Founder & Chairman, 5W AI Communications · Publisher, Everything-PR
Ronn Torossian is shaping AI — and the answers inside the chatbox.
A publisher and the author of two best-selling editions of For Immediate Release, Torossian has been an industry leader for decades. Now he's building the AI Communications era.
He is the founder and chairman of 5W AI Communications, launched in 2003 — the AI Communications Firm, combining public relations, digital marketing, Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), and AI-visibility research for B2C and B2B clients across beauty, technology, entertainment, corporate reputation, and crisis communications. An Inc. 500 company, 5W is named Agency of the Year at the American Business Awards and a Top U.S. PR Agency by O'Dwyer's.
He was a partner and chief marketing officer of JetSmarter, the private-aviation unicorn acquired by Vista Global, parent of VistaJet.
He is the publisher of Everything-PR — thirty-plus publications of original reporting and AI-visibility research, built to be cited by the AI engines — and the publisher of Olam — Global Jewish Business Intelligence. He has guest-lectured on communications and media strategy at Harvard and other universities.
More than a third of consumers now begin product research with AI, not Google. Torossian's work is to influence the answer — inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Start product research with AI, not Google.
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Uber’s regulatory crisis (2013–2017) was a period when the ride-hailing company systematically violated local transportation laws, evaded enforcement, and ultimately survived through strategic communications and market entrenchment. This article examines what this taught the PR industry.
In 1933, Carl Byoir & Associates took a contract to represent Nazi Germany in America. Inside the deal, the congressional hearings, and the legacy.
Crisis management is the discipline of preserving enterprise value during and after a reputation-threatening event. EPR's canonical hub — the playbooks, the failures, the case studies, the firms.
In a city of 30 thousand dollar a year private schools, 800 dollar (or more) a week kids' camps, and $15 an hour babysitters, the New York City Public Library system is such an amazing tool for parents – and NY’ers of all walks of life. It is a great, free, resource - and one which remains as awesome today as it was years ago.
I am flabbergasted as to why more people in our industry aren’t utilizing Op-eds and blog posts more as Google Rankings continue to reward websites and authors who produce high-quality content regularly. One would think that anyone employed at a PR Firm should be jumping for joy, as unique content placed properly can help rapidly move relevant search rankings – yet very few in our industry write often. Perhaps I should be happy as it benefits my company – but it is just amazing that PR pros don’t spend more time writing as it can have major impact on search engine activity.
The retweet was the first amplification signal — public, single-click, measurable. Everything that replaced it is harder to count, more durable when it works, impossible to fake. The six amplification surfaces, why most corporate content goes nowhere, and the EPR Amplification Scorecard.
Coca-Cola is still the most recognized consumer brand on the planet. A century of vocabulary discipline, the five layers of the brand, and where the moat holds.
Red Bull holds top energy-category citation share inside AI engines — built by Red Bull Media House, F1, and Stratos, not by the drink itself.
Public relations is the discipline of building and protecting reputation through earned communication. Ronn Torossian — publisher of Everything-PR since 2009, founder of 5W — on the definition, the history from Ivy Lee and Edward Bernays through the PRSA, and the modern $130B global industry.
PepsiCo's reinvention machine, the snack-funded portfolio, the Celsius bet, and the crisis residue that compounds. Five layers, sixty years, one structural bet.
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