# Newsbox: new features and launches

URL: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/newsbox/
Covers: 2006 to July 24, 2026
Updated: 2026-10-28
License: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Cite as: Newsprint, "Newsbox: new features and launches", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/newsbox/, updated 2026-10-28

> We confirmed 20 product launches from Newsbox since 2012. The latest, Adds advanced search filters, was announced July 24, 2026. We also record 1 funding round and 2 new companies.

Newsbox sells a communications intelligence workspace from Connectus to communications teams. It watches topics, companies and competitors across news feeds, scores them with AI and sends daily briefs. Its AI Visibility Monitor measures brand mentions in live answer engines and shows which recent press hits those answers cite.

## Facts

- Site: [newsbox.com](https://newsbox.com/)
- Founded: 2011
- Category: Media monitoring and analysis
- Status: Active
- Price: per month in USD: free tier; Plus $9.99; Premium $49.99; Intelligence $199 per seat; press releases $99 each or $359 for five, with add-ons of $50 to $150; group quotes on request; self-serve

## Every dated launch, newest first

### Adds advanced search filters

Announced July 24, 2026.

NewsBox search at newsbox.com/search gets advanced filters to narrow news results.

Features: [Media monitoring](https://www.newsprint.com/features/#feature-media-monitoring).

Source: [NewsBox press release](https://newsbox.com/press/newsbox-platform-upgrade-2026).

Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/newsbox/#launch-L3NMZD1SV

### Press release newsroom and distribution

Available July 24, 2026.

Paid release submission with national and regional placement, editorial review, automatic distribution into the NewsBox news feeds with a 'News Release' badge, and a reseller program for agencies.

Features: [Distribution and newsroom](https://www.newsprint.com/features/#feature-distribution-and-newsroom).

Source: [NewsBox press release](https://newsbox.com/press/newsbox-platform-upgrade-2026).

Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/newsbox/#launch-V060

### Company Pages

Available July 20, 2026.

Every top company gets a profile with recent coverage; companies can claim their page and submit news, which an admin approves.

Features: [Distribution and newsroom](https://www.newsprint.com/features/#feature-distribution-and-newsroom).

Source: [NewsBox What's New](https://newsbox.com/whats-new).

Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/newsbox/#launch-V059

### Launches the Financial Intelligence suite

Announced July 14, 2026.

Users get live market and filings data from NewsBox's data partners inside the product.

Source: [NewsBox What's New](https://newsbox.com/whats-new).

Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/newsbox/#launch-L8S0ETTYC

### Premium intelligence reports in the daily brief

Available July 10, 2026.

Premium members get a contextual intelligence report inside their daily brief.

Features: [Coverage analysis](https://www.newsprint.com/features/#feature-coverage-analysis).

Source: [NewsBox What's New](https://newsbox.com/whats-new).

Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/newsbox/#launch-V058

### Intelligence profile drafted from your website

Available July 8, 2026.

The user pastes a URL and AI drafts competitors, keywords and signals to approve.

Features: [Media monitoring](https://www.newsprint.com/features/#feature-media-monitoring).

Source: [NewsBox What's New](https://newsbox.com/whats-new).

Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/newsbox/#launch-V057

### Agency Services page

Available July 1, 2026.

Agencies can resell media monitoring, newsroom embeds and newsletter management.

Source: [NewsBox What's New](https://newsbox.com/whats-new).

Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/newsbox/#launch-V056

### News Agents preview

Available June 15, 2026. In beta.

Autonomous research agents that follow a user-defined topic and surface narrative shifts; preview for premium members.

Features: [AI agents](https://www.newsprint.com/features/#feature-agents).

Source: [NewsBox What's New](https://newsbox.com/whats-new).

Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/newsbox/#launch-V055

### Adds Org Feed for shared team intelligence

Announced May 18, 2026.

Teams get a shared intelligence board at /org-feed where members see the same tracked news.

Features: [Media monitoring](https://www.newsprint.com/features/#feature-media-monitoring).

Source: [NewsBox What's New](https://newsbox.com/whats-new).

Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/newsbox/#launch-LDRKT2DZK

### Adds following for companies, tickers, shows and topics

Announced May 10, 2026.

A single follow model lets users follow companies, stock tickers, shows and topics from a dedicated /follow page.

Features: [Media monitoring](https://www.newsprint.com/features/#feature-media-monitoring).

Source: [NewsBox What's New](https://newsbox.com/whats-new).

Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/newsbox/#launch-L8Y709PTJ

### Slack integration

Available May 1, 2026.

Deliver briefs and share articles to Slack channels.

Features: [Media monitoring](https://www.newsprint.com/features/#feature-media-monitoring).

Source: [NewsBox What's New](https://newsbox.com/whats-new).

Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/newsbox/#launch-V054

### Launches the NewsBox Newsletter Network

Announced April 20, 2026.

Creators and readers can discover, subscribe to and cross-promote newsletters across the NewsBox creator network.

Source: [NewsBox What's New](https://newsbox.com/whats-new).

Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/newsbox/#launch-LCFNZ5TV1

### Adds AI web search fallback to NewsBox search

Announced April 10, 2026.

When NewsBox's own index returns few results, search falls back to a curated AI web search.

Features: [Media monitoring](https://www.newsprint.com/features/#feature-media-monitoring).

Source: [NewsBox What's New](https://newsbox.com/whats-new).

Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/newsbox/#launch-L8Y46TSMH

### Launches a mobile dashboard view

Announced April 1, 2026.

The NewsBox dashboard is optimized for phones, with a bottom navigation bar.

Source: [NewsBox What's New](https://newsbox.com/whats-new).

Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/newsbox/#launch-LQ67FSXWX

### Agency Dashboard

Available Jan. 25, 2026.

Cross-client analytics and an agency activity log.

Features: [Reporting and measurement](https://www.newsprint.com/features/#feature-reporting-and-measurement).

Source: [NewsBox What's New](https://newsbox.com/whats-new).

Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/newsbox/#launch-V053

### Creator Studio

Available Jan. 15, 2026.

Publishing suite with an editor, tone analysis and a media library.

Features: [Press release and content writing](https://www.newsprint.com/features/#feature-release-writing).

Source: [NewsBox What's New](https://newsbox.com/whats-new).

Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/newsbox/#launch-V052

### Adds inbound newsletter ingestion by email forward

Announced Dec. 15, 2025.

Users forward any newsletter to a personal @in.newsbox.com address and it appears in their NewsBox feed.

Features: [Media monitoring](https://www.newsprint.com/features/#feature-media-monitoring).

Source: [NewsBox What's New](https://newsbox.com/whats-new).

Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/newsbox/#launch-L52JPFMH8

### Multi-language translation on demand

Available Nov. 20, 2025.

Translate a newsletter into the reader's language, cached per article.

Source: [NewsBox What's New](https://newsbox.com/whats-new).

Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/newsbox/#launch-V051

### AI-powered NewsBox public launch

Available Aug. 1, 2025.

The What's New release data lists NewsBox public launch on 1 August 2025 as the first public release of the NewsBox intelligence platform.

Source: [NewsBox What's New](https://newsbox.com/whats-new).

Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/newsbox/#launch-E492

### Seed funding

Announced 2013.

The history page says NewsBox received seed funding in 2013; no amount or investor is given. Latka lists a seed of $350K in March 2015, which conflicts.

Source: [NewsBox history](https://newsbox.com/history).

Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/newsbox/#launch-E491

### NewsBox launches

Available 2012.

Technical.ly (2014-12-02) reports that Connectus launched NewsBox in 2012.

Source: [Technical.ly](https://technical.ly/professional-development/newsbox-gary-pick).

Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/newsbox/#launch-E490

### NewsBox founded

Announced 2011.

The press kit lists 2011 as the founding year; the history page says building began in November 2011.

Source: [NewsBox press kit](https://newsbox.com/press/kit).

Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/newsbox/#launch-E489

### PRSafe born

Announced 2006.

The company history says it built PRSafe in 2006 as a platform for PR professionals; NewsBox began as its sister app.

Source: [NewsBox history](https://newsbox.com/history).

Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/newsbox/#launch-E488

## Methodology and corrections

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