In this article, you'll find a constantly growing list of some of our most impactful new features and enhancements.
Contacts Database release (9th April 2025)
New feature
- Addition of TikTok and Bluesky fields on applicable contact and outlet profile pages.
Enhancement
- Inclusion of TikTok and Bluesky fields on export for contacts and outlets.
- Ability to search for records with TikTok and Bluesky handles through the Advanced search function.
Medianet for Journalists (9th April 2025)
New feature
- Ability for journalists to add and edit their TikTok and Bluesky handles to appear on their media contact profiles.
Contacts Database release (25th February 2025)
Maintenance
- Resolved broken Ad Driven Distribution link
- Resolved issue with notes on Contact and Outlet profiles
- Styling changes to error/not found pages
- Upgrade to the latest bootstrap
Enhancement
- Loading wheels applied across the site to confirm when something is processing
Platform release (12th February 2025)
Maintenance
- Fix to address styling issues with the Press Release Builder (bullet points missing from press release preview).
Contacts Database release (6th February 2025)
New feature
- Addition of recently published articles on contact profile pages, including headline, outlet link, and link off to original news article.
Platform release (12th December 2024)
Maintenance
- Styling improvements applied to the 'Subscription' page and 'Forgot Password' page.
Enhancement
- Email distribution allocation reset date alignment to the 1st of each month to match with the Contacts Database export reset date.
New feature
- Intelligence usage alerts for 80%, 90% and 100% of included media monitoring mentions.
Contacts Database release (27th November 2024)
Maintenance
- Fixes to adding and editing private outlets and contacts.
- Fixes to 'Recently Added' carousel in the News Feed.
Enhancement
- Numerous fixes to smaller cosmetic and functionality issues on search, search results, saved lists and profile pages.
Platform and Contacts Database release (14th November 2024)
Enhancement
- Implementation of new designs to contact and outlet profile pages to remove multiple tabs and have all information for users on a single page divided into sections: Profile, Insights/Contacts, and My Notes.
- Implementation of new designs for the Press Releases page to easily distinguish between Held, Draft and Sent press releases.
- Implementation of new design for Press release builder page with preview panel on the right-hand side of the page.
New service launched (13th November 2024)
New service
- The launch of Medianet's media monitoring service that monitor mentions across print, online, broadcast and social.
- Intelligence platform features:
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- Easy-to-use search builder
- Article-level and entity-level sentiment
- Integrations with Outlet and Contact profiles in the Medianet Contacts Database.
- Automated dashboards with quick insights
- Alert builder
- Report builder (curated reports and scheduled newsletters)
Server maintenance (28th August 2024)
Maintenance
- Scheduled server maintenance for the Medianet platform, Contacts Database and Medianet for Journalists platform.
Platform release (27th June 2024)
Maintenance
- Press Release distribution logic rewritten to handle an AWS change.
- Upgrade of the Press Release text editor (Create Press Release Builder) to the most recent version.
Platform release (5th June 2024)
New feature
- 'My Insights' page added to display Media Activity Reports or other insights reports included in subscription plans.
Enhancement
- When in the Press Release section of the platform, clicking the Medianet logo returns users to the distribution dashboard. When in the Contacts Database section, clicking the Medianet logo will return users to the search page.
Maintenance
- Medianet Administration: update view to streamline timezone view.
- Link fix on 'Training' menu item.
Contacts Database release (24th April 2024)
New feature
- "Writes about" section launched for Contacts who publish digital news articles that indicates the Organisations, People and Locations that a journalists writes about more frequently.
Enhancement
- Redesign of Contacts Database profile pages for Contacts and Outlets, combined note and document upload feature, updated single menu and action icons on the top of all pages.
Contacts Database release (8th March 2024)
Enhancement
- Change implemented to enable profile pictures of journalists to be displayed.
Platform release (15th February 2024)
New feature
- Custom From Settings launched to allow press releases to be emailed from an organisation's own email address.
Platform release (11th December 2023)
Enhancement
- Ad-Driven Distribution brought into the Press release builder workflow.
Platform release (7th December 2023)
Enhancement
- New events calendar embedded into the Contacts Database and Distribution website showcasing events for all of 2024 across Australia.
Platform release (26th October 2023)
New feature
- Pickup Tracker launched to return website links of where press releases have achieved earned media coverage or website postings.
Contacts Database release 6.14 (15th September 2023)
Enhancements
- Threads profiles added to Contacts and Outlets (1903 unique Threads handles added across 3018 profiles).
- Social icons on profile pages made more prominent and in colour.
- Ability for journalists to add or update their Threads handle through their Medianet for Journalists login.
- Contact and Outlet Thread handles added to export column options.
- Outlet website made more prominent on outlet information.
Maintenance
- Twitter icon updated to X. Written references to Twitter remain as Twitter rather than X.
- Snapchat handles retired.
Platform release (20th September 2023)
Maintenance
- Fix to address on in-platform plan upgrade.
Platform release 2.3 (21st August 2023)
Enhancements
- Additional 11 News Corp websites added to Website Syndication and links included in the Syndication report.
- Press release builder drawers open wider by default.
- Target Audience lists names truncated to better see the delete icon.
- Opt out added for Medianet for Journalists (MNJ) within Expanded Audience.
- Email reporting enhancement - click through to Contact Database profiles (available on subscription plans).
Platform release 2.2 (20th July 2023)
Enhancements
- Addition of the Knowledge Centre link in platform menu.
- 'Help' link added to the Press Release Distribution landing page.
- Header and footer images removed from downloadable links in email sends. Retained as embedded header and footer images.
- Small bug fix on Platform Analytics page.
- Backend config setting change for quotas from UTC time.
- DNS endpoint update.