Cision
Cision Ltd. is a public relations and earned media software company and services provider. The company is incorporated in the Cayman Islands[1] and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. In addition to offering Cision-branded services, the company owns a portfolio of companies including PRNewswire, PRWeb, Bulletin Intelligence, L'Argus de la presse, Help a Reporter Out (HARO), CEDROM-SNI, Prime Research, and Canada Newswire.
Cision
1867
Worldwide
Marketing and public relations software & services
- Public Relations Services
- PR Software
- Marketing Resources
- Media Contacts Database
- Press Release Distribution
6,300
- PRWeb
- HARO
- PRNewswire
- CEDROM-SNi
- Prime Research
- Canada Newswire
- Brandwatch
History[edit]
In 2011, Cision AB sold its Finnish subsidiary Oy Cision Finland AB to M-Brain Group.[9]
On September 15, 2014, Cision announced the acquisition of Visible Technologies, a social media analytics company.[10]
On October 14, 2014, Cision AB and Vocus announced a "friendly merger" of the two public relations companies.[11] Cision based in Sweden will relocate its headquarters to Chicago and so will Vocus based in Maryland, United States.[11] The company will be based in Chicago and the combined entity will be known as Cision.[12]
During 2015, Cision also acquired the UK company Gorkana. Gorkana offered monitoring, journalist databases and analysis services.[13] On December 15, 2015, Cision agreed to acquire PRNewswire from UBM plc for $841 million (approx. £575 million).[14]
On June 29, 2017, Cision went public via its reverse merger with special purpose acquisition company Capitol Acquisition Corporation III.[15]
On December 26, 2017, Cision agreed to acquire PRIME Research.[16] The acquisition was completed on January 24, 2018.[17]
On January 31, 2020, Platinum Equity completed its acquisition of Cision Ltd for $2.7 billion making it private again.[18] In September 2020, Cision named Abel Clark as CEO, replacing interim chief Brandon Crawley. Prior to the appointment, Clark was CEO of TruSight.[19]
Cision announced the acquisition of Brandwatch in February 2021 for $450 million.[20]
Brandon Crawley returned as interim CEO in February 2022.[21] In April 2022, Cision acquired Streem, an Australia-based realtime media monitoring company.[22] In November 2022, Cision acquired Factmata, a media monitoring and analytics technology company.[23]
In January 2023, Cali Tran joined as CEO.[21][24] In June 2023, Cision lauched CisionOne, an AI-powered platform.[25]