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 "id": "ereleases",
 "name": "eReleases",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "ereleases.com",
 "category": "Marketing",
 "task": "Ads, creative & branding",
 "summary": "Press release distribution and writing service for small businesses, sending releases over PR Newswire and to targeted journalist lists.",
 "best_for": "small businesses that want a single press release sent over a national newswire with a targeted journalist list and are happy to pay per release",
 "skip_if": "you need a monthly plan with many releases, you only want cheap syndication, or you want results we have tested ourselves instead of the vendor's own claims",
 "honest_knock": "This is a per-release service, not software, so there is no ongoing plan or free trial. Add-ons cost $150 or more each, the page shows no refund terms, and the claims about reach and results are the vendor's own and we did not verify them.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$399",
  "entry_price_terms": "Buzz Builder · one-off, Per press release distributed: Buzz Builder $399 (400 words, 1 industry list), Newsmaker $499 (500 words, 2 lists), PR Pro $699 (600 words, 3 lists, influencer email send)",
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(read 2026-11-12 on ereleases.com/pricing, US dollars) eReleases sells press release distribution by the release, not by subscription. Buzz Builder costs $399 and covers 400 words and 1 industry target list. Newsmaker costs $499 and covers 500 words and 2 industry target lists, and the page marks it as the company's number one pick. PR Pro costs $699 and covers 600 words, 3 industry target lists and a direct email send to journalists, bloggers and influencers. All three include 2 images, editorial review and distribution through PR Newswire. Extras cost more: additional words are $150 per block of 100 words or part of a block, each additional industry list is $150, local saturation is $150, embedding images is $150, embedding a YouTube video is $200, and distribution to a single country is $150 or $1,000 for global. Having eReleases write the release costs $300 when added to a distribution package, with turnaround the page gives as under a week. The page says first-time customers save 30% and that bulk packages of 2 or more releases are available; we did not see the bulk prices. The page states no refund terms. We did not place an order, so we do not know the tax added.",
  "verified_at": "2026-11-12",
  "source_url": "https://www.ereleases.com/pricing/",
  "schema_offer": {
   "price": 399.0,
   "currency": "USD",
   "description": "Buzz Builder, Per press release distributed: Buzz Builder $399 (400 words, 1 industry list), Newsmaker $499 (500 words, 2 lists), PR Pro $699 (600 words, 3 lists, influencer email send); writing service $300 extra; extra words, lists, images and countries cost more; the page says first-time customers save 30%. Read on the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-11-12.",
   "page": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/ereleases-review.html"
  },
  "source_quotes": [
   {
    "field": "price",
    "plan": "Buzz Builder",
    "quote": "$399",
    "source_url": "https://www.ereleases.com/pricing/",
    "read_on": "2026-10-24"
   },
   {
    "field": "price",
    "plan": "Newsmaker",
    "quote": "$499",
    "source_url": "https://www.ereleases.com/pricing/",
    "read_on": "2026-10-24"
   },
   {
    "field": "price",
    "plan": "PR Pro",
    "quote": "$699",
    "source_url": "https://www.ereleases.com/pricing/",
    "read_on": "2026-10-24"
   }
  ],
  "recent_change": null,
  "price_history": null
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "addons_extra",
   "label": "Key features are paid add-ons",
   "evidence": "Add-ons cost $150 or more each, the page shows no refund terms, and the claims about reach and results are the vendor's own and we did not verify them.",
   "verified_at": "2026-11-12",
   "source_url": "https://www.ereleases.com/pricing/"
  }
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 "compare_with": {
  "name": "HubSpot",
  "why": "HubSpot is a marketing platform, not a newswire. If you want ongoing email and content tools in one place rather than paid one-off distribution, compare what each charges per month against what a single release costs"
 },
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  "review": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/ereleases-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/ereleases/",
  "vendor_site": "https://ereleases.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://www.tkqlhce.com/click-101832528-15807396-1715040936000",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "Being verified: free trial and refund terms are not yet matched to a verbatim line on the vendor's own pages. Not matched does not mean there is none.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "verification": {
  "price": "quoted",
  "free_trial": "being_verified",
  "refund": "being_verified"
 },
 "status_page": null,
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "ereleases:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "ereleases:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "ereleases:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "ereleases:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_checked",
   "detail": "We could not read the vendor's pages as plain HTML.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
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}