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Patch Makes Top 5 List of Important Online Publishers

"The Magazine of Online Media, Marketing & Advertising" lists Patch above Google, "The Wall Street Journal," Fox News, CNN.com and more.

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Patch has been named #5 on the top 100 list of the most important online publishers by The Magazine of Online Media, Marketing & Advertising.

Here's the listing the magazine wrote for Patch:

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#5 Patch

"Founded by former Google sales chief Tim Armstrong before he was CEO of AOL, local online news reporting hub Patch has since been acquired by AOL and is now the core of the company's hyper-local media strategy. With a network of more than 500 community news reporting sites, Patch now rivals much, maybe most, of local newspaper and TV coverage. It's also becoming a big factor in AOL's attempts to convince Madison Avenue to act local, even as it thinks global."

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