PitchEngine is a social platform that enables businesses and organizations to get the word out using social and search optimization. Founded in 2008, PitchEngine serves more than 27,000 brands worldwide including many Fortune 500 companies.

PitchEngine isn’t just a website or a piece of software, it’s a new way of doing business. It’s the first publishing platform built for a new kind of storyteller – you. While we can’t take credit for the advent of social media, we take full responsibility for helping businesses create better content to share via social networks, search engines and mobile devices. Before PitchEngine, a digital flyer was a pdf document and a press release was only meant for journalists. Founded  by Jason Kintzler, a former anchorman turned PR pro, PitchEngine was first created as an alternative to the traditional press release and push distribution process.

Instead of sending documents via email or news wires, for the first time, PR pros could easily package-up their own branded content into a single web page called a “social media release.” Over time, we opted to call it a “pitch” which helped users move past the press release template mentality. In a way, the pitch™ has become our “tweet” or “wall post.”PitchEngine has been called, “one of the PR industry’s most transformative innovations” and is credited with “heralding in a new era of public relations.” The company has appeared in several popular books including; Engage, Twitterville, Putting the Public Back in Public Relations, SocialCorp and Social Media Marketing for Dummies.