PRWeb

PRWeb is the online press-release distribution service operated by Cision US Incorporated in the United States. It sells self-serve release distribution through four published packages with stated public turnaround times. Its standing appears in the current Public Evidence Score shown in the infobox for round 2026-09-pes1, dated 7 September 2026.

Background

The operator is identified as Cision US Incorporated across the site footer, legal terms and about page.¹ The Virginia register records Cision US Incorporated as active and in good standing under number F2011296.² Its registered address is listed as 300 S Riverside Plaza in Chicago in the United States.² The Cision leadership page names nine senior officers, including the chief executive and finance chiefs.³ The domain was first captured by the Wayback Machine public archive in January 1998.⁴ One page still names older package titles that differ from the current pricing page.⁵

Services

The company sells press-release distribution as its core product for business and organisational announcements.¹ Four tiers cover Basic, Standard, Advanced and Premium releases with rising stated distribution scope.⁶ Standard and higher tiers add syndication across more than twelve hundred websites powered by PR Newswire.⁶ Advanced and Premium tiers add email distribution to one industry-curated journalist list for each release.⁶ The Premium tier adds a stated content recommendation network plus described blogger outreach routes.⁶ The service addresses organisations seeking online news visibility rather than third-party editorial link placements.⁵

Pricing

As of September 2026, the Basic release is listed at 120 United States dollars per release.⁶ The Standard release is listed at 245 dollars and the Advanced release at 360 dollars.⁶ The Premium release is listed at 480 dollars with the fastest stated turnaround of the four tiers.⁶ The Basic tier includes unlimited media assets, editorial keyword tagging and a stated 48-hour turnaround.⁶ The Advanced tier adds proofreading with a 24-hour turnaround, and Premium adds further distribution routes.⁶ The Why page still names older package titles that the pricing page no longer lists.⁵ Word limits for each package are not stated on the public pricing page as of September 2026.⁶ Multi-release interest is directed to a contact form rather than a published bundle price.⁷ Buyers start a free account before using the Select actions that begin an order.⁶

Terms and buyer protection

The public legal page links the Cision master subscription agreement and a services appendix.⁸ The company states that fees are non-cancellable and non-refundable unless an order states otherwise.⁹ No replacement cover duration for releases was found on the public terms pages as of September 2026.¹⁰ Turnaround is stated as 48 hours for lower tiers and 24 hours for higher tiers.⁶ No public window for cancelling before distribution was found on the pricing page as of September 2026.⁶ The terms name New York law with exclusive jurisdiction in New York state and federal courts.⁸ The published legal news guidelines set editorial standards for all submitted release content quality.¹¹ The older package names on one page were not found to contradict any legal promise.⁵

Reputation

As of September 2026, Trustpilot records 22 reviews with an average rating of 1.6.¹² The profile is unclaimed and carries no consumer alert in its public summary as of September 2026.¹² As of September 2026, G2 records 142 reviews with an average rating of 3.8.¹³ No alert banner was found in the public G2 summary on the access date.¹³ The profile shows no dated counts for the last twelve months.¹² The review sources consulted in the evidence are Trustpilot and G2, with no Clutch or Google figures recorded.¹³ Scores combine platform ratings by review count, with smoothing described on the methodology page.

Delivery evidence

Three live releases were found hosted on the provider's own wire with visible links.¹⁴ The samples sit on prweb.com rather than on third-party publisher domains, as the wire hosts its own releases.¹⁴ Further hosted releases from other issuers were also found live with visible outbound links.¹⁵ A third hosted release confirms the same pattern of wire-hosted publication with visible links.¹⁶ No named case study with checkable client specifics was opened in this evidence pass.⁵ The company describes distribution through its own wire and a stated wide syndication network.¹⁷

Operational footprint

The leadership page names nine senior people across executive, financial, marketing and product roles.³ Contact routes comprise a public contact form, a distribution helpline and stated support hours.⁷ Package turnaround is stated as 48 hours or 24 hours according to the chosen tier.⁶ The recorded office address is the stated Chicago address and matches the register entry.² LinkedIn headcount was not readable on the access date, so no staff total appears here.¹⁸

Value for money

No priced basket unit was found, since releases are not guest-post or niche-edit units.⁶ The methodology page describes the standardised price-basket comparison across guest-post and monthly package units. Content inclusions and turnaround vary by tier, but no stated authority floor is published.⁶

Penalties

No placement pre-approval route was needed, since no third-party placement product is publicly sold.¹ Promotional traffic language was found, but no guarantee of rankings, traffic or authority increase.⁵ The older package names on one page do not contradict any headline promise in legal text.⁹ The wire is marketed as its own distribution network, not as third-party editorial placements.¹⁷ No consumer alert or incentivised-review flag was found on either review profile as of September 2026.¹² Releases are not sold as backlinks, so no undisclosed nofollow default arises on the pricing page.⁶

Category evidence

A dedicated pricing page covers press-release distribution with stated scope, prices and legal terms.⁶ The Why page supports digital PR with journalist-list email and blogger routes on higher tiers.⁵ Journalist requests appear only as list email within bundles, without a standalone query product.¹ Live hosted releases serve as public samples for the press and digital PR categories.¹⁴

Frequently asked questions

What does PRWeb sell?

PRWeb is the online press-release distribution service operated by Cision US Incorporated in the United States. Four tiers cover Basic, Standard, Advanced and Premium releases with rising stated distribution scope.⁶ Standard and higher tiers add syndication across more than twelve hundred websites powered by PR Newswire.⁶ Advanced and Premium tiers add email distribution to one industry-curated journalist list for each release.⁶

What does a press release cost?

As of September 2026, the Basic release is listed at 120 United States dollars per release.⁶ The Standard release is listed at 245 dollars and the Advanced release at 360 dollars.⁶ The Premium release is listed at 480 dollars with the fastest stated turnaround of the four tiers.⁶

What refund or cancellation terms apply?

The company states that fees are non-cancellable and non-refundable unless an order states otherwise.⁹ No replacement cover duration for releases was found on the public terms pages as of September 2026.¹⁰ Turnaround is stated as 48 hours for lower tiers and 24 hours for higher tiers.⁶

Does PRWeb sell backlinks?

Releases are not sold as backlinks, so no undisclosed nofollow default arises on the pricing page.⁶ The wire is marketed as its own distribution network, not as third-party editorial placements.¹⁷ Three live releases were found hosted on the provider's own wire with visible links.¹⁴

Who runs PRWeb and what do reviews show?

The operator is identified as Cision US Incorporated across the site footer, legal terms and about page.¹ The Virginia register records the company as active under number F2011296 with a Chicago address.² As of September 2026, Trustpilot records 22 reviews at 1.6, while G2 records 142 reviews at 3.8.^{12 13}

How is this provider scored?

The standing shown is the current Public Evidence Score in the infobox beside the lead. The methodology page gives the full specification applied equally to every provider. All published figures there render automatically from stored round data, never from typed article prose.

History

This article was created from the round 2026-09-pes1 public evidence gathered in September 2026. All later changes to the underlying data appear automatically in the rendered revision log.

See also

• Best press release distribution services
• Best digital PR agencies
• Best journalist request link building services
• Press release links
• Methodology