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Press Hunt - Find the best journalists to cover you with our DB of 500k

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Press Hunt is a categorized database of 500,000 journalists perfect for DIY cold media outreach.

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Uday Singh
Story matching is fantastic and positively aligns incentives between journalists and people pitching. Love what you're doing here, but quick question: how does getting the consent of journalists factor in here? Can journalists opt out? Can journalists request to be included? Also, how did you get started?
Matt Henderson πŸš€
Maker
@udayrsingh If journalists didn't have stories to write about they wouldn't be journalists. While journalists giving consent to others to pitch them on stories makes sense, it doesn't mean that if they don't give consent they won't receive cold pitches. Or in other words, journalists (and influencers in general) will receive cold pitches if they want them or not (by nature of their position). So the question we're focused on is: how do we maximize the relevance of the stories that are pitched to the journalists? (The answer is better journo<>story matching algos.) However, journalists can opt out of Press Hunt. They can also request to be included. Soon they will be able to this directly in our UI (and also be able to manually tell us what kind of stories they want to be pitched). We started with a project called Aidem (www.aidem.network) that grew into one called Howler (www.howler.media). And Press Hunt is essentially (most of) the database we use for Howler's AI solution.
eboy
Don’t the journalists get annoyed with hundreds of people emailing them?
Matt Henderson πŸš€
Maker
@eboy Most journalists already get hundreds of emails a day. That’s why we’re working on helping startups find the most relevant ones to pitch to (so journalists receive less bad pitches)
Aaron Tsai
Maker
@eboy That's precisely what we aim to solve with this product. Our goal is to make sure journalists receive more relevant stories.
Scott Bowler
I'll probably end up paying for this service, but I find your statement extremely ironic because your method uses this exact approach: You can not deploy crawlers, scrapers, and/or bots to extract the data from this database. Using automated methods like these are prohibited. We have systems in place to scan for this behavior, and, if detected, will automatically result in an irreversible lifetime ban from Press Hunt without refund.
Matt Henderson πŸš€
Maker
@scotty_bowler Β―\_(ツ)_/Β―
Brona Molnarova
How can I try it for free?
Matt Henderson πŸš€
Maker
@bronamolnarova Go to the landing page, scroll down, then start searching πŸ™‚
Dainis Kanopa
quantity or quality?? I don't see a balance in such a big list!
Matt Henderson πŸš€
Maker
@dainiskanopa Cold media outreach is a game of numbers. Putting all the journalists in one DB so you can search through them to find the most relevant for you helps you find the quality (which isn't the same for everyone). Not a good idea to bulk spam 500k journalists at once though.
Mikayil Hajiyev
Before the product, the team/company should be trusted. Without my confirmation and knowledge, they have kept my subscription to both monthly and yearly (can you imagine absurdity?!) and charged yearly fee again, although last year we agreed on an exported data in exchange for 1 year subscription, no more. And now, you cannot cancel any plan yourself (!) and your repetitive emails are left without any response. Now wasting my time with chargeback requests and these bad reviews. Oh, and on top of above review, the data quality is bad - we could not see any benefit from the data. Disappointing product, disappointing service. Stay away.
Matt Henderson πŸš€
Maker
@mikayilhajiyev Hey Mikayil! Haven't received any emails from you. What's the email on your account? I'll look into this for you and get it sorted. You can cancel at any time by the way, were you not able to find the cancellation form? Happy to send that over to you once you provide your account email πŸ‘ (In case you don't want to share that here, you can email me direct at matt at presshunt dot co)
Mikayil Hajiyev
@juhaszhenderson wrote an email about it.
D Tyler Klune
beautiful. thx again
Shannon Bray
Where has this been all of my life
@juhaszhenderson Very bad experience using the Press Hunt's press release feature: β€” Their website promises 1-3 days turn-around: "the release will go out in 1-3 business days" and even pushes you to pay sooner to expedite: "The earlier you submit your release and pay the earlier we can get it distributed!" β€” In the support chat they assured 3-5 days β€” Later in the email said 5-7 days β€” They ended up blowing the 7 day deadline, totally screwed up our PR campaign
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