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Cision PR Newswire Overview

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What is Cision PR Newswire?

PR Newswire is the worldwide leader for targeted content distribution, connecting brands with the right journalists, influencers and outlets across multiple media platforms, geographies and vertical industries. Our award-winning solutions streamline the communication workflow, empowering brands to identify the right influencers, craft and distribute meaningful campaigns and measure their business impact. Powered by cultivated media relationships, exclusive partnerships and innovative AI technology with PR best practices built-in, PR Newswire will help you reach and engage your target audiences on the channels they trust. We’ve earned the reputation for over 70 years as the industry’s most reliable distribution network with the broadest reach. Our credibility, digital authority, technology innovation and white-glove service can help you maximize media coverage and engagement from the audiences you target globally.

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Cision PR Newswire helps communication teams gain earned media and prove business impact by delivering press releases and other content via the industry's largest, most trusted content amplification network.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

For over 70 years, PR Newswire has connected your stories with the right audiences in the right chanels to provide maximum results. With 75K+ media outlets and websites and direct access to 400K+ journalists and influencers across 170+ countries and in 40+ different languages, our distribution network provides unmatched global reach.

As the most trusted source globally, media and journalists source PR Newswire content more than its competitors. With 2X the website traffic of any other wire service—more people will see your news when you distribute with PR Newswire. Access powerful insights with PR-specific AI technology built-in that’s based on extensive performance data and industry best practices. Easily incorporate recommendations reflected in your brand voice and desired tone for your news. And further amplify your news with paid options offering guaranteed visibility.

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Cision is a leading global provider of earned media software and services to public relations and marketing communications professionals. Cision’s software allows users to identify key influencers, craft and distribute strategic content, and measure meaningful impact. Cision has over 4,800 employees with offices in 24 countries throughout the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.

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"We were migrated from CISION/PRweb"
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"Most Comprehensive Wire Service"
The many distribution options - local, regional and national and lots of features to choose from.
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"Cision is very reliable"
The newswire support team is always on top of it
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Cision PR Newswire Demo - PR Newswire Online Member Center
From creation to amplification, manage your entire press release campaign effortlessly in one intuitive platform. Safely upload your press releases to our platform, equipped with multi-factor authentication to ensure your account's security. Your news is then thoroughly proofread by our editorial...
Cision PR Newswire Demo - PR Newswire AI
From AI-powered press release writing and editing tools to data-driven insights, our AI features empower you to create and distribute compelling brand stories with unparalleled efficiency. Accessible through our customer platform, leverage AI to generate ideas and enhance productivity, so you can...
Cision PR Newswire Demo - PR Newswire Visibility Reports
Every release receives a complimentary Visibility Report to provide insights on overall success. See online pickup, traffic, audience data, engagement metrics and industry benchmarks as well as viewers and engagement for specific lists. Additional metrics are available for amplification solutions...
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What do you like best about Cision PR Newswire?

It is a pretty simple system for looking up individuals that you may need to contact or pitch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cision PR Newswire?

While most of the program is intuitive, there are always ways to improve UX. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cision PR Newswire:

There are other programs to consider that may be more beneficial. My company opted to switch to MuckRack instead because it is simpler to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cision PR Newswire solving and how is that benefiting you?

Benefits include finding editors and media. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cision PR Newswire?

I like the reach that PR Newswire has for my authors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cision PR Newswire?

I dislike having to pay as much as PR Newswire costs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cision PR Newswire solving and how is that benefiting you?

Reaching news outlets Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cision PR Newswire?

I like that Cision is easy to use and gives accurate information. There is no need to verify the source. I know that Cision is giving me correct information and numbers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cision PR Newswire?

I dislike the fact that I cannot easily share the information with others like it is possible on social media. I dislike the fact that I cannot easily share the information with others like it is possible on social media Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What problems is Cision PR Newswire solving and how is that benefiting you?

It goes without saying that public relations in 2016 is far more complicated than it ever used to be. It now involves orchestration, big ideas, communication skills and true strategic thinking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Cision makes it easy to build media databases based on several key factors Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cision PR Newswire?

Some of the larger media outlets are so big that it's hard to drill down to the right editor, which is not the fault of Cision Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cision PR Newswire solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Cision to reach the smaller media outlets that cover local news. This is march harder to find that the larger national media outlets Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cision PR Newswire?

I was able to trust the company not to make public our press released prior to the exact date/time our company wanted the information disseminated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cision PR Newswire?

Nothing, everything went extremely smoothly and fluently and our representative was very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cision PR Newswire solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are able to blast a press release both nationwide and worldwide without any issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cision PR Newswire?

Cision (who has purchased a few PR sites now) has a strong web presence/authority and good journalist list selections. Also support lines are 24/7 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cision PR Newswire?

I wish there was more control over formatting options Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cision PR Newswire:

Look at different packages and negotiate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cision PR Newswire solving and how is that benefiting you?

growing brand awareness in emerging markets Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cision PR Newswire?

Great help at all hours of the night, and super patient when I've had changes to press releases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cision PR Newswire?

Take metrics with a grain of salt, not sure how to really back them up and UMVs are not the most accurate metric to go by. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Does the job Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cision PR Newswire solving and how is that benefiting you?

Posting releases on the wire & getting our message out there Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cision PR Newswire?

Seamless and easy to use. Professional resource. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cision PR Newswire?

Some processes could be streamlined instead of having to work around. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cision PR Newswire:

This is a great resource for those in the newsroom who already have some press release experience. Once you build a good boilerplate and guidelines, this is a seamless way to reproduce basic parts of a news release with minor changes made along the way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cision PR Newswire solving and how is that benefiting you?

Easy to copy boilerplate data into multiple press releases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cision PR Newswire?

They are very quick and responsive. As soon as I submit the release, I receive a call within minutes to schedule it and make sure everything is accurate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cision PR Newswire?

There have been some technical difficulties that took way too long to resolve. I appreciated them keeping me updated on the status though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cision PR Newswire solving and how is that benefiting you?

Being able to publish releases and get them where we need them. Great analytics on the releases as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cision PR Newswire?

I like the option of being able to select micro-targeted lists. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cision PR Newswire?

Reporting is confusing at times with the various tabs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cision PR Newswire solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using PR Newswire distributions to share announcements. I do like seeing the number of online pickups/placements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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