What does prnewswire.com track?

Before any consent, prnewswire.com loaded 13 tracking companies and set 9 advertising or analytics cookies.

That's more tracking companies than 95% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.

Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.prnewswire.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan

Consent banner

No known consent management platform was detected on the page.

9 of the 22 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.

Microsoft Advertising
bat.bing.com, bat.bing.net
4 requestsAdvertising
Google Ads
12056271.fls.doubleclick.net
2 requestsAdvertising
Meta
connect.facebook.net, www.facebook.com
5 requestsSocial media
LinkedIn
snap.licdn.com, px.ads.linkedin.com
4 requestsSocial media
Adobe
assets.adobedtm.com, use.typekit.net, dpm.demdex.net, p.typekit.net
31 requestsAnalytics
Microsoft Clarity
f.clarity.ms, www.clarity.ms, scripts.clarity.ms
4 requestsAnalytics
Hotjar
static.hotjar.com, script.hotjar.com, content.hotjar.io
3 requestsAnalytics
Salesforce
c.la3-c2-phx.salesforceliveagent.com, d.la3-c2-phx.salesforceliveagent.com, d.la13-core1.sfdc-lywfpd.salesforceliveagent.com
3 requestsAnalytics
Google Analytics
www.googletagmanager.com
3 requestsAnalytics
Optimizely
cdn.optimizely.com, a20151573008.cdn.optimizely.com, logx.optimizely.com
3 requestsAnalytics
Cloudflare Web Analytics
static.cloudflareinsights.com
2 requestsAnalytics
Scorecard Research (Comscore)
sb.scorecardresearch.com
1 requestAnalytics
Oracle Eloqua
img04.en25.com
1 requestAnalytics

cookiechimp.com
cookiechimp.com
5 requestsUnclassified
intentsify.io
tracking.intentsify.io
1 requestUnclassified
usbrowserspeed.com
a.usbrowserspeed.com
1 requestUnclassified
Qualified
app.qualified.com, js.qualified.com, assets.qualified.com, messenger-assets.qualified.com
26 requestsFunctional
Wistia
fast.wistia.net, fast.wistia.com, pipedream.wistia.com, embed-ssl.wistia.com
20 requestsFunctional
Google
fonts.googleapis.com, www.google.com
2 requestsFunctional
Sentry
browser.sentry-cdn.com, o209747.ingest.us.sentry.io
2 requestsFunctional
jsDelivr
cdn.jsdelivr.net
3 requestsContent delivery
jQuery CDN
code.jquery.com
1 requestContent delivery

The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was ELOQUA, lasting about 13 months.

Cookie	Purpose	Set by	Lasts
_fbp	Advertising	prnewswire.com	3 months
bcookie	Advertising	linkedin.com (third party)	12 months
demdex	Advertising	demdex.net (third party)	6 months
dpm	Advertising	dpm.demdex.net (third party)	6 months
everest_g_v2	Advertising	everesttech.net (third party)	12 months
lidc	Advertising	linkedin.com (third party)	1 day
optimizelyEndUserId	Advertising	prnewswire.com	6 months
_oeu1790934589217r0.8635385960387894$…	Analytics	a20151573008.cdn.optimizely.com (third party)	6 months
ELOQUA	Analytics	prnewswire.com	13 months
__q_state_GYXYao8kA4XzkurM	Unclassified	prnewswire.com	13 months
cookiechimp_pref_5J4t382	Unclassified	prnewswire.com	6 months
cookiechimp_uuid	Unclassified	prnewswire.com	6 months
liveagent_oref	Unclassified	www.prnewswire.com	12 months
liveagent_ptid	Unclassified	www.prnewswire.com	12 months
liveagent_vc	Unclassified	www.prnewswire.com	12 months
tuid	Unclassified	a.usbrowserspeed.com (third party)	12 months
userId	Unclassified	tracking.intentsify.io (third party)	13 months
__cf_bm	Functional	prnewswire.com	Under a day
__cf_bm	Functional	www.prnewswire.com	Under a day
__cf_bm	Functional	linkedin.com (third party)	Under a day
_hjSession_5062743	Functional	prnewswire.com	Under a day
_hjSessionUser_5062743	Functional	prnewswire.com	12 months
cf_clearance	Functional	www.prnewswire.com	12 months
li_gc	Functional	linkedin.com (third party)	6 months
liveagent_sid	Functional	www.prnewswire.com	Session
test_cookie	Functional	doubleclick.net (third party)	Under a day

The page also wrote 35 keys to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.

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