Tips for Tracking Your Press Release

In an attempt to keep costs down for our clients, AOS does not provide tracking information on your press release. The following services can help you monitor the amount of coverage you are actually getting.

• Bacon's Clipping Bureau - Bacon's Information provides a wide range of information and assistance for anyone needing to research, contact or monitor the media.

• Copernic - Copernic can do the job for you by using the best search engines simultaneously. It brings up great results ranked by relevance, with summaries.

• Dow Jones News/Retrieval - A pay service that archives more than 60 million documents and 3,400+ trade and business publications. CustomClips® feature scans more than 2600 media outlets for specific information.

• Excite News Tracker - Service from Excite that brings together over 300 online news sources. In addition to pre-defined subjects, users can select their own keywords and personalize content. Only searches articles that are published free online.

• LEXIS-NEXIS Communication Center - The world's largest provider of credible, in-depth information. From legal and government to business and high-tech, our products and services provide direct access to an enormous information universe.

• Luce Online - Luce Online, an electronic news clipping service, was established in 1995 to cater to the needs of Public Relations Professionals. Luce Online monitors more than 3,000 sources including: daily newspapers, wire services, business journals, magazines and trade publications from the United States and abroad.

• Luce Press Clippings - Luce Press Clippings reads over 15,000 publications: every daily newspaper, virtually every weekly newspaper in the U.S., plus complete coverage of consumer, business, trade and professional magazines and other publications.

• Markwatch - Find out what's being said about your product or brand on the World Wide Web. Police the Internet for unauthorized uses of your trademarks, copyrights or licensed properties. Track information about your competitors, or follow a product or industry group. 

• NewsPage - An interactive news service providing current, filtered news across a broad array of topics. Scans more than 630 sources to find the most relevant articles on 2,500 topics. Offers valuable personalized content at all subscription levels.

• NewsLinx - Searchable database of Internet news stories.

• News Index - The orginal news only search engine, much like the Excite News Tracker.

• NewsHound - NewsHound is Knight Ridder's news and customized information delivery service, available through the web and by email.

• Northern Light Search - Free real-time news covering the past two weeks from 33 newswires.

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