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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Newswire

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AACCESS Newswire is a press release distribution platform that helps clients increase their online visibility and web presence. It provides premier syndication to leading news outlets. The solution aims to empower clients with a variety of solutions to suit any budget.

    $299

    per month

    Cision PRWeb

    Score3.4 out of 10
    N/ACision 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.

    $99

    per news release

    Pricing
    NewswireCision PRWeb
    Editions & Modules
    Newswire Digital
    $299
    single PR
    Newswire Digital Plus
    $549
    single PR
    Newswire State
    $599
    single PR
    Newswire National
    $799
    single PR
    Newswire Canada
    $899
    single PR
    Newswire UK
    $899
    single PR
    Newswire Financial
    $899
    single PR
    Newswire Asia
    $1,299
    single PR
    Newswire Latin America
    $1,299
    single PR
    Newswire Global
    $1,999
    single PR
    Basic
    $99
    per news release
    Standard
    $205
    per news release
    Advanced
    $305
    per news release
    Premium
    $405
    per news release
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    NewswireCision PRWeb
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsBulk discounts available—
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    Community Pulse
    NewswireCision PRWeb
    Considered Both Products
    Issuer Direct Corporation
    Chose Newswire
    Newswire makes much more sense than Cision PRWeb, in my opinion. Costs are flat versus recurring monthly or annual costs. In our business, our press releases are timed based on work completion and company events that are sometimes difficult to plan, so Newswire allows us to pay …
    Incentivized
    Chose Newswire
    Cision PRWeb had a lot going for it--including the cost, which was quite exorbitant in my opinion. They offered package pricing, which lowered the overall cost based on the number of your anticipated releases, but for me, it was still cost-prohibitive. Newswire's pricing …
    Incentivized
    Chose Newswire
    We find NewsWire so much easier to use and it seems to actually get reach. In the past, we didn't seem to get any actual visibility on our releases, but NewsWire shows us who read our release and where.
    Incentivized
    Chose Newswire
    They are competitive in pricing and offer similar products. Each platform has their own key features though that they excel in.
    Incentivized
    Chose Newswire
    They all seem the same to me, just with varying interfaces and pricing. I went with Newswire just because I've used them in the past and have had a good experience. I am sure Cision is also good as it's an industry leader. The markets are a little varied, too, but I have not …
    Incentivized
    Chose Newswire
    Newswire is more economical. Cision is kind of viewed as the leader, but for "the rest of us," Newswire makes more sense to enter into earned placements.
    Incentivized
    Chose Newswire
    Newswire is affordable compared to the other products in this segment and very user-friendly. The onboarding process is quick, simple, and smooth and the product is entirely self-serve. Others have strict guidelines for content review and take time and support intervention for …
    Incentivized
    Chose Newswire
    Newswire is much easier to use and the interface is much more intuative. We always struggled with the targeting in Cision, but that is made simple with Newswire.
    Incentivized
    Chose Newswire
    Better value and easier to use
    Incentivized
    Chose Newswire
    Newswire hands-down beats these other platforms based on their unique price-to-feature-set ratio. We couldn't find a better value and user experience on any of these other platforms when we went through our discovery and evaluation process. All in all, we are very happy with …
    Incentivized
    Chose Newswire
    We have been a loyal customer of Newswire because it is easy to use, and we are able to pay for press releases using "credits." This makes sense for us because we do not send too many press releases per year, as it all depends on the partnerships we develop.
    Incentivized
    Chose Newswire
    Night and day, so glad we found Newswire. Never had an account manager before and Tori has been very honest and genuine when helping us.
    Incentivized
    Chose Newswire
    I believe they're owned by the same company. Cision offers more robust release products, but they were too much bang for what we needed. We just needed to get the word out and get inbound links and populated some SERPs. For that Newswire was plenty good, would use it again.
    Incentivized
    Chose Newswire
    Newswire is more affordable than most of the products that I’ve used in the past. One of the things about Newswire is that you don’t need to have a subscription to use it and the cost is not prohibitive. They still offer good distribution services. They don’t have additional …
    Incentivized
    Chose Newswire
    Newswire provides a good mix of affordability and reach. Some of the bigger players have slightly more reach, but you pay much more to put out releases. Some of the smaller services have much smaller networks and though the price is lower, you don't get much out of it. Newswire …
    Incentivized
    Chose Newswire
    Newswire is great for distribution. I haven't used much other functionality within the tool, so there are listening capabilities in Meltwater that were pretty useful. And for Cision, their monitoring capability is pretty nice. Newswire would be more powerful in my use cases if …
    Incentivized
    Chose Newswire
    The others are just so clunky. Newswire has a contemporary look, which is really the main benefit we cared about. This is because for our category and market, the distribution/syndication services that all of these providers tout are highly irrelevant.
    Incentivized
    Chose Newswire
    Newswire stacks up poorly against Cision. However, we opted for Newswire as it offered automatic placement on Cision's PR Newswire for a much lower fee than going directly to Cision.
    Incentivized
    Chose Newswire
    To be honest, they are very similar in many ways. Business Wire, for example, is more focused on business news as opposed to other types of news. Newswire has a more general and broader application. Other news services like Bloomberg are only interested if the company is …
    Incentivized
    Cision
    Chose Cision PRWeb
    Better overall network and experience with Cision PR Web. The attention to the local media and their willingness to update the database on our request is what gave us the level of trust that we had in Cision PRWeb.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cision PRWeb
    We found Cision PR Web to be a bit more user-friendly and we like that it allows you to upload photos.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cision PRWeb
    It is not an "either-or" situation. If a company really wants to put a release out on the wire, one service might be better suited for it than the other. For when a company wants to target certain countries or vertical markets (e.g. Latin America), PR Newswire would be the …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    User Ratings
    NewswireCision PRWeb
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (106 ratings)
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.2
    (8 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.8
    (106 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (7 ratings)
    1.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.9
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor post-sale
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
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