Newswire vs. Medianet

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Newswire
Score 8.2 out of 10
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ACCESS 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
single PR
Medianet
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Medianet is an Australian PR platform that helps to turn stories into headlines by enabling users to send eye-catching press releases, find relevant journalists and track the success of campaigns. Medianet provides PR solutions for individuals to find journalists, send press releases, promote press releases as well as track PR success. They also provide a range of media insights, analysis and reports to clients as well as Journalists solutions and…N/A
Pricing
NewswireMedianet
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
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
NewswireMedianet
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
NewswireMedianet
Considered Both Products
Newswire
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.
Chose Newswire
They are competitive in pricing and offer similar products. Each platform has their own key features though that they excel in.
Chose Newswire
They're all the same, but Newswire connects with our SAAS tool, making it an easy choice.
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I am not sure if this is still the case, but I recall that PR Newswire was quite a lot more expensive without justifying the additional spend for our use case.
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 …
Chose Newswire
Way more cost-effective for basically the same set of features and capabilities. Newswire has better customer support also.
Chose Newswire
I chose Newswire over PR Newswire because I have had multiple bad experiences with Cision and PR Newswire. The experiences were bad enough and costly enough to our company that I wouldn't go back to anything with them in the future. I found that Newswire was perfect for our …
Chose Newswire
News wire has more publications than PR web, although PR web was cheaper, newswire had a lot more websites on their list
Chose Newswire
We like the support team better. They are better trained and less arrogant than their competitors.
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.
Chose Newswire
PR Newswire is good for specific audiences; we use Newswire as part of the marketing channel mix. We found Newswire is more easy to use completed to others and its audience segmentation carters for different audiences and this is great to have another services
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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 …
Chose Newswire
24-7 Press Release was a cheaper option (at least, when I used it), but there wasn't nearly the sort of visibility on the distribution once things were published. PR Newswire had a very extensive process for creating an account, and the last time I worked with them, I had …
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We have not used another product that's similar to Newswire in the past.
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.
Chose Newswire
I've tried a couple similar services and they are all somewhat similar. I think it's easier to target with Newswire. I would use them again.
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 …
Chose Newswire
I’ve never used any other service because I haven’t had to! I’ve gotten inquiries to use other services in the past, but I am 100% satisfied with Newswire as my go-to tool for press release submission. I’ve also recommended several friends to switch over to Newswire, and they …
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 …
Chose Newswire
Newswire is more expensive. However, their platform is cleaner and easier to use, their review process is much more thorough, and their distribution is a far wider range and, in my experience, much more targeted to the types of publications we want to be in. Additionally, we …
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.
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Small Businesses
Cision Communications Cloud
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Score 6.9 out of 10
Newswire
Newswire
Score 8.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Cision Communications Cloud
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Score 6.9 out of 10
Newswire
Newswire
Score 8.2 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 6.9 out of 10

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User Ratings
NewswireMedianet
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
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Likelihood to Renew
9.2
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Usability
8.8
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Availability
10.0
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Performance
8.0
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Support Rating
8.8
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Implementation Rating
8.9
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Configurability
5.0
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Ease of integration
5.0
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Product Scalability
7.0
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Vendor post-sale
5.0
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5.0
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User Testimonials
NewswireMedianet
Likelihood to Recommend
Personally, I see no difference between Newswire and other press release services. This one's available with our current PR SAAS solution, there's nothing wrong with it, and pricing is usually somewhat competitive. These days nothing works as well as actual media relations, so Newswire comes in handy for just having a solid link for a press release and getting the SEO on backlinked sites.
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Pros
  • Communication via video calls and emails. They were responsive to any questions we had.
  • Provided all the information we needed to make the decision to move forward. They had the materials around what publications and news outlets they could get into for us.
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Cons
  • The editorial process was always very hard on our sale releases. Even if we followed the same structure we used to with PR Wire they would flag it as advertorial.
  • The option for video is nice but would be better to actually embed it into a part of the release versus just floating at the bottom.
  • Would be interesting for them to share more industry-specific releases or give the option to only get emails on specific industries. The E-blasts are always too general.
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Likelihood to Renew
Simply put, they are a great team, excellent support and a platform that is so seamless to use. Great reporting content, can do attitude and a solution / product that works. They are an established company and there are many 'new companies' out there claiming to offer a better service but they lack the depth and capabilities of the Newswire platform
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Usability
Simple step-by-step process to get your news out to the world. Easy to understand process and explanation as you go through the steps. Each upgrade does have a charge, but it's pretty visible. Once you get familiar with their platform and systems, it becomes fairly easy to use to get your news published. It's also nice how quickly you are able to get the news out and published in the places you choose.
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Reliability and Availability
It was available for immediate use
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Performance
It seemed to be okay overall an we plan on continuing to use it as we expand
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Support Rating
When we have needed support, the Newswire support team has responded quickly and been very clear about what we need to know. We have never had a significant issue and they have been very helpful at cleaning up any points of confusion on our part. I always feel like they have my back.
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Implementation Rating
It is a very simple product to get started using, particularly for press releases. I have no used the other functionality so I can't say for sure how easy or difficult that might be, but my guess is that the way the platform is built makes it easy for anybody to get started.
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Alternatives Considered
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 traded on one of the stock markets.
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Scalability
I have not really used this software feature to the level to scale at this point
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Return on Investment
  • In a new technology area, Newswire has helped us build brand recognition.
  • During the pressures put on Healthcare over the past COVID periods our presence in the Marketplace have been difficult to maintain. Newswire has been key in our efforts.
  • When medical imaging AI tools exploded on the scene three years ago, there were over 150 vendors at conferences. Those that didn't promote with tools like Newswire and now gone.
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