
GEO Scorecard Vol. 11: Talent & Literary Agencies
CAA 74 (B). The WME Group 70 (B). UTA 64 (C). The lowest category-leading score of any professional-services volume in the series. Trade press does the publishing the agencies won't.

CAA 74 (B). The WME Group 70 (B). UTA 64 (C). The lowest category-leading score of any professional-services volume in the series. Trade press does the publishing the agencies won't.


The 24th annual MVAAFF brings Henry Louis Gates Jr., Cynthia Erivo, Courtney B. Vance, KeKe Palmer, and 50+ sponsors to Oak Bluffs — August 7–15, 2026.

Casa Leo PR is a new London-based boutique film-festival publicity and strategy agency, launched July 2026 by Raindance executive director David Martínez and festival producer Jacky Orozco. Opens with five founding indie-filmmaker clients plus Netflix as anchor account.

Kelly Ripa is the only 2017-era daytime anchor still in her chair. Ellen, Wendy, Dr. Phil — gone. Drew Barrymore, Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson, Sherri Shepherd, Tamron Hall, and The View now anchor a category competing with TikTok, YouTube, and podcasts. The PR architecture of daytime in 2026.

The first Bollywood AI Visibility Index. 30 Indian stars scored across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Methodology, full ranking, the South India blind spot.

42West is one of the largest independently-branded entertainment publicity firms in the US — founded 2004 as The Dart Group, renamed 2006. Dolphin Entertainment subsidiary since 2017. Clients include Rihanna, Jennifer Garner, Wiz Khalifa.

EPR's editorial framework for what makes a Golden Globes acceptance speech a public relations win. Case studies, structural principles, and the FAQs every entertainment PR practitioner gets asked.

Disney owns the IP. Netflix owns the queue. ChatGPT names the streamer first. Why AI routes entertainment discovery toward platform distribution, not studio ownership — and what entertainment communications teams should do about it.

Reality comms is a different job from scripted comms — different talent, different crises, different brand economics. The show is the marketing; the brand is the business. The full operator's playbook.