MercoPress

What MercoPress does

MercoPress is a privately held online news agency founded in 1997 by independent journalists from Mercosur member countries and headquartered in Montevideo, Uruguay. The company publishes daily news content focused on Latin America, the Mercosur bloc, the South Atlantic, and the Falkland Islands through a bilingual (English/Spanish) website at en.mercopress.com and es.mercopress.com. Editorial output is produced by a network of correspondents and stringers based in Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Falkland Islands, and is organized across 14 topic categories (including Politics, Economy, Energy & Oil, Fisheries, Environment, Investments, and Tourism) and 14 regional sections.

The core technology is a digital publishing and content aggregation platform that supports free public access, a searchable news archive dating back to 2004, RSS feeds for syndication, and a weekly Friday email newsletter. The platform is delivered as standard web pages without a mobile app, API, or SDK, and contains no documented AI, machine learning, or automation capabilities.

MercoPress generates revenue through display advertising on its website and sponsored placements within its weekly email newsletter. The site is free to readers with no paywall or subscription fees, and no other revenue streams (events, data licensing, e-commerce, premium subscriptions) are disclosed. The company operates as a founder-owned private business with no disclosed venture capital, private equity investment, parent company, acquisition activity, or M&A history.

Name

MercoPress

Legal name

MercoPress News Agency

Website

https://en.mercopress.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Short description

MercoPress is a privately held bilingual (English/Spanish) online news agency headquartered in Montevideo, Uruguay, publishing daily coverage of Latin America, Mercosur, the South Atlantic, and the Falkland Islands for a global audience of professionals and informed readers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online News Publishing

NAICS

Newspaper Publishers (513110)

SIC

Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYMPAJAEAO

News, Politics & Current Affairs Magazines

Media, Entertainment & Sports/Publishing (Books, News, Magazines)/Magazine Publishing (Consumer & B2B/Trade Magazines)

SECONDARYMPAJAEAM

Business, Finance & Industry Trade Magazines

Media, Entertainment & Sports/Publishing (Books, News, Magazines)/Magazine Publishing (Consumer & B2B/Trade Magazines)

Keywords

• Latin America news
• Mercosur coverage
• Digital news publishing
• Bilingual journalism
• South Atlantic news

Headquarters

HQ city

America

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Website Advertising: Display advertising on the MercoPress website, reaching a highly targeted audience of professionals interested in Mercosur, South Atlantic affairs, and Latin American business news. The site offers standard display advertising and newsletter advertising opportunities.
2. Email Newsletter Subscription: Weekly email newsletter digest sent to subscribers every Friday, providing an additional advertising and engagement channel for the audience.

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

MercoPress is an online news agency that publishes daily news and analysis covering Latin America, Mercosur member states, the South Atlantic (including the Falkland Islands), and Antarctica. It produces original reporting through a network of correspondents and stringers across Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Falkland Islands, and distributes content in both English and Spanish via its website, weekly email newsletter, news archive, and RSS feeds.

Product overview

MercoPress is a South Atlantic news agency operating from Montevideo, Uruguay, that provides a unified news website covering Latin America and Mercosur affairs. The core product is the MercoPress News Website, which aggregates and publishes daily news across multiple topic categories (Politics, Economy, Energy & Oil, Agriculture, Environment, Fisheries, Health & Science, Investments, Tourism, Real Estate, Entertainment) and regional sections (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Falkland Islands, Uruguay, Paraguay, Venezuela, Mercosur, Antarctica, and others). The offering includes supplementary services: an Email Newsletter Service delivering weekly digests, a News Archive accessible since 2004, and RSS Feeds for content syndication. The agency has correspondents in Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, United Kingdom, United States, and the Falkland Islands.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• MercoPress News Website Bilingual (English/Spanish) online news portal providing daily coverage of Latin America, Mercosur, and South Atlantic affairs organized by topic categories (Agriculture, Economy, Energy, Entertainment, Environment, Fisheries, Health, Investments, Politics, Real Estate, Tourism) and regional sections (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Falkland Islands, Mercosur, Uruguay, Venezuela, Antarctica, etc.). Free access to readers.
• Email Newsletter Service

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• Reuters:

Direct peers

• Buenos Aires Times: Buenos Aires Times is an English-language weekly news outlet covering Argentina and the Southern Cone. It is a direct peer because both target English-speaking readers interested in Argentine/Mercosur political and economic news with a similar free-to-reader, ad-supported model.
• BNAmericas: BNAmericas is an English-language business news service covering Latin America across sectors including energy, infrastructure, and finance. It is a direct peer to MercoPress because both serve English-speaking business professionals tracking Mercosur and broader LatAm political/economic developments with daily news, archives, and paid/sponsored content.
• The Rio Times: The Rio Times is an English-language online news outlet covering Brazil and broader Latin American affairs. It is a direct peer because it competes for the same English-speaking audience seeking accessible daily news on Latin American politics, economy, and culture, mirroring MercoPress's editorial positioning.
• LatinNews: LatinNews (Latin American Newsletters) provides English-language political and economic analysis of Latin America, with a strong focus on Mercosur countries. It is a direct peer because it competes for the same niche audience of professionals, diplomats, and investors seeking English-language coverage of regional affairs that mainstream media under-serves.
• Brazil Reports: Brazil Reports is an English-language digital news site focused on Brazilian politics, economy, and society, with broader LatAm coverage. It is a direct peer because both occupy the niche of English-language news for international readers tracking Latin American developments.

Broad incumbents

• Folha de S. Paulo: Folha de S. Paulo is Brazil's flagship newspaper, which also maintains an English-language international edition covering Mercosur and broader Latin American affairs. It is a broad incumbent because it provides overlapping coverage of Brazilian and Mercosur political/economic news for international readers, though as part of a much larger national news operation.
• InfoBae: InfoBae is one of the largest Spanish-language digital news outlets in Argentina with broad LatAm coverage. It is a broad incumbent because it covers much of the same political and economic agenda as MercoPress but at much greater scale and primarily in Spanish, without MercoPress's specialization in South Atlantic/Falklands topics.
• Bloomberg News: Bloomberg News covers Latin American economies, energy, and finance as part of its global markets reporting. It is a broad incumbent because it competes for the same business-professional readership on Mercosur and LatAm economic news, but at global scale rather than as a niche specialist.

Regional players

• MercoPress itself is compared to El País Uruguay: El País is Uruguay's leading Spanish-language daily newspaper. It is a regional peer because it covers the same Mercosur and South Atlantic news agenda from a domestic Uruguayan perspective, though it serves Spanish-speaking readers rather than MercoPress's bilingual/English positioning.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/mercopressnews
• Facebookfacebook.com/MercoPress

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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