Anewstip vs BuzzStream
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The short answer
Both sides assessedAnewstip compared with BuzzStream
BuzzStream manages the conversation after the list is built, with follow-ups, shared history, and placement reporting that Anewstip's pitch tool does not match, and its ListIQ add-on now does article-based journalist research too. Anewstip keeps the advantage of a searchable million-contact index with a free tier. Many teams will use Anewstip or ListIQ to find reporters and BuzzStream to run the outreach.
BuzzStream compared with Anewstip
Anewstip searches about a million journalist contacts by what they have actually published, with a free tier that shows contact details and paid plans from $200 a month for more pitching and alerts. That article-based discovery is close to what BuzzStream's ListIQ does, but Anewstip's pitching tools are thinner than BuzzStream's CRM. A pairing is common in practice: Anewstip or ListIQ to find the reporters, BuzzStream to manage the conversations and prove the placements.
Choose Anewstip if
Founders, solo PR consultants, and small in-house teams who want to build a targeted journalist list from what reporters actually wrote, and who value unlimited contact reveals over polished software. The free tier makes it a reasonable permanent research companion even for teams that pitch from a different tool.
Choose BuzzStream if
Digital PR teams, SEO and content agencies, and in-house marketers who pitch journalists, bloggers, and publishers in campaigns, build their own lists, and want every pitch, reply, and placement kept in one shared history rather than spread across personal inboxes and spreadsheets.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Anewstip | BuzzStream |
|---|---|---|
| Category | PR | PR |
| Starting price | Free; paid plans from $200 per month (Standard), with a $99 per month early-stage plan for eligible applicants | $49 per month on Starter, billed monthly with no annual plan published; ListIQ is separate, from $24 per month (14 days trial) |
| Pricing model | Subscription with four tiers, metered on pitch volume, number of media lists, contacts per list, and number of alerts. Access to journalist email addresses and phone numbers is unlimited on every tier including the free plan, which is unusual for this category. Pitch capacity can be topped up with one-time, non-expiring point packages. Standard bills monthly or annually; Professional is annual only. | Monthly subscription to the outreach CRM on four published plans, metered by users, contacts, prospecting searches, and monitored links, with extra users sold per seat on Growth and Professional. Plans are month to month with no minimum term; prepaying twelve months gets one month free by arrangement with support. ListIQ, the media list extension, is a separate subscription metered in Standard and Email credits. |
| Free plan | 1 user, unlimited email and phone reveals, 2 media lists of up to 100 contacts, 2 alerts, and zero pitches per month | No |
| Free trial | 7 days on Standard and Professional, converting to a paid subscription automatically unless cancelled | 14 days on the CRM (per the terms of use); ListIQ also offers a free trial |
| Best for | Founders, solo PR consultants, and small in-house teams who want to build a targeted journalist list from what reporters actually wrote, and who value unlimited contact reveals over polished software. The free tier makes it a reasonable permanent research companion even for teams that pitch from a different tool. | Digital PR teams, SEO and content agencies, and in-house marketers who pitch journalists, bloggers, and publishers in campaigns, build their own lists, and want every pitch, reply, and placement kept in one shared history rather than spread across personal inboxes and spreadsheets. |
| Setup time | Minutes. Registration is self-serve, there is nothing to install or connect, and the first useful search happens on the free plan before any payment. Building a first media list of a few dozen contacts is an afternoon of query iteration rather than a project. | An hour to send a first pitch: connect a mailbox, install the BuzzMarker extension, create a project, and add prospects. Setting up a team properly takes a day or two, covering mailbox permissions, send limits, unsubscribe text, templates, and importing existing contact lists. |
| Learning curve | Low mechanically, higher editorially. The search syntax and filters are straightforward; the skill that decides results is choosing query phrases specific enough to surface genuinely relevant writers and disciplined enough not to fill a list with anyone who mentioned your category in passing. | Moderate. The research, outreach, manage, and report sections are each simple, but the contact model (research list versus outreach list, and what counts toward the limit) and the report set take a few weeks to use well. The craft of pitching is not something the software supplies. |
| Platforms | Web application, ClipCoverage Google Slides add-on (separate product and account) | Web application, BuzzMarker Chrome extension, ListIQ Chrome extension (desktop Chrome), REST API |
| Compliance | No published SOC 2, ISO 27001, or equivalent attestation, Card payments handled by Stripe, so card data is not stored on Anewstip servers, Privacy policy includes a section addressed to journalists and other indexed individuals | No published SOC 2 or ISO certification |
| Founded | 2014 | 2008 |
| Headquarters | Hong Kong (terms of service governed by California law, San Francisco jurisdiction) | Austin, Texas, United States |
| Ownership | Independent, founder-operated | Private (operated by Rel Equals, Inc.) |
Strengths and limitations
Anewstip
Strengths
- Searching by what journalists actually published beats filtering by assigned beat tags for niche or technical topics, and this is the tool built around that idea.
- Unlimited email and phone reveals on every tier, including free, removes the per-credit anxiety that shapes how teams use most media databases.
- The free plan is usable indefinitely for research, which makes it a low-risk permanent addition to a stack even if you pitch from elsewhere.
- One saved query serves three jobs: a list, an alert, and an AutoList rule that keeps building the list without supervision.
Limitations
- The Twitter and X search, historically the product's defining feature, is labeled deprecated inside the app; if that is why you are looking at Anewstip, it is no longer the reason to buy.
- The company appears to be a one-to-few-person operation with no outside funding since its 2014 founding, which is a genuine continuity risk for a system of record you would keep for years.
- The public site is visibly stale: the customer count is footnoted as of August 2018, testimonials date to the Twitter era, a Google Plus link survives in the markup, and the footer's about, blog, and contact links resolve to 404 pages.
- The terms of service carry a December 2014 effective date and the privacy policy is generic template text with no named GDPR lawful basis, no data processing agreement, and no subprocessor list, which will stall enterprise or EU procurement.
BuzzStream
Strengths
- Every pitch, reply, and placement is kept against the contact and shared with the team, which is what makes year-two campaigns faster than year one.
- Sends from your own connected mailboxes with per-mailbox send limits, unsubscribe handling, and a team-wide Do Not Contact list, rather than from a shared vendor domain.
- Research tools turn search results, URL lists, and browsing into prospect lists with contact details and metrics discovered automatically.
- ListIQ addresses the stale-contact problem directly with an activity check on whether a journalist is still at the outlet, plus syndication detection.
Limitations
- No maintained journalist database; you find prospects yourself or pay separately for ListIQ research credits.
- No press release distribution, newsroom hosting, or media monitoring, so coverage you did not pitch is invisible.
- The Starter plan omits bulk send, scheduling, and automated follow-ups, and allows only one user and 500 contacts.
- Contacts count against the limit until deleted from the database, so archiving old projects does not free capacity.
Pricing compared
Anewstip
Subscription with four tiers, metered on pitch volume, number of media lists, contacts per list, and number of alerts. Access to journalist email addresses and phone numbers is unlimited on every tier including the free plan, which is unusual for this category. Pitch capacity can be topped up with one-time, non-expiring point packages. Standard bills monthly or annually; Professional is annual only.
- Free$0
- Standard$200
- Professional$400
- PartnersCustom
Judged purely on capability per dollar for research, Anewstip is one of the best offers in the category, because the free tier does not withhold the thing every competitor charges for. A founder can identify and reach the right forty journalists for the price of a single point package. The judgment gets harder at $200 per month, where Standard buys one user, 1,000 sends, and twenty lists against competitors that charge two to five times as much but ship modern software, coverage reporting, CRM-grade relationship history, and support you can rely on. The honest framing is that you are buying a database and a search engine at a fair price, with dated tooling wrapped around it, from a company small enough that continuity is a real consideration.
BuzzStream
Monthly subscription to the outreach CRM on four published plans, metered by users, contacts, prospecting searches, and monitored links, with extra users sold per seat on Growth and Professional. Plans are month to month with no minimum term; prepaying twelve months gets one month free by arrangement with support. ListIQ, the media list extension, is a separate subscription metered in Standard and Email credits.
- Starter$49
- Growth$174
- Professional$424
- CustomFrom $999
BuzzStream is priced as workflow software, not as a data product, and that is the right lens. If you already know how to find your journalists and publishers, $174 a month for three people with bulk sending, follow-ups, shared history, and placement reporting is modest against an agency's billable hours, and it is a fraction of what the database platforms charge for a single seat. The weak spot is the bottom of the ladder: Starter at $49 lacks the automation that makes outreach software worth paying for, so a solo pitcher gets a tracked inbox and little else. ListIQ changes the calculation for teams without a database, since $24 to $99 a month of verified, recency-checked contacts replaces a lot of manual research, but it is a second subscription on top of the CRM. Buy the pair when outreach is a weekly job; do not buy either for two press releases a year.
Editorial verdict on each
Anewstip
Anewstip is the cheapest credible way to answer the question that actually matters in media relations: which specific journalists have already written about the thing I am announcing, and how do I reach them. Searching published articles instead of assigned beat tags produces better lists in niche categories, and giving away unlimited email and phone reveals on a free plan is a genuinely different commercial posture from the rest of the category. Against that, the software is dated, the marketing site has visibly not been touched in years, the tweet search that made the product famous is now marked deprecated, compliance documentation is effectively absent, and the company appears to be one person. Buy it as a research utility, on Standard's month-to-month terms or the free plan, keep exports of anything you would miss, and do not expect it to be the system of record a growing PR function will need in three years.
Read the full Anewstip profileBuzzStream
BuzzStream is the outreach CRM to buy when your team pitches journalists and publishers every week and builds its own lists. It does the unglamorous parts well: pitches send from your own mailboxes with sensible guardrails, follow-ups fire on their own, every reply and placement lands in a shared history, and the reports show which templates and which people actually earn coverage. ListIQ, sold separately from $24 a month, finally gives it a credible answer to the database question, with activity checks that catch journalists who have moved on. The caveats are clear. It is not a database, a wire, a newsroom, or a monitoring tool; the $49 Starter plan lacks the automation that justifies outreach software, so the real entry point for a team is Growth at $174; and security documentation is thin for a tool that holds your media relationships. For digital PR agencies and in-house teams running campaigns month after month, it is a well-proven, fairly priced workflow. For a founder with one announcement, it is more machine than the job needs.
Read the full BuzzStream profileAnewstip profile last reviewed 2026-08-23; BuzzStream last reviewed 2026-09-26. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.
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Frequently asked questions
6 questionsWhat is the difference between Anewstip and BuzzStream?
BuzzStream manages the conversation after the list is built, with follow-ups, shared history, and placement reporting that Anewstip's pitch tool does not match, and its ListIQ add-on now does article-based journalist research too. Anewstip keeps the advantage of a searchable million-contact index with a free tier. Many teams will use Anewstip or ListIQ to find reporters and BuzzStream to run the outreach.
Is Anewstip or BuzzStream cheaper?
Anewstip starts at Free; paid plans from $200 per month (Standard), with a $99 per month early-stage plan for eligible applicants. BuzzStream starts at $49 per month on Starter, billed monthly with no annual plan published; ListIQ is separate, from $24 per month (14 days trial). The billing models differ, so the entry price is rarely the whole cost. Anewstip pricing model: Subscription with four tiers, metered on pitch volume, number of media lists, contacts per list, and number of alerts. BuzzStream pricing model: Monthly subscription to the outreach CRM on four published plans, metered by users, contacts, prospecting searches, and monitored links, with extra users sold per seat on Growth and Professional.
Does Anewstip or BuzzStream have a free plan?
Anewstip has a free plan. 1 user, unlimited email and phone reveals, 2 media lists of up to 100 contacts, 2 alerts, and zero pitches per month. Trial terms: 7 days on Standard and Professional, converting to a paid subscription automatically unless cancelled. BuzzStream has no free plan. Trial terms: 14 days on the CRM (per the terms of use); ListIQ also offers a free trial.
Who should choose Anewstip?
Founders, solo PR consultants, and small in-house teams who want to build a targeted journalist list from what reporters actually wrote, and who value unlimited contact reveals over polished software. The free tier makes it a reasonable permanent research companion even for teams that pitch from a different tool.
Who should choose BuzzStream?
Digital PR teams, SEO and content agencies, and in-house marketers who pitch journalists, bloggers, and publishers in campaigns, build their own lists, and want every pitch, reply, and placement kept in one shared history rather than spread across personal inboxes and spreadsheets.
What are the best alternatives to Anewstip and BuzzStream?
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