---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001654954-25-000777"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ACCS"
cik: "0000843006"
company_name: "ACCESS Newswire Inc."
filed_at: "2025-01-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T09:52:32.719983+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Issuer Direct renamed ACCESS Newswire; ticker becomes ACCS; launches subscription model

## Summary
- Name change from Issuer Direct to ACCESS Newswire effective Jan 27, 2025; NYSE American symbol now ACCS.
- Company launches three fixed-fee subscription tiers (ACCESS IR, PR, All ACCESS) at $1,000–$2,500/month.
- 2025 tech roadmap includes AI engine, Wikipedia-style profiles, social platform integrations, tonality engine.
- Serves over 12,000 clients globally; targets becoming third-largest newswire by mid-2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001654954-25-000777
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ACCS
- cik: 0000843006
- company_name: ACCESS Newswire Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-01-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/843006/000165495425000777/0001654954-25-000777-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/843006/000165495425000777/isdr_8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001654954-25-000777
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001654954-25-000777.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  ACCESS Newswire Inc.: Certificate of Amendment filed to change company name from Issuer Direct Corporation to ACCESS Newswire Inc (effective 2025-01-27).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-01-27
  source text: On January 23, 2025, ACCESS Newswire Inc. (f/k/a Issuer Direct Corporation) (the “Company”) filed a Certificate of Amendment (the “Certificate of Amendment”) to its Certificate of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware to change the Company’s name from “Issuer Direct Corporation” to “ACCESS Newswire Inc.”, effective at 12:01 a.m., Eastern Time, on January 27, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/843006/000165495425000777/0001654954-25-000777-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  ACCESS Newswire Inc.: Second Amended and Restated Bylaws adopted solely to reflect company name change (effective 2025-01-27).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-01-27
  source text: In addition, the Company’s Board of Directors approved the Company’s Second Amended and Restated Bylaws (“Restated Bylaws”) solely to reflect the change of the Company’s name from Issuer Direct Corporation to ACCESS Newswire Inc., effective as of January 27, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/843006/000165495425000777/0001654954-25-000777-index.htm

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