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
Exclusive: Burrelles to “exit the media monitoring business” after 130 years; the venerable newspaper clipping service shutters;
Burrelles President Cathy Del Colle says the company aims to keep some services open; existing Burrelles customers may choose to transfer media monitoring services to Agility PR Solutions; [Last updated 6/12/24 11:23 ET] I heard rumors today (6/11/24) that the...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
What does the silence in PR software speak? [PR Tech Sum 54]
It’s been pretty quiet this month in PR software; that’s starting to look like it’s going to be characteristic for the year On the first Tuesday of every month, I sort through the news from the PR software community in...Read More
Today, we say goodbye to HARO [PR Tech Sum 53]
Top stories in today’s summary of PR news: Cision shutters the HARO brand; Agility adds “Intelligent Insights”; PR tech company replaces employees with AI On the first Tuesday of every month, I sort through all the news I can find...Read More
The pace of AI announcements in PR software slows [PR Tech Sum 52]
Propel rolls our new UX, AI plugins for email; Meltwater signs Microsoft for monitoring; Onclusive wrestles with a cyberattack and outage The last 60 days have been pretty slow in terms of news from the PR software vendor community. I...Read More
Propel is a viable alternative for all-in-one PR software [PR Tech Briefing]
This PR software company was started by a former PR agency owner; pitch analytics is where Propel really shines I have a soft spot for startups because I’ve been employed or consulted with many of them over my career. In...Read More
Is this goodbye to the HARO brand? [PR Tech Sum 51]
In this edition: Cision silently rebrands HARO; Meltwater’s dealmaking continues; PR tech briefs and mentions content picks There have been so many private equity (PE) deals among PR technology companies, that it’s easy to lose track of who owns what....Read More
A quick look back at 18 PR statistics summarizing the profession in 2023
Pitching media remains a challenge; Twitter is still a journalist favorite; PR dabbled with generative AI as businesses worried about misinformation Regular readers know I publish a weekly post every Tuesday. Many of the things I choose to write about...Read More
