Premium Publisher Add-On Circuits give you more ways to extend the visibility of your U.S. press release across recognized national, regional, and local publisher networks.

These optional circuits can be added to eligible U.S. distributions to help increase your content footprint, support online discoverability, and align your release with trusted publisher environments.

Premium Publisher Add-On Circuits are optional distribution add-ons that provide additional publication opportunities beyond your selected base distribution.

They are designed to help your announcement reach more places across the web, including national media brands, high-authority publisher websites, and regional or city-level news sites.

These add-ons may be a good fit if your goal is to:

The following Premium Publisher Add-On Circuits are available for eligible U.S. releases.

US Media Plus – USA TODAY

The USA TODAY add-on is designed for organizations that want to increase visibility through a nationally recognized media brand.

This circuit provides placement in USA TODAY’s official press release section and can help support brand recognition, public-facing credibility, and online discoverability.

The USA TODAY Top Newspaper Network is designed for organizations seeking publication opportunities across a curated group of high-authority publisher websites.

This option is focused on trusted publisher domains, credibility, and expanded content discoverability.

The USA TODAY Local Newspaper Network is designed to maximize distribution breadth across a large network of local and regional publisher websites.

This option is a strong fit for organizations that want broad geographic visibility or want to reach audiences across multiple U.S. markets.

Examples of recognizable USA TODAY Network local publications include The Arizona Republic, Detroit Free Press, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The Indianapolis Star, and The Tennessean. Specific publisher availability may vary by add-on circuit and is subject to the current media list.

The Hearst Media add-on includes posting opportunities across three high-value regional publications with national audiences:

Hearst Communications is a major media and information company with a long-standing publishing presence across the U.S. This circuit is designed to help organizations extend their release visibility through recognized Hearst-owned publisher sites.

When creating or reviewing an eligible U.S. distribution order, go to the search bar and search for the following networks by name:

Select the circuit or circuits that best align with your campaign goals before submitting your release.

If specific distribution circuits are specified in your contract, uncheck "Show only in package circuits." You’ll find this option directly above the list of circuits on the distribution page.

If you do not see these options in your account, contact your Notified representative for availability.

NOTE. These circuits are designed to help increase the visibility and reach of your press release. They are not intended to satisfy regulatory disclosure requirements. Please use the appropriate regulatory disclosure circuits for financial and material corporate press releases.

Yes. You may choose one, or multiple available Premium Publisher Add-On Circuits, depending on your distribution goals. There is no overlap among the three USA TODAY Network circuit options, so customers may use multiple USA TODAY Network add-ons to build a broader publisher footprint.

Content published through participating USA TODAY Network properties may remain published for up to 180 days under the current network structure.

Publication duration may vary by publisher, circuit, or network arrangement.

Premium Publisher Add-On Circuits can help strengthen the digital footprint of your press release by creating additional publisher-hosted versions of your announcement across recognized media environments.

That matters because modern search engines and AI answer engines rely heavily on accessible, indexable, trusted content across the web. By expanding your release across national, regional, local, and high-authority publisher sites, these add-ons can give search and AI platforms more opportunities to discover, index, interpret, and reference your news.

These circuits are especially useful for organizations that want to:

Search and AI performance can vary based on factors such as publisher indexing, release quality, topic relevance, keyword demand, competition, and how each platform crawls, retrieves, summarizes, and cites third-party content. Notified cannot guarantee specific search rankings, traffic outcomes, AI citations, or inclusion in AI-generated answers.

They can help create stronger conditions for AI visibility.

AI answer engines are more likely to surface information they can find, understand, and corroborate across credible sources. Premium Publisher Add-On Circuits expand the presence of your release across trusted publisher domains, which can help make your announcement more discoverable to AI platforms that index publisher content.

This does not guarantee that your release will appear in every AI-generated answer, but it does give your news more high-quality places to be found, indexed, and potentially referenced by AI-powered search and answer experiences.

The best option depends on your campaign objective.

If you are unsure which Premium Publisher Add-On Circuit is right for your announcement, contact your Notified representative. They can help you select the option that best matches your audience, message, market, and campaign goals.