Get Featured in Pocket-lint
Pocket-lint • Guaranteed feature article • 1 week • UK audience
Yes, you can get featured in Pocket-lint. Viral Spike Marketing arranges a guaranteed feature article on pocket-lint.com: a full article about you, your startup, your product or your company, approved by you before it runs, indexed on Google, and typically live within one week. The article format, including how the publication presents it, is confirmed in writing before you pay. If the placement does not publish, you receive a full refund.
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Can you get featured in Pocket-lint?
For readers in the United Kingdom who follow software, startups and devices, Pocket-lint is a place to find what is new.
Technology publications like Pocket-lint receive far more pitches than they can ever cover, and most go unanswered. A young company without a funding round, a known name or an existing media relationship can wait a long time for a reply. A guaranteed placement works differently: it is arranged with the publication before any writing starts, you sign off on the draft, and it goes live on pocket-lint.com within a window stated in writing, usually one week. It is a real article on the site that you can put in a proposal, a deck or a profile.
What Pocket-lint covers
Pocket-lint belongs to the technology press, a category that covers the tools people use and the companies that make them. For readers in the United Kingdom, that means reporting and features on software, apps, devices, startups, artificial intelligence, IT and online security. Technology outlets write about the people behind products as well as the products themselves, so a founder’s decisions, a team’s approach or a company’s origin can carry a story.
Technology writing treats products as answers to problems. The stories that hold attention describe a specific gap, the thinking behind the fix and the result for real users. A security firm explaining a threat in plain language, an app maker showing how people use the product, or an IT company describing how it keeps clients running each give Pocket-lint readers something they can use, which is the standard the category sets.
Who reads Pocket-lint
Technology readers in the United Kingdom tend to be an active audience. They try new tools, recommend them to colleagues and make purchasing decisions for teams and whole companies. A publication like Pocket-lint reaches engineers and developers, startup operators, technology buyers, investors and the enthusiasts who shape opinion among their friends and coworkers about which products are worth using.
For a startup or a technology company, that makes a Pocket-lint feature useful well beyond the day it runs. It is something to show investors during a raise, prospects during a sales cycle and candidates during hiring. It also gives customers who search your name a credible third-party source that explains what you do in plain terms.
Why being featured in the United Kingdom counts
Readers in the United Kingdom tend to place more confidence in a business that has appeared in a publication they know. Coverage in Pocket-lint puts your company in front of British customers, suppliers and potential partners in a setting that feels familiar to them. It also means that when someone in the United Kingdom looks up your name, they find a source from their own market.
Typical clients include growing British companies preparing for investment, professional practices competing for clients, and consumer brands seeking stockists. Authors, consultants and charity leaders ask for coverage too. Businesses headquartered abroad use it when they open an office in the United Kingdom or begin selling to customers there.
Who a Pocket-lint feature is a good fit for
If you make, sell or support technology, a publication like Pocket-lint is a natural home.
Technical founders
Engineers and builders who started a company around something they made, and whose reasoning and decisions are a story in themselves.
App developers
Makers of mobile, web and desktop apps that have found an audience, added a notable feature or approached a familiar task differently.
Hardware and device makers
Companies designing consumer electronics, connected devices, components or accessories, especially those with a new product, version or manufacturing story to tell.
B2B technology providers
Cloud, infrastructure, developer-tool and enterprise software companies selling to the teams and decision makers who read technology coverage for work.
What the Pocket-lint placement includes
Everything below is written into your scope before you pay.
| Item | What you get |
|---|---|
| Placement type | Guaranteed feature article published on pocket-lint.com. The exact format, including how the publication presents the piece, is named in your scope before you pay. |
| Typical turnaround | One week from your written approval of the draft. Your scope names the exact publication window. |
| Audience and region | The United Kingdom, reaching people who build, buy and use technology: engineers, startup teams, IT leaders, early adopters and investors watching where the industry goes next. |
| Google indexing | The article is published at a live URL on pocket-lint.com and indexed by Google, so it can be found when someone searches your name or company. |
| Your approval | You review the full draft, request revisions and sign off in writing before anything is submitted. |
| Refund guarantee | If the placement does not publish as written, you receive a full refund. The refund terms are stated before payment. |
The outlet, format, timeline and refund terms are written into your scope before you pay, exactly as they are for every guaranteed PR placement from Viral Spike Marketing. Pocket-lint is one of the outlets in our publications directory.
What makes a story pitch-ready for Pocket-lint
Technology readers want substance: what you built, how it works and who it helps.
A technology feature earns attention when it answers the questions a curious reader would ask. What does the product do? What problem made it necessary? What is different about how it works? The strongest stories name the customer, describe the moment the idea took shape and show evidence that the product is doing its job.
Most technology companies have more than one of the stories below. We pick the one with the clearest evidence behind it, because a single well-supported angle is stronger than three thin ones.
What weakens a pitch
- Buzzword stacking. “AI-powered, next-generation, end-to-end platform” could describe a thousand companies, and technology readers have learned to skip past it.
- Claims nobody can check. Pocket-lint readers are skeptical by habit, and everything we write about your product has to be true.
- A feature list with no story. Readers want to know why the product exists and who it helps, not every setting in the menu.
- Trying to cover everything. One product, one customer result or one idea, explained well, will be remembered longer than a full company overview.
How Viral Spike Marketing handles it
Strategy, story angle, writing, placement, delivery. No retainer, no lock-in.
Strategy
A short consultation covers your startup or product, the customers you serve and the date you are working toward. If Pocket-lint is not the right outlet for your goal, we say so.
Story angle
We identify the angle an editor at Pocket-lint would run: what you built, why it was needed and the evidence that shows it works for real users.
Writing
Our writers draft the piece to Pocket-lint’s standards and length. You review it, request revisions and give written approval.
Placement
The approved article is submitted to the publication inside the agreed window. Nothing is submitted before you sign off.
Delivery
The piece goes live on pocket-lint.com. You receive the live URL and guidance on using it in your pitch deck, website, sales materials and profiles.
Viral Spike Marketing has run press and visibility campaigns for brands, founders and artists across the country, including names such as OVO Sound, Taylor Gang, G Herbo and NLE Choppa. Guaranteed placements are one route inside our public relations service; pitched coverage is the other.
Pocket-lint placement FAQ
What founders and technology companies ask before booking a Pocket-lint feature.
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What if our product has not launched yet?
We are a US company. Why seek coverage in the United Kingdom?
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What happens if it does not publish?
Other outlets we place
Pair the placement, or pick the better fit. Browse the full list in our technology publications.
Get featured in Pocket-lint ahead of your raise.
Send us your product, your milestone and your timing, and we will find the angle. We will confirm the fit, put the outlet, timeline and refund terms in writing, and handle it from angle to live link.
Guaranteed feature article · you approve the draft · full refund if it does not run