YES. But – with the exception of a basic media directory entry – it will cost.

To post a media release involves paying a modest fee, depending on how many posting credits you purchase.

We are talking potentially as inexpensive as £6 per release.

For a media job advert, the cost is £120+VAT for a single advert and £800+VAT to purchase ten posting credits.

For a media directory entry, it’s £35 for a ‘better’ directory entry and £50 for a ‘best’ one.

A ‘basic’ entry, comprising a little information about you, is available for free and compiled using details you entered into your profile.

Should you wish a member of the team to contact you, to discuss our various offerings, over the telephone, then email here.

NO. Indeed, we positively encourage sharing, including via our suite of several Twitter feeds.

What we are seeking to achieve with our media release posting service is to create a de facto news stream, to be as much part of people’s news consumption habits as any other website.

The site is wholly responsive, meaning a beautiful display of content on whatever device people are using: laptop, tablet or smartphone.

As it is, all our content is easily found by online search engines, a reflection of our sites being optimised by Google News and – in the case of allmediascotland.com – being around for a long while.

YES.

The username and password that you create on signing up become your keys to purchasing any of our pay-for services, including the facility to post media releases.

And remember, once you sign up (the invite is on the main menu bar, on the front page), you have to validate the verification email automatically sent to you.

It will land either in your in-box or your junk/spam folder.

ALL content that is posted on any of our newsdippermedia sites – via our pay-for services – is moderated by an administrator, ahead of publication.

In the main, it is to provide additional proof-reading.

Which means, in simple terms, that every time a client hits the ‘submit’ button, to upload content, there will be a delay – as our moderating team considers it, for possible publication.

Moderation hours are 0930-1630, Monday-to-Friday.

Among other things, our moderating team is on the look-out for spelling errors.

Plus content that might be considered ‘offensive’ on the grounds of race, religion, etc.

And because we are unable to provide a right of reply, our moderators are required to either amend or delete content that criticises – or makes claims of – third parties.

As stated in our Terms & Conditions (which members have to have read and agreed to, on signing up), newsdippermedia ltd reserves the right to decline publishing paid-for content and also the right to amend wording – in both instances, with no consultation, warning or penalty.

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WHY post your media releases on a newsdippermedia website?

Simple: to help you raise your profile and share your stories.

A media release on a newsdippermedia website is content to be found by online search engines – helped by our sites being optimised for Google News.

Plus found, by journalists, as a story idea. Indeed, you can even forward your release to the likes of your local newspaper, via our comprehensive media mailing list.

And we operate a suite of Twitter feeds, to help additionally spread the word.

It’s effort, rewarded (for a modest outlay) by actually appearing somewhere other than your own website.

MORE than likely.

But the final decision will rests with our moderating team.

Email your release to info@allmediascotland.com, whereupon it will be considered for possible publication.

And if you are a regular provider of media news, then we might consider providing you a bunch of media release posting credits – for free – so that you can upload yourself.

Again, the final decision will rest with our moderating team.

YES.

But of our three types of media directory entry on allmediascotland.com, the free one allows some very basic details.

To upload your details, you require to be first signed up and signed in.

Your profile becomes the basis of your free directory entry. All content on the site is moderated ahead of publication, and with free directory entries that content has also to be just a couple of sentences long.

Only content that is self-evidently media-related will be approved for publication.

If you want higher profile, including the facility for a fuller description of what you do and the facility to upload samples of your work, then you will have to pay: either for a ‘better’ entry, at £35+VAT for 12 months, or a ‘best’ entry, at £50+VAT, for 12 months.

By operating a media directory, we are not doing anything that others aren’t; there are several media directories already out there.

Please note: as our T&Cs make clear, we reserves to right to amend content or decline to publish – without warning, consultation or penalty.

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How many steps?

OUR website, allmediascotland.com has been operating since 2003, so it is massively well-known, both in Scotland and further afield.

Online search engines know it well, too.

So, if you want to put the word out, that you are looking to employ media talent, you can do so, here, for just £120+VAT on the site (or ten posting credits for £800+VAT).

You get to post your job ad for as long as you wish, plus add a logo – which will feature on our front page, including our front page slider.

And as well as your advert appearing in our weekday eNewsletter (sent to thousands of recipients), we will tweet it to both twitter.com/allmedianews and twitter.com/allmediajobs.

In other words, to several thousand more!

Needless to say, www.allmediascotland.com/jobs is one of the site’s most-visited pages.

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How many steps?

YES.

But it will be moderated, ahead of publication, only between the hours of 0930 and 1630, Monday to Friday.

Outwith these hours, it will sit in a holding bay, awaiting a site administrator to work on it.

You can, of course, determine when you want your content to go live, on the site – including several days’ hence.

And there is even the facility to forward one’s media release to media outlets, such as local newspapers and TV, on an embargoed basis.

YES, we do operate a house style, to ensure that content across the whole site has a consistency to it.

For our various media releases subscribers – who will each have their own style idiosyncrasies – full details can be found to the right of the release posting template, in our PR alchemist’s handbook.

Some instructions – for example, headings to be mostly lower case – appear as part of the posting template.

With regards to hotlinks, yes.

A DELAY.

All entries and amendments are checked over (moderated) ahead of publication.

And the site moderation hours are Monday-Friday, 0930-1630.

Moderation is a ‘second pair of eyes’, proof reading for spelling errors, etc.

Content that does not comply with our Terms & Conditions – such as criticism of third parties – may have its wording changed by the moderator or be not published at all.

As stated in our T&Cs, newsdippermedia ltd reserves the right to amend/refuse content, without consultation, warning or penalty.

WELL, it is first worth recognising that your content is there, in its entirety.

Because, even when the media does make use of media releases, there is no guarantee how much or little they will reproduce.

So, it’s good to know that – so long as you comply with our T&Cs – what you upload will be published, top to bottom.

It’s important too to recognise that the site is optimised for Google News and is also growing organically in ‘authority’.

In other words, releases on any of our sites will enjoy high online search ranking.

And then we have our suite of Twitter feeds – circa two dozen of them – to help further spread the word.

Plus other social media platforms, too, including Facebook.

YES. For a fee.

But we encourage you to try yourself, using – if necessary – our free, online training, which has been compiled with absolute beginners in mind.

We understand, for instance, that there are organisations without a formal PR function (in-house or external) who nevertheless are seeking profile for themselves and their stories.

And that they might be a bit nervous about penning a media release.

So, we’re here, to help.

TO purchase any of our pay-for services, you do so via your profile – which requires you to have first signed up and be signed in.

Signing up involves creating an username and password, which become your ‘keys’ to accessing our pay-for services.

Purchasing is done by credit card, using the secure, third party WorldPay service (which means we do not hold anyone’s credit card details).

Of course, we can, instead, invoice you, but this is likely to result in a delay in the service being activated.

We are unable to process credit card transactions over the telephone. But we do have a PayPal account, should you prefer to use that.