Today it's more difficult than ever to find, vet and cultivate the best journalists and social media influencers to tell your story
Unless you have Cision Communications Cloud Media Relationship Management
Cision combines the industry's largest media database with robust relationship management. You get carefully researched, fully vetted and pitchable journalists, outlets, influencers and opportunities at your fingertips, on your desktop, in one place. Our platform makes it easy to target the best contacts for reaching your target audience—and to launch personalized, integrated, data-driven campaigns that win your organization the coverage it deserves.
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850,000+ Pitchable Media Contacts, Journalists and Other Outlets
190,000 Journalists Actively Seeking Sources
Pitch directly to journalists who are actively seeking sources for stories they’re writing now and build lasting relationships for the future.
1.18+ Billion Social Influencer Profiles
224 Countries and Territories
Find the right contacts based on audience and performance
It’s not just about finding more contacts—it’s about finding the right contacts. Cision gives you the tools you need, backed by robust profiles and data analytics to quickly find journalists with the right skills, experience and audience to tell your story.
Filter contacts by topic, geography, type of contact, publication and more
Search by keyword, view recently published articles—learn who’s writing about what matters to your brand right now
See what content journalists and influencers are posting to social media
Zero in on the ideal media contacts—your ‘go-to’ list of journalists and influencers for specific topics and campaigns
Build productive relationships with media that matter
Cision gives you a management tool with the additional information you need to make a great first impression, and to fine-tune pitches and follow-ups for each contact. With all the challenges that journalists face, you can be their source of truth.
Some of the challenges that journalists face:
- Maintaining credibility as a trusted news sources/combating accusations of “fake news”
- Lack of staffing and resources
- Declining advertising and circulation revenues
As a PR and Communications expert, you can build a bond that is more authentic and less of a transactional relationship. Here’s how you can do that with the best database relationship management tool in the market:
- Align your pitch to the content your media contact writes about—connecting the dots around how your story aligns with their focus.
- Once you find the right contact for your content, deliver it when and how each journalist or influencer specifies.
- Generate personalized email pitches at scale—tailoring content for each recipient.
- See email metrics and develop follow-up lists based on responses.
Create lasting relationships, and never miss a follow-up
Cision Media Relationship Management is like a CRM system for media contacts.
Add details of every interaction to each contact's record. Automate follow-ups based on specific criteria—like contacts who opened but didn't click on your pitch. Cision keeps a complete record of all your team's journalist and influencer communications, automatically.
Cision Media Relationship Management is just one part of the Cision Communications Cloud, our integrated platform for understanding your media landscape, tracking audience reach and behavior, measuring outcomes, and proving the value of strategic communications. When you combine our management platform with our media monitoring and analytics you can refine your communications and marketing strategy, expand influencer marketing, find and capture new contacts in any workflow and use dashboards to keep a pulse on impact.
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