How to Get Featured in Reality Times

Entertainment is a business of being looked up. What someone finds when they search you is doing work whether you manage it or not.

Here is what Reality Times is, what it is good for, and how people get featured.

What Reality Times is

Reality Times is a digital publication covering entertainment, television, culture and the personalities and public figures around them. Online only, permanently live and indexed by search engines.

Its remit is broad, so a television personality, a creator, a host or a consumer brand with an entertainment angle can all fit. Breadth makes placement easier and puts the whole burden on the story being worth reading.

It is not an established entertainment masthead with its own newsroom, and nothing is gained by blurring that.

It publishes quickly and the article stays up, which makes it a reference point rather than a news moment that passes within a day.

What it is good for

A permanent article that shows up when a booker, a brand partner, a casting contact or a journalist searches your name and finds otherwise thin results.

It gives a stranger something substantive to read instead of a social profile, and it gives you something to link from a media kit, a pitch or a proposal. In a category where people are assessed quickly and often, that is practical value.

It works best alongside everything else you control. A profile, a site and a media kit that all say the same thing are far more persuasive than any one of them on its own.

What it will not do is confer status. It does not make you a bigger name, and it is not a substitute for the work that does.

It is also durable. People in this business check names repeatedly and often months apart, and a substantive article keeps answering the obvious questions while you are doing something else.

How much weight it carries

Less than an established entertainment title, and that is worth saying plainly rather than discovering later.

People in this industry check. Agents, producers and publicists can tell the difference between a title with its own reporters and a digital outlet that accepts contributed work, and inflating what you have is how you lose credibility with exactly the people who could book you. The distinction between earned coverage and a placed feature is one they read quickly.

Claim it accurately and it is an asset. Claim it as something else and it becomes a liability.

There is a simple test. Write out the sentence you would use in a bio, then imagine the person reading it clicking the link. If the two do not match, change the sentence rather than hoping nobody checks.

The routes in

• Pitch directly. Free and legitimate, subject to fit and editorial capacity.
• Contributed or sponsored placement. Accepted far more readily here than at staff-written publications. That is a paid route and should be named as one.
• Use a professional feature service. A team develops the angle, writes to the publication's standard and handles the placement, which is faster and more predictable.

If you are weighing this against a bigger target, start from who you need to reach rather than from the name.

What makes a strong piece

A personality piece needs a person in it.

What you are known for, how you got in front of an audience, what the work actually involves on a bad day, what you would tell someone trying to do the same thing now. That shape reads. A list of credits and appearances does not, and it tells a reader nothing about you.

A show, a launch, a tour or a new venture gives the piece a reason to run now, which makes it easier to place and better to read. Without one, you are asking for a biography.

One idea per piece. A profile that tries to cover an entire career leaves a reader with an impression of activity rather than a sense of who you are.

Images matter. An entertainment profile with weak pictures undersells the person in it, and good photography is the cheapest improvement available to most people.

Keep the claims defensible and describe your position accurately rather than inflating it. This article will outlive the moment it was written for, and anyone considering working with you will read it closely.

What to expect from the process

Share the story, our team drafts the feature, you revise until it sounds like you, and nothing publishes until you approve it. Then it goes live and you get the link.

We work with Reality Times and a wide network of digital publications, and we will tell you when a different outlet is the better fit for what you are actually trying to achieve.

Frequently asked questions

Is this the same as being covered by a major entertainment outlet?

No. It is a smaller digital title, more accessible and carrying less weight. It is useful as a permanent, searchable profile rather than as industry recognition.

Who does it suit?

Television personalities, creators, hosts and consumer brands who need a substantive article that stands up when someone searches their name.

Can I approve the article first?

Yes. You review and revise until it is right, and nothing publishes without your approval.