Top 27 Free Press Release Submission Websites

Press release websites are great for online reputation management. We use over 100 press release websites and article websites for our clients reputation management and SEO campaign. Content is still king and PR sites generate strong ranking content and backlinks to help push up good content about your name on search engines.

1. Online PR News – Free submissions to this site are left online for about three months. Paid submissions have additional benefits and longer live times.
2. PR Log – Free submissions include distribution, allow links, and can be tagged with industry and location tags.
3. PR.com – Free submission works, but is driven down under submissions from paid members.
4. PR Inside – A very bare-bones site that nonetheless gets some exposure.
5. 1888 Press Release – Free press release submission is very limited, with no proactive advertisement.
6. Free-Press-Release – Free submission gets some basic benefits with this site.
7. Market Press Release – Free submissions are limited to one per day.
8. OnlyWire – Not technically press releases, this submits your content to various social networks. Free accounts limit social profiles.
9. OpenPR – Free submissions are only reviewed during business hours. This site also has a German version.
10. Pressbox – A press release dump focused on UK submissions but open to global releases.
11. PR Mac – Submissions have been picked up by large news sites in the past. Some bias towards Apple news.
12. BizEurope – A European-focused press release submission network.
13. NPR – National Public Radio always accepts submissions of newsworthy content, though global news will always take center stage.
14. BusinessWire – A business-focused news site that accepts press releases, though you need to apply for membership to submit.
15. MediaPost – A media-focused site that accepts press releases.
16. PR Sync – This site has a Spanish-language option in addition to English.
17. Free PR Now – A very simple press release aggregator that posts all releases on their homepage.
18. Pitch Engine – Not technically free, you get a 14-day free trial of their service.
19. BriefingWire – Not quite free, but a fee of $3 is virtually nothing.
20. Press Release Ping – Another basic press release submission site.
21. ClickPress – A site where you can submit both news and press releases.
22. Free Press Release Center – A simple press release site that is noteworthy in that it generated PDF releases as well as blog post releases.
23. Press Release Post – A slightly hard to read site that offers free press release circulation.
24. PR Fire – Another UK-focused press release site, with a wide variety of categories.
25. SubmitPressRelease123 – No, I’m not just making up names at this point. This one has a free account but mostly paid services.
26. The Open Press – A pretty bland press release site with geographic tagging.
27. Press Release Point – A press release site that itself has lists of press release sites on it.