Over 12,000 agency and in-house public relations professionals across 40 countries trust coveragebook to easily showcase & share…
4.6
171 reviews
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Public Relations (PR) Software
Software for PR and communications teams to distribute press releases, monitor media coverage, and manage relationships with journalists and influencers.
Media and Influencer Targeting Software 28Media Monitoring Software 50Press Release Distribution Software 53
Muck rack is the AI communications platform where trusted data, human expertise, and embedded intelligence come together to drive…
4.6
195 reviews
Newswire.com is a results-driven press release distribution and media outreach platform that helps brands increase visibility…
4.4
517 reviews
Onclusive is the global benchmark for integrated media content, turning enriched data into actionable insight across every…
4.4
114 reviews
Accesswire is a newswire service standout that provides regional, national, and global news to thousands of clients worldwide…
4.3
225 reviews
Prezly is your dedicated CRM for PR. Manage your contacts, pitch journalists, and publish stories that get real coverage.
4.3
72 reviews
Prunderground.com is a press release distribution service which helps companies publish their announcements through Google news…
4.3
94 reviews
Signal AI is a leading reputation and risk intelligence company helping business leaders make sense of the outside world. Our…
4.3
114 reviews
As a pioneer in broadcast, podcast, and online video intelligence, tveyes partners with organizations to uncover and act on the…
4.3
927 reviews
Critical mention is now an onclusive product. Onclusive is a global partner for PR and communications success. We combine…
4.2
202 reviews
Prowly is a public relations software and an all-in-one workflow automation solution for PR professionals that supports users in…
4.2
100 reviews
Business wire, a berkshire hathaway company, has been the global leader in press release distribution and regulatory disclosure…
4.1
183 reviews
Buzzstream is an influencer outreach CRM and influencer search engine that helps SEO and PR teams build quality relationships…
4.1
161 reviews
Dow jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the…
4.1
54 reviews
Marketwired is now globenewswire by notified. Marketwired was a newswire service and distributor of company press releases…
4.1
84 reviews
Business wire, a berkshire hathaway company, has been the global leader in press release distribution and regulatory disclosure…
4.1
183 reviews
PR newswire, a cision company, is the premier global provider of multimedia platforms and distribution that marketers, corporate…
3.9
751 reviews
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3.9
1218 reviews
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3.8
135 reviews
These are the tools a PR or communications team uses to get a message out, track what happens to it, and prove it worked. Concretely: pushing a press release out through wire networks and media databases so it reaches outlets and picks up backlinks, building and maintaining lists of journalists and influencers by beat and outlet so pitches go to the right person, hosting a branded newsroom or press page where reporters can find assets without emailing you, and scanning print, broadcast, online and social sources to flag every mention, with sentiment and reach data attached so someone can report on it afterwards.
People end up here because the current way of doing PR has stopped scaling. A comms manager is keeping journalist contacts in a spreadsheet that's a year out of date, releases go out by mass email and half bounce, and coverage only gets noticed when a colleague forwards a screenshot of an article. There's no consistent record of what ran where, so when leadership asks what PR delivered this quarter, the answer is anecdotal. Often it coincides with a team growing past one person, taking on an agency, or having to justify a comms budget for the first time.
The providers here split roughly into three jobs, and most buyers end up needing more than one. Distribution tools get a release into wire feeds and journalist inboxes and are judged on reach, deliverability and how well they handle embargoes and assets. Monitoring and intelligence tools crawl coverage after the fact — the real differences are in source breadth (does it cover broadcast and print, or just online and social), how fast alerts arrive, and whether sentiment and share-of-voice analysis is genuinely useful or just a dashboard. Targeting tools are really contact databases, and quality depends on how the data is kept current — a self-serve directory ages fast, a researched one costs more but stays accurate.
When comparing options, look at whether contact data and monitoring are researched or crowd-sourced, whether reporting maps to metrics you can actually take to leadership rather than vanity figures like advertising value equivalency, how pricing scales (per release, per seat, or per mention volume), and whether the tool sits alongside your existing CRM and marketing stack or duplicates it.