Media Metrix, October 2008. The site delivers personalized stock quotes, real-time streaming quotes, breaking financial news from over 3000 news sources, interactive charts, in-depth research data, automatic stock price updates, daily financial blogs on both public and private equity, personal finance information and more to provide a comprehensive financial site for both average consumers and seasoned investors.

About PRWeb

PRWeb is recognized as a leading online news and news 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 please visit 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 2,600 organizations worldwide and is available in five 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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