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  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"PressArea: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/pressarea/, updated 2026-11-12",
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  "title": "PressArea: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "PressArea is on 2 Newsprint research maps: the PR software map and the AI visibility map. We record 1 dated launch or event for it. The latest is dated July 23, 2014.",
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    "text": "\"Your cloud-based Press Office.\" A UK SaaS press office for brands such as John Lewis, Heathrow and Marks & Spencer: branded online media centres and digital asset management, release drafting and automatic distribution, a press enquiry ticketing system, crisis lock-down mode, lines to take, and campaign tracking. It also sells PressArea Pulse, a social listening app that scans social networks, Google and ChatGPT every 15 minutes and tracks how ChatGPT describes a brand.",
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