Why journalists ignore perfectly good pitches—and what PR can learn from it
Many communications professionals assume that if a pitch is clear, personalized, and professionally written, it has a strong chance of earning a response. In reality, some of the most carefully prepared emails never receive a reply. While writing quality certainly...
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Crisis Comms & Media Monitoring
7 reasons why media monitoring is essential for crisis management
When a crisis hits, your timing and strategy determine whether you’re guiding the story or getting steamrolled by it. Media monitoring gives you the awareness to see the full landscape, react in real time, and keep your team aligned. Instead of guessing where the...
Crisis communications in the age of deepfakes: What PR teams must prepare for
Deepfakes have officially become one of the most dangerous threats to brand reputation in the digital era. What was once experimental tech used for entertainment has evolved into a powerful and harmful weapon capable of damaging individuals, companies, and...
Strategies for turning monitoring insights into reputation-building action in 2026
Online conversations about brands shape customers’ trust and increase their expectations for better services. However, building a robust reputation requires more than just online conversations and media mentions. Trust grows through a combination of multiple efforts,...
PR Tech & AI
Why generative AI requires PR teams to rethink visibility
Generative AI is transforming how information is created, discovered, and consumed. For PR professionals, this shift is more than a technological curiosity. It is a fundamental change in how audiences encounter content and assess credibility. Traditional approaches to...
Top AI video tools for 2026 and their impact on creative content workflows
AI video creation software is no longer experimental. Video professionals now use AI to generate and edit usable footage without full crews, and that’s not the only thing they can do. They can also generate coherent scripts from scratch and even convert text into...
Pros and cons of using AI‑generated drafts for press release copy
Press releases have always been the backbone of brand communication, but now brands are drafting them in unexpected ways. For example, 75% of PR professionals now use generative AI in their workflows, a dramatic jump from just 28% in early 2023. But does AI hold up...
Content & Media Relations
How earned media strategy is evolving in modern PR campaigns
Most marketing disciplines are pretty straightforward. You spend money, you reach people, you measure the return. PR is different. It's what people say about you when you are not in the room. That is the core of earned media. You can spend lots on ads and still be...
The Old Playbook is Broken: Earned Media is Now an AI Training Signal
A Forbes feature used to mean a traffic spike, a few investor LinkedIn shares, and a Monday-morning clip in the roundup. That was the game. The game changed. When ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews answer a buyer asking “what’s the best clean...
How AI search summaries are quietly reshaping brand authority online
Search has evolved beyond a simple gateway to websites and now functions as a direct answer hub. Thanks to AI-powered search overviews, users obtain summarized insights, suggestions, and brand comparisons within the results page without clicking any link. This change...
