Patch Ranks High Among Key Online Publishers

Patch.com earned a little recognition within the media industry recently with a No. 5 ranking on the 100 Most Important Online Publishers as determined by OMMA, the Magazine of Online Media, Marketing and Advertising.

Herndon Patch is part of Patch, a division of Aol's Huffington Post Media Group. Patch now has about 850 community news websites in 22 states and Washington, D.C.

To give an idea of what a No. 5 ranking means, check out some others on the list:

• No. 1 – Facebook
• No. 2 – The New York Times
• No. 3 – The Huffington Post
• No. 4 – Netflix
• No. 5 – Patch
• No. 13 – ESPN
• No. 16 – Twitter
• No. 25 – Reuters
• No. 26 – The Associated Press
• No. 31 – MLB.com
• No. 32 – NPR.org
• No. 33 – PBS.org
• No. 44 – MSNBC
• No. 49 – YouTube
• No. 50 – Hulu
• No. 53 – The Washington Post
• No. 54 – USA Today
• No. 58 – Forbes
• No. 73 – Politico
• No. 77 – Times
• No. 80 – BBC
• No. 86 – Craigslist
• No. 100 – MySpace

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