The best (and worst) days, times to send press releases

Which times of day is the market deluged with press releases? Is your release getting lost in the shuffle? Find out now.

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One of the staples of the public relations industry is the press release, or media release. We’ve talked at length about them, including constructing several versions of the social media press release, but content is only half the equation in all forms of marketing and PR.

The other half of the equation is distribution, or who sees your content. If the goal of a press release is to get noticed by media sources, it logically follows that the absolute worst time to publish a press release is when everyone else is publishing a press release.

Using four weeks of publication data from our partner MarketWire, we looked at what days and times the wire services are getting swamped with press releases.

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