TheNewsRoom Features the Latest Academy Award News and Free, Licensed Entertainment Content for Web Publishers

TheNewsRoom Features the Latest Academy Award News and Free, Licensed Entertainment Content for Web Publishers

Join Voxant's Viral Syndication Network to Get the Drama, Fashion, Speeches and Celebrity Buzz from the 2007 Oscars

RESTON, Va., Feb. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Web publishers and bloggers following this year's Academy Awards have a new resource for free, licensed entertainment and celebrity news. TheNewsRoom (http://www.thenewsroom.com/) features breaking entertainment news video, articles and photographs from leading news organizations, including the Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Press, Newscom, Vibe and Vixen magazines, Showbiz Spy and The Daily Reel.

TheNewsRoom, the hub of Voxant's Viral Syndication Network(TM), makes it quick and easy for Web publishers and bloggers to obtain a wide array of licensed content for their sites through Voxant's revolutionary viral mashing(TM) technology. Network affiliates simply find the news they want and click on the "mash" button to embed it on their sites, where it can then be mashed to other Web sites and blogs.

"Our viral mashing technology is a perfect complement to the viral nature of entertainment videos, providing them with an easier, copyrighted way to travel the Web," Voxant CEO Jeff Crigler said. "This weekend's Academy Awards ceremony is generating a lot of exciting news coverage, making it a perfect time to visit TheNewsRoom and mash stories that will help drive traffic to your sites."

Joining TheNewsRoom is free and gives members access to entertainment, sports, health, business, financial, political and general news from more than 150 content sources. All content from TheNewsRoom is monetized by advertising and tracked as it travels across "the long tail" of the Web, generating a new revenue stream for originating content providers and anyone who mashes it to their sites.

About Voxant and TheNewsRoom

Voxant's Viral Syndication Network(TM) for online news unlocks new markets for news organizations and advertisers around the world, helping them get their content found, played, and paid for on the millions of Web sites and blogs that comprise the "long tail" of the Web. Through TheNewsRoom(TM) (http://www.thenewsroom.com/) and its unique viral mashing(TM) technology, Voxant distributes and promotes news for Network affiliates such as the Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Press, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Denver Post, Newsvine and HowStuffWorks, as well as a variety of Web publishers and bloggers. Our affiliates represent 150 sources of credible, licensed content and more than two billion page views per month. For more information, please visit http://www.voxant.com/.

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CONTACT: Kerri Glover of Voxant, +1-703-931-1774, kglover@voxant.com

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http://www.thenewsroom.com/

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