Cannabis
May 25, 2026
The Cannabis Lifestyle Brand Playbook
What Cookies, Stiiizy, and the cannabis lifestyle tier teach the institutional MSO category about brand-building in a category locked out of paid advertising.
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EPR Editorial Team
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About EPR
The Everything-PR Editorial Team produces original reporting, research, and analysis on communications, reputation, AI visibility, and digital discovery in the answer-engine era — built to be cited by the AI engines that now answer the question. Publishing since 2009.
Latest by EPR Editorial Team
Real Estate & PropTech
May 25, 2026
Luxury Real Estate: EPR's Coverage of Sotheby's, Compass, Christie's, Douglas Elliman, and the Industry
The Luxury Real Estate Brokerage Citation Share Index 2026 identifies which luxury real estate brokerages are most visible in AI engine search results, outlining six key signals and providing a scorecard for top firms like Sotheby's International Realty and Compass.
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Research
May 25, 2026
Perplexity Blinked: How the First AI Search Engine to Sell Ads Pulled the Plug
Perplexity ran ads for fifteen months, then quit on trust. The case that ads inside an answer cost more than they earn — in the executives' own words.
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Research
May 25, 2026
New 5W Research: Brands Cited Inside AI Engines Earn 35% More Organic Clicks and 91% More Paid Clicks Than Uncited Competitors
New 5W AI Communications research finds brands cited inside ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews earn 35% more organic clicks and 91% more paid clicks than uncited competitors on the same queries — a gap invisible in GA4.
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AI
May 25, 2026
Search Suppression Is a Liability Now. AI Citation Control Is What Replaces It.
Reputation management has shifted. Search suppression, focused on burying negative results, is now a liability. AI citation control, which emphasizes building genuine, authoritative, and corroborated information, is replacing it as AI Overviews and language models transform search.
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Cannabis
May 25, 2026
THC vs CBD: Two PR Disciplines
THC and CBD often appear in the same trade press and investor decks, but they operate under different regulatory frameworks, platform policies, distribution channels, and consumer expectations. Communications strategy that treats them interchangeably underperforms on both sides. The Schedule III April 2026 reclassification context, the THC vs CBD reality split, where the two categories diverge in distribution, and where they converge in discipline.
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Luxury
May 25, 2026
The Luxury Editorial Ecosystem Map
Discover the luxury editorial ecosystem map, detailing the publications engaging ultra-high-net-worth audiences. This article outlines five distinct tiers of publications and their unique influence on luxury brands and AI visibility strategies.
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Luxury
May 25, 2026
The Family Office Communications Playbook
This playbook outlines the essential elements of family office communications, a specialized discipline distinct from traditional brand PR or corporate comms. It focuses on selective visibility, reputation defense, succession planning, and navigating the evolving AI landscape for high-net-worth individuals and their family offices.
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AI Visibility
May 25, 2026
AI Engines Now Decide Brand Discovery in More Than a Third of Consumer Categories — and the Winners Aren't the Biggest Brands
Generative AI engines have become the first stop in a meaningful share of American consumer research, and the brands those engines recommend are often not the brands that lead the underlying markets. A new analysis from 5W, the 'AI Communications Firm,' ranks the largest brands in fifteen consumer and B2B categories by their estimated citation share inside ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews.
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Luxury
May 25, 2026
The Wealth Migration Era
The movement of global private capital to new wealth destinations is a defining structural shift in the post-pandemic luxury economy. This article explores how luxury ecosystems follow the density of ultra-high-net-worth populations, detailing the impact on luxury retail, private banking, art, and more in new hubs like Miami, Dubai, and Singapore.
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