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Connectively: new features and launches

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.

Updated . Launches from 2008 to Oct. 22, 2026.

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.

Site
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

  1. 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.

    Source: Connectively blog.

  2. 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.

    Source: GlobeNewswire (via KDH News).

  3. 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.

  4. Connectively revival announced

    Announced May 26, 2026.

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

    Source: Featured: About.

  5. Connectively discontinued by Cision

    Announced Dec. 9, 2024.

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

    Source: Cision.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

    Source: AZ Tech Council (Terkel rebrands to Featured, 21 Jul 2023).

  9. 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.

    Source: Wikipedia (Help a Reporter Out).

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