Who Uses Cision?
Whether you're a communications professional or a member of the media, Cision brings together all the elements you need to get your story out.
What Is Cision?
Cision Ltd. (NYSE :CISN) is a leading global provider of earned media management software and services to public relations and marketing communications professionals. Cision's software allows modern communicators to target key influencers, distribute strategic content, track and measure meaningful impact through text and images. Cision has over 4,000 employees with offices in 15 countries throughout the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. For more information about its award-winning products and service.
Cision Details
Cision
http://www.cision.com
Founded 1867
Cision Pricing Overview
Cision does not have a free version and does not offer a free trial.
Free Version
No
Free Trial
No
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Cloud, SaaS, Web
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Cision Reviews for UK Users
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Heather W.
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Overall Rating5/5
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Ease of Use5/5
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Features & Functionality5/5
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Customer Support5/5
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Value for Money5/5
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- Reviewed on 06/11/2019
"One stop shop for PR professionals"
Comments: Use it as a daily tool for media and influencer outreach.
Pros: You get contact info from journalist that you wouldn't be able to find online. And they all have opted in. Great search tool to find new outlets and great monitoring service.
Cons: Expensive software but you are purchasing a lot of contact information. Great if you have a big PR initiative, otherwise it's hard to validate the expense
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- Reviewed on 06/11/2019
Bruce F.
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Overall Rating4/5
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Ease of Use4/5
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Features & Functionality4/5
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Customer Support4/5
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Value for Money4/5
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- Reviewed on 08/04/2019
"An integral tool for social media marketing"
Comments: We have an opinion that this service is a great solution for social media marketing. It can help you to build new contacts, make researches and communicate with clients. Moreover, it is easy to use, so you need to try it for sure.
Pros: There is no doubt that Cision is a perfect tool for marketing. This service offers the easiest way to find a particular influencer. With a help of a special menu, you can choose a precise category and choose a proper category in order to get an exact outcome. Moreover, it offers to pick up a theme or a location in order to find a person that is connected with the same informational field as you do. Cision is a great service for social media marketing. It has a solid database, flexible and user-friendly interface and many useful tools for marketing. With its assistance, you can turn into reality different marketing strategies within a second.
Cons: Unfortunately, Cision isn’t perfect. An automated search doesn’t work properly, so you to rely only on your personal research. Despite the fact that Cision has a profound database, it still lacks the data itself. Sometimes, their researches can be a little bit slow and there is no chance to find a particular person that you really want to find. Moreover, if you don’t know the right name of the influencer, you won’t find him or her at all.
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- Reviewed on 08/04/2019
Eli S.
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Overall Rating5/5
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Ease of Use4/5
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Features & Functionality5/5
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Customer Support3/5
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Value for Money5/5
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- Reviewed on 09/06/2020
"Great features"
Comments: Constantly improving experience for customers and would recommend.
Pros: Reporter database constantly updated, new features including social accounts and connections to other reporters covering similar topics are great
Cons: Sometimes can be hard to find niche outlets or outlets without clearly defined roles for staff to pitch
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- Reviewed on 09/06/2020
David Z.
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Overall Rating3/5
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Ease of Use3/5
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Features & Functionality3/5
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Customer Support5/5
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Value for Money3/5
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- Reviewed on 22/02/2019
"Ok media database, good monitoring, and everything else is disappointing."
Comments: Ok media database, good monitoring, and everything else is disappointing.
Pros: The Cision database is fairly complete. If you know who you are looking for, you can usually find their name and contact information there. The news monitoring function — alerts which track news published online — does a fairly good job of giving me a heads-up about coverage. If you want to track coverage by source type against particular names or keywords, Cision monitoring will sometimes produce sources that Google alerts will not, and it will usually beat the alerts by a day or so.
Cons: Reporter discovery is hard. Beat designations within Cision seem very rudimentary and “thick”— reporters listed as “Technology,” for instance, might cover “artificial intelligence” or “embedded analytics” or “machine learning” or some combination of the three. Given the fact that an off-beat pitch can easily result in a communications representative being added to a reporter’s spam list, it’s critical that you know exactly what a reporter is writing about, or risk having no way to contact a reporter ever again. For media search, I needed Boolean search. Cision promised that functionality but, without getting too far into the limitations of their archiving, their provider agreements, and their search functionality, I found it a very clunky and inefficient way to search coverage on the fly. It's also super frustrating to be told that a publication is "in the database" but isn't searchable, because of licensing covenants.
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- Reviewed on 22/02/2019
Amy R.
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Overall Rating5/5
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Ease of Use5/5
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Features & Functionality5/5
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Customer Support5/5
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Value for Money5/5
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- Reviewed on 26/03/2020
"Media Friendly Platform "
Comments: Very pleasant experience and found a lot of useful tools, such as list building and more
Pros: The product is a publicists' dream, making it easier than ever to find media contacts and new outlets
Cons: The platform can be slow, there isn't much mobile presence and sometimes the contacts and insights are outdated
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- Reviewed on 26/03/2020
