Database

Comparison
Service

Link

Price

Free Trial? Strengths

Weaknesses

Ideal Project Uses

Pressrush (2011)

https://www.pressrush.com

$49 (50 emails per month)

$99 (unlimited emails)
$1,188 per year

Yes

No mass search to add many authors or journalists at once

Constant emails from Ville about ways to use program

Small project with VERY specific topics

Claims to send out relevant information to relevant sources

Presslister

http://www.presslister.com

$49.99 per month personal ($600 per year)

$299.99 per month agency ($3,600 per year)

Yes

Vocus/Cision

http://www.cision.com/us/

$3,000 to $8,000 a year

Yellowbooks Leadership Directory

https://www.leadershipdirectories.com $795 to $5,650 per year
Yes
$1,650 per year with one person logged in at once

Meltwater

http://www.meltwater.com

$5,000 a year

Yes

MuckRack

https://muckrack.com

$199 per month ($2,388 per year)

Yes

Just Reach Out

BuzzStream

https://justreachout.io
http://www.buzzstream.com

$65 per month (50 journalists per month)

$24 per month (1,000 contacts, 30 searches)

Yes
Card

GroupHigh

http://www.grouphigh.com

$800 per month ($9,600 per year)

Demo

Built-in media/press monitoring

Direct emails and tracking system
No annual contract
Article author database
Auto-update media lists
Contact management
Alerts options
Filter searches by region, outlet, relevance, timing
Searches through actual articles
Includes worldwide contacts for same price
Billing feature
Large query searches
Very interested in what the client needs specifically
Allows for wigggle room with capablities and pricing
Large depth of information
Accuracy of the industry
Media research team that maintains relationships with contacts
Provides specific influencial people and organizations
Government affairs, sales and marketing, business development
Research, advancement and development
Recruiting and career placement
Great contacts and most phone numbers and emails present
Updated daily; must be verified by the end source
Biolographical info, contact tips and career history
Alerts options
Mobile Access (email and phone numbers hot linked)
Explore by media outleta and by beat
Seach by contacts or sources
Filter by roles, beat and location
Automatically link to social media pages
Media list capability
Key word search by media monitoring and not contact profile
Unlimited emails
Track emails (who read, opened, did not responded to them)
Alert options
Media list capability
Twitter feed directly on the platform on journalist bio
Track links to see how coverage is doing on a campaign
Uses journalists social media and artciles to match
Price is really good
Pricing good
Creative and different set-up for searching contacts
Much more in-depth search of choosing prospects
Use for continuation of project list, not a new list starter
15 million blogs to search for the right contacts
Option to import contacts
List each contact with specific details

Quality of Contacts

Ease of Use

Support Staff

Very clear and easy to use

Help button provides excellent support

Free trial would not work not a good sign for the website
Continuous problems with the webpage just during the free trial
**need to add credit card for free trial***
Unappealing set-up
Large query searches
Many email addresses missing
Requires different prices for national or worldwide contacts
Organization of page was like Vocus

Large quantity of contacts needed

Government contacts focus

High quality contacts

Looked more confusing and not as intuitive Waiting to hear back about free trial
Communication between coworkers is off
Two people tried scheduling meetings with me
Online support staff button on page
Email support staff button on page

Only go through contacts once a year

CONSTANT marketing phone calls to get my membership

Larger quantity of contacts

Looks simple and straightforward

Bad support staff

Not good for smaller, local sources

Focuses on social media projects mixed with small projects

Very intuitive and clean layout

Support button top corner

Requires a credit card in order to get the free trial

Requires a credit card in order to get the free trial
Not good for creating lists from scratch
No media database

Small startup companies

Does not have a wide range of media outlets, only bloggers

Very expensive

Specific to searching for bloggers

Looks intutitive and easy to use

Using websites to choose contacts with specific, small projects
Only projects that already have media lists and wat to manage
Only bloggers