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How to Track Your Submissions

Follow your press releases from draft to distribution, read their statuses, and see exactly how editors interact with your work: views, previews, downloads, and inquiries.

Before You Begin

You will need:

Instructions

Open Your Dashboard

  1. Sign in at https://business.pluckyworks.org/app/. The Dashboard is your home page.

  2. The stat cards across the top total up your organization's activity: Total Submissions, Headline Views, Total Previews, and Total Downloads.

  3. Below the cards, your submissions are listed in three sections:

    • Drafts: not yet submitted. Open one to keep writing, or delete it.
    • In progress: submitted but not yet distributed (in review, being revised, or waiting for you to pick distribution targets).
    • Distributed: live with newsrooms, each row showing its own engagement numbers.

    Use the type filter chips or the label filter above the list to narrow what's shown.

Read Submission Statuses

Every submission carries a status. The ones you'll see most:

Status What it means
Draft You're still writing; nothing has been submitted.
In review The release is being checked. This usually resolves in minutes.
Review passed Ready to distribute. Pick your targets.
Review rejected Review found problems. Open the submission to read the findings, edit, and resubmit.
Awaiting manual review The newsroom partner reviews submissions by hand; a person will approve or return it.
Distribution pending Distribution is underway: the release is being delivered to your targets.
Distributed Live. Editors at your target newsrooms can read and download it.
Archived You've taken it out of editors' view.

Corrections get matching statuses of their own (Correction draft, Correction in review, and so on) while the corrected version moves through the same steps.

Check Engagement on a Single Press Release

  1. Click a submission on the dashboard to open its detail page.

  2. The Engagement card counts four things:

    • Headline Views: how many times your headline appeared in front of editors, in search results and lists.
    • Previews: how many times an editor opened the full release to read it.
    • Downloads: how many times an editor downloaded the text or media for use in their coverage.
    • Contact Leads: inquiries sent through the contact form on your release's public page.

  3. The Timeline & Status card shows the release's history (when it was submitted, reviewed, and distributed), and the Distribution Targets card lists every newsroom that received it.

  4. Once the release is distributed, its public link appears at the top of the page with a copy button, ready to share in your own channels.

Organize with Labels

Use the Labels card on any submission's detail page to tag it, for example by campaign, client, or quarter. Labels are private to your organization; editors never see them. Once applied, they appear as a filter on your dashboard.

Read Your Inquiries

Click Inquiries in the navigation bar to see the messages readers and journalists have sent through your releases' public contact forms, in one list across all your submissions.

What Happens Next

You don't need to watch the dashboard. The key transitions also reach you by email: when review passes, when review finds problems, when a manual reviewer decides, and when an outlet requests a correction. Each email links back to the submission it concerns.

Next Steps

Troubleshooting

  • All my engagement numbers are zero: Counts only start once a release is Distributed. If it's distributed and embargoed, editors can see it coming but can't download it yet, so downloads stay at zero until the embargo lifts.
  • There's no public link on the detail page: The public page is created at distribution. Drafts and releases still in review don't have one.
  • A submission has said "Awaiting manual review" for days: The newsroom partner reviews by hand on their own schedule. You'll be emailed the moment they decide.
  • A warning says an outlet requested a correction: An editor found something that needs fixing. See How to Correct, Retract, or Archive a Press Release.
  • Still stuck? Email support@pluckyworks.org.