city new york united states key people phillip & lauren davies website www.bignews.biz bignews.biz is a free online news and press release distribution service . the company was founded in 2004 and is a registered llc based in garden city new york . the company is privately held . contents 1 business profile 2 history 3 notable events 4 references 5 external links business profile edit bignews.biz accepts press release and news articles from their registered users then distributes their content via email rss and their web site to news aggregators media newsletter subscribers and social media sites . on august 26 2007 bignews was approved as a google news source for press releases . 1 in 2009 bignews began to feed user content to social media sites such as twitter and digg . 2 as of september 2010 the company s web site lists 27 000 registered users . 3 quantcast reports that bignews receives 128 000 unique users a month 4 history edit bignews.biz has been online since february 2004 13 and was an early provider of press releases to google news 5 when they were still in beta . in 2005 bignews also launched news antique.com to distribute press releases for the antiques and collectibles market 6 notable events edit following the release of martha stewart from prison in march 2005 bignews drafted and distributed a series of press releases 7 for the lion brand yarn company regarding a free crochet pattern that customers could download that creates a duplicate of the poncho she was wearing at the time of her release . the publicity from the releases resulted in over 2 million downloads of the pattern . in june 2008 bignews created a list of the top 13 free press release distribution sites based on traffic to these sites and the quality of their service . 8 the list is updated monthly on their blog 9 in december 2009 bignews became the only free press release distribution service sending a daily feed of releases issued by u.s. senators 10 and congressmen 11 to google news and twitter . in january 2010 bignews.biz became the first free press release distribution service with over 3000 press releases live on google news 12 references edit business description . bignews.biz intro . archived from the original on 12 february 2010 . retrieved 2010 02 20 . 1 google news archive 2 content on digg 3 about us page of bignews 4 quantcast statistics for bignews.biz 5 google news 6 auctionbytes announcement about launch 7 101publicrelations . com article 8 newswire today release 9 list of top press release sites 10 press releases from the senate 11 press releases from the house of representatives 12 bignews releases on google news external links edit official site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title bignews.biz & oldid 739576383 categories press release agencies navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 15 september 2016 at 14 38 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view