MarketWatch
Get your announcement published on MarketWatch, documented with a URL.
Advanced ($799) names MarketWatch in writing alongside five other outlets. We write the release, you approve it, it goes out through the financial wire, and the live MarketWatch URL comes back in your coverage report.
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
MarketWatch 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.
Who reads MarketWatch, and why they matter to you
MarketWatch sits in the Dow Jones family alongside The Wall Street Journal and Barron's, and its readers are the active end of the market. Retail and semi-professional investors, finance-adjacent operators, advisors and the people who check a company before they take a meeting about it.
That makes MarketWatch the investor-credibility name in the set, in a way Business Insider is the customer-credibility name. If you are raising, if you are talking to a bank, or if your buyers are finance people, a MarketWatch URL in your deck is read differently than a general business site. It is the domain name doing the work, and the domain is the part you are buying.
What lands on MarketWatch, exactly
Your release is syndicated onto the MarketWatch domain through the financial wire, as a real timestamped page with your headline, body, quote and boilerplate, indexed like anything else published there.
It is not a MarketWatch columnist analysing your company, and the links inside it are nofollow, which is standard wire policy at every outlet you can buy. What you get is a page on a Dow Jones property describing your business in your own accurate words, which is a different and much more purchasable thing than editorial. Real, documented, linkable, and honestly labelled.
Realistic expectations, said out loud
A MarketWatch placement is not a traffic channel. Very few people will find your company by browsing MarketWatch, and any vendor implying otherwise is guessing. What it does reliably is three things.
Brand search. Somebody searches your company name and the results page has a MarketWatch entry on it, not just your own site. Credibility on demand. A link you send when a prospect or investor asks who you are. AI discoverability. Answer engines build their picture of a company from third-party pages, and this is one. We put you on the sites they read. What any engine decides to say is outside anyone's control, including ours, and we will not pretend otherwise.
Buying MarketWatch alone versus Advanced
Financial placements on Dow Jones properties are typically quoted at $1,500 to $3,000 or more when bought standalone through an agency or reseller, and the quote usually assumes a retainer and a call before a word gets written.
Advanced is $799, one time, and MarketWatch is one of six outlets named in the deliverable, with Yahoo Finance, Business Insider, AP News, Street Insider and Morningstar. Underneath that sits a 500+ premium financial and news network and the full 300+ site Standard reach. One report at the end with every live URL. If a named outlet is missing, that outlet's portion is refunded at $100.
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 raising capital, talking to banks, or selling to finance buyers
- Funding rounds, financial results, expansions and market-relevant milestones
- Founders who want an investor-grade domain in the deck without a retainer
- Anyone building the third-party pages Google and AI answer engines read
Not a fit
- You want a MarketWatch columnist to independently analyse your company
- You are buying it for direct traffic (that is not what this does)
- You need dofollow links (wire placements are nofollow, everywhere)
- You have no announcement, just a desire for a logo
Straight answers
How do I get a press release on MarketWatch?
Through a financial wire that syndicates to MarketWatch. With Pressfront you buy Advanced at $799, complete a short intake, approve the draft we write, and distribution runs. MarketWatch is named in the deliverable, so the live URL comes back in your coverage report. If it is missing, that outlet's portion is refunded at $100. Turnaround is 5 to 14 business days from your approval.
How much does it cost to get on MarketWatch?
Advanced is $799 one time, and MarketWatch is one of six outlets guaranteed by name inside it rather than priced separately. Bought standalone through an agency, placements on Dow Jones properties are typically quoted at $1,500 to $3,000 or more, usually with a retainer attached. Writing is included, there is no subscription, and the price does not change with your word count or industry.
Is a MarketWatch press release worth it?
It is worth it if you want an investor-grade domain describing your company accurately, and a link you can send when somebody asks who you are. It is not worth it if you are expecting traffic, because almost nobody discovers a company by browsing a wire feed. The value is brand search, credibility on demand, and being present on the third-party pages AI answer engines read.
Do I need to be a public company for MarketWatch?
No. MarketWatch carries wire releases from private companies as well as public ones, and a funding round, expansion, partnership or leadership hire is a perfectly normal MarketWatch release. The outlet with a ticker preference in our guaranteed set is Yahoo Finance, not MarketWatch. If your story has a genuine financial angle it will read naturally, and we write it that way at intake.
Will a MarketWatch placement help my SEO?
Not through link equity. Wire links are nofollow at MarketWatch and everywhere else, by standard policy, so nobody should sell you this as a backlink play. It helps in ways that are real but different: your brand-name search results fill out with third-party pages, your company name gets associated with accurate descriptions on indexed domains, and those same pages are what AI answer engines read.
MarketWatch, named in writing, $799.
Six guaranteed outlets, one report, one fixed price. Refunded per outlet if one is missing.
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.