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Category: Strategy
Exclusives are the most under-used lever in B2B tech PR. A well-placed exclusive — say, your Series B at TechCrunch under embargo — anchors the launch and earns 10–20× the downstream coverage of a wire blast. The trade-off: you give one reporter the right to break the news, and you can't pitch the same angle elsewhere until they publish.
Use exclusives for funding rounds, major product launches, named customer wins, and proprietary research drops. Don't use them for incremental product updates — the reporter will pass and you'll have wasted the window. Crackle PR uses exclusives strategically for VC-backed client launches — reserved for stories where a tier-1 anchor placement (TechCrunch, WSJ, The Information, Bloomberg) will materially outweigh the coverage-volume tradeoff — not as a default lever.
Keywords: exclusive media pitch, press exclusive, embargoed pitch, tier 1 exclusive
Last updated: 2026-05-24 · Published by Crackle PR