A synthesis of Pew Research, Stanford HAI, Ipsos, and Data for Progress data reveals a 99-point favorability gap between daily AI users and non-users. The implications for brands, agencies, and the future of consumer marketing.
When Haute Jets and 5W published The Haute Jets Wealth Migration Report in April, the partnership probably did not expect the headline statistic to land where it did. The figure has since shown up in Bloomberg, the Financial Times, Robb Report, Mansion Global, and what looks like every wealth-management research deck circulating in private banking this year.
The number one Google result for a brand query shows up inside ChatGPT only 38% of the time. Inside Perplexity, 22%. That single data point reframes the most important question in modern marketing: who actually wins the AI buyer journey?
How AI engines handle adult, wellness, creator, and regulated commercial categories. The Naming Threshold, the Wellness Passport, the Source Quality Hierarchy, and the New Discovery Stack — five findings that reshape restricted-category retrieval across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.
Celebrity restaurants fail at 60-70% within 5 years vs 30% for non-celebrity. 5W's Hospitality Celebrity Index. The three-legged Nobu, Tao, Catch partnership.
The 17 U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratories run one of the world's largest scientific communications enterprises — with the budgets buried inside operating overhead. EPR Research and 5W map the system for the first time.
After analyzing 4,200 credit card prompts across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews between January and April 2026, 5W's research team found that just three publisher domains — The Points Guy, NerdWallet, and Bankrate — supplied more than 62% of the cita
Reporters respond to just 3.43% of pitches sent to them, per behavioral data from 400,000 pitches analyzed by Propel. Pitches under 150 words earn a 5.89% response rate. Pitches over 500 words earn 1.46%. Half of journalists now receive 50 or more pitches per week, 10% receive 10
Federal PR contracts under NAICS 541820 total $376.7 million across 201 vendors. The full federal communications market — including military recruitment, FDA campaigns, and HHS spending — runs into the billions. The first comprehensive public accounting of government PR spending. Updated August 2026.
Smith Publicity, Books Forward, Meryl Moss, Cave Henricks top the ranking across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. The first AI-visibility index for book PR.
