MEDIA RELEASE PR37305
AsiaNet - An Opportunity for One Billion Web Users
SYDNEY, 26 Nov. /AsiaNet/ --
Published research indicates that there are now one billion global web users with more than 40 per cent of
them in the Asia Pacific. China rates number one.
As newspaper sales decline, websites increase as a source of news. AsiaNet, with a daily Asiaspecific text
news service and picture, combined with press releases from around the world and regional media information
and expertise is an established internet resource.
Since 1995, AsiaNet has been a clearing house, translating and distributing exclusively to newspapers,
radio and TV stations, specialist publications and internet sites full text, unedited press releases from major
businesses, organisations and government coming into the region, within it, or wanting to send to other
countries of the world.
"In launching our new website - www.asianetnews.net - our partners, who are the principal news agencies
of the Asia Pacific region, are looking ahead," said AsiaNet General Manager, Mr. Michael Worner.
He said the multimedia news release combining video, audio, image and text is the press release of the
future, and this multilingual addition now features prominently on the site as a rapidly growing number of users
look for video content.
An IBM global survey concluded that 76 per cent of internet visitors have watched a video on their PC, with
more than half doing it at least a few times a month.
Businesses worldwide are adopting and embracing the corporate video as an essential marketing tool,
according to the respected eCorpTV site.
"Through our partners we can offer to build for their clients a multimedia release, deliver it locally or to
thousands of targeted worldwide media in the main languages of Asia and also Spanish, German, French and
Italian, and then archive it on the AsiaNet site," Mr. Worner added.
The AsiaNet partners are: Antara News Agency (Indonesia), Australian Associated Press, Bernama News
Agency (Malaysia/Singapore), InfoQuest (Thailand), K.K. Kyodo News (Japan), New China News (Hong
Kong), New Zealand Press Association, Pakistan Press International, Philippines News Agency, Press Trust
of India, United News of Bangladesh, Vietnam News Agency, Xinhua News Agency (China/Taiwan), Yonhap
News Agency (South Korea).
SOURCE: AsiaNet
CONTACT: R. Stefanovic,
phone: +612 9322 8684;
email: asianet@aap.com.au
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