About Ascend

We help agencies and their clients ascend.

Ascend is the white-label PR & SEO platform agencies use to get their clients featured. We deliver guaranteed press placements and backlinking, and you pay per placement at a flat price.

2019

The year we started

Agencies in our network

Publications we work with

Three-year growth on the Inc. 5000

How we started

Built by operators tired of paying for promises.

Independent since 2019

Ascend started in 2019, after years of watching good companies pour money into PR and SEO and get nothing they could point to. Big invoices, slide decks full of “impressions,” and very few actual placements.

So we flipped the model. You pay per placement, and you see the publication, the metrics and the price before you ever commit. What began as a handful of founders trading favors with editors is now a full press and search team running both motions as one.

Today we work exclusively with agencies, who resell our press and search work to their clients under their own name, all on the same simple promise: clear placement scopes, relevant audiences and pricing you can see before you commit.

What we believe

Make serious press and search visibility something any agency can resell under their own brand, at a price you can see.

Guaranteed, not gambled

We agree the placement scope before work starts. You know the publication, requirements and price before you commit. Search performance is not guaranteed.

Clear pricing

You see the publication, the metrics and the price before you commit. No surprises on the invoice.

Senior operators only

Every account is run by people who have done the work themselves. Nothing is handed down to a junior team you never meet.

Accountable on every account

If something needs fixing, we fix it rather than explain it away, so you can put your own name on our work and stand behind it.

Our team

The people behind the placements.

The press strategists, link builders, editors and partners who run every placement and campaign. Every account is handled by senior operators who have done the work themselves.

Leadership