PromotehourReviews of promotehour.com

I engaged PromoteHour for their services for my app halfchess.com between Oct 21-Jan 22. My takeaway was that for my category (B2C apps), they don't really work. 1. I did not get any bump in downloads from their coverage. There were 4-5 publications, but they did not show up on the analytics dashboard. There was no different in page visits or downloads on days before the coverage and after the coverage. So maybe the articles were published, but never discovered. 2. I also did not get coverage in the publications that actually might have mattered (where my competitor app reallybadchess.com could manage a coverage - like TouchArcade, TechCrunch, The Verge, etc). If you have a ecom product that you want to sell internationally (say a crowd-funding campaign) or a B2B product, they might still work; but they don't seem to work for B2C products like mine. Publications I received that did not show up on analytics dashboard (feel free to google below). MarketWatch (DA 91): marketwatch-dot-com ... press-release/halfchess-the-chess-thats-designed-for-the-fast-paced-generation-2021-11-24 Digital Journal (DA 85): digitaljournal-dot-com pr/halfchess-the-chess-thats-designed-for-the-fast-paced-generation WBOC (DA 78): wboc-dot-com story/45278069/halfchess-the-chess-thats-designed-for-the-fastpaced-generation (2 more like these)

Complete waste of money. The only articles they got for me were with sites that I could have made my own submissions like Medium. Also, their writing was absolutely horrible. I had to rewrite everything they sent me. Furthermore, I suspect most of these reviews are fake. There seems to be a pattern. When they get 1 bad review in the next few days they swamp their profile with fake good reviews.

It's clear that the Promotehour team put their heart and soul into coming up with new ideas.They didn't just take the brief but went above and beyond with their research to come up with more information to get the best results.

Don't waste your money: I've used their services for a couple of PR campaigns — sadly, very poor results — ended up being «featured» on various link farms and barely heard of foreign websites irrelevant to my service demographics. Friendly bunch though.

OK let start off with these guys are just trying to make a living. They do provide service. But it's not that high quality. And I must post about it because I feel many of these trustpilot 5-star reviews are bought and faked. This is going to be a rather harsh review, I really apologize. They cold-email hundreds of founders on IndieHackers (which is probably how they found me). Another review on here said you're basically paying $300 for an email list. Not exactly correct, but it's more or less the same effect. You also get their Press Release writing service and email pitch service, but it's so poor quality and such poor english that you have to write it yourself anyway. At least 10-20% of the emails they sent out had bounced. At least 10-20% of the emails were not even to journalists relevant to my product and niche. You can get it for far cheaper by hiring off Upwork. I was thinking about leaving 2-star review if these guys were honest, but unfortunately I don't think they are. I changed it to 1-star after reading the other bad reviews on here and also after realizing that I think a lot of the 5-star reviews are faked

Easy to work with, very straightforward, and they delivered on exactly what we needed! Recommended if you need to offload some of the manual searching labor to a team who's done it for you.

Really enjoyed my experience with Promote Hour. They work diligently to get you in publications that you want. They are very transparent with everything they do. Their communication is consistent and their price is very affordable. Will definitely be back the next time I need PR assistance.

Highly recommended. They've been flexible for their service and they did the best for us