Cision

Cision Ltd. is a global provider of public relations software, media distribution, and media intelligence services. The company supports PR and communications professionals by offering tools to manage, execute, and measure their strategic communications efforts. Its flagship product, the Cision Communications Cloud, is a cloud-based platform that helps businesses build relationships with influencers and enhance their market presence. Cision also provides a media database for campaign planning and relationship management, along with PR Newswire for wire distribution services. Additionally, the company offers media monitoring software that tracks content across various platforms and delivers data-driven insights to evaluate media coverage, audience engagement, and campaign effectiveness. Established in 2014 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Cision has a workforce of over 4,000 employees and operates in 15 countries worldwide.

Yujie Chen

Senior Vice President

Antony Cousins

Executive Director for AI Strategy

14 past transactions

Factmata

Acquisition in 2022
Factmata is an artificial intelligence company helping businesses better understand, interpret and explain online content. Using patent pending expert driven AI, it provides actionable moderation services for online platforms and product insights for brands.

Streem

Acquisition in 2021
Streem is a rapidly growing media intelligence company in the Australia and New Zealand market, specializing in real-time monitoring and analysis of print, online, TV, radio, and social media. The company provides its services to prominent corporate and government clients, including major organizations like Telstra, Qantas, Commonwealth Bank, and the Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet. Streem's platform enables users to track, measure, and respond to news as it occurs, offering comprehensive insights and reporting. Customers can access the platform on desktop, tablet, and mobile devices, allowing PR and Corporate Affairs teams to efficiently manage and analyze millions of news items in real-time.

Brandwatch

Acquisition in 2021
Brandwatch is a leading provider of social media listening and analytics tools, designed to help brands gain real-time insights into consumer behavior and market trends. The company empowers over 7,500 clients, including some of the most respected brands globally, by offering a suite of AI-enhanced digital consumer intelligence and social media management tools. This enables organizations to make informed decisions and implement data-driven strategies across various customer interactions. With capabilities for segmenting and analyzing data, Brandwatch's platform helps businesses identify opportunities and address potential threats quickly. The company operates internationally with 15 offices and a workforce of over 1,000 employees, all committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace culture. Brandwatch is a subsidiary of Cision.

ShareIQ

Acquisition in 2018
ShareIQ is on a mission to build the most earned media performance platform for brands. Their focus at Share IQ is to educate, inform and assist brand marketing teams on insights and opportunities for action on all the ways their earned media influences brand discovery, social sharing, influencing and, ultimately, purchase. They help make social media and earned media as measurable and accountable as paid media marketing. Through the deployment of proprietary image DNA technology, ShareIQ has acquired, analyzed and indexed more than 1 trillion digital images. The system is purpose-built for brands to track the activity and performance of specific content at global scale, with near-perfect accuracy. The ShareIQ platform is technology that identifies, tracks and discovers original pieces of visual content, as well as shared and republished copies of specific images. They do this so that brands and their images can be quickly discovered and shared by the fans and customers that love them, and so that brand marketing teams can maximize return on their earned media and content marketing investments.

PRIME Research USA

Acquisition in 2017
PRIME Research is a global strategic communication research leader. Through talent, tools, and technology, PRIME provides clients with measurement and the ability to prove the value of communication and public relations efforts.

Cedrom-SNi

Acquisition in 2017
Cedrom-SNi Inc. is a Canadian company that specializes in online news information aggregation and distribution services, catering to clients who require monitoring, analysis, and measurement of information. Founded in 1989 and headquartered in Outremont, Canada, with additional offices across the country and in Paris, Cedrom-SNi provides media monitoring and analytical services through its platforms, Eureka.cc in Canada and Europresse.com in France. The company offers a range of services, including commercialization, conversion, copyright management, and content integration. Its diverse clientele includes publishers, content providers, large corporations, government agencies, media companies, and public relations firms, all of whom benefit from its tools designed for documentation, communications, and marketing professionals. Cedrom-SNi operates as a subsidiary of CNW Group Ltd.

Argus of the Press

Acquisition in 2017
The Argus of the press is an enterprise of economic intelligence. It responds to the challenges of its clients to enable them to control their influence and reputation, and to guide their communication and development strategies.

Bulletin Intelligence

Acquisition in 2017
Bulletin Intelligence and its Bulletin Healthcare and Bulletin Media subsidiaries deliver fully-customized (bespoke) intelligence briefings to the world’s most demanding executives in leading businesses, government entities, and associations, reaching a combined daily audience of over 1.5 million professionals. Briefings analyze and synthesize the most comprehensive and relevant set of news, social media, and other sources of competitive intelligence, all based on the client’s corporate, brand, competitive, industry, policy, legal, and financial priorities. Called the “perfect antidote to information overload” by a Fortune 50 CEO, the briefings put the entire management team on the same page every morning – facilitating faster and more consistently informed decision-making. Bulletin Intelligence complements its briefing solutions with a set of analytics solutions that quantitatively measure the effectiveness and impact of media coverage on the company’s overall brand reputation, on specific brands, and against key competitors. Bulletin emphasizes its responsive, white-glove services and is an industry leader in client retention. Today, more than 90% of its client CEOs read their Bulletin Intelligence briefing each morning. Bulletin Intelligence is headquartered in Reston, VA.

PR Newswire

Acquisition in 2015
PR Newswire is a global provider of multimedia distribution services, enabling corporations and public relations agencies to effectively communicate with key audiences. Headquartered in New York, the company operates an extensive international network that reaches over 200,000 media points and 10,000 websites, allowing clients to amplify their press releases and marketing content across various channels, including traditional, digital, mobile, and social media. PR Newswire offers a range of solutions tailored for professional communicators, including targeted audience engagement, rapid message delivery, and comprehensive monitoring and analysis of communication efforts. Its services include distributing press releases, targeting relevant journalists and media outlets, and providing insights into brand visibility and competitive landscape. Additionally, the company offers Agility, an integrated platform that enhances media monitoring and engagement capabilities. Founded in 1954, PR Newswire continues to support clients in making data-driven business decisions through effective communication strategies.

Viralheat

Acquisition in 2015
Viralheat is a comprehensive social media management platform designed for businesses, offering monitoring, publishing, and analytics within a single, user-friendly interface. Specializing in predictive social analytics, the platform focuses on human intent and sentiment analysis to help identify potential sales leads. Since its founding in 2011 by two Silicon Valley engineers, Viralheat has been utilized by numerous global brands, including Deutsche Telekom and Yamaha, to enhance their social marketing efforts. The platform integrates seamlessly into clients' workflows across marketing, sales, and customer support, enabling organizations to convert social media interactions into actionable insights and improve their return on investment in social media engagement.

Gorkana

Acquisition in 2014
Gorkana specializes in media intelligence and industry news for the public relations and communications sectors, as well as the journalist community. The company offers a comprehensive media database that serves as a vital resource for public relations agencies and journalists. Its product portfolio includes communication media databases, promotional planning tools, social media monitoring, information analysis, editing services, and survey creation solutions. Gorkana also conducts weekly media workshops and provides daily email updates, media requests, and forward features. Headquartered in New York, Gorkana is dedicated to enhancing communication strategies within the industry.

Visible Technologies

Acquisition in 2014
Visible Technologies specializes in social media monitoring and analytics, offering a blend of software and services to help businesses extract value from social communities. Its flagship product, Visible Intelligence™, is an advanced social media platform designed to enhance competitive and brand intelligence, marketing return on investment, and customer insights. The platform enables brands to engage with their communities swiftly and at scale. With offices in Seattle, London, and New York, Visible is recognized as one of the fastest-growing private companies. The firm has established strong partnerships with notable clients such as Office Depot, Microsoft, and FedEx, among others. In addition to its core offerings, Visible provides tools for online brand management, including social performance dashboards and customer engagement technologies. The company is privately held and backed by various investors with expertise in analytics, digital marketing, and technology.
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