SHOPLOCAL.COM WINS TWO WEBSITE OF THE YEAR AWARDS: BEST AND MOST POPULAR SHOPPING COMPARISON SITE

Chicago, IL (December 21, 2009) — ShopLocal™, a wholly owned subsidiary of Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI) and the leader in multi-channel marketing services, has won two Website of the Year awards for its shopping and price comparison website, ShopLocal.com.

The Website of the Year awards (http://www.websiteoftheyear.us) have been organized by global online market research company MetrixLab since 2004, and they are the largest annual people’s choice website honors. Winners in other categories included Facebook, YouTube, PayPal and MapQuest.

ShopLocal.com provides consumers with fresh weekly store deals from the nation’s largest retailers including Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, CVS and Sears.The website beat out a number of major competitors to win in the shopping comparison website category. ShopLocal.com took home both the Best Website of the Year – provided to the website with the highest average score on content, user experience and design – and Most Popular Website, given to the website with the highest number of votes.

“We’re honored to be the people’s choice,” says ShopLocal CEO Vikram Sharma. “Now more than ever shoppers are using the web to search for deals, and we’re delighted that they find great value at ShopLocal.com.”

About ShopLocal

ShopLocal (www.AboutShopLocal.com), leader in multi-channel marketing services, offers a complete suite of innovative digital solutions that connect advertisers and consumers – online and in-store. ShopLocal’s industry-leading SmartProduct business solutions (SmartCircular, SmartCatalog and SmartDelivery) enable more than one hundred of the nation’s top retailers, including Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, CVS, Albertsons and Sears, to deliver highly interactive, targeted and localized promotions to shoppers through online circulars, display advertising, search, social media, digital out of home and mobile. ShopLocal is the retail division of PointRoll, a wholly owned subsidiary of Gannett Company.

About MetrixLab

MetrixLab is a global Online Market Research company that specializes in the areas of New Product Development, Brand Communication, E-Business Performance and Satisfaction Research. Over the past nine years MetrixLab has grown to be one of Europe’s leading online market research companies with offices in Rotterdam, London, Paris, Hamburg and Madrid.

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   Max
   December 21st, 2009 at 3:15 pm #

   congrats you guys, well deserved!!