Facebook Added To WordPress.com VIP Featured Partner Program

David Cohen on August 2, 2012 10:12 AM

Facebook became one of the newest additions to the WordPress.com VIP Featured Partner Program, the blogging platform’s parent company, Automattic, announced Thursday.

Automattic said the WordPress.com VIP program includes large-scale sites such as those of top media companies, sports leagues, and Fortune 500 companies, generating some 1 billion page views per month.

Other technology partners added to the VIP Featured Partner Program were: Flipboard, PostRelease, TinyPass, and Zemanta. They joined launch partners Chartbeat, ContextLogic, Daylife, Livefyre, MediaPass, Ooyala, SocialFlow, Uppsite, and Wibiya.

Nine interactive agencies were also added to the program: 10up, Alley Interactive, Code for the People, Doejo, Human Made, inSourceCode, Oomph, Range, and Voce Communications.

Automattic Director of Platform Services Paul Maiorana said:

Some of the world’s biggest brands and publishers rely on WordPress.com VIP Services. We want to seamlessly connect these top-tier sites with agencies and platforms that consistently do great work with WordPress.

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