# Connectively: new features and launches

URL: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/connectively/
Covers: 2008 to Oct. 22, 2026
Updated: 2026-10-29
License: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Cite as: Newsprint, "Connectively: new features and launches", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/connectively/, updated 2026-10-29

> We confirmed 7 product launches from Connectively since 2008. The latest, Domain Rating and Agentic Score columns in Connectively tables, became available Oct. 22, 2026. We also record 1 rebrand and 1 shutdown.

Connectively is a platform where experts answer questions from journalists and publishers and submit bylines. Featured owns it and runs it as a separate brand. Paid tiers add AI-drafted answers, a media database with journalist recommendations and monthly performance reports.

## Facts

- Site: [connectively.us](https://www.connectively.us/)
- Category: Journalist requests and relationships
- Status: Active
- Price: Free $0; Lite $19/mo ($11 billed yearly); Pro $49/mo ($29 yearly); Business $99/mo ($59 yearly); extra answers $4.99-$6.99 per credit.

## Every dated launch, newest first

### Domain Rating and Agentic Score columns in Connectively tables

Available Oct. 22, 2026.

Connectively tables that show a publication's Domain Authority now also offer Ahrefs Domain Rating and an Agentic Score from is-agentic.com, which rates how well AI agents can read the site. Both columns are hidden by default and also appear in the API and on publication pages.

Features: [Journalist requests](https://www.newsprint.com/features/#feature-journalist-requests).

Source: [Connectively blog](https://blog.connectively.us/how-to-see-domain-rating-and-agentic-score-in-connectively.md).

Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/connectively/#launch-L16W7R1RN

### Verification Signals

Available Sept. 9, 2026.

Connectively shows seven automated checks on expert profiles (identity database match, verified email, LinkedIn, real-person headshot and more).

Features: [Journalist requests](https://www.newsprint.com/features/#feature-journalist-requests).

Source: [GlobeNewswire (via KDH News)](https://kdhnews.com/online_features/press_releases/journalist-request-platform-connectively-launches-verification-signals-to-help-publishers-vet-sources/article_e000e617-1431-509a-b41b-22f7647dc18b.html).

Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/connectively/#launch-N352

### Featured relaunches Connectively as an AI co-pilot for PR

Announced June 2, 2026.

Featured relaunched itself as 'the AI co-pilot for PR' and moved its expert-publisher platform onto the Connectively brand and URL.

Source: [Featured: About](https://featured.com/about).

Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/connectively/#launch-E363

### Connectively revival announced

Announced May 26, 2026.

Featured announced it would revive the Connectively brand it had acquired from Cision.

Source: [Featured: About](https://featured.com/about).

Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/connectively/#launch-E356

### Connectively discontinued by Cision

Announced Dec. 9, 2024.

Cision permanently discontinued Connectively, saying it would focus on enhancing its CisionOne product.

Source: [Cision](https://www.cision.com/connectively-has-been-discontinued/).

Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/connectively/#launch-E224

### Connectively replaces HARO's email digest

Available April 2, 2024.

Cision replaced HARO's daily email with a searchable query feed on Connectively, with paid premium features.

Source: [Sword and the Script](https://www.swordandthescript.com/2024/04/goodbye-haro/).

Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/connectively/#launch-E188

### Connectively Launched as HARO Replacement

Available 2023.

Cision's Connectively, billed as "The New Home of HARO," was fully live as of the Wayback Machine's December 8, 2023 capture.

Source: [Wayback Machine](https://web.archive.org/web/20231208213942/https://www.connectively.us).

Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/connectively/#launch-E171

### Terkel, later Featured: experts answer publishers' questions

Available 2022.

Featured, then called Terkel, launched a marketplace where publishers post questions and experts answer; this system became the revived Connectively.

Features: [Journalist requests](https://www.newsprint.com/features/#feature-journalist-requests).

Source: [AZ Tech Council (Terkel rebrands to Featured, 21 Jul 2023)](https://www.aztechcouncil.org/scottsdale-content-creation-startup-terkel-rebrands-to-featured/).

Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/connectively/#launch-N348

### Help a Reporter Out (HARO) journalist-request service

Available 2008.

HARO started as a Facebook group in 2008 and became an email list of journalists' requests for expert sources; Connectively descends from it.

Features: [Journalist requests](https://www.newsprint.com/features/#feature-journalist-requests).

Source: [Wikipedia (Help a Reporter Out)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help_a_Reporter_Out).

Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/connectively/#launch-N346

## Methodology and corrections

How we track launches, and how to report an error: https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology