🔒 Once a Press Release Is Published, It's Locked
A press release distributed through Signal Genesys cannot be edited in place once it's live. This applies to the content itself as well as any linked entity/brand information — once distribution begins, that version is treated as final.
✏️ When Edits ARE Possible
You can still make changes to a press release, including its content, up until one of these points:
- Before it goes through the review process, or
- Before its selected publication date arrives.
Once either of those has passed and distribution starts, the release is locked.
➕ Adding a New Distribution Channel Is Different from Editing
If you want to distribute an already-published release to an additional channel, that's still possible — but it doesn't modify the original release. Adding a new channel creates a separate version of the content for that channel, so your original published release remains untouched.
🔄 If You Need to Change Something After Publishing
If a published press release genuinely needs to be corrected or taken down, the option is to have it retracted rather than edited:
- Support can submit a removal/retraction request to the distributor(s) that carried the release.
- Once retracted, you can then publish a corrected version as a new press release.
If a press release has an issue caused by a distribution error, quality rejection, or a distributor problem (rather than something you want to change yourself), let support know — those cases are handled case by case and can include a refund rather than requiring a full retraction/republish.
🧭 A Note on Signal Genesys vs. Search Atlas's Own PR Feature
This locked-after-publishing behavior applies to press releases distributed through Signal Genesys, which is also what powers Search Atlas's own Authority Building > PR Distribution feature behind the scenes. If a customer is asking from inside the main Search Atlas dashboard rather than Signal Genesys directly, the same publishing rules still apply, since it's the same distribution system underneath.
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