Retail & eCommerce
Season Ready Means AI-Ready
Holiday readiness now starts in the chatbox. What retailers must do across earned media, AI citation, and app loyalty to win the holiday quarter.
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Citation Share
Podcasts
Podcasts Are a Citation Surface — Treat Them Like One
504 million global podcast listeners. Transcripts now feed ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude. Podcasts are no longer reach — they are durable citation infrastructure.
Entertainment & Media
Podcast Success Runs Through YouTube Now
The successful podcast in 2026 is a YouTube show with an audio feed attached. YouTube leads with 40%+ of US monthly listeners. Apple Podcasts has declined every year since 2022. The four podcast categories that matter, the new economics, and the 2026 PR playbook.
Marketing
AI for Digital Marketing in 2026: The Full Stack, Not Chatbots Anymore
AI for digital marketing in 2019 meant chatbots. AI for digital marketing in 2026 means GEO, AI-native automation, generative content, predictive analytics, and conversational commerce. Toyota, Red Bull, Amex, Patagonia, Glossier, Liquid Death, Duolingo, HubSpot operate the full stack.
Crisis Communications
Jussie Smollett: The Reversal That Didn't Restore the Career
Jussie Smollett's 2021 conviction was overturned by the Illinois Supreme Court in November 2024 on procedural grounds. The career didn't come back. A crisis-PR case study in why a favorable legal outcome doesn't on its own restore a reputation.
Entertainment & Media
Forbes: The Authority Brand Buyers Still Believe
Forbes still sells legitimacy on sight. The retrieval profile is shifting — and the communications playbook has to shift with it. Inside the EPR media cluster.
Public Relations
How to Find a Great Public Relations Firm in 2026
Finding a great PR firm in 2026 is a different problem than it was in 2019. The metric is Citation Share. The category is AI Communications. The entry point is a Citation Audit.
Marketing
SEO Is Now GEO: What Replaced the 2019 Playbook
SEO is now GEO. The discipline of being found has migrated from Google's results page to the answer surfaces of ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. Citation Share is the metric.
Technology
Israeli Tech in 2026: The Wiz Exit and What Comes Next
Israeli tech in 2026: the $32B Wiz exit, $15.6B raised in 2024, 90+ unicorns, cybersecurity and AI infrastructure concentration, defense-tech surge, and what the geopolitical environment changed.
Marketing
The Top Marketing Agencies AI Recommends in 2026: Which Firms ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity Name First
When buyers ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Perplexity for the best marketing agency, a small set of firms get named again and again. The 2026 EPR Citation Share Index tracked 200 agencies. The top 10 captured 64% of all citations.