# BlinkHub
> A place where the AI tools that make an announcement and the newsrooms that publish it live in the same account. Write it once, send it once, and follow it from one dashboard. Korea and the United States.

## What BlinkHub is
BlinkHub has two sides. Brands, agencies and public bodies send announcements ("signals").
Newsrooms and publishers receive them as ready-to-publish articles. Both sides use the same network.

## For organisations with something to announce
- One submission reaches every newsroom on the network — no media contact list to maintain
- Per-outlet formatting is handled for you; delivery to newsrooms goes out by XML feed and FTP after a review step
- Every submission and its current state (submitted / in review / distributed) visible in the dashboard
- AI toolkit on the same account: cardnews, short-form video, article analysis, post optimizer, SEO audit
- Managed YouTube channel: topic research, script, voice, video assembly and upload run automatically on a daily schedule. BlinkHub runs four of its own channels this way (73 uploads to date). Monthly retainer, not credits.
- Influencer advertising diagnosis: before booking a creator, we measure the live stream in real time and the full feed, then report actual reach, engagement quality and follow conversion. Performed by a person, charged in credits, 2-3 business days.
- Events and exhibitions: announcement release before, same-day cardnews and vertical video during, results release after — https://blinkhub.net/solutions/events

## For newsrooms and publishers
- Ready-to-run news from public bodies, free for 100 full articles a month after you verify your site
- Register: https://blinkhub.net/en/publishers/join (verify your site and agree to the terms; we approve each publication before its key is issued)
- Pull it over the BLINK Wire API or with the free WordPress plugin; Korean partner outlets can also receive it by XML or FTP
- Optional: run your entire outlet on the BlinkHub publishing platform (hosting, CMS, article pipeline, search setup)

## News content API (BLINK Wire)
A pull API for newsrooms. Base URL https://wire.blinkhub.net, authenticated with an X-Api-Key
header. Documents are returned as IPTC ninjs and carry the source's licence notice.
- Markets (choose with market=): kr — about 240 Korean public bodies, in Korean, shown only after
  any embargo time; us — US federal, state and city releases; gb — UK government (Open Government
  Licence v3.0); eu — European Commission (CC BY 4.0); nz — New Zealand Government (CC BY 4.0);
  au — Prime Minister of Australia (CC BY 4.0).
  UK, EU, New Zealand and Australia items are rewritten as news copy and every figure and quotation is checked
  against the original release.
- GET /api/wire/v1/articles?market=… — what is available. Free.
- GET /api/wire/v1/articles/{id}?market=… — the full document. Counts toward the monthly allowance;
  re-fetching the same article does not count again.
- POST /api/wire/v1/publications — report where a story was published (or removed).
- MCP server for AI assistants: https://wire.blinkhub.net/mcp (Streamable HTTP, same X-Api-Key header and
  allowance). Tools: search_articles (free), get_article (counts toward the allowance), list_markets,
  account_status. Official MCP Registry name: net.blinkhub/wire.
- Free plan: 100 full articles a month. Higher volumes and organisation licences are quoted on request.
- Details: https://blinkhub.net/en/korean-news-api

## Where announcements are published
- Korea — BlinkHub's own network of independent online news outlets, plus the newsrooms that run their whole site on our publishing platform
- United States — English-language publication on pulserapid.com, a news site BlinkHub operates itself (stated plainly, not presented as third-party pickup). Placement across additional US outlets is arranged through partners and quoted separately; BlinkHub does not operate a US outlet network.
- Those outlet sites are indexed by Google and Daum, so published announcements are discoverable there

## What BlinkHub does not claim
BlinkHub's own network outlets are not Naver search-alliance partners, so Naver News search
placement is not promised or included. Where Naver placement is required it is arranged
separately through partner outlets holding that alliance, and quoted as an add-on.
We do not describe our network outlets as major national dailies.
Two capabilities are still being built and are therefore NOT offered today: (1) a consolidated
publication report listing outlet, article URL and date; (2) automatic translation of non-Korean
submissions into Korean newsroom style — non-Korean submissions cannot be distributed automatically yet.
There is also no AI drafting tool that writes a press release from a brief; the AI toolkit works on
text you supply. Distribution to newsrooms is not fully unattended — every submission passes a human
review step before it goes out.

## Documentation
- https://blinkhub.net/en — main landing (English)
- https://blinkhub.net/ — main landing (Korean)
- https://blinkhub.net/en/press-release-distribution/korea — how distribution into Korea works
- https://blinkhub.net/en/press-release-distribution — country guides (Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand)
- https://blinkhub.net/en/blog/press-release-distribution-guide — general distribution guide
- https://blinkhub.net/en/blog/korean-media-distribution-checklist — Korea-specific checklist
- https://blinkhub.net/en/blog/ai-press-release-prompts — AI writer prompts
- https://blinkhub.net/en/blog/generative-engine-optimization — AI search / GEO guide
- https://blinkhub.net/en/compare/newswire-vs-blinkhub — comparison with traditional newswires
- https://blinkhub.net/tools/seo-check — free SEO + AI search audit tool, no signup
- https://blinkhub.net/tools/post-optimizer — free AI post optimizer, no signup

## Pricing
Free to sign up, including 200 trial credits (enough for one cardnews set and one SEO audit).
Credit-based after that — you pay per announcement and per AI-generated asset. No seat licences,
no monthly minimum, no annual contract.

Credit prices (1 credit = USD 0.001):
- Press release distribution, our outlet network: 8,000 credits. Placement is certain.
- Press release distribution, journalist mailing: 6,000 credits. Publication is the reporter's call.
- Press release distribution, both channels: 12,000 credits.
- Cardnews: 100 credits. Short-form video: 2,500 credits.
- SEO and AI-visibility audit: 100 credits. Post optimizer: 30 credits. Account strategy: 200 credits.
- Influencer advertising diagnosis: 100,000 credits. A person runs it; 2-3 business days.
Credit packages start at USD 10 (10,000 credits) and run to USD 300 (350,000 credits with bonus).

Managed YouTube channels and custom website/SaaS builds are quoted monthly rather than charged
in credits, because they are ongoing work rather than one-off production.
See https://blinkhub.net/en/pricing

## About
BlinkHub is operated from Seoul, South Korea, and serves the Korean and United States markets.
Built for communications teams, agencies, public bodies, and companies entering Korea.
Publisher enquiries: connect@blinkhub.net

## Allowed
This site permits crawling for AI search engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, etc.) and Google.
Content may be cited with source attribution.

## Key pages
- Events and exhibitions: https://blinkhub.net/solutions/events
- Managed YouTube channel: https://blinkhub.net/solutions/youtube
- For newsrooms and publishers: https://blinkhub.net/publishers
- News content API (Korea, US, UK, EU, New Zealand): https://blinkhub.net/en/korean-news-api
- Newsroom sign-up (free API key): https://blinkhub.net/en/publishers/join
- Pricing: https://blinkhub.net/pricing
- Free SEO check: https://blinkhub.net/tools/seo-check
- Free post optimizer: https://blinkhub.net/tools/post-optimizer