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
See pricing plansCision does not have a free version and does not offer a free trial.
Free Version
No
Free Trial
No
Cision deployment and support
Support
- Business Hours
- Online
Deployment
- Cloud, SaaS, Web
Training
- In Person
- Live Online
- Webinars
- Documentation
Cision Features
Public Relations Software
- Article Author Database
- Auto-Update Media Lists
- Campaign Management
- Clippings Management
- Communications Calendar
- Contact Management
- Digital Asset Management
- Direct Mail Management
- Email Distribution
- Press Monitoring
- Press Release Builder
Reputation Management Software
- Campaign Management
- Gamification
- Response Management
- Review Generation
- Review Monitoring
- Sentiment Analysis
- Social Media Metrics
- Social Media Monitoring
Social Media Monitoring Software
- Audience Segmentation
- Competitive Analysis
- Configurable Alerts
- Customer Engagement
- Dashboard
- Impact Scoring
- Influencer Tracking
- Reputation Management
- Sentiment Analysis
- Trend Tracking
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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
Chris C.
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Overall Rating3 /5
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Ease of Use3 /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 10/07/2020
"Quality of information gathering seems to have gone down"
Comments: We use Cision to monitor media mentions and for their media database
Pros: I've used Cision on and off throughout my (long) career. It has always been 'on top of things'. I always felt it was innovative and did a good job of gathering media data.
Cons: I've found that the database isn't as user friendly as some of the other databases that are out there. I also have a subscription to a competitor and have found that Cision does not pull in the same articles as this competitor.
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- Reviewed on 10/07/2020
Jacqueline F.
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Overall Rating4 /5
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Ease of Use4 /5
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Features & Functionality5 /5
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Customer Support5 /5
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Value for MoneyUnrated
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- Reviewed on 10/11/2020
"Easy to use"
Comments: I use Cision on a daily basis to reach out to the media with brand press releases. It is reliable and very user friendly.
Pros: I like that you can populate targeted results very easily!
Cons: I wish the contacts were updated. I also wish we could edit lists once they are created.
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- Reviewed on 10/11/2020
Christine J.
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Overall Rating4 /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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Likelihood to Recommend
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- Reviewed on 14/03/2019
"A publicist's dream - perfect for researching media contacts"
Comments: We use Cision for all of our pitching needs, and it's an invaluable tool for us. I've built lists for specific media campaigns using Cision's "covering..." function, and found niche outlets that I wouldn't have otherwise found. Overall, Cision is a great one-stop for most publicity needs.
Pros: I love how easy it is to look up an outlet and find the correct contact to reach out to with a particular pitch. It's also extremely easy to look up outlet circulations, which we research all of the time in order to maximize visibility. Cision is normally pretty up-to-date with different outlets, which is impressive in a constantly shifting media landscape.
Cons: Sometimes the search requirements can be a little too specific, and an outlet has to be typed in a very specific way to appear (i.e. with or without "the" in front, etc.) It'd be great if there were suggested terms, similar to Google, so that if you don't know the exact spelling of a last name you could still track down the contact.
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- Reviewed on 14/03/2019
