a single unified platform
Merit for Students
Press Release Distribution
Media Monitoring
Features Overview
Content Creation
Easily create personalized or general interest stories to share with audiences in just minutes.
Content Discovery
A.I. powered tools surface content to share with your audiences.
Managed Databases
Merit manages media, government, and high school contacts. We keep everything up to date so you don’t have to.
Hometown News
Reach students’ hometown communities no matter where they’re from.
Targeting/
Distribution
Merit matches content to the most relevant audiences automatically and handles all the distribution for you.
Social Integration
Automatically share stories with your own social channels. Watch your audiences share more with our quick social buttons.
Landing
Pages
Direct thousands of Merit generated page views back to your .edu website.
Analytics/
Reporting
View and share detailed reports that measure the reach and engagement generated from your stories.
HOW IT WORKS
Transform your content
Transform content that you’re already posting online and in social media into dozens, hundreds or even thousands of personalized stories in just minutes:
Enrollment
Dean’s List
Graduation
Study-abroad
Athletics
Target your stories
Merit automatically targets your stories to relevant audiences by combining your data with our managed databases:
Students
Parents and family
Local media
Social media
High schools
Government reps
Share your stories
Merit enables audiences to easily share your stories with their networks organically increasing your reach by 10x on average.
43% percent of students are more likely to choose a school when learning about it from family and friends on social media.
Drive traffic to your website
Merit drives all of the interest generated by your stories back to your own website where audiences can learn more about your institution
Bates College saw a 600% increase in web traffic after publishing their Merit Dean's List.
