Intrado GlobeNewswire vs PR Newswire

Likelihood to Recommend

Intrado Digital Media is well suited for any business hoping to gain attention within their respective industries. Takes all the work out of trying to circulate your own company news on a case by case basis.

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Verified User

Manager in Marketing

Computer Software Company, 201-500 employees

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PR Newswire is well suited for organizations with a significant public relations budget that want to quickly disseminate a news release over the wire to a specific targeted group of recipients. It's probably not a suitable solution for smaller companies or "boutique" public relations agency unless the distribution cost is to be directly passed on to the client because it is quite expensive.

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Cindy Arco

Public Relations Manager, Florida Region

ComcastTelecommunications, 10,001+ employees

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Pros

Great customer service, always willing to help and answer questions.
Offers a lot of distribution circuits and industries to choose from so your stories hit the right places.
Very easy to navigate and straightforward process for publishing releases.

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Verified User

Manager in Marketing

Financial Services Company, 201-500 employees

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It is very easy to set up an account on PR Newswire and get started. The dashboard is very intuitive.
Once you are ready to upload a press release, doing so it easy and the pricing structure for the different distributions are clearly laid out.
You can choose a distribution list or e-mail (or fax) your own distribution list, making it easy to target your release to different reporters.
Once a press release is sent up, PR Newswire follows up with visibility reports so you know how well your release did and if you need to do another or target specific reporters.

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Richard Angeloni

Director of Integrated Marketing Communciations

Brown & Toland PhysiciansHospital & Health Care, 201-500 employees

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Cons

In some cases, it would not capture all coverage, for example, coverage found on trade websites.
Some of the incoming coverage would be repetitive or even delayed at times.

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Jess Messenger

Senior Account Supervisor

Mulberry Marketing CommunicationsPublic Relations and Communications, 11-50 employees

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Pricing could be better especially as it relates to a digital footprint
The ability to add multiple photos, video links, logos, etc., can be cost prohibitive
From an earned media relations standpoint, we find that journalists may not cover something once they see it on the newswire

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Dan Lobring

Vice President, Marketing Communications

rEvolutionMarketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

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Usability

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PR Newswire 8.0

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PR Newswire is an industry leader and gives the user the ability to send out a press release, to a wide audience, very quickly and easily. The pricing is on par with other companies (perhaps they are a bit higher) but they do send useful "visibility" reports after a release is distributed, which is helpful when trying to explain ROI to C suite leaders. You also can email or fax your own distribution list, which is helpful and reduces the need for a media monitoring service

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Richard Angeloni

Director of Integrated Marketing Communciations

Brown & Toland PhysiciansHospital & Health Care, 201-500 employees

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Support Rating

Intrado GlobeNewswire 10.0

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Their customer service is great and has been very supportive when we've needed it. Their team checks up on us regularly to ensure we are getting the most out of our service.

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Manager in Marketing

Computer Software Company, 201-500 employees

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PR Newswire 6.4

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Overall, it's a great product, but it is very expensive. There are cheaper programs out there but they also do not hit as many top-tier outlets as PR Newswire does. I recommend PR Newswire when you have important news that may not get the attention it deserves, and that you want in the hands of top-tier outlets.

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Verified User

Account Manager in Marketing

Public Relations & Communications Company, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

In 2016, I did an evaluation of other news distribution websites to see how they compared. While Marketwired has its flaws with customer service and a less-than-ideal online platform, it was far more cost-effective than the competitors. A lot of the competitors were more expensive and they also used cumbersome online platforms for distribution. Marketwired also doesn't charge for each image distributed with a release; many competitors do. After my evaluation, I decided to stick with Marketwired as the main wire our PR firm uses for distributing news

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Charlotte Gilmour (nee Sherry)

Vice President

naPublic Relations and Communications, 1-10 employees

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PRWeb is now owned by the same company (Cision). It's a lower priced service that I frequently recommend to clients on a budget. It allows links, a photo, and so on for a reasonable cost. I used Business Wire for many years, but when I had a bad experience with customer service, I stopped. As a PR consultant and someone who frequently talks/writes about PR and recommends products and services, I feel it's never a good idea to alienate someone who can recommend your service -- or not. Now I always steer clients toward PR Newswire, as the two are fairly comparable.

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Michelle Messenger Garrett

Writer/Content Creator/Public Relations Consultant

Garrett Public RelationsPublic Relations and Communications, 1-10 employees

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Return on Investment

Positive: We get a handful of contacts and leads from our press releases, but overall nothing else. Our clients like the to see press releases of our events that reach out to a wider net of the online audience too.

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Dian Razak

Digital Marketing Specialist

Xtalks WebconferencesMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

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PR Newswire saves us from having to maintain our own distribution lists for press releases
PR Newswire automatically sends all our press releases to a list of our beat reporters that we keep on file with them so that we don't have to spend time doing that
PR Newswire makes submitting edits to our releases easy

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Verified User

Employee in Corporate

Machinery Company, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Intrado GlobeNewswire Editions & Modules

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

PR Newswire Editions & Modules

Edition

Newswire Digital	$199¹
Newswire Digital Plus	$449¹
Newswire State	$499¹
Newswire National	$799¹
Newswire Global	$1,649¹
Newswire Canada	$649¹
Newswire UK	$649¹
Newswire Asia	$649¹
Newswire Latin America	$949¹
Newswire Financial	$799¹

per release

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