Sourced from the primary site
Every row starts at the organiser's own event site or the outlet's own masthead — not an aggregator scrape and not a bought list. If there is no first-party page to point at, there is no row.
Methodology
How the lists are built.
The directories are only worth planning from if you know where the rows came from and when they were last checked. So here is the whole method: what gets sourced, how often it is re-verified, and what we will not publish at any price.
Where a row comes from
Same three steps for an event, an outlet, or a creator market briefing. Curated by hand — there is no crawler behind this.
Confirmed against a second reference
Dates, host cities, formats, regional editions and publishing language are checked twice before publishing. Anything we cannot confirm twice stays out of the table rather than going in with a hedge.
Published with a date and a reason
A row goes live carrying the date a human last checked it and the reason it earned the place — which role an event is worth sending, why an outlet is worth a pitch.
What every row carries
Four things you can check yourself, on every line of every directory.
A last-verified date
The day a person last checked the row, printed on the page. If it looks old to you, it is old — that is the point of showing it.
A link to the source
Event sites and outlet homepages link out. You can check our work in one click instead of taking the row on trust.
A plain reason it is listed
Events carry the role they are worth sending. Outlets carry one line on why they matter. No row exists just to make a table look full.
Category and pillar tags
Region, category, format and pillar — growth, PR, influence, AI — so a shortlist can be filtered into a plan instead of read end to end.
How often it refreshes
Re-verification is an ops job here, not a marketing claim. The date on the row is the honest answer.
The refresh rule
Newest check: 11 Aug 2026- Rows are re-checked in batches and re-dated the day they are checked — never back-dated to look fresh.
- Events move first, so events are the table we return to most: dates shift, editions get cancelled, host cities change.
- An event that has finished leaves the upcoming view automatically. Nothing lingers to pad a count.
- A stale row is a bug. Send the row and the source and we will fix or pull it.
Corrections go to hello@manifestoagency.co. Tell us the row and what changed — it is the cheapest quality control we have.
What we will not publish
The exclusions are the method. Most marketing directories make money on exactly these five things.
Guaranteed placements
Manifesto does not sell or promise coverage, and the media map does not imply it. Tier labels describe an outlet's reach and role — never your odds of getting in.
Journalist contact details
No reporter emails, numbers or DMs. Contact-level PR work sits inside PR OS with a client account behind it, where a bad pitch has an owner.
Follower-count rankings
Creator pages brief a market — platform mix, tiers that move product, what to screen for. We do not rank people by follower count and call it a shortlist.
Paid listings
Nobody pays to appear in a directory here, and no row is traded for a link, a sponsorship or a partnership.
Numbers we cannot trace
No invented attendee counts, traffic estimates or engagement scores. If a figure has no public source we can point at, it does not go in the table.
Who can read what
The short version, so nobody has to guess at a form.
Free to read, no signup
All four directories are open in full — every row, every source link, every last-verified date. A work email adds the member workspace: industry-sector filters, refresh notes when rows change, first look at new markets and skill packs, and one Signal Read on your own domain. It does not add rows to the tables.
Hand-curated and date-stamped — every row carries a last-verified date. This is the planning layer, not a contact database: journalist contacts stay in PR OS and creator shortlists stay in Influence OS. Member access is gated to a company domain email.