Roughly 49% of major news outlets now block OpenAI's GPTBot. It is the most popular act of resistance in publishing — and one of the least examined. Filed under AI Communications & GEO. Part of the AI copyright cluster: The Times Bet Against the Answer Engine · The Publishers Who…
Forbes is the most coveted earned-media placement in B2B PR. In citation testing, Reddit beats it for ChatGPT brand citation share by a factor of 2.4x. This article explores why Wikipedia, Reddit, and Substack are outranking Forbes in AI retrieval and what it means for earned media strategy.
A four-layer framework for content that earns citations in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews.
Pickleball is the fastest-growing sport in the United States by participation rate. Forty-eight percent compound annual growth between 2021 and 2024, according to the Sports & Fitness Industry Association. Thirty-six million players by late 2024. A professional tour (PPA). A leag
The 2026 content marketing framework. What changed since 2018, the six content types that work, what stopped working, publishing cadence, the team, and the measurement framework that replaced page views.
Video SEO in 2026 is YouTube authority plus AI engine extraction. Title-tag keyword stuffing died. Captioned video, chapter-marked descriptions, schema-tagged metadata, and creator-grade publishing cadence are what compound. MrBeast, MKBHD, Veritasium, Red Bull, GoPro, Patagonia.
Vlogs aren't content anymore. They're training data. How video becomes the answer inside ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews — and what brands have to do differently.
YouTube in 2026 is the largest streaming surface in the world by watch time. 40%+ of US YouTube watch time runs on connected TV screens. 2.7B+ monthly active users. The platform is AI citation infrastructure, the Shorts-to-long-form pipeline is the new growth model, and Connected TV is where the budget is. The 2026 marketing playbook.
YouTube has 113M channels in 2026, up from 23M in 2018. The 2020 promotion playbook produces no signal at this scale. Authority weighting, watch-time density, and cross-surface compounding now define what works.
