SOURCE: SHIFT Communications
June 10, 2008 15:25 ET
PR Agency SHIFT Communications Adds Four New Clients in San Francisco
New Clients Include Goodmail Systems, Oosah, Peanut Labs and Wordlock, Inc.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - June 10, 2008) -
NEWS FACTS
- SHIFT Communications announced today that it is the agency of record
for four new clients, including Goodmail Systems, Oosah, Peanut Labs and
Wordlock, Inc. The PR agency, recently named New Media Agency of the Year
by The Holmes Report, will service these clients out of its San Francisco
office.
- CertifiedEmail, from Goodmail Systems, allows consumers to easily
identify authentic messages from legitimate commercial and nonprofit
senders, while enterprise client, Peanut Labs, links market researchers
with the Gen Y segment by employing social networks.
- SHIFT's new client roster also includes Oosah and Wordlock, Inc. Oosah
helps users manage all digital content including photos, videos and
music/audio files by enabling them to drag and drop content between folders
and online sites. Wordlock, Inc. owns the Wordlock® combination lock,
which uses easy to remember words instead of numbers.
- The SHIFT team will focus on expanding the four companies' reach and
increasing revenues and thought leadership by providing strategic counsel,
Social Media consulting and aggressive media relations execution.
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QUOTES
"Whether they are big or small, we enjoy partnering with companies with
great potential," said Mandy Mladenoff, a managing director at SHIFT
Communications. "Our new clients represent the new, smart
conversationalists that just 'get it,' and we're delighted to have them on
board."
-- (Mandy Mladenoff, managing director at SHIFT Communications - click here for
Mladenoff's LinkedIn profile)
Please contact Parry Headrick at pheadrick@shiftcomm.com to arrange
an interview and/or for additional quotes.
ABOUT GOODMAIL SYSTEMS
Goodmail Systems makes CertifiedEmail™, the industry standard class of
trusted email. CertifiedEmail provides a safe and reliable means for
consumers to easily identify authentic messages from legitimate commercial
and nonprofit senders. Each CertifiedEmail is sent with a cryptographically
secure token that assures authenticity, and is marked in the inbox with a
unique blue ribbon envelope icon, enabling consumers to visually
distinguish messages which are real and sent from senders with whom they
have a pre-existing relationship. Available to senders meeting strict
standards for best email practices and low complaint rates, it is the only
class of email available that assures delivery of all opt-in email messages
to the inbox, with links and images automatically rendered intact, yielding
measurable improvements in email program effectiveness. CertifiedEmail has
been adopted by seven of the nation's top ten mailbox providers, and is in
use by over 500 commercial brands, 150 government agencies, and many
nonprofits. It is supported in North America and Europe by a wide network
of email platforms and service providers.
ABOUT OOSAH
Oosah®, a private company founded in 2007, offers a simple, highly
intuitive Web-based service for finding, organizing, creating and sharing
digital media. The core of the service is Oosah's Media Explorer that
extends the familiar desktop file manager metaphor to the Web. Consumers'
collections of digital photos, video and music/audio files continue to grow
and are stored in various locations around the Web, as well as on their
PCs, Macs, digital cameras, etc. Oosah is the first site to address the
need for a central place to access, organize and make use of this
distributed content.
ABOUT PEANUT LABS
Peanut Labs is changing the way online market research is accessed and
delivered, providing unparalleled access to millions of 13-25 year olds
that comprise today's Gen Y audience. Developer of Sample3.0, the Peanut
Labs sample methodology taps into more than 70 social networks including
MySpace, Facebook, and Google OpenSocial. Sample3.0 is quickly becoming the
online sampling methodology of choice by leading marketing research firms.
More information about Peanut Labs and Sample3.0 can be found at www.peanutlabs.com.
ABOUT WORDLOCK
Wordlock, LLC was founded in 2002 to create innovative consumer products
that ease everyday living. Located in Los Altos, Calif., in the heart of
Silicon Valley, Wordlock™ is bringing lock technology into the 21st
century. For more information contact www.wordlock.com.
ABOUT SHIFT COMMUNICATIONS
SHIFT Communications is an award-winning, privately-held national public
relations firm representing some of the best-known enterprise and consumer
technology brands, including Akamai, Novell, Quantum, RealNetworks
and Shimano. SHIFT pioneered the world's first Social Media
News Release and Social
Media Newsroom, changing PR forever. SHIFT Communications' 100+
employees are located in the Boston, Mass.,
and San
Francisco, Calif. metros. For more information on SHIFT's high-tech
public relations and consumer public relations, visit http://www.shiftcomm.com.