Critical Mention Offers First Real-time Radio Search and Monitoring Platform to Customers

Critical Mention Offers First Real-time Radio Search and Monitoring Platform to Customers

Clients can search and get alerted to real-time radio from nations top news programs

NEW YORK, Aug. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Critical Mention, providers of the most comprehensive real-time Web-based television search and monitoring platform for corporate communications and business intelligence professionals, today announced the addition of its Real-Time Radio(SM) offering. Using the most advanced voice-to-text speech recognition technologies, Critical Mention processes audio streams into text transcripts, making radio searchable seconds after broadcast.

Critical Mention's integration of radio allows users to search, track, and listen to the most popular radio news stations and nationally-syndicated radio broadcasting in real-time, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Real-Time Radio is fully integrated with Critical Mention's real-time TV monitoring platform -- including alerts, media galleries, and Report building tool. Results can also be delivered as XML feeds for integration into third- party platforms like Cymfony, Vocus, Biz 360 and Lone Buffalo.

The real-time radio offering complements Critical Mention's existing comprehensive radio coverage, which delivers daily summary monitoring reports through keyword searches across the nation's top 40 stations or can record a scheduled segment on any of 2,500 stations across the country.

"Real-time Radio is an exciting addition to our product offering," said Sean Morgan, founder and CEO of Critical Mention. "Users can now tap another important resource in real-time to gather the up-to-the-minute business intelligence they need to stay ahead of their competition and on top of the news. With Critical Mention, organizations can be confident that important mentions of their company, whether planned or unplanned, will be captured for analysis, reference or other business usage."

"Radio plays a major role in today's media mix, maintaining a steady presence as the most popular source of news during the day," added Morgan. "It remains a commanding force in reporting breaking news and emergency situations nationwide. Critical Mention has already become the primary source for TV monitoring, and we are very pleased to incorporate radio into our comprehensive real-time search capabilities, further bolstering Critical Mention's leadership role in media monitoring."

Availability

Real-Time Radio beta is available immediately. General Availability is scheduled for October 1, 2007. Please visit Critical Radio, or call 212-398-1141 for more information.

About Critical Mention

Critical Mention Inc., providers of the most comprehensive Web-based television search and broadcast monitoring platform, is changing the way corporate communications and business intelligence professionals search, track and view critical information from television news. Never before has TV been made available as a searchable medium, to be incorporated as a vital component to intelligence gathering & crisis management. Critical Mention provides clients the ability to search over 5 million clips and 50 terabytes of indexed television information, watch a clip within seconds of airing, and securely share clips with colleagues and clients. Critical Mention currently serves more than 500 clients, including Fortune 500 companies and market leaders in corporate communications, financial services, professional services industries, as well as political, non-profit and government entities. Founded in 2002, Critical Mention (www.criticalmention.com) is privately held, with headquarters in New York City.

Source: Critical Mention Inc.

CONTACT: Sharon Tolpin of Critical Mention Inc., +1-212-400-8678,
stolpin@criticalmention.com

Web site:

http://www.criticalmention.com/

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