Bigger boat, new audience: What PR pros need to know about GEO
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the SEO … Dun dun dun … you now have to consider a whole new audience: AI. Regardless of whether you think AI is a technology to embrace or swim away from faster than a great white shark, how your content is framed...
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Crisis Comms & Media Monitoring
Many PR pros are monitoring media. Not all are understanding it.
Media monitoring has become a standard function inside modern PR and communications teams. Alerts arrive instantly, dashboards refresh in real time, and coverage reports are generated with little effort. On the surface, this suggests that organizations are more...
AI-powered media monitoring: The future of crisis prevention and reputation management
In today’s digital-first world, traditional media monitoring struggles to keep pace with the speed and complexity of modern communication. Mentions are scattered across social platforms, news outlets, blogs, and forums, making it increasingly difficult for PR teams to...
How to use media monitoring to spot safety issues before they trend
Safety conversations don’t stay inside the fence line anymore. A single photo, a frustrated post, or a short video clip can jump from a job site to a local Facebook group to a reporter’s inbox in a day. Even when the facts are still unclear, the public tends to fill...
PR Tech & AI
One in five celebrity-brand partnerships that AI engines recommend do not exist
One in five celebrity-brand partnerships that AI engines recommend to marketers do not exist. The finding comes from the 5W × Talent Resources Celebrity Endorsement Index — 50 celebrities measured across 10 consumer categories, more than 600 buyer-intent prompts run...
Mars Petcare just cornered the AI recommendation surface for US veterinary care—independent practices have about 18 months
There is a number every U.S. veterinarian should know. 27 to 30 percent. That is the share of all veterinary AI citations now captured by Mars Petcare's three brands — Banfield, VCA, and BluePearl — across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. There is...
What happens when AI describes your brand better than you do?
For years, brands have invested heavily in shaping how they are perceived. From polished website copy and carefully crafted mission statements to PR campaigns and thought leadership initiatives, organizations have traditionally maintained significant control over...
Content & Media Relations
The old university brand hierarchy does not map to the AI era—what that teaches every brand trying to borrow authority
Harvard 17. Yale 19. The prestige premium just got repriced. We just published the 5W AI Higher Education Index 2026 — the first benchmark of AI production capacity across 50 universities. Six equally weighted dimensions. 3,600 prompt-engine runs across ChatGPT,...
AI search is rewriting the rules of visibility—and PR is either leading or lagging
In the first four months of 2026, 68 percent of Google searches in the US ended without a single click (source: Similarweb data). More than two-thirds of the search behavior brands spent twenty years optimizing for now ends on the results page, answered by AI before...
When every brand has AI, what makes your story newsworthy?
Artificial intelligence has fundamentally changed the way brands create content. Press releases, media pitches, blog posts, executive bylines, and social media updates that once required days of planning can now be drafted in minutes. This accessibility has made it...