Choose the route by your audience and the proof you need
If you are comparing ACCESS Newswire vs GlobeNewswire for one company announcement, start with the people you need to reach—not the largest outlet count on a sales page. Marketing By Kevin manages an ACCESS Newswire/Newswire route for a focused business announcement, a GlobeNewswire route when the wider network and reporting fit the job, and a dual-route option when the same eligible news justifies both. Each purchase is for a publisher-reviewed release, not a promise that a particular downstream site, search result, or journalist will pick it up.
Our current one-time distribution prices are $495 for Signature News (ACCESS Newswire/Newswire), $995 for Global Authority (GlobeNewswire), and $1,295 for Complete Market (both routes). If you need us to develop and write the release from your business goal and supporting facts, add $395. See the full package inclusions and current pricing before choosing.
ACCESS/Newswire, Globe, or both: the buyer’s comparison
Signature News
Primary route: ACCESS Newswire/Newswire
MBK distribution price: $495
With MBK writing: $890 total
Best starting question: Do I have one factual business event that needs a managed U.S.-focused publication path?
What MBK documents: Accepted copy, primary publication URL or URLs, reported pickup links, completion date
Primary route: GlobeNewswire
MBK distribution price: $995
With MBK writing: $1,390 total
Best starting question: Does this event warrant Globe’s broader network and available performance data?
What MBK documents: Accepted copy, Globe URL, reported pickup links, completion date, available premium analytics
Complete Market
Primary route: Both primary routes for one approved announcement
MBK distribution price: $1,295
With MBK writing: $1,690 total
Best starting question: Is this single event important enough for two publisher submissions and one consolidated record?
What MBK documents: Both primary publication routes in one consolidated publication and performance record
The table compares MBK’s managed packages, not every feature or price available if you buy directly from either publisher. A publisher’s maximum network reach is not the same as the geography or pickups purchased for your release.
When Signature News is enough
Choose Signature when you have a real company event, a clear audience, and one search purpose: for example, an opening, a verified partnership, a product launch, or a leadership change. Our work is to check the news angle, prepare the submission for the selected route, manage publisher communication, and hand you the publication record. If you already have compliant copy, you do not need to buy writing. Read the ACCESS Newswire/Newswire route details if that is your likely fit.
A promotion written like an ad is not automatically a standard press release. The publisher decides whether the news and wording meet its rules. If the story is primarily persuasive rather than a factual announcement, the Rare Find Advertorial is a different, separately labeled product—not a way to bypass the standard release’s content rules.
When GlobeNewswire earns the higher price
Choose Global Authority when the announcement’s audience, stakes, or reporting needs justify the GlobeNewswire route. Globe has a broad distribution network and offers performance analytics; the exact distribution selected and the activity the release generates determine what you can actually report. The higher MBK price buys management of that route and the available publication record, not guaranteed placement on every network destination. Review the GlobeNewswire service details for the route-specific workflow.
Yahoo Finance is one possible downstream destination associated with the Globe network; it is not a separate MBK package. Whether a given release appears there depends on syndication and the receiving site’s decisions. Our Yahoo Finance pickup guide explains how to check an actual result.
When two routes make sense—and when they do not
Complete Market submits one eligible announcement through both primary routes. It can be worthwhile when the event is substantial enough to justify two distribution paths and you want one consolidated record. It does not turn one story into two distinct search-intent assets, guarantee twice the audience, or promise a ranking lift. If you need to answer several different buyer questions, a planned multi-release campaign may fit better than repeating one announcement. If the event is small and audience-specific, start with one route.
What MBK plans before the release goes out
We start with your business goal. For a writing package, we research the relevant search questions, choose one primary purpose for the announcement, and build the angle, headline, supporting facts, destination page, and publisher route around that purpose. A single release serves one job; a multi-release plan needs different truthful events and different reader questions. Distribution alone includes a preflight of your supplied copy, not a separate full strategy or writing engagement.
Bring the event date, names and roles, facts you can support, any authorized quote, the page a reader should visit next, and the person who can approve the final version. If those inputs are missing, it may be smarter to strengthen the story before buying. See what the writing add-on includes and check whether your announcement qualifies.
What the publication record can and cannot prove
After an accepted release, MBK documents the accepted copy, primary live URL or URLs, reported pickup links, and completion date. Globe reporting can add the metrics available for that specific campaign. A link in a distribution report proves a page was reported or observed; it does not mean a journalist independently covered the story. Search indexing, traffic, leads, and sales depend on other systems and are not part of a placement guarantee. Our service terms and refund policy explain what happens if publication cannot be secured.
Check your announcement and route fit. If your event does not meet the publisher’s requirements, we would rather tell you that before you pay.