Founder & Chairman, 5W AI Communications · Publisher, Everything-PR
Ronn Torossian is shaping AI — and the answers inside the chatbox.
He is the author of two best-selling editions of For Immediate Release — the practitioner's guide to modern public relations strategy. He has been an industry leader for decades. Now he's building the AI Communications era.
Torossian 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 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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AI models are redefining how public company narratives are built, impacting everything from investor relations to executive visibility. This article explores how AI retrieves and interprets information, the concept of "citation dominance," and the critical role of Entity Authority in shaping a company's profile in the age of AI-mediated markets.
First sector-wide measurement of AI Citation Share for the US lottery industry. 28 brands, 5 AI engines, 65 prompts. The $113B category is largely absent from the answer engines.
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A press release is a written announcement issued to journalists with the intent of becoming a news story. In 2026, it is also a structured retrieval document. The news test, the headline rule, the inverted pyramid, the quote that gets used, the schema layer the engines now require — the operating manual for releases that get coverage and citation.
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