Blew $400 on a press release distribution service

Jumped on a deal from one of those big press release wire services. Thought it would get our product launch in front of real journalists. Paid for the premium package with guaranteed pickups. Two weeks later nothing. Zero coverage. Just ended up on some spam news aggregator sites. Felt like I threw the money straight into a fire. Anyone else get burned by these distribution services?

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richardk264d ago

Read somewhere that most of those pickups are just automated bots, not real journalists.

cole_walker263d ago

Even if some are bots, who cares? Most people just scroll past them anyway. Doesn't seem like that big of a deal to me.