# NewsJack

> NewsJack is a newsjacking platform for music PR and social teams. It watches the music trade press, scores what a brand has standing to jump on, and drafts the post in their voice. Built and used in production by Total Audio Promo, a UK music PR firm.

## Facts (verified 30 August 2026)
- Monitors 54 music-industry and adjacent news sources, rescanning every 5 minutes.
- Has scored 2,984 stories for relevance and urgency to date.
- Has published 80 daily morning briefings; the archive is public at https://newsjack.cc/briefings.
- Pricing: Free £0 (one jack a day on one industry), Creator £9/month, Pro £29/month, Agency £79/month. The free plan needs no card and does not expire; paid plans bill monthly from the first day and can be cancelled any time.
- Ships an API, a TypeScript SDK (`@totalaudiopromo/newsjack-sdk` on npm), and an MCP server (`newsjack-mcp` on npm) exposing 21 tools.

## Key Features
- **Real-time Trend Detection**: Monitors RSS feeds, news sites, and social platforms 24/7 to catch breaking music stories.
- **Smart Relevance Scoring**: AI filters out noise and assigns relevance percentages and urgency scores to news.
- **Platform-Ready Content**: Automatically generates Twitter threads, LinkedIn posts, and pitch angles with one click.
- **Morning Briefings**: Delivers curated morning trend updates directly to inboxes before 07:30 UTC.
- **Post Roast**: Free AI editor tool that bluntly critiques drafts against active trends in the music industry news cycle.

## Core Pages
- [Home Page](https://newsjack.cc/): Product details, features list, and signup.
- [Pricing](https://newsjack.cc/pricing): Flat-rate plans (Free, Creator, Pro, Agency) and detailed tier comparison.
- [Briefings Hub](https://newsjack.cc/briefings): Daily scored news briefings and trend archives.
- [Alternatives & Comparisons](https://newsjack.cc/alternatives): Comparison against general-purpose alternatives like Google Alerts, BuzzSumo, and SubmitHub.
- [Free Playbook](https://newsjack.cc/free-playbook): Distills the four-signal scoring methodology and provides templates for music newsjacking.
- [Roast Tool](https://newsjack.cc/roast): Free editor to test drafts against trending stories.