Media coverage holds the ability to take a business in front of hundreds of millions of audiences in an incredibly short span of time. But traditional PR agencies are quite expensive and don’t guarantee media coverage. So Mona & Jit, founders of Promotehour, who have been doing startups for a decade, launched a PR service exclusively focused on businesses, big and small.
Promotehour (promotehour.com) has 22 customer reviews on Five Star Index, with an average rating of 3.0 out of 5.
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promotehour.com
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Media & Information
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Wyoming, Wyoming
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2026
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Signed up for their standard package but after they have sent out to 300 journalist, we only had one small article written and one journalist who said she will keep in view. Other than that we had nothing worth discussing. They did do their job sending out to the journalists but the response had been poor. The follow up wasn't that great either. Overall it wasn't that worthwhile an expense to pay for to promote your product. Wouldn't recommend.
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Shai
Awesome team! Thanks for helping us here!
I am returning client for them, had used them back in 2018 when they were starting out, they had budget plans then and a model where you pay when you get results, we were also in our 3rd year and bootstrapped so decided to go with them well, it turned out as one of my best decisions at that time, as they secured around 7 press coverages for us in some of the known US-media and yes, I am happy to share that one of them was Forbes, we worked with them for around 6 months at that time. So now back in 2020 late July again we decided to do a project with them and yes, they didn't disappoint us this time as well, this time our target was Europe and well they got us some press in one Italian based media outlet, 1 in France, 1 in Dutch Media and around 3 in German Media. We completed our contract with them a week back and I am happy to write this review for them, we will definitely use their service this year as well and well I am happy to be an advocate for their service.
PS - David, Utsab, Amil & Mona are some great people from their team to work with, keep it up, guys!
The 4 stars is because I think this team can do more so will definitely give you the 5 after my next project with you.
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Ferrari98
They did a great job of getting us…
They did a great job of getting us written up! Great value for the cost and very professional.
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Luis
These people Can't even write in…
These people Can't even write in English properly. Terrible experience. We asked for a refund, they wasted 1 week of CEO time and we had to demand for a refund 3 times.
Response from PromotehourNov 20, 2020
Hey Luis,
Jit here from Promotehour. I regrett the inconvenience caused. I will look in to this and initiate a refund. As I can see you signed up for the Standard plan ($299) and it's kind of unfair to expect a guaranteed coverage in top-tier media outlets. Especially when your crowdfunding campaign is suspended by Indiegogo. We work with 40+ startups and campaigns every month and clients seem to be happy with our work, but will definitely take your feedback seriously.
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Qpods E.
Steer CLEAR of PromoteHour.com - Fake PR, Paid for blogs + Horrendous Customer service
I read Reddit and TrustPilot for PromoteHour.com reviews and was hesitant as I couldn't seen any direct correlation between the articles they claim to have posted and ROI on backerkit. The reviews also sound too good to be true.
It turns out they will give u a list of hundreds of contacts.
For 3000usd they will supposedly contact each and every contact. Which, they simply don't do.
Long story short, they are only selling u an email list. Then pay $100 or so to a site that has "gamed" the Ahrefs Domain Authority system.
For $1500 deposit, we received only 3 conversions on a $69 product. When i tried to renogotiate kindly over a one day period, the project manager was making false claims about her delivery results.
one of the articles was a negative review
one was posted but had fake DA ranking
third post was from me contacting someone not in the list they provided me and the blog posted from my press release notes, not the pitch they sent.
After 20 days, and only $750 raised on my Indiegogo campaign, we decided to ask to have the 2 posts (one negative and one that we got posted ourself), credited to our next campaign.
It really isn't the money that is the issue. It is more the principle. Then two people in the company said that since there was a contract, they were in the right.
I really wanted to believe in Promote Hour.
Their customer service begs for more.
UPDATE: they are now trolling my review. I want to say that if you want to have articles posted for the purpose of back-linking, then pay them $3000 and they will give you around $300 worth of paid listings.
Many of the emails bounce if you buy the email lists from them.
Phandroid we contacted on our own and we have proof. Please contact us and we can show you screeshot showing it was our own efforts and NOT Promotehour's. The Italian SmartWorld link they posted was a PodCast with WASN’T part of the agreement. The other Italian article was NEGATIVE even though the blogger didn't ask questions about the product or receive review unit.
The only positive review was TuttoAndroid.
Our other campaign SportsMask on raised $750! They sent me some weird Indian site which they had post the article. It got ZERO traffic so we paused that campaign.
the worst thing about PromoteHour isn't the overpricing, bounced emails, or the negative reviews, it is their attitude. You can see on the comments how they are not being honest and are disclosing customers details (which is probably not legal)。
I've contacted other people that they have on their testimonials and they also are saying the same thing.
You don't have to trust our review, read past the fake reviews on Trustpilot, sitejabber and reddit, and contact some of the actual people they "claim" to be doing PR work for.
Thanks!
Response from PromotehourNov 20, 2020
Hey,
Jit here from Promotehour. We have issued a 100% refund. I would really appreciate if you can let us know the clients you reached out to who were unhappy. I am really skeptical of your claim because we took the testimonials directly from the clients and those are backed by the real world press coverage.
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Smith
Tried its Coverage plan for my newly …
Tried its Coverage plan for my newly launched app. They got me covered on VentureBeat. Totally bang on the buck for $399. I have tried far more expensive agencies in the past and they result has been mixed.
Definitely recommended for newly launched startups.