For Journalists
Press & Expert Commentary
Credit Compound tracks every public U.S. credit card welcome offer and bank bonus, and keeps a full offer-history dataset going back years. That means we can tell you not just what an offer is, but whether it is genuinely a record, how it compares to a year ago, and where the market is heading. If you are writing about credit cards, sign-up bonuses, points and miles, or banking, we are glad to help on deadline.
What we can provide
- · Current data and specific figures, valued at published methodology, with attribution.
- · On-the-record commentary from our founding editor on card, points, and banking trends.
- · Historical context: how today's offer compares to what a card has run before.
- · Fast turnaround. Email is the quickest way to reach us.
Our editor
Alex Compton
Founding Editor, Credit Compound
Alex built Credit Compound after a decade of doing this the hard way: opening the cards, chasing the bank bonuses, sitting in the lounges, and keeping spreadsheets of every offer change because nobody else was. Those spreadsheets became the offer-history charts on every card page here.
Alex writes under a pen name, a common practice in the points-and-miles world, so coverage of issuers and their products stays independent of any personal banking relationships. Every claim on the site stands on cited terms, tracked history and published methodology rather than on credentials, and corrections are always open in the comments and by email.
Data you can cite
These pages are free to reference with attribution to Credit Compound and a link. They update automatically, so the figures are current when you pull them.
All-Time-High Bonus Tracker
Which welcome offers are at a verified record right now, updated as offers move.
State of Credit Card Sign-Up Bonuses
A running data study: year-over-year bonus values, biggest increases and cuts, richest categories.
Every Offer Ranked by Real Value
All public welcome bonuses valued at our cents-per-point rates, not the marketing number.
Bank Account & Bonus Coverage
Business and consumer accounts compared on APY, fees, and current opening bonuses.
How to credit us
Please attribute figures to Credit Compound with a link to the page you drew them from, and quotes to Alex Compton, Founding Editor of Credit Compound. Alex writes under a pen name, standard practice in points-and-miles coverage, so reporting on issuers stays independent of personal banking relationships.