About us
Earned media, rebuilt for everyone else
By digitizing and streamlining the processes of an outdated industry, we strengthen and enhance the news cycle’s reliability. Journalists spend less time sorting through irrelevant pitches while diversifying their sources, and brands obtain the timely earned media coverage they deserve.
Our mission
A new marketing channel for small business
Press Hook opens a new marketing channel for the 70 percent of small businesses that need press but lack the resources for proper media exposure. We are on a mission to help small businesses gain brand awareness in top media publications with innovative, technology-driven solutions.
Small businesses that need press
70%
but lack the resources for proper media exposure
Founded
2020
after a beta that helped 50+ businesses through COVID
Brands, products and journalists
1,000+
on the platform today
Our story
How Press Hook started
Michelle Songy experienced as a first-time founder just how difficult it was for a startup to access the media in a meaningful way. She couldn’t afford a full-service agency on her bootstrapped budget, and found the process of personal outreach time consuming, and yielding no worthwhile results.
She sold that company to American Express, and after two years working there, traveled to a remote area abroad to consider her next move. It was while traveling and talking to local businesses that Michelle realized just how many small companies lacked access to the media — a powerful source of revenue and recognition.
Michelle came back in spring of 2020 and got to work on her new dream: a tech-enabled earned media platform specializing in promoting startups and small businesses. She ran a beta program by summer of 2020 and helped over 50 businesses scraping by on a tight budget throughout COVID. Press Hook launched privately in the fall of 2020 and today has over 1,000 products, brands and journalists.
With newsrooms publishing more content online than ever and hundreds of new businesses launching every day, there are thousands of innovative products and stories to be told. Press Hook is redefining the earned media game by connecting hundreds of journalists with innovative businesses — more efficiently, more affordably, and more relevantly — every day.