Signal AI acquires Memo for readership data [PR tech sum no. 64]
Muck Rack rolls out new AI features; Onclusive sews its acquisitions together; plus PR tech briefs and new vendor survey data April of this year will mark the seventh consecutive year I’ve provided steady summaries stemming from the world of...Read More
PR software vendors race to add AI features to comms tools [PR Tech Sum No. 63]
Meltwater and Muck Rack add features for LLM monitoring; Notified taps AI to customize your PR pitch and offers syndication of byline articles; Buzzstream has a ‘stupid simple’ product that might appeal to freelance PR and small shops The race...Read More
Chatting with the robots inside PR software [PR tech summary no. 62]
Meltwater rolls out chatbot interface; Public Relay hires Brendon O’Donovan; roundup of PR software briefs; new surveys of journalists Generative AI is changing search. That change is starting at the foundation. For example, traditional search was built on backlinks. Google understood...Read More
Will chatbots be the primary interface for PR software [PR Tech Sum No. 61]
Summary of news from PR software vendors: SignalAI rolls out a chatbot; Dazzle unveils 2.0; PRophet adds influencer marketing; Equiniti (EQ) to Acquire Notified; Semrush names Bill Wagner new CEO One of the biggest technology vendors in the communications space...Read More
New products and problems across PR software land [PR Tech Sum No. 60]
Three PR software providers are getting a jump on the new year with AI-infused products for professional communicators; Bloomberg reports on more struggles for Cision The challenge with generative AI is probability. It’s stringing words together based on how...Read More
The tide of news in PR software is slowing [PR Tech Sum 59]
Meltwater adds X / Twitter “resyndication rights”; Muck Rack pitches a “hit score” in latest release; mentions and recommended reading When I first started compiling these monthly summaries – back in April of 2019 – it was because no one...Read More
Generative AI inches along in public relations [PR Tech Sum 58]
The internet received similar levels of hype in 1999, receded with the dot-com bust and then came back with slow and steady progress; generative AI in public relations seems to be evolving in the same way If you can excuse...Read More
Verified badges for press releases [PR Tech Sum 57]
New product features from GlobeNewswire and Prowly; Dow Jones sues Cision, mentions: Stagewell, Staffbase, TrueScope and Meltwater; farewell Hanson & Hunt Regular readers might be interested to know I quietly started a podcast a few months back – The B2B...Read More
Farewell, Burrelles [PR Tech Sum 56]
Burrelles bids farewell to print media monitoring; PRophet adds Google AI models; Meltwater announces new AI features A few days ago, Burrelles ended its print monitoring services. While the company is still technically operating – it’ll monitor bid opportunities –...Read More
Will 2024 be a good year for internal comms? [PR Tech Sum 55]
Staffbase launches beta for new internal comms tool; Muck Rack team up with Shankman; Agility PR Solutions parent touts LLM deal with “big tech” In an unscientific observation, I’ve noticed a lot of companies are hiring internal communications. Traditionally, that...Read More
