[August 08, 2007] Comunique-se to Launch BrasilWire Combining Web, RSS, Newswire and Database Press Release Distribution Services Tweet RIO DE JANERIO, Brazil & MIAMI --(Business Wire)-- Comunique-se, the leading public relations services group in Brazil, has reached a record 13,000 press release distributions in a six-month period and announced the planned launch of BrasilWire, a new press release distribution service based on web publication, RSS feeds, database archiving and news agency wires. Comunique-se, a Brazilian company, offers a full range of public relations products including PR web sites, conference call services, webcasts, media monitoring and opinion research tools. In July of this year, Comunique-se launched a similar menu of products under the brand RIWeb specially produced for the investor relations industry. "Our continuous double-digit growth over the last three years shows the strength of the overall communications industry in Brazil," commented Rodrigo Azevedo, President of Comunique-se. Aside from being a leader in the PR and IR services industry, Comunique-se is the largest journalism community in Latin America with over 75,000 subscribed journalists. The community, based on the Comunique-se web site, has another 45,000 non-journalist subscribers and in excess of 500,000 unique visitors per month. Over 10,000 blogs are hosted on the web site. "We work with a simplified rate structure that can provide users a menu of services packaged in a vertical structure with a single rate," continued Azevedo. "We are constantly working to update our technology - which is already the market's best - and multimedia services such as photos, video and audio are all being adopted." About Comunique-se The largest journalism community, media data and media contacts database and press release distribution service in Latin America, Comunique-se has over one hundred thousand subscribers, seventy thousand journalists and half a million unique visitors a month on its web platform. Comunique-se is owned by IMS Companies, Brazilian boutique merchant bank Schneider & Cia., and management. About RIWeb RIWeb is a new Comunique-se business division focused on the investor relations market offering a diverse mix of information, news distribution, report dissemination, opinion polling and news monitoring. In addition RIWeb solutions provide tools for full IR web site creation and management capabilities. For more information, please visit www.riweb.com.br. About IMS Companies IMS owns press release newswire operations in China and Latin America and has exclusive distribution licenses with Business Wire, a Berkshire Hathaway Company. IMS also owns the largest news syndication service in Latin America representing over 40 of the largest and most prestigious publishing groups in the region and the China Industry Newspaper, an association of 75 newspapers of mainland China. News content is sold to Thomson Financial, Dow Jones (Factiva), Lexis-Nexis, ProQuest and Dialog, among others. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]