PRWeb Launch Party Draws Crowd to Celebrate the Upcoming Release of UK Service

London (PRWEB) 18 February, 2009 - A crowd of industry experts, customers and journalists gathered this evening at the Mosaic Restaurant & Bar to help PRWeb celebrate the upcoming launch of its new service, PRWeb UK (http://uk.prweb.com).

"We are thrilled to be joined by such a great crowd tonight to preview our new service," said Jiyan Wei, PRWeb product manager at Vocus, Inc. "PRWeb UK will enable companies to increase their online visibility and get their message out to millions of people in the UK and worldwide."

Using PRWeb UK, customers will be able to:

- Distribute their news directly to more than 450 publications through the Press Association as well as top local, regional and national media outlets

- Increase rankings on UK-based search engines - such as Google UK and Yahoo! UK through a search optimised UK platform

- Track and measure success with distribution analytics

- Include YouTube videos and other multimedia components to create a more vivid experience for readers

- Incorporate social messaging technology to communicate to an even larger audience

PRWeb news releases are distributed through search engines, RSS feeds and directly to tens of thousands of journalists and editors through e-mail.

PRWeb UK will be available in March at www.PRWebUK.com.

About PRWeb

PRWeb is recognised 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 optimised platform for press release distribution. PRWeb, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vocus, Inc., a leading provider of on-demand public relations management software. For more information please visit www.PRWebUK.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 organisations of all sizes to fundamentally change the way they communicate with both the media and the public, optimising 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 3,300 organisations 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.vocuseurope.com or call +44 (0) 20 748 16150.

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