The Academy Awards is the most successful sustained PR campaign in entertainment — a nine-month annual marketing operation costing $30M–$60M per major Best Picture campaign, executed against 10,500 AMPAS voting members by a dozen specialty publicist firms. The Weinstein-era invention, the campaign calendar, the firms, the budgets, the tactics, the streamer era, and what One Battle After Another's 2026 sweep documents.
The question of whether AI would change PR is settled. The question now is whether communicators understand what changed — and whether they're building for it. Ronn Torossian on Citation Share, GEO, and the new infrastructure of public relations.
AI reputation isn't a single score; it's a composite of five independent dimensions: accuracy, sentiment, completeness, consistency, and control. Understanding each dimension is crucial for auditing and managing a brand's AI-held reputation across major AI engines like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Each dimension reveals different challenges and demands specific fixes, from rectifying out-of-date training data to shaping future answers through earned media and owned content. This article breaks down how these dimensions combine to give a directional view of your brand's AI standing and provides a repair plan for any identified issues.
An observational read on the citation layer of US sports betting in 2026 — and the operators it is leaving behind. Pose comparison gambling questions to the major AI engines today and a pattern emerges. The same handful of names show up. Repeatedly. Across queries, across engines, across phrasing. That pattern is the citation layer of US sports betting in 2026. It is not a ranking. It is not paid placement. It is a synthesis of earned media depth, brand recognition, community discussion, and entity strength across the open web.
$1.8T wellness moved from magazines to podcasts to the chatbox. Huberman clips, r/Supplements, Attia and Means Substacks, Ozempic TikTok. The PR didn't follow.
The first sentence a buyer reads about your company is now generated, not written. AI Reputation Management is the discipline of measuring, defending, and shaping what ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews say about a company, a founder, or a product. The five layers, the six-hour clock, and the three metrics that replaced the media-impression count.
The fintech sector, despite its innovation, consistently misallocates PR budgets. This article explains how to correct this by focusing on impact over activity, prioritizing key announcements, and aligning public and investor communications for better ROI.
The PR industry has a measurement problem. Most firms report impressions, reach, media mentions, sentiment scores, share of voice, and advertising value equivalency. But almost none of these metrics measure what a PR firm actually produces. This article outlines the three metrics that actually measure PR: business outcome correlation, quality-weighted coverage, and audience-stakeholder-specific reach.
A mid-year review of the 2026 Edelman Trust Barometer highlights its significant implications for communications strategy, confirming some long-term trends and complicating others. The data shows continued higher trust in business over government and media, high employer trust, and volatile trust in CEOs. Divergent trust patterns by income tier and within-country variations are also noted. The report emphasizes trust as operating capital and the importance of internal alignment and careful CEO engagement.
Most PR internships aren't built to convert into job offers. The complete playbook — what to wear and bring on day one, the week-by-week strategy that turns 10 weeks into an offer, and what to do in the six months after it ends, whether you got the offer or not.
