Downloadable software for users to follow, interact with, and curate news streams on select media sectors, for users to read updates from print, television, blogs, online forums, social media, podcasts, and other online information forums on select media sectors, for users to compile all online media in select industries in one place, for users to monitor all methods of marketing communications, namely, social media, search engine marketing, inquiry marketing, internet marketing, mobile marketing, blogging, and other forms of passive, shareable or viral communications channels, for users to track and project marketing insights including relevant audience growth, market share and key performance indicators, for users to manage journalist information, news clippings, content distribution, digital public relations and marketing collateral, daily public relations, marketing tasks and projects, an online newsroom, monitor social and other media, and conduct e-mail marketing, for users to distribute press releases and other online content, for users to provide documentation, analysis, and reporting of that information and content to others for business, advertising, and marketing purposes, for users to search, monitor, capture, retrieve, and analyze information and content from global information networks, for users to monitor social media tags and social media content for advertising and marketing purposes