Critical Mention and CanWest's FPinfomart.ca Sign Agreement to Enhance Real-time Broadcast Intelligence Infrastructure

Critical Mention and CanWest's FPinfomart.ca Sign Agreement to Enhance Real-time Broadcast Intelligence Infrastructure

NEW YORK, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Critical Mention, provider of the most comprehensive real-time Web-based broadcast intelligence platform for corporate communications and business intelligence professionals, today announced a strategic agreement with CanWest MediaWorks Inc., to build out one of the fastest and most comprehensive real-time broadcast intelligence networks in Canada through FPinfomart.ca.

FPinfomart.ca offers unparalleled coverage of news and corporate data and is an essential resource for information professionals, business communicators and knowledge workers in Canada. As Canada's largest provider of media monitoring, financial and corporate data, FPinfomart.ca includes broadcast monitoring of over 70 Canadian channels through Critical Mention, more than 1,500 news, blog and online sources from across Canada and abroad, plus authoritative company profiles from Financial Post DataGroup.

Critical Mention has the most sophisticated, comprehensive data-capture network in the industry, digitizing the world's broadcast news in real-time and making it accessible and searchable within seconds. The platform continuously digitizes live broadcast footage and transcripts, then indexes and stores it in the industry's largest broadcast media content collection.

Users are able to perform keyword searches (a company name, product, person, topic, etc.) and have the results instantly displayed within the platform. Users can then read the transcript, watch the video, forward the clip on to colleagues, or utilize a host of other services options designed to effectively communicate and share their broadcast mentions.

   Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.    About Critical Mention  

Critical Mention Inc., providers of the most comprehensive Web-based television search and broadcast monitoring platform, is changing the way corporate communications and business intelligence professionals search, track and view critical information from television news. Never before has TV been made available as a searchable medium, to be incorporated as a vital component to intelligence gathering & crisis management. Critical Mention provides clients the ability to search over 5 million clips and 50 terabytes of indexed television information, watch a clip within seconds of airing, and securely share clips with colleagues and clients. Critical Mention currently serves more than 500 clients, including Fortune 500 companies and market leaders in corporate communications, financial services, professional services industries, as well as political, non-profit and government entities. Founded in 2002, Critical Mention (www.criticalmention.com) is privately held, with headquarters in New York City.

About FPinfomart.ca

FPinfomart.ca is an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of CanWest Global Communications Corp. (TSX: CGS and CGS.A, www.canwestglobal.com), an international media company. CanWest is Canada's largest publisher of English language daily newspapers. The Company also owns, operates and/or holds substantial interests in free-to-air and subscription-based television networks, out-of-home advertising, web sites, and radio stations and networks in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Turkey, the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Source: Critical Mention Inc.

CONTACT: Sharon Tolpin of Critical Mention, +1-212-400-8678,
stolpin@criticalmention.com

Web site: http://www.criticalmention.com/
http://fpinfomart.ca/

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