EurekAlert

What EurekAlert does

EurekAlert is a nonprofit, editorially independent news release distribution platform founded in 1996 and operated by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), headquartered in Washington, D.C. It serves two distinct user segments: vetted science journalists, freelancers, and student journalists who receive free access to embargoed pre-publication scientific research releases, and public information officers (PIOs) at universities, research institutions, journal publishers, government agencies, medical centers, and corporations who pay subscription or pay-per-use fees to distribute content. The platform's core technology is a web-based distribution system with an embargo management engine, advanced search by top-level tags and content categories, a multimedia gallery housing 279,000+ videos, images, and podcasts, email alert systems, and Adobe Analytics integration. Supplementary products include SciPak weekly embargoed press packages from the Science family of journals and the EurekAlert! Travel Awards program for early-career science journalists in LMICs.

The business model is built on recurring PIO subscription and pay-per-use content submission fees, with annual or monthly billing cycles, credit card, PayPal, or check payments. Subscription rates are described as among the lowest in the industry. Distribution is driven by a field sales motion into institutions supplemented by community-led engagement through monthly webinars, the Travel Awards goodwill program, and a presence at science journalism conferences. The platform distributes globally through regional portals for China, Japan, Africa, and Latin America, with multilingual content in Chinese, Japanese, German, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. Exclusive press partnerships with the Science family of journals, PNAS, Cell Press, JAMA, and The Lancet differentiate the embargoed content offering, and the 530,000+ archive dating to 1996 functions as a deep, defensible content asset.

Name

EurekAlert

Legal name

EurekAlert! Science News Releases (operated by American Association for the Advancement of Science)

Website

https://eurekalert.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1996

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

EurekAlert is a nonprofit, AAAS-operated news release distribution platform that gives vetted science journalists free embargoed access to pre-publication research and sells subscription and pay-per-use distribution services to public information officers at research institutions, universities, journal publishers, and government agencies worldwide.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Washington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. PIO Subscription Services: Public information officers from organizations with active paid subscriptions receive access to secure embargoed content posting areas, real-time traffic reports, multilingual content submission options, and enhanced distribution through news feeds and email updates to journalist-members. Subscription rates are described as among the lowest in the industry.
2. Content Submission Fees: Organizations pay subscription or pay-per-use fees to submit and distribute news releases through the platform. Public relations firms representing eligible organizations use pay-per-use subscription options.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

EurekAlert is an editorially independent, nonprofit news-release distribution platform operated by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) that provides embargoed, pre-publication access to scientific research news for vetted journalists. It enables public information officers (PIOs) from universities, research institutions, peer-reviewed journal publishers, government agencies, and corporations to subscribe and distribute embargoed news releases, multimedia, and multilingual content to a global network of credentialed science journalists.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• EurekAlert! Travel Awards: A program (formerly Fellowships for International Science Reporters) providing travel funding and logistical support to early-career science reporters in low- and middle-income countries to attend AAAS Annual Meetings.

Products and services

• EurekAlert! Science News Releases Platform Editorially independent web platform that distributes embargoed, pre-publication scientific research news releases from subscribing institutions (universities, research centers, journal publishers, government agencies, corporations) to a vetted global network of science journalists, with advanced search, multimedia hosting, multilingual support, and traffic reporting.

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core, flagship and minor.

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)coreOthersEurekAlert is a nonprofit news-release distribution platform operated by AAAS as a public service project. AAAS is the world's largest multi-disciplinary science society, founded in 1848, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. EurekAlert leverages AAAS's relationships with journal publishers and science institutions globally.
• Science family journals (AAAS)flagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerExclusive partnership with Science, Science Translational Medicine, Science Immunology, and Science Robotics journals to provide weekly embargoed press packages (SciPak) exclusively through EurekAlert for journalist-members.
• Leading journal publishers (PNAS, Cell Press, JAMA, The Lancet)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPress portals and tip sheets from major peer-reviewed journal publishers including PNAS, Cell Press, JAMA Network, The Lancet, providing embargoed access to upcoming article announcements exclusively for EurekAlert journalist-members.
• Chinese Academy of SciencescoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorDedicated news portal on EurekAlert featuring science news releases from Chinese Academy of Sciences institutions, part of the regional China news portal offering.
• Tsinghua University PresscoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorDedicated news portal on EurekAlert featuring research news from Tsinghua University Press, part of the regional China news portal offering.
• World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI), JapanminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorFeatured site on EurekAlert's regional Japan news portal showcasing research from WPI institutions in Japan.
• Science Partner JournalsminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorFeatured site showcasing news releases from Science Partner Journals, part of AAAS's collaborative publishing program.
• U.S. Department of EnergyminorGTM or Marketing PartnerScience agency funder portal on EurekAlert's science agencies section, providing news from DOE-funded research.
• U.S. National Institutes of HealthminorGTM or Marketing PartnerScience agency funder portal on EurekAlert's science agencies section, providing news from NIH-funded research.
• U.S. National Science FoundationminorGTM or Marketing PartnerScience agency funder portal on EurekAlert's science agencies section, providing news from NSF-funded research.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• ScienceDaily: ScienceDaily aggregates science news from universities and journals for a broad consumer audience. It overlaps with EurekAlert as a discovery channel for science stories but operates without the embargoed-access, vetted-journalism model.
• Phys.org: Phys.org is a science and technology news site that aggregates research news and publishes original reporting. It is comparable as a science news discovery channel but lacks embargoed pre-publication access.

Broad incumbents

• PR Newswire (Cision): PR Newswire is a large-scale commercial press release distribution platform serving corporate, government, and PR clients across all industries. It overlaps with EurekAlert in core distribution functionality but is a much broader, commercially focused incumbent.
• Nature Briefing / Nature Portfolio: Nature publishes flagship science journals and distributes embargoed press materials to a vetted journalist list. It is comparable as a high-prestige source of embargoed journal content but is both a publisher and competitor to EurekAlert's distribution role.
• Business Wire: Business Wire is a Berkshire Hathaway-owned press release distribution and regulatory filing service. It competes with EurekAlert for institutional news distribution budgets but serves all industries and is not specialized in science.

Direct peers

• Newswise: Newswise is a nonprofit science news distribution service that similarly connects vetted journalists with embargoed research releases from universities and research institutions. It competes head-to-head with EurekAlert for the same two-sided science communications market.
• AlphaGalileo: AlphaGalileo is a Europe-based press release and multimedia distribution service for academic and research institutions, with a comparable two-sided model linking PIOs to journalists and operating regional language portals.

Regional players

• SciDev.Net: SciDev.Net delivers science news focused on the developing world, with a global south editorial perspective. It is comparable to EurekAlert's mission and Travel Awards program for early-career reporters in LMICs, but serves a different geographic emphasis.

Others

• ResearchGate: ResearchGate is an academic social and discovery network for researchers. It is comparable in connecting research institutions with downstream audiences, but operates as a researcher social platform rather than a journalist-facing press distribution service.
• bioRxiv / medRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor): bioRxiv and medRxiv are leading preprint servers that bypass journal embargoes by publishing preprints directly. They are thematically adjacent and represent a structural alternative to the embargoed release model that underpins EurekAlert's value proposition.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/EurekAlert
• YouTubeyoutube.com/EurekAlert
• Facebookfacebook.com/EurekAlert
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/eurekalert

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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

M&A

Investments

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