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Featured vs. Connectively
Featured and Connectively are run by the same company. Connectively is the platform where experts answer questions from journalists and publishers and build a public profile. Featured is the AI co-pilot for PR that finds opportunities across many channels and drafts the pitch. If you had a Featured account before June 2026, it now lives on Connectively.
Updated Prices and plans checked November 10, 2026Sources
The short answer
One company, two products
Until May 2026, Featured.com was a platform where experts answered questions from publishers. That platform is now Connectively. Featured moved it to the Connectively brand, carried over subscriptions, profiles and submission history, and relaunched Featured.com on June 2, 2026 as the AI co-pilot for PR.
Connectively is where an individual expert goes to answer questions, submit bylined articles, respond to HARO queries and keep a public expert profile. Plans are Free, Lite at $19 a month, Pro at $49 and Business at $99.
Featured is where a PR professional, founder or agency goes to find opportunities of every kind and get help acting on them: journalist requests from HARO, Connectively and social platforms, plus podcasts, awards, speaking, bylined articles, creator search, media monitoring and a GEO Audit. Plans are Free, Lite at $39 a month, Pro at $99 and Pro+ at $299.
Choose Featured if
- You run PR for a company or for clients, not only for yourself.
- You want podcasts, awards, speaking and press in one search.
- You want AI to find, match and draft on a schedule.
- You want to check how AI assistants describe your brand.
Choose Connectively if
- You are an expert who wants to answer questions and get quoted.
- You want a public expert profile that journalists can find.
- You want the lowest-cost paid plan. Connectively Lite is $19 a month.
- You had a Featured account before June 2026. It is already there.
Featured owns and operates all three products named on this page: Featured, HARO and Connectively. The aim here is to help you pick the right one.
Side by side
Featured and Connectively at a glance
| Featured | Connectively | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | AI co-pilot for PR | Journalist request platform for experts |
| Owner | Featured | Featured |
| Main action | Ask, review matches, pitch | Answer questions inside the platform |
| Free plan | Yes, with a daily usage allowance | Yes. 3 answers and 1 bylined article a month |
| Paid plans | $39, $99 and $299 a month | $19, $49 and $99 a month |
| Annual discount | 20% | 40% |
| What the price meters | Daily AI usage | Answers per month and seats |
| Public expert profile | No | Yes, with Verification Signals |
| Opportunity types | Journalist requests, podcasts, bylined articles, awards, speaking, creators | Publisher questions, HARO queries, bylined articles, interview profiles |
| AI visibility audit | Yes. GEO Audit | No |
| Best for | PR pros, founders and agencies | Individual experts and the people who pitch for them |
Checked November 10, 2026. Sources are listed at the end of this page.
Definitions
What each one is
What is Featured?
Featured is the AI co-pilot for PR. It is a chat-first product: ask for journalist requests on your topic, podcasts that book guests like you, or awards your company can win, and Featured returns a matched list and drafts the pitch. Workflows run the same searches on a schedule and deliver results to Slack or email. Featured relaunched in this form on June 2, 2026. The company also owns and operates HARO (Help a Reporter Out) and Connectively, which supply many of its journalist requests. Featured is based in Scottsdale, Arizona.
What is Connectively?
Connectively is a journalist request platform that connects subject matter experts with journalists and publishers. Experts answer questions, submit bylined articles and complete interview profiles, and selected responses are published with attribution. HARO queries appear in Connectively as reporters submit them. Featured relaunched the Connectively brand in May 2026 and moved its original expert platform onto it. The name was previously used by Cision for its version of HARO, which Cision discontinued in December 2024. Connectively passed 100,000 users in June 2026.
Key differences
Five differences that matter
- 1
Connectively is the expert platform Featured used to be.
If you used Featured before June 2026 to answer publisher questions, you were using what is now Connectively. The product, your profile and your history moved to connectively.us. Featured.com was rebuilt as a different product for a wider PR job.
- 2
Connectively is built around answering. Featured is built around finding.
On Connectively you open a question, write an answer and submit it. On Featured you describe what you are looking for and the co-pilot searches for it, across journalist requests and several other kinds of opportunity.
- 3
Connectively gives you a public profile. Featured works behind the scenes.
Every Connectively member has an expert profile page in a public directory, with Verification Signals that help journalists vet a source. Featured has no public profile. It is a working tool for the person doing the PR.
- 4
Featured covers more kinds of opportunity.
Connectively focuses on written contributions: answers, bylined articles and interview profiles, plus HARO queries. Featured adds podcasts, awards, speaking, creator search, media monitoring, press release distribution and a GEO Audit, and its Journalist Requests feature includes Connectively's questions.
- 5
The two price lists meter different things.
Connectively plans are built around answers per month: 3 on Free, 10 on Lite at $19 a month, and unlimited on Pro at $49 a month per seat. Featured plans are built around daily AI usage: every plan has every feature, and Lite ($39), Pro ($99) and Pro+ ($299) raise the allowance.
Features
Featured vs. Connectively: feature comparison
| Feature | Featured | Connectively |
|---|---|---|
| Opportunities | ||
| Publisher questions | Yes. Through Journalist Requests | Yes |
| HARO queries | Yes | Yes. In real time |
| Requests from Substack, X and LinkedIn | Yes | Yes. Substack, X and more |
| Bylined articles | Finds openings at outside publications | Submit articles to Connectively publishers |
| Podcasts, awards, speaking | Yes | No |
| Tools | ||
| AI help | Featured Chat finds, matches and drafts | Connectively AI drafts answers on paid plans |
| Automation | 13 scheduled workflow templates | Keyword alerts |
| Public expert profile | No | Yes |
| Verification Signals | No | Yes |
| Media monitoring | Yes | No |
| AI visibility audit | Yes. GEO Audit | No |
| Plans | ||
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Entry paid plan | Lite, $39 a month | Lite, $19 a month |
| Team access | Team plans with up to 25 logins | Business plan with shared team access |
Both products are run by Featured. Feature details are from featured.com and connectively.us as of November 10, 2026.
Pricing
Featured vs. Connectively: pricing
Both products have a free plan. Connectively is priced by answers and seats. Featured is priced by daily AI usage.
Featured pricing
| Plan | Monthly | Billed annually | What changes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | Every feature, with a starter daily allowance |
| Lite | $39 | $29 a month ($348 a year) | 5x the AI usage of Free |
| Pro | $99 | $79 a month ($948 a year) | 5x the usage of Lite |
| Pro+ | $299 | $239 a month ($2,868 a year) | 20x the usage of Lite |
| Team Lite | $199 | $159 a month ($1,908 a year) | Up to 25 logins sharing one usage pool |
| Team Pro | $499 | $399 a month ($4,788 a year) | 5x the pool of Team Lite |
| Team Pro+ | $1,499 | $1,199 a month ($14,388 a year) | 20x the pool of Team Lite |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom | Unlimited members, usage billed at API rates |
Every Featured plan includes every feature. Plans differ only by daily AI usage. Source: featured.com/pricing.
Connectively pricing
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | 3 answers and 1 bylined article a month, an expert profile page, 3 daily keyword alerts, early access to HARO queries |
| Lite | $19 | $11 a month | 10 answers a month, 10 daily keyword alerts, personalized query matching, Connectively AI |
| Pro | $49 per seat | $29 a month per seat | Unlimited answers and bylined articles (subject to abuse guardrails), link type and Domain Authority, 25 real-time alerts |
| Business | $99 per seat | $59 a month per seat | Media database, media lists and exports, premium API, white labeling, shared team access |
Yearly billing takes 40% off. Pay-as-you-go credits are also sold. Source: connectively.us/pricing.
How they fit together
You probably need one, not both
Connectively fits experts who answer questions for themselves. Featured fits PR professionals, founders and agencies who want a wider set of opportunities and AI help, and it already includes Connectively's questions in its Journalist Requests.
HARO is the third product from the same company: a free email newsletter of journalist requests. See Featured vs. HARO and Connectively vs. HARO.
FAQ
Featured vs. Connectively: frequently asked questions
Did Featured become Connectively?
Partly. Featured's original expert Q&A platform moved to the Connectively brand in May 2026. Featured.com then relaunched on June 2, 2026 as the AI co-pilot for PR. Both are run by the same company.
What happened to my old Featured account?
It moved to Connectively. Subscriptions, profiles and submission history carried over automatically, and you can sign in at connectively.us.
Is Connectively owned by Featured?
Yes. Featured owns and operates Connectively and HARO.
Is this the same Connectively that Cision ran?
It is the same name under a new owner. Cision discontinued its Connectively product in December 2024. Featured relaunched the Connectively brand in May 2026 on its own expert platform.
Do I need both Featured and Connectively?
Probably not. Connectively fits experts who answer questions for themselves. Featured fits PR professionals, founders and agencies who want a wider set of opportunities and AI help.
Which is cheaper, Featured or Connectively?
Connectively's paid plans start lower, at $19 a month against $39 a month for Featured Lite. Both have free plans.
Does Featured include Connectively's questions?
Yes. Featured's Journalist Requests feature pulls live requests from Connectively, HARO, Substack, X and LinkedIn.
What is the difference between HARO, Connectively and Featured?
All three are run by Featured. HARO is a free email newsletter of journalist requests. Connectively is a platform where experts answer journalist and publisher requests and keep a public profile. Featured is the AI co-pilot for PR: it finds and drafts across both of them and across podcasts, bylined articles, awards and speaking.
Sources
Sources and how we checked
Featured owns and operates Featured, HARO and Connectively, and wrote this page. Facts come from each product's public site and press releases, checked on November 10, 2026.
- Featured pricing (plans, prices, usage multipliers)
- Featured features (feature list and data sources)
- Featured workflows (workflow templates)
- Connectively pricing (plans, limits, credits)
- Featured.com Revives Connectively, Launches AI Co-Pilot for PR (GlobeNewswire, May 26, 2026)
- Journalist Request Platform Connectively Surpasses 100,000 Users (PR Newswire, June 9, 2026)
Featured, Connectively and other product names are trademarks of their respective owners. Spotted something out of date? Tell us at support@featured.com and we will correct it.
Pick the one that fits how you work
Try Featured free if you want an AI co-pilot across every kind of PR opportunity. Go to Connectively if you want to answer questions and build an expert profile.