AP News
Get your announcement published on AP News, and say so in writing.
Advanced ($799) names AP News in the deliverable. We write the release, you approve it, it goes out, and the live AP News URL lands in your coverage report. If it is missing, that outlet's portion is refunded at $100.
Fixed one-time prices. No retainer, no sales call. Publish-or-refund guarantee on everything we name.
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Advanced $799 one time
AP News named in writing, with a live URL in your report.
Street Insider
Morningstar
Guaranteed and named, each with a live URL in your coverage report: Yahoo Finance, Business Insider, AP News, MarketWatch, Street Insider, Morningstar. Plus a 500+ premium financial and news network and the full 300+ site Standard reach. If a named outlet is missing from your report, that outlet's portion is refunded at $100 per outlet.
- We write it, or you supply itA release drafted from your intake, approved by you before anything goes out.
- 5 to 14 business daysTurnaround starts when you approve the draft. Every live URL lands in one report.
- Optional add-on, +$299AP News plus a feature across the USA TODAY Network of 100+ real US daily papers.
Need something lighter? Standard is $199: 300+ site syndication indexed by Google and discoverable by AI, with a coverage report, in 2 to 5 business days. No individually named outlets.
Why AP News is the one people react to
The Associated Press is the wire other newsrooms pull from. Most people cannot name a single finance site off the top of their head, but everybody knows what AP is, and "distributed via AP News" is a sentence that lands in a sales call, a term sheet conversation, or a conversation with a bank.
Its audience is broad rather than financial. Editors, journalists, researchers and general readers, plus a long tail of people who arrive from search. For a company that is not investor-facing, AP News is usually the single most useful name in the set, because it does not require the reader to know anything about markets to be impressed by it.
What the AP News placement is, and is not
Your release is distributed to AP News through the wire and appears as a real page on apnews.com carrying your headline, your body copy, your quote and your boilerplate, timestamped and indexed.
It is not an AP reporter writing a story about you, and it is not the AP newsroom endorsing anything. Wire links are nofollow, as they are at every outlet in this market. What you are buying is a documented placement on a domain with more institutional trust than almost anything else you can point to, plus a URL that still works in two years when somebody checks your "as seen on" claim.
Advanced versus the +$299 AP News and US papers add-on
Two different things, and the difference matters. Advanced ($799) guarantees AP News itself, by name, as one of the six outlets, delivered as its own live URL.
The +$299 add-on also distributes via AP News and adds a feature across the USA TODAY Network of 100+ real daily newspapers, reaching an audience in the tens of millions, with ingestion into Bloomberg Terminals and Dow Jones Factiva. What is guaranteed there is the network distribution, not any one named paper. We will not promise you The Detroit Free Press or The Tennessean specifically, because which papers in the network carry a given release varies by story. Every live URL we can capture goes in your report either way.
What this costs elsewhere
An AP News placement bought as a standalone through an agency is typically quoted in the $1,500 to $3,000 range and up, usually bundled into a retainer and a strategy conversation before a word is written. A national release through a legacy wire runs into similar territory once you add a logo, a region and a word count.
Advanced is $799 flat and AP News is one of six names in it, with Yahoo Finance, Business Insider, MarketWatch, Street Insider and Morningstar, on top of a 500+ premium network and the full 300+ site Standard reach. Add the newspaper network for $299 if you want real daily papers underneath the wire name.
How it works
- Tell us the storyA short intake: what you're announcing, who you are, where people should click. Ten minutes.
- Approve the draftWe write the release (or use yours) and send it for approval. Nothing goes out until you say so.
- Get the reportDistribution runs, links go live, and every URL lands in one coverage report you can point to.
Who this is for
A good fit
- Companies that are not investor-facing and need a name anyone recognizes
- Launches, funding, expansions, hires, awards and community milestones
- Founders who want "distributed via AP News" as a line they can defend
- Anyone who wants real daily newspapers underneath the wire, via the $299 add-on
Not a fit
- You want an AP journalist to independently report on you
- You need a specific named newspaper guaranteed (the add-on guarantees the network, not one paper)
- You need dofollow links (wire placements are nofollow, by policy, everywhere)
- You have nothing to announce yet
Straight answers
How do I get a press release on AP News?
Through a wire that distributes to AP News. With Pressfront, Advanced is $799 one time, names AP News in the deliverable, and returns the live apnews.com URL in your coverage report. Fill in a ten-minute intake, approve the draft we write, and distribution runs. If AP News is missing from your report, that outlet's portion is refunded at $100. Turnaround is 5 to 14 business days from approval.
How much does it cost to get on AP News?
Advanced is $799 one time and AP News is one of six outlets guaranteed by name in it. Agencies typically quote $1,500 to $3,000 or more for an AP placement on its own, usually attached to a retainer. The optional add-on is $299 and layers the USA TODAY Network of 100+ real daily papers on top. Writing is included in every package and there is no sales call.
What is the difference between AP News on Advanced and the $299 add-on?
Advanced guarantees AP News itself as one of the six named outlets, delivered as its own live URL. The $299 add-on also distributes via AP News and adds a feature across the USA TODAY Network of 100+ real daily newspapers, plus ingestion into Bloomberg Terminals and Dow Jones Factiva. The add-on guarantees network distribution, not any individual named paper, because which papers carry a release varies by story.
Does an AP News press release mean the Associated Press wrote about me?
No. It means your release, in your words, was distributed to AP News through the wire and lives as a real indexed page there. An AP journalist independently reporting on your company is earned media, it takes months, and no honest service guarantees it. The placement is real and linkable, and we describe it accurately so you can too. Overstating it is how companies get caught out.
Which newspapers will my release appear in with the add-on?
The add-on distributes across the USA TODAY Network of 100+ real US daily newspapers, which includes titles like The Detroit Free Press, The Des Moines Register, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The Tennessean and The Columbus Dispatch, plus local ABC, NBC, FOX and CBS affiliate properties. Which papers carry a given release varies by story, so the guarantee is the network distribution rather than any one named title. Your report captures the live URLs.
AP News, named in writing, $799.
Add 100+ real US daily papers for $299. One report, one fixed price.
Honest fine print, because it matters: these are press-release distribution and syndication placements, not independent editorial coverage or a journalist writing about you. Outlet names describe where a release can appear or syndicate, based on relevance and each outlet's policies; they are not endorsements. Links are nofollow (the wires' standard policy) and still build brand-search visibility, "as seen on" credibility, and AI discoverability. Exact placements vary by story and availability. Our guarantee covers distribution, live links and a report, or your money back, not rankings, traffic, permanence, or AI citation, which no honest service can promise.