Launch day ends, the product story keeps changing—how to avoid message drift
Three weeks after launch, open the folder nobody looks at anymore. The press release still quotes the introductory price: $79. The product page moved to $89 on Tuesday. One retailer is showing the old price next to a new shipping estimate, the FAQ still promises the...
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Crisis management has become a 24/7 expectation—but most companies still aren’t prepared
Organizations live in an always on environment where a single comment, customer complaint or internal issue can gain attention within moments. Companies often underestimate how quickly a situation can escalate and how many channels can amplify it. The expectation that...
The future of media monitoring: Smart analytics and real-time insights
News and ideas are circulated more quickly than ever in our modern world. Information about a firm, brand, or public figure may easily reach a worldwide audience in a matter of minutes due to the millions of posts, videos, and articles that are published online every...
The death of traditional crisis management: Why speed isn’t enough anymore
For decades, the mantra in public relations has been simple: when a crisis hits, act fast. The idea was that a rapid response would allow brands to control the narrative and mitigate damage before the situation spiraled out of control. Seems logical, right? ...
PR Tech & AI
Your CMO can’t define AEO, LLMO, or AI visibility. That’s a board-level problem.
The marketing vocabulary has reset three times in 25 years. Digital. Social. Now AI. The first two resets gave CMOs a decade to get fluent. This one is giving them eighteen months. I run a communications firm. We brief a lot of CMOs. In the last six months, here is...
Earned Media Just Became the Most Underpriced Asset in Marketing. The Numbers Are Now Decisive.
A research finding I want every marketing leader to consider. 85.5 percent of AI citations reference earned media sources — not brand-owned websites. The number comes from recent industry analysis of more than one million AI prompts. The University of Toronto puts...
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...
Content & Media Relations
10 proven ways to increase earned media coverage for your business
Press coverage that people receive for free reminds me of how they need to work to get a table at a crowded restaurant without making any reservations. Everybody desires it, but most people lack the knowledge to create it in reality. The good news? Earned media is...
AI visibility in focus: The grocery aisle just fell to the chatbots—what communications teams need to know
5W AI Communications this month released the first grocery-focused AI visibility study — the Grocery edition of The Private Label AI Advantage — and the finding will land inside every CPG communications team in the country: the AI engines are recommending store brands...
AI in PR: The world’s #1 protein brand just lost the query that matters most
Optimum Nutrition is, by Euromonitor’s own count, the world’s #1 sports-nutrition brand. It is owned by Glanbia. It is thirty years old. It sits on every meaningful retail shelf. Ask any AI engine — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, or Google AI Overviews — for the...