NEW YORK, Nov. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- PR Newswire's Investor Uprising, the individual investor intelligence network, has been named the winner of the 2011 Editor & Publisher's EPPY™ award for the "Best Business Blog" with under 250,000 unique monthly visitors.
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"Investor Uprising has seen increased momentum since its launch in April 2011 and the recognition from such an esteemed organization as Editor & Publisher is not only a huge honor, but also validates our hard work and efforts to create a real-world community for individual investors," said Investor Uprising's Editor-In-Chief, R. Scott Raynovich.
Tying together expert market commentary, fundamental analysis, and real-world reporting, Investor Uprising is designed to provide individual investors an edge in an increasingly competitive marketplace. Its network of bloggers, professional investment advisors and writers is dedicated to giving readers the latest insight on financial opportunities and market trends. It is both an informational and educational resource for investors that provides money management and investment strategies, as well as in-depth industry reports on important long-term trends and investment ideas.
The EPPY™ Awards honor the best media-affiliated websites across 43 diverse categories and entries are voted on by a panel of notable figures in the industry, chosen by the staff of Editor & Publisher.
Investor Uprising was built in partnership with UBM's DeusM business unit and is sponsored by PR Newswire. Along with the recent launch of the "My News" feature on PRNewswire.com and monthly virtual retail investor conferences, Investor Uprising is another unique way in which PR Newswire helps to facilitate engagement between the individual investor community and public companies.
About Investor Uprising
Investor Uprising is the individual investor's no-nonsense community for accessing business trends and investment strategies. Combining expert market commentary, fundamental analysis and on-the-ground reporting, Investor Uprising helps the reader find the best investment opportunities in global markets. Sponsored by PR Newswire and operated by UBM plc, Investor Uprising's community of contributors will reach millions of potential business readers around the world.
About DeusM
DeusM is an integrated marketing services company owned by UBM plc, targeting the fastest growing segment of the online publishing industry: business social media. The company is led by Managing Director Stephen Saunders, Min's Marketer of the Year 2010. He and the other DeusM principals have built and delivered more than a dozen successful sites and online communities over the last 10 years. DeusM's service is based on a unique platform, called Community in a Box (CiaB), which employs a structured system of proven B2B Web publishing best-practices, combined with a breakthrough integrated multimedia publishing platform ("n-Server") to enable marketers to quickly and profitably set up specialized communities for their target customers.
About UBM plc
UBM plc is a leading global business media company. We inform markets and bring the world's buyers and sellers together at events, online, in print and provide them with the information they need to do business successfully. We focus on serving professional commercial communities, from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewellery traders, from farmers to pharmacists around the world. Our 6,000 staff in more than 30 countries are organised into specialist teams that serve these communities, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently. For more information, go to www.ubm.com.
About PR Newswire
PR Newswire (www.prnewswire.com) is the premier global provider of multimedia platforms that enable marketers, corporate communicators, sustainability officers, public affairs and investor relations officers to leverage content to engage with all their key audiences. Having pioneered the commercial news distribution industry 57 years ago, PR Newswire today provides end-to-end solutions to produce, optimize and target content – from rich media to online video to multimedia – and then distribute content and measure results across traditional, digital, mobile and social channels. Combining the world's largest multi-channel, multi-cultural content distribution and optimization network with comprehensive workflow tools and platforms, PR Newswire enables the world's enterprises to engage opportunity everywhere it exists. PR Newswire serves tens of thousands of clients from offices in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region, and is a UBM plc company.
Media Contacts:
R. Scott Raynovich
Editor in Chief, Investor Uprising Confidential
(406) 582-5886 direct
(406) 223-2884 mobile
Scott.Raynovich@investoruprising.com
Noreen Seebacher
Community Editor, Investor Uprising
(201) 360-6773
Noreen.Seebacher@investoruprising.com
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