Vocus Group

Stuff Fibre is an internet service provider company.

Nextgen Networks is a leading provider of network connectivity in Australia.

Through the delivery of innovative, flexible and cost effective solutions and superior customer service, we are the provider of choice for the converging Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) needs of business and government across Australia.

FX Networks is New Zealand’s only inter-city fibre optic next generation network built in this century, a fact that allows us to offer revolutionary services. We attract business because of this, and because we dare to be different – and because our customers need to be different. FX Networks offers both products and crafted solutions around high-performance Internet, Ethernet, fibre, voice and storage services to business and the ISP industry.

iContact is the largest private provider of email marketing and social media marketing software and services to small and mid-sized companies globally. It is based in Morrisville, NC. iContact makes it easy to create, send, and track email newsletters, surveys, autoresponders. iContact's products include iContact, iContact Enterprise, iContact Agency, iContact for Salesforce, iContact Free Edition and Ettend.com. As a B Corporation, iContact utilizes the 4-1s Corporate Social Responsibility Model, donating 1% of employee time to community volunteering, 1% of payroll, 1% of equity, and 1% of product to its local and global community as part of its social mission. iContact works hard to maintain a fun, creative, energetic, challenging, and community-oriented company culture. iContact was founded in 2003 by Ryan Allis and Aaron Houghton in Chapel Hill, NC.

North Social offers the largest platform of Facebook applications for businesses to engage fans and promote their brand. The "application buffet" has 19 apps for every occasion and allows small businesses and brands to create amazing pages and fan experiences without spending precious time and money on application development.

Help A Reporter Out is a social media company that provides publicity services in North America. The company enables nearly 30,000 reporters and bloggers, over 100,000 news sources, and thousands of businesses to tell their stories, promote brands, and sell products and services. Since its inception, Help A Reporter Out has published more than 75,000 journalist queries, facilitated nearly 7.5 million media pitches, and marketed and promoted close to 1,500 brands to the media, businesses, and consumers. Help A Reporter Out was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Beltsville, Maryland. In 2010, it was acquired by [Vocus](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/vocus), a software development company.

In early 2010, BDL Media was acquired by Vocus, Inc. (NASDAQ: VOCS), a global leader in on-demand software for public relations. BDL Media provides online visibility, marketing, and PR software tools for companies in China. The company provides both "Sales PR" and "News PR" distribution and monitoring services for public relations and marketing initiatives for Chinese businesses. For sales-related distribution initiatives, the company provides its own proprietary B2B e-marketing database through its BDL Direct offering. Clients can also manage their own email lists and databases in the cloud through BDL Media's XZList.com service. For news-related distribution, the company operates Xinwengao.com (xinwengao means "press release" in Mandarin), a Chinese-language social media platform for companies to distribute their press releases to key journalists and media outlets in China. As a companion to that service, the company also provides ChinaNewswire.com for English-language press release distribution. BDL Media's MyRSS.cn is a free Internet news media monitoring tool that allows users to analyze and aggregate news from the Chinese blogosphere and online news websites. Using MyRSS.cn, users can create their own RSS feeds and be alerted when news articles match their criteria. BDL Media operates in China as a Wholly-Foreign Owned Enterprise with a software license. It also has a relationship with Shanghai-based Boshiyuan Ltd, which provides the company important marketing, advertising, and Internet content licenses to operate legally in China.

Datapresse is a company that was acquired by Vocus in 2010.

PRWeb is an online news and press release distribution service that provides service to a global customer base. 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 platform for search engine optimized press release distribution. In 2006, PRWeb was acquired for a deal estimated to be about $28M by Vocus, Inc., a provider of on-demand public relations management software. Vocus has since been acquired by Cision and is now known as Cision PRWeb.