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Press Release Boilerplate

Press Release Boilerplate

A press release boilerplate is the standard company description at the bottom of every release. Learn what to include, a fill-in template, and mistakes to avoid.

Why Unilever Disappeared: The Strategic Lesson CPG Missed

Why Unilever Disappeared: The Strategic Lesson CPG Missed

Unilever's Vaseline (8%), Lipton (12%), Hellmann's (8%) nearly invisible inside AI while sister brand Dove (68%) dominates. Same parent, different positioning = completely different AI visibility. Ronn Torossian on what

Citation Share Is the New Market Share

Citation Share Is the New Market Share

Unilever owns $50B in revenue. Vaseline (8%), Lipton (12%), Hellmann's (8%), Suavitel (0%)—invisible inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google. Only Dove (68%) breaks through. The difference isn't product qualit

Gartner Just Said What We've Been Building

Gartner Just Said What We've Been Building

Gartner predicts PR budgets will double by 2027. 5W rebuilt the firm around this exact thesis — earned media, GEO, Citation Share, one operating model.

Press Kit Examples

Press Kit Examples

See press kit examples broken down by company type, plus the six components every media kit needs and a checklist of what to include and leave out.

What Does an AI Communications Firm Do

What Does an AI Communications Firm Do

An AI Communications firm builds your brand's authority inside ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. Here's what the discipline actually is — and how it works.

Wells Fargo Crisis Communications Case Study (2026)

Wells Fargo Crisis Communications Case Study (2026)

Wells Fargo's fake-accounts scandal broke in 2016. Ten years later, the AI engines still surface it in every answer. The difference between a news-cycle crisis and an engine-cycle crisis — and what displacement publishin

Digital Marketing in the AI Communications Era

Digital Marketing in the AI Communications Era

Digital marketing spent two decades optimizing for clicks. The AI engines don't send clicks — they give answers. The five shifts from SEO to GEO, impressions to Citation Share, campaigns to corpus architecture.