Factiva: what it sells, price and AI features
Factiva is on the PR software map. We record 9 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated July 2026.
Updated . Launches and events from July 1, 1999 to July 2026.
"Global news and data monitoring, now with GenAI." Dow Jones's business news and company data platform, with 33,000 sources in 33 languages from 200 countries. Comms teams use it to track brand and executive coverage and prepare for crises; it adds an AI assistant and Smart Summary (cited GenAI summaries from licensed sources), curated newsletters run by Dow Jones curation staff, feeds and APIs, and a licensed-content feed for other companies' AI tools. Sales-led; no public price. Source: dowjones.com.
- Site
- dowjones.com
- Founded
- 1999
- Category
- Media monitoring and analysis
- Status
- Active
- Price
- not published; 'Connect with an expert' (sales-led)
On the research maps
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"Global news and data monitoring, now with GenAI." Dow Jones's business news and company data platform, with 33,000 sources in 33 languages from 200 countries. Comms teams use it to track brand and executive coverage and prepare for crises; it adds an AI assistant and Smart Summary (cited GenAI summaries from licensed sources), curated newsletters run by Dow Jones curation staff, feeds and APIs, and a licensed-content feed for other companies' AI tools. Sales-led; no public price. Source: dowjones.com.
- Category
- Media monitoring and analysis
- Price
- not published; 'Connect with an expert' (sales-led)
- Covers
- Discover and Measure
- Scale
- Enterprise incumbent: nine-figure revenue or public-company scale (owned by Dow Jones, a division of publicly listed News Corp; site claims 33K sources, 400K news articles a day, 35M company profiles and 70M executive bios; Factiva has run since 1999)
- Founded
- 1999
Sources: dowjones.com and 7 more on the map.
Launches and dated events, newest first
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Adds AI Company Insights reports on public and private companies
Product launch, . Factiva builds a report on a company from its financials, recent news and risk factors. Each claim links to its source.
Source: Factiva product page. From the launch record.
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Adds an AI Assistant that answers research questions with source links
Product launch, . Users ask research questions of Factiva's licensed content in an AI assistant. Every answer links to its source articles.
Source: Factiva product page. From the launch record.
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Brings Factiva news search into ChatGPT for verified customers
Product launch, . Factiva customers can search Factiva's licensed news inside ChatGPT. Answers draw on Dow Jones and other premium sources.
Source: Dow Jones investor briefing (News Corp 8-K). From the launch record.
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Expands GenAI-licensed news sources to more than 8,000
Product launch, . Factiva now holds GenAI rights from more than 8,000 news and business sources. Teams get AI summaries and API feeds built only on licensed content.
Source: Dow Jones press room. From the launch record.
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Factiva Smart Summary
Product launch, . GenAI search that returns concise summaries with citations drawn from licensed news sources, built on Google's Gemini models on Google Cloud.
Source: PR Newswire (Dow Jones). From the launch record.
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Factiva Sentiment Signals (with Oliver Wyman)
Product launch, . A corporate risk application that scores news-derived signals to predict entity risk events up to three months ahead, with daily ranked scoring and charts linked to the source articles. It targets credit and risk teams, not PR.
Source: Oliver Wyman. From the launch record.
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Dow Jones buys Reuters' half of Factiva
Acquisition, . Reuters sold its 50 percent stake in Factiva to Dow Jones for 160 million dollars; Reuters' chief executive called it the natural conclusion to the joint venture.
Source: Asharq Al-Awsat archive (Reuters report). From the launch record.
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Venture product renamed Factiva
Rebrand, . The Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive product was renamed Factiva about six months after formation.
Source: Wikipedia. From the launch record.
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Dow Jones and Reuters form the Factiva joint venture
Founded, . Dow Jones formed a 50-50 joint venture, Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive LLC (Factiva), with Reuters Group, into which it put a large part of its Dow Jones Interactive unit. It merged two existing products, Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing.
Source: Dow Jones 10-K for 1999 (SEC). From the launch record.
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