Another PR Tech Startup Gets Venture Funding [PR Tech Sum]
Propel raises $4.5 million seed round while Vetted is acquired by ITK Information Services There’s a lot of private equity money sloshing around PR, but venture funding for a PR tech startup is rare. But then, last month, TrueScope, which...Read More
PR Agency Owner Started Making Homegrown PR Software; Today it’s a VC-backed Startup; Off Script No. 47: Zach Cutler Co-founder and CEO at Propel
Zach Cutler says he built a $1 million PR agency by age 28 and when he couldn’t find a PR software product for managing the work that he liked, he started developing one The idea that PR software is like...Read More
AI to Identify Story “Boundaries” and Filter Ads in Broadcast Monitoring [PR Tech Sum]
Isentia brings AI to broadcast monitoring; Propel adds social media monitoring; Muck Rack partners with non-profits for journalists; plus mentions and picks For a while, it was standard operating procedure among marketers to sprinkle the words “artificial intelligence” and “machine...Read More
8 Innovations in Public Relations Technology to Watch
Vendors are giving us reason to be optimistic about public relations technology – from AI that will predict your pitching success to more tangible PR measurement and attribution Years ago, I had the opportunity to be a PR director for...Read More
Meltwater Quietly Goes IPO [PR Tech Sum]
Meltwater lists on a Swedish stock exchange; startup Propel hits 50 customers; Vetted launches – it’s like HARO or ProfNet with no pitching Welcome to 2021! For the last couple years, I’ve been curating news from the PR technology community...Read More
$100 Million M&A for Internal Comms Tool: What’s Older is Still News in Marchlyjunetember [PR Tech Sum]
Internal comms tool SocialChorus acquired by a PE firm; Burton-Taylor digs up revenue numbers; Nexis Newsdesk Simplifies news search; Propel adds broadcast monitoring Welcome to the beginning of September. That’s hard to believe – that we are somehow closer to...Read More
Is PR Sending More Pitches During COVID-19? [PR Tech Sum]
Propel says PR is sending more pitches; Muck Rack adds podcast contacts and broadcast monitoring; several PR tech vendors publish survey results “Welcome to May. Or, maybe it’s March 77th. We’re not sure.” That’s how The Content Advisory opened up...Read More
PR Software Vendors Wrestle with Cybersecurity [PR Tech Sum]
Welcome to the first PR technology summary (PR tech sum) of 2020. For those new to it, the PR tech sum, it’s a monthly roundup of all the news coming from the vendor community that develops and sells PR technology....Read More
