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Why the Best Digital Marketing in 2026 Feels Human Again
AdTech & MarTech

Why the Best Digital Marketing in 2026 Feels Human Again

For the better part of the last decade, digital marketing has been defined by one word: efficiency. Marketers optimized everything. Audiences were segmented into increasingly granular cohorts. Creative was tested, iterated, and refined at scale. Entire strategies were built around performance dashboards—click-through rates, conversion rates, cost per acquisition. It was a golden age of precision. And yet, something got lost along the way. Scroll through any social platform today and you’ll encounter a paradox: marketing has never been more targeted, yet it has never felt more invisible. Ads are technically excellent, but emotionally vacant. Campaigns perform, but they rarely linger. Brands reach people, but they struggle to move them. This is the defining tension of digital marketing in 2026.

EPR Editorial Team ·
How YouTube Became AI Citation Infrastructure
AI

How YouTube Became AI Citation Infrastructure

For two decades the public-relations industry has measured earned media value through a hierarchy of text-based publications. The tier-one daily — New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Financial Times. The category trade. The digital news native. The high-traffic…

EPR Editorial Team ·
UHNW Audience Reach in 2026
Luxury

UHNW Audience Reach in 2026

Discover how to effectively reach ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) audiences in 2026. This article explores a three-layered strategy encompassing editorial, social and philanthropic engagement, and AI visibility, explaining how these elements compound to create durable authority and impact within this exclusive market.

EPR Editorial Team ·
The Retrieval Anchor
AI Communications

The Retrieval Anchor

A Retrieval Anchor Is a Piece of Content AI Engines Reach For When Grounding an Answer. Not all content is equally retrievable. Two pieces with identical information can be weighted differently inside AI retrieval based on properties most communications functions do not measure — structural cleanliness, citation chain depth, named-author attribution, schema markup, and source-layer position. The retrieval anchor is the unit of substrate. Understanding what makes content function as one is the technical foundation of GEO.

EPR Editorial Team ·
The Anatomy of an AI Answer
AI Communications

The Anatomy of an AI Answer

This article explores how AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews build responses, detailing the two main modes (trained knowledge and live retrieval), the six steps from question to answer, and the five factors that make a source rank highly. It also explains what determines which entities are named in an AI answer and offers five key takeaways for communications professionals on how to influence AI outputs.

Ronn Torossian ·
Schema Is Communications Now
AI Communications

Schema Is Communications Now

The most consequential communications work today is not being done by communications teams. AI Communications is the discipline of building authority across AI answer engines alongside earned media, digital, and influencer channels.

Ronn Torossian ·
The Death of the Tier-One Media List
AI Communications

The Death of the Tier-One Media List

The article introduces AI Communications, a discipline that redefines the traditional tier-one media list. It explains how AI engine analysis measures actual publication authority, replacing outdated assumptions with data-driven insights. This new approach combines public relations, Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), and AI-visibility research to influence answers from AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. The article details the shortcomings of the old media list, which was based on inherited assumptions, and outlines how AI engines reveal a different landscape of influential sources. It highlights new patterns, such as the importance of "ignored trade" publications and older interviews, and discusses operational changes for PR professionals. The piece concludes by emphasizing that the new tier-one list is a dynamic, research-driven output, customized per category and client, and crucial for effective modern PR strategies.

Ronn Torossian ·