News syndication
Send one story to many destinations at once, tagged and formatted for each, without slowing it down.
Learn moreAcquire Media is all about real-time news integration, syndication, and internet delivery.
See how news travels from a publisher to every screen that needs it. Then send your own announcement the same way.
New accounts and distribution are provided on PRNow.
Welcome to Acquire Media
At Acquire Media, digital media is what we do.
Acquire Media built technology to deliver text and multimedia news with guaranteed reliability, then enhanced every story with a detailed taxonomy that makes search a breeze. The news arrived in feeds that work with other systems, and was easy to share in other ways too, from RSS to newsletters.
This site explains how that works, in plain terms. If you have news of your own to share, the get started page takes you from a first question to a published release.
Three parts of one service
Acquire the content, license it properly, and deliver it where it is needed.
Content licensing
License news from many publishers through one agreement and receive it as a single, consistent feed.
Learn moreDigital delivery
Four established ways to move a news feed into a website or application, and how to choose between them.
Learn moreHow the news moves
Four steps sit between a newsroom pressing publish and a story appearing on your screen.
Acquire
Take each story from the publisher in whatever format the newsroom already uses.
Normalize
Convert every source to one predictable structure, so you integrate once.
Tag
Attach subjects, industries, places, and companies while the story is still new.
Deliver
Send it to every entitled destination at the same moment, by the method each one chose.
From the blog
Practical guides to syndication, licensing, delivery, and press releases that travel well.
How news syndication works, from newsroom to your screen
Follow a story through a syndication service: ingestion, normalization, tagging, entitlements, and delivery to every site that is allowed to publish it.
How to write a press release that travels well through syndication
Syndicated releases are read by software before people. Write headlines, openings, and structure that survive feeds, filters, and reformatting.
RSS, API, or FTP: choosing how a news feed reaches you
Compare RSS, APIs, FTP, and guaranteed streaming connections for receiving a news feed, with the questions that decide which one fits your product.
Questions people ask first
Short answers about syndication, delivery, and where accounts for this site are managed.
See every answerWhat is news syndication?
Syndication is the delivery of one publisher’s content to many other sites, applications, or customers. A syndication service accepts the content, tags and normalizes it, and delivers it to each recipient in the format and by the method they asked for.
Where do I sign in or create an account?
Get started and Log in each take you through a short form and then on to PRNow, where accounts, orders, and reports are managed. The forms are checked in your browser. This website does not send or store your details and cannot open historical Acquire Media accounts.
Are the original Acquire Media services available here?
No. Pages about syndication, content licensing, and digital delivery describe how the original services worked, because the ideas are still useful. They are not an availability guarantee. For current press release distribution, continue to PRNow and ask the provider about any specific requirement.
Which delivery method should I choose for a news feed?
Use a guaranteed connection when you cannot miss a story, an API when your application needs to search or request news on demand, FTP when you want files on a schedule, and RSS when you need something working today. The digital delivery page compares them side by side.
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