Hello all! Glad to be back on this blog, for all of you that have been on my other blog, thank you for the following.
AND NO - don't correct my grammar! I wanted
the site to be more approachable for everyone, so colloquial english
now! (there was a joke in there)
YES, I have cleaned house and removed a good deal of all the old posts - most were "news of the day" discussions.
The skinny on : AMDHeadlineNews.com AMD Headline News
Well I had so many request come across my desk about
this company, I decided to do my usual in-depth investigation and post it to
all of my blogs.
I
won't keep you in suspense! So upfront, yes, they are legitimate. Formed
in 1998 AMDHeadlineNews.com
They are a very closed news industry type of company
who performs subcontracting for newsrooms, industry services for news related
entities, and original content news streams.
Since the majority of the info requests I received
lately are from small business, and other PR firms asking me about the article
series they were contacted about, my answer is, if they want to talk to you
about writing a positive story about you, then you just got very lucky!
I have been hearing that they are finally reaching out
to the public for interviews, in reference a large article project involving
local business, and it is pretty interesting from what my internal sources are
reporting to me.
Usually they are just reporting and generating news
form the field, but this looks like a nice opportunity to hear what is going
on with private business in the US.
What I do not like about them: They
really should open their doors to public PR firms. They are really tight when
it comes to their news clients, and if your paper is too small they actually
will turn you down from PAYING THEM to get stories! No clue why that is.
They are one of the few firms that can actually put a
story in the hands of multiple editors, and have the editors pay and thank
them for it! LOL I know a slew of PR firms that would love to get into their
system a PR companies wet dream!!!!. And we were one of them -
read on!
I have personal experience with
them from when they were just known as AMD News -our firm was
attempting to get on their client roster and were refused -
because we were not an official "newsroom" or editor. (publication,
or TV entity).
Admittedly we wanted to use their network to get PR
out, (LOL-) but they just don't deal with anyone outside of their circle.
To answer the main questions I received :
1. Yes, they are legit, and have been around a
very long time.
2. They do not charge for articles or interviews:
they do not charge anything, nor sell press releases
Don't get me started on companies that pretend to want to write a piece on you, then pop goes the weasel, out comes a press release charge. - This is NOT that type of company, and I will be posting a list of pretend news firms within the month.
3. No, their reporter's do not put their name on their articles, so don't look for a reporter's past work - It is actually the whole point of their subcontracting, to allow other news outlets to just run with their stories, and tag them under their own moniker.
PLEASE
- ANYONE that has had any experience, good or bad, feel free to post. -
NO fake posts or assumption/conjecture statements.
And
dont correct my grammar or spelling - I don't care!
I had a good experience with them on that business story. I wasn't asked to pay any money. Interviewed and saw my article.
ReplyDeleteIt was real. I had an interview and had it published in some of my local papers. They are a news distributor. No one charged me anything.
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