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How to get featured in The Verge
How to get featured in The Verge: how its desks cover tech and policy, how to use its contact form for pitches, and its rules on embargoes and review units.
- Website
- theverge.com
- Owner
- Penske Media Corporation
- Lead time
- News: same day. Reviews: plan for the reviewer to have the product well before the embargo lifts, often a week or more.
- Last verified
At a glance
Audience. Tech enthusiasts and mainstream readers who follow consumer technology, platforms, AI, and the culture around them.
- Consumer tech and gadgets
- Reviews
- AI
- Policy, antitrust, and security
- Science
- Entertainment and streaming
- Gaming
- Transportation
- Staff reporting
- Staff writers and editors cover tech, reviews, science, entertainment, AI, and policy, plus podcasts such as Decoder and The Vergecast, video, and newsletters.
- Contributed articles
- No public guest post or contributor program. Features are staff written or assigned by editors.
- Opinion and op-eds
- No public op-ed submission route. Analysis and columns come from Verge writers.
- Press releases
- Releases are background for reporters. The Verge's ethics statement notes it may agree to embargoes with companies or PR firms to evaluate products before release.
Pitching The Verge, step by step
Find the writer covering your product category or beat through recent Verge bylines.
For hardware or software, offer a review unit or early access under a clear embargo, which the ethics statement describes as standard practice.
Lead with what is new and why a general tech reader should care, not the spec sheet.
If you do not know whom to contact, use the contact form and pick the option for pitching a story or sending a tip.
Make spokespeople and engineers available, and expect the review to be independent of any commercial relationship.
How The Verge decides what to cover
The Verge describes itself as being about technology and how it makes us feel. Its coverage spans consumer tech, reviews, AI, policy, science, entertainment, gaming, and transportation, with a strong voice and a habit of asking what a product or decision means for ordinary users. Podcasts like Decoder and The Vergecast, along with newsletters and video, give its writers more room for interviews and analysis.
The site’s footer now identifies The Verge as part of PMX Global, a subsidiary of Penske Media Corporation. Its ethics statement sets out how it handles review units, embargoes, sponsorships, and branded content, and it is worth reading before you pitch.
What tends to get covered: launches from major platforms, products that are genuinely new or notably better, policy and antitrust fights, and stories about how tech companies treat users. Incremental updates and press release language tend not to.
How to pitch The Verge
Most coverage starts with a writer who owns a beat. Read recent bylines for your category and pitch that person with a short note: what is new, when it ships, and why it matters to a general tech reader.
For products, the ethics statement explains that companies and PR firms may provide review units for a limited period and agree to embargoes so editors can evaluate products before release. Offer the unit early, give the reviewer time, and accept that the verdict is independent. Reviews are not influenced by advertising, and sponsored editorial is labeled “Presented by” with no sponsor review before publication.
If you cannot find the right writer, The Verge’s contact page has a form with separate options for editorial tips, story pitches, and press inquiries.
Contributed articles and op-eds
The Verge does not publish a public contributor program or op-ed submission process. Opinion and analysis come from staff writers. Branded content produced by its commercial team runs under separate labeling, and the ethics statement says it does not influence or replace newsroom coverage. If a brand buys it, it is advertising, not editorial.
Frequently asked questions
Does The Verge accept guest posts?
No public guest post or op-ed program exists. Coverage comes from staff reporting and assigned work.
Can you pay to be featured in The Verge?
No. The ethics statement says sponsors and sales teams have no influence on editorial content, and paid content is labeled separately.
How do I send The Verge a tip or pitch?
Pitch the relevant writer directly, or use the contact form, which offers options for an editorial tip and for pitching a story.
The Verge rewards products and stories that hold up under a hard look. A PR-led approach to media relations plans review timing, embargoes, and spokespeople around that reality instead of around a press release.
Mistakes that get pitches ignored
- Expecting favorable coverage in exchange for advertising or sponsorship. The ethics statement says sponsors have no influence over content.
- Breaking your own embargo or giving the same embargoed unit to an outlet that publishes early.
- Pitching a minor app update as a launch.
- Sending guest articles. There is no contributor program.
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