TORONTO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwire) -- 08/01/12 -- Marketwire has expanded the reach of the industry's most robust news and content distribution services even further. The addition of Brazil Wire gives Marketwire clients the ability to send HTML-rich news releases and multimedia content in English, Spanish and Portuguese languages to a vast media network throughout the country.

Clients can gain direct access to media and over 100 websites such as:

-  Bolsa Valores   -  Comunicados     -  Impresa Brasil  -  Meu Novo Celular
-  Comunicados e   -  Comunicados Da  -  Linha de        -  Vaga Emprego
   Noticias           Hora               Noticias        -  Artigos
-  Canal RP        -  Comunicados De  -  Releases Brasil    Noticias
-  Conteudo e         Impresa
   Noticia

Marketwire's distribution services let clients create, optimize, publish and track news releases, almost anywhere in the world. They also offer unrivalled reach, along with the ability to measure a release's performance.

With Brazil Wire, Marketwire clients get access to:

--  The industry's largest digital distribution in Brazil
--  Major publications in Portuguese
--  Tools to optimize content for search engine discoverability
--  The industry's most up-to-date media contacts
--  Dashboard Reports to measure their content's performance, post-release

"The addition of Brazil Wire gives Marketwire clients more depth into a growing market and is part of our global strategy to expand our international networks, helping our clients send multimedia content to nearly anywhere in the world. We expect to be announcing even more advancements soon," says Hector Botero, Vice President of Marketwire's International Division.

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For everyone from a start-up to a Fortune 500 enterprise, Marketwire is a social communications company that provides its clients with powerfully simple solutions: Global press release distribution, industry-leading social media monitoring and analytics, and a fully integrated marketing communications platform for content creation, optimization, distribution and measurement. Marketwire is majority-owned by OMERS Private Equity (www.omerspe.com), which manages the private equity activities of OMERS Administration Corporation and today has $6.4 billion of investments under management. OMERS Private Equity is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices in New York and London.