The Journal

Notes from inside the problem.

Working pieces on the things we argue about internally: what a sentiment number is worth, how a regional story becomes a national one, and what happens to a brand when buyers start asking a model instead of a search engine. Written by the team building the platform, not by a content agency.

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AI reputation & GEO

The category we are furthest ahead in, and the one with almost no good writing behind it yet. Highest chance of being cited by the models themselves.

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How to Check What ChatGPT Says About Your Brand

A method anyone can run in an afternoon, the prompts that matter, and how to record answers so you can see drift over time.

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How do I find out what ChatGPT says about my company?
Target term
what does chatgpt say about my brand
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Google AI Overviews: What Changes for PR and Comms Teams

What Overviews pull from, why earned coverage now feeds answers as well as reputation, and what to measure instead of position one.

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How do AI Overviews affect brand visibility?
Target term
google ai overviews brand
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When a Model Gets Your Brand Wrong: A Correction Playbook

Triage by severity, find the feeding sources, publish the correction where models read, and verify the change rather than assuming it.

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How do I correct false information an AI gives about my company?
Target term
ai hallucination brand misinformation
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Media monitoring & measurement

The head terms with real buying intent behind them. Competitive to rank for, so the angle on each is a position rather than a definition. Nothing here explains how our own scoring works: methodology is the product, not the marketing.

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Media Monitoring: A Working Guide for Communications Teams

The category pillar. What monitoring covers, what separates a feed from intelligence, and the questions to ask a vendor before signing.

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What is media monitoring and what should it actually do?
Target term
media monitoring
14 min read
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Media Monitoring vs Social Listening: The Difference That Matters

A clean comparison piece with a genuine argument: the split is a vendor artefact, and the teams that suffer from it are the ones with both tools.

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What is the difference between media monitoring and social listening?
Target term
media monitoring vs social listening
7 min read
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How to Measure Share of Voice Across Press, Social and AI

The formula, the traps, and why a share-of-voice number built from three vendors' methodologies means nothing.

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How do you calculate share of voice?
Target term
share of voice measurement
9 min read
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Media Monitoring Tools: How to Choose One Without a Six-Month Trial

The highest-intent term in the category. A buyer's evaluation framework rather than a ranked list of rivals, which is both more useful and more defensible coming from a vendor.

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How do you choose a media monitoring tool?
Target term
media monitoring tools
12 min read
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How to Measure PR: The Numbers That Survive a CFO's Questions

High volume, genuinely wanted, and almost always answered badly. What to measure, what to stop measuring, and how to connect coverage to something a finance team recognises.

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How do you measure PR performance?
Target term
how to measure pr
11 min read
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AVE Is Dead. Here Is What Replaces It

A position piece with a framework attached. Strong backlink candidate: the industry argues about this every year and rarely proposes anything usable.

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What should replace AVE in PR reporting?
Target term
advertising value equivalency alternative
9 min read

Crisis communications

High-urgency search, high-value reader, and the topics most likely to earn links from trade press and comms newsletters.

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Crisis Detection: How to Tell a Spike From a Crisis

The pillar. Baselines, velocity, severity laddering, and why volume thresholds produce both false alarms and missed crises.

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How do you know if a social media spike is a real crisis?
Target term
crisis detection
12 min read
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The First Sixty Minutes of a Brand Crisis

A minute-by-minute playbook for the hour that decides the story, including what not to publish and why silence is sometimes the move.

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What should you do in the first hour of a PR crisis?
Target term
brand crisis first hour
10 min read
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How to Write a Holding Statement, With Structure and Examples

Practical, linkable, and the highest-traffic long-tail term in crisis comms. Structure, worked examples, and the lines that make it worse.

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What goes in a holding statement?
Target term
holding statement template
8 min read
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Crisis Velocity: Measuring Against Your Own Normal

Why a generic threshold is wrong for every brand, how to build a baseline, and how severity should escalate on evidence.

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How do you set a crisis alert threshold?
Target term
crisis velocity baseline
9 min read
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Telling a Coordinated Campaign From Genuine Backlash

Author patterns, timing signatures and cluster shape, plus why responding to a campaign as though it were an audience is the expensive mistake.

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How do you know if a boycott campaign is organic?
Target term
coordinated inauthentic campaign brand
10 min read

Multilingual & regional media

Low competition worldwide and high authority for us, because almost nobody writing about monitoring has actually read a story in the language it broke in. Global framing first, with individual markets as supporting pieces rather than the premise.

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Multilingual Media Monitoring: The Language a Story Breaks In First

The global pillar. Why the first report is almost never in English, which languages matter by category and region, and what gets lost between a local headline and a head-office dashboard.

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What is multilingual media monitoring and why does it matter?
Target term
multilingual media monitoring
13 min read
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Why Machine Translation Breaks Sentiment Analysis

What is lost when you translate before you score, shown across languages rather than argued in the abstract. Irony, honorifics, negation and idiom are where it fails.

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Can sentiment analysis work on translated text?
Target term
machine translation sentiment analysis
10 min read
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How a Local Story Becomes a National Headline

The escalation path and its typical clock, from local outlet to aggregator to national desk, and the intervention points a comms team actually has along the way.

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How does a local story become national news?
Target term
local news to national news
9 min read
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Responding in the Language the Story Broke In

Why an English statement translated later reads as an afterthought in every market that receives it, and how to build a response process that starts in the right language.

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Should you respond to a crisis in the local language?
Target term
multilingual crisis communication
8 min read
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Regional Media Monitoring in India: A Practical Guide

The market-specific piece under the global pillar. Which languages matter by category, where regional press breaks first, and what most global tools miss entirely.

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How do you monitor Indian regional media?
Target term
regional media monitoring india
12 min read

Reporting to leadership

Senior-buyer content. Lower volume, but it reaches the person who signs, and it earns links from board and IR newsletters.

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What a Board Actually Wants From a Reputation Report

The four questions every board asks, the numbers that survive scrutiny, and how to present uncertainty without losing credibility.

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How do you report brand reputation to a board?
Target term
reputation report board
11 min read
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Tracking a Founder's Reputation Separately From the Brand's

Why the two move on different clocks, when they converge, and how to watch a person without it becoming surveillance.

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Why track a CEO or founder separately from the company?
Target term
executive reputation management
9 min read
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Reputation Monitoring Before and During a Listing

What you cannot say, what is still being said, and why monitoring is the only instrument available in that window.

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How should a company monitor reputation during an IPO quiet period?
Target term
ipo reputation monitoring
10 min read
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