Vocus

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.

BDL Media is a Beijing-based company specializing in online visibility, marketing, and public relations software tools tailored for businesses in China. The firm offers a range of services, including "Sales PR" and "News PR" distribution, enabling clients to enhance their public relations and marketing efforts. BDL Media's proprietary B2B e-marketing database, known as BDL Direct, supports sales-related initiatives, while XZList.com allows clients to manage their own email lists in the cloud. For news distribution, BDL Media operates Xinwengao.com, a Chinese-language platform for disseminating press releases to journalists and media outlets, alongside ChinaNewswire.com for English-language distributions. Additionally, the company provides MyRSS.cn, a free news media monitoring tool that aggregates and analyzes content from the Chinese blogosphere and online news sites, allowing users to create custom RSS feeds for alerts on relevant news articles. As a Wholly-Foreign Owned Enterprise, BDL Media operates under a software license and collaborates with Shanghai-based Boshiyuan Ltd. for essential marketing and content licensing in China.