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It is not an advertisement, a price forecast or a substitute for a media strategy. Most releases that token projects publish fail for the same handful of reasons: they announce nothing, they bury the facts a reporter needs, and they are sent to nobody in particular.",{"type":30,"tag":31,"props":38,"children":39},{},[40,42,49],{"type":35,"value":41},"This article covers eight specific mistakes we see around fundraises, listings, TGEs and partnerships, and what to do instead. It is about the release itself. 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It does not mean any journalist chose to write about you. Many teams pay for distribution, see the release republished on dozens of aggregator pages, and report \"coverage\" internally. Those pages are mostly reposts of the same text, valuable for a citation trail and search presence, not for readership.",{"type":30,"tag":31,"props":109,"children":110},{},[111,115,117,123],{"type":30,"tag":90,"props":112,"children":113},{},[114],{"type":35,"value":94},{"type":35,"value":116}," Track the two separately in your reporting. Distribution is a publishing cost. Earned coverage is a journalist writing their own piece, quoting your team, or citing your release as a source. Plan both, budget them differently, and be honest with your board and community about which one happened. 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