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Cision PRWeb

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What is Cision PRWeb?

Cision PRWeb aims to impact customer behavior by providing efficient communication tools to continuously engage with target audiences across multiple online channels including search, social media and with industry-specific partner websites, bloggers and influencers.

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Pricing

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Basic

$99

Cloud
per news release

Standard

$205

Cloud
per news release

Advanced

$305

Cloud
per news release

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $99 per news release
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Product Details

What is Cision PRWeb?

Cision PRWeb Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Cision PRWeb aims to impact customer behavior by providing efficient communication tools to continuously engage with target audiences across multiple online channels including search, social media and with industry-specific partner websites, bloggers and influencers.

Cision PRWeb starts at $99.

The most common users of Cision PRWeb are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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PRWeb is a versatile platform that has been widely used by businesses and organizations to effectively distribute press releases and generate wider reach and visibility. Users have found it particularly beneficial for issuing press releases about company news, new product offerings, and equipment or capabilities acquisitions throughout the year. With PRWeb, users can effortlessly send out press releases on a mass scale to media outlets across the country, targeting specific geographic regions or industry-relevant products or capabilities.

One of the key advantages of PRWeb is its convenience and cost-effectiveness. It provides a streamlined solution for posting news announcements without the need for additional features like graphics or specialty news wires. This makes it an ideal choice for organizations without a dedicated PR team looking to efficiently distribute press releases and reach a wider audience. Users appreciate the ease of use that PRWeb offers, allowing them to upload visuals to make their press releases more compelling.

Moreover, PRWeb has proven valuable for augmenting marketing efforts and increasing the chances of news releases being picked up by news organizations. By utilizing PRWeb, companies like Strouse have successfully amplified their content and expanded their network of qualified contacts through prospecting and pitching media contacts using tools like Cision. This software not only helps track media hits but also enables users to find specific contacts for journalists and producers while easily disseminating news releases for clients.

Furthermore, PRWeb has been instrumental in promoting higher education institutions. Small colleges have utilized this platform to connect with media outlets across the country, delivering national newsworthy stories to a broader range of publications. This wider reach ensures that these institutions gain visibility on search engines and achieve greater exposure for their important news.

In summary, PRWeb serves as an indispensable tool for organizations seeking to distribute press releases efficiently, announce relevant news, increase their visibility on search engines, and enhance their media outreach efforts. Its user-friendly interface, cost-effective nature, and ability to target specific regions or industry-specific topics have made it a go-to choice for businesses, institutions, and individuals alike.

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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used Cision PRWeb to distribute national press releases and connect with media across the country. We are a small college in a mid-size market and the network of media contacts that Cision PRWeb provides allows us to cast a wide net and deliver our national newsworthy stories to publications that we would not normally have access to. The cost per release is reasonable and the network is unmatched.
  • Media Contact Database.
  • Secure Press Release Delivery.
  • Sorting and identifying industry specific publications.
  • Mid sized market media database needs more frequent updating.
  • Would like to send embargoed press releases without the fear of early publishing.
  • More economical press release packages available.
We have run several national PR campaigns over the past couple of years and Cision PRWeb makes it easy to distribute the releases and publications pick them up with is a testament to Cision's industry trust credibility. With just a few clicks, the release is set up and ready to deliver at a time of our choice.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Cision PRWeb to send out news releases for clients. We've found that the software is very easy to use and once someone is trained they can do it easily by themselves. Overall, we like that this platform allows you to upload photos and other visuals to help make the press release more compelling.
  • Press release distribution.
  • Attention to detail.
  • Easy to use.
  • Inputting links.
  • Speed for release to go live.
  • Allow videos.
Cision PRWeb is great for companies that are looking to get out news and control the messaging. It also helps boost SEO. We don't see reporters using Cision PRWeb as a press release or news story source very often, so as long as the client knows that, it works well.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
To track media hits for our clients, as well as finding specific contacts for journalists and producers.
  • In terms of finding specific contacts, it does a good job.
  • It finds mainstream media hits well.
  • One issue we ran into with media tracking was that when it came to smaller or more niche media, it had a hard time tracking hits from those outlets for our clients.
  • Building larger media lists was time consuming and cumbersome.
For finding media contacts it was really good. For building larger lists, it wasn't as effective (within their platform). For exporting large lists (for example, looking for specific media contacts in Dallas), that was useful and effective. I would always export those larger lists into Google Sheets and then edit from there -- this was much faster than editing lists within the platform.

For tracking media hits, it honestly wasn't much more effective for us than using Google Alerts.
Matthew Zajechowski | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cision is used by the Digital PR arm of our organization. Cision is used to prospect and pitch media contacts in an effort to get our content and our client's content shared. Cision is critical to our media amplification efforts and has allowed our organization to scale the number of qualified contacts we pitch for each campaign we create and promote.
  • Media prospecting
  • Media reach
  • Monitoring
  • Template creation
  • Media Follow ups
  • Customer service
The Cision PRWeb media database is an industry leader. I can't imagine being able to find as many qualified contacts with any other service. Their database is well maintained and easy to use. Sending emails through the Cision platform is not my favorite aspect of Cision PRWeb. Many competing services are more user-friendly. I've sent feedback on improvements I've like to see made and the responses from the customer service team are not prompt.
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use PRWeb to announce exciting news pertinent to our community.
  • I am not pleased with the service.
  • We pay a great deal of money for the service and twice they have delayed releases to question our organization's information accuracy. Most recently, they questioned a grant receipt amount; they previously posted with no issue 2 years prior. I met their demand and had the information verified. Hours later they did not send the release delaying our reach impact. No reason why.
The service is suited for companies that have the cash to waste and a large staff to meet their requests and demands before they will send releases a business pays for.
Nicholas Zgorski | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use PRWeb to send press releases about company news, new product offerings from our suppliers, and of new equipment and capabilities that we purchase throughout the year. I am the only person in my company who is responsible for marketing duties therefore I am the sole user of PRWeb at Strouse. PRWeb allows us to create press releases and issue them on a mass scale to media outlets all over the country. Often times products or capabilities that are new to our industry are only targeted to certain geographic regions and we have the ability to focus on these regions with PRWeb.
  • PRWeb is fairly easy to use to issue press releases. They have a review process that will look over your release before submission although this review is not going to catch spelling and grammatical errors.
  • I've seen our press releases posted on industry relevant websites thanks to the reach that PRWeb provided us.
  • Although I never used it because we subscribed to a different service, PRWeb allows you to create and send email blasts within their OutMarket marketing platform.
  • I enjoy the ability to add a quote call out in the release.
  • I also like that images or videos can be added to the release.
  • While I was surprised with how well PRWeb could publish our content to many different outlets, I was disappointed that some of these outlets were not including links back to our website even through links were provided in the initial release. I found that on the most important sites where my PR was posted, that no links were sent back to our website.
  • PRWeb could do a better job at providing analytics for the release. They present some good info, not a lot, and the data that they do show you is not presented cleanly. I was most interested in the # of reads, impressions, and clicks my release received, and while they provided this information it was not in depth enough so that I could identify where the majority of this data was coming from.
  • Besides clicks, reads, and impressions, I was also interested in where my press release was being posted online. They provide an extensive list, but this list is so long and full of low quality websites that it is difficult to find the high quality sites that your PR is posted to.
  • More enhanced reporting dashboards.
PRWeb served it's purpose for Strouse by sending news out to new audiences although this never generated an overwhelming amount of traffic to our website. If you are only interested in issuing PR and getting your name out there, then I think PRWeb is a fine solution.
I find PRWeb less appropriate if you really want to drive traffic to your site through a press release in hopes of creating sales.
During the selection process I would be interested in knowing what sources my PR would be submitted to. Is it being submitted to relevant websites? Will links be provided on all of these websites? Ask yourself, will these websites benefit my companies SEO?
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