DIGITAL PR AGENCY GERMANY

Where your brand is talked about,people trust it.

Real authority is not bought. It is earned. Through our own publishing network with 100,000+ press contacts we place your brand in real leading media. Trust that convinces customers and that AI models rate as an authority signal.

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4.9·300+ business owners trust us

WHAT WE DO

Four building blocks that turn visibility into credibility.

PR is more than a few backlinks. It is editorial presence, our own publishing network, tellable stories and a backlink profile that carries trust.Four building blocks that interlock instead of sitting side by side.

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Editorial placements

In real leading media. Not in link farms.

A mention in the FAZ works differently than a link out of nowhere, for customers as for Google. We place your brand editorially where your audience reads and authority is built. Real reach, real trust signals.

Editorial placements in leading media
Guest articles & expert commentary
Industry & trade press
Regional & local media
Print, online & podcast
Monthly placement reporting

500+editorial placements per year for our clients

Third-party media is powerful. Our own portals give you control and predictable reach.

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Our own publishing network

Reach we control ourselves.

We run our own media portals and a publishing network with more than 100,000 press contacts in DE, AT and CH. That means predictable placements, reliable reach and backlinks from domains with real authority. And on request we build you your own media portal that belongs to you: a controlled ad space and traffic machine.

Our own media portals & topic hubs
Your own media portal, as a controlled ad space
100,000+ press contacts (DE, AT, CH)
Press-text conception & distribution
Distribution list & topic matching
Multilingual distribution
Reach & impact tracking

100,000+press contacts in our own publishing network (DE, AT, CH)

Reach alone is not enough. Media only pick up stories that are worth it.

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Topic PR & story pitching

Your expertise becomes a story.

Journalists don’t want advertising. They want relevant stories. We find the angle that makes your brand tellable and pitch it to the right newsrooms. The result is coverage that nobody reads as an ad.

Topic finding & story angles
Press text & pitch creation
Journalist & newsroom outreach
Data & study PR
Expert positioning
Crisis & reactive PR

38%pickup rate of our pitches, far above the industry average

Every placement leaves a trace: backlinks that lift your domain authority for good.

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Backlinks & domain authority

A profile that Google takes seriously.

Every editorial placement becomes a backlink from a domain with real authority. We build your link profile strategically, clean up legacy issues and lift your domain rating for good: the foundation for top rankings and AI visibility.

Backlink profile audit & disavow
Strategic link building
Systematic domain-rating build-up
Anchor-text & topic relevance
Competitor & gap analysis
Reputation & Wikipedia curation

DR 67average domain rating after 12 months of working together

Our process

From the first pitch to media presence.

Media authority is no accident. It is the result of a clearly structured process. Four phases that build on each other. Results you can measure.

01Week 1–2

Audit & diagnosis

We dissect your visibility on every level: technical, content, competitive.

Backlink profile audit
Reputation check
Competitor analysis
Keyword & intent map

02Week 3–4

Strategy & plan

The diagnosis becomes a 12-month plan with quarterly milestones per discipline.

Strategy brief
Roadmap with KPIs
Budget allocation
Reporting setup

03Week 5–12

Execution

Parallel sprints across all four blocks, with weekly reviews and a fixed point of contact.

Topic finding
Press texts
Outreach
Placements

04From month 4

Scaling

What works gets doubled. What doesn’t gets stopped. Recalibrated every quarter.

Performance reviews
Budget scaling
Content scaling
Roadmap update

Strategy meeting at the Trustfactory office — Strategy meeting

Collaboration at the Trustfactory office — Team sparring

Consulting session at Trustfactory — Advice at eye level

Your team in Mannheim

The team behind your digital PR.

Strategy, SEO, ads and design under one roof in Mannheim, Germany, since 2018. A tight-knit team with every lever in-house. You get dedicated points of contact who truly know your project, from kickoff to quarterly review.

Cornelius Berentzen
Founder & CEO Holding
Alex Schindler
Founder & CPO
Max Bogdan
Co-Founder & CMO
Nikita Yatsun
Co-Founder & CEO
Philip Mettmann
Head of Customer Success
Gökhan Gül
VP of Service
Andreas Malkow
Senior SEO Manager
Ines Neufeld
SEO Manager
Jonas Klör
Senior SEO Manager
Annabel Hauguth
Head of Content
Cornelius Berentzen
Founder & CEO Holding
Alex Schindler
Founder & CPO
Max Bogdan
Co-Founder & CMO
Nikita Yatsun
Co-Founder & CEO
Philip Mettmann
Head of Customer Success
Gökhan Gül
VP of Service
Andreas Malkow
Senior SEO Manager
Ines Neufeld
SEO Manager
Jonas Klör
Senior SEO Manager
Annabel Hauguth
Head of Content

Since 2018in the market, no newcomer
Mannheimoffice & team under one roof
300+managing directors trust us
30+specialists on the team

And that's just the start: more than 30 specialists work at Trustfactory. Meet the whole team

Before we start

We’d rather say an honest no.

Exclusive per industry means: if we work with you, we don’t work with your competitor. For that to add up, we have to be a good fit for each other.

You’re in the right place if …

If all four points are true, the conversation is worth it.

You are the market leader, or want to become it.We build visibility systems for the number 1 in your industry, not for number 8.
You think in years, not months.Real authority needs 6 to 12 months to compound. From then on it works for you.
You measure marketing by revenue, not by activity.Reports show revenue and ROAS, not “touchpoints” and “engagement rates”.
Your market is still open, and you want to secure it.We work exclusively per industry and region. If nobody is here before you, the position is yours.

You’re not in the right place if …

Sometimes no is the right answer.

You are looking for the cheapest agency.We are not cheap. Premium visibility costs, and it pays off too. Whoever wants the cheapest agency finds it elsewhere.
You want top 1 in 30 days.Visibility that lasts takes months. Whoever promises you miracles either doesn’t know better, or wants your contract, not your growth.
You want activity reports, not revenue accountability.We report what drives revenue, not what looks busy. If clicks and impressions are enough of a result for you, there are better-suited providers.
Your competitor is already our client.Exclusivity is non-negotiable, that is part of our promise to your competitor. It stays fair.

Real results

Visibility that pays off.

A few examples of what media authority achieves over the long term.

Original reviews

Real words, unedited.

Original reviews from Google, Reviews.io and ProvenExpert. Taken word for word, nothing sugar-coated.

Patrick H.Verified review · ProvenExpert

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READY TO START?

Here’s what you get in the strategy call.

In the strategy call we check what you really need: the full system or individual disciplines. A concrete competitor analysis, a clear action plan, a revenue forecast. Free. In 30 minutes.

01 · Status quo

Where your competition stands. And you.

We analyze where your competitors stand organically, in paid, and in the AI answers of ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. You see at a glance where your gaps are and which disciplines your competition occupies.

02 · Target state

A concrete action plan with measurable milestones.

From the analysis we build a clear 12-month plan with quarterly targets, KPIs and a budget recommendation. After the call you know what to do, even if you decide against us.

03 · Forecast

What you invest and what comes back.

We run the concrete numbers: at which budget which traffic, which conversion rate, which revenue. Clear figures. A realistic forecast.

Sample calculation

Traffic18,000 / mo

Conversion rate2.5%

Avg. order value€220

Monthly cost€13,000

Possible monthly revenue€99,000

ROAS7.6×

Ready for market dominance?

30 minutes. You leave with a plan, whether or not you book.

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The Trustfactory team in Mannheim, your points of contact