# Featured Press Room
> Press releases, research, podcast appearances and media mentions from Featured.
The press room of Featured: press releases, research, podcast appearances, media mentions and the media kit.

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## Topics
- [Podcasts](https://press.featured.com/podcast.md) (45)
- [Press releases](https://press.featured.com/press-release.md) (10)
- [In the news](https://press.featured.com/media-mention.md) (9)
- [Research](https://press.featured.com/research.md) (6)

## Latest
- [AI Visibility for Consultants: Brett Farmiloe on Unleashed](https://press.featured.com/podcast/ai-visibility-for-consultants-brett-farmiloe-on-unleashed.md) (2026-10-28): Brett Farmiloe, CEO of Featured and Help a Reporter Out (HARO), joins Will Bachman on Episode 659 of Unleashed to discuss how consultants can increase thei
- [Where Authors Can Pitch: Independent Bookstores and Author Events in the United States](https://press.featured.com/research/where-authors-can-pitch-independent-bookstores-author-events-report.md) (2026-10-22): Featured's Find Bookstores data on 1,093 U.S. independent bookstores: how reachable they are, which run author events, and where they cluster.
- [Featured Launches Find Bookstores for Authors Planning Book Signings and Book Tours](https://press.featured.com/press-release/featured-launches-find-bookstores-for-authors-planning-book-signings-and-book-to.md) (2026-10-22): Authors and book publicists can search 1,093 independent bookstores by place or genre and draft a pitch to the stores that host author events.
- [How Reachable Is Local TV News? — Featured TV Newsroom Report](https://press.featured.com/research/how-reachable-is-local-tv-news-featured-tv-newsroom-report.md) (2026-10-20): Featured's Find TV Stations data shows how reachable local TV news is.
- [Featured Brings Newsjacking to Local TV News](https://press.featured.com/press-release/featured-brings-newsjacking-to-local-tv-news.md) (2026-10-20): PR teams can go from a breaking story in a client's beat to the news desks of the TV stations in the client's market, with newsroom contacts for 470 stations across 195 U.S. TV markets.
- [Featured Launches Find Substacks So PR Professionals Can Find and Pitch Substack Writers by Topic](https://press.featured.com/press-release/featured-launches-find-substacks-so-pr-professionals-can-find-and-pitch-substack.md) (2026-10-20): Journalists have moved to Substack, have your media lists? Featured's Find Substacks tool searches a database of 38,746 publications and drafts pitches.
- [The State of Substack for PR](https://press.featured.com/research/the-state-of-substack-for-pr.md) (2026-10-19): Data from Featured's Find Substacks database of 38,746 Substack publications. October 2026.
- [Human Pitches Still Beat AI Pitches, HARO Data Shows](https://press.featured.com/media-mention/human-pitches-still-beat-ai-pitches-haro-data-shows.md) (2026-10-16): A new HARO report put real numbers behind what many PR pros already suspected: human-written pitches land far more often than AI-generated ones.
- [Media Mention: Yes, AI Can Write Your Pitch. But Can It Give Journalists What They Need?](https://press.featured.com/media-mention/media-mention-yes-ai-can-write-your-pitch-but-can-it-give-journalists-what-they.md) (2026-10-15): HARO CEO Brett Farmiloe told EIN Presswire what millions of media pitches reveals about AI, human oversight, and what actually makes journalists choose you
- [76% of Domains Cited by AI Appeared Only Once](https://press.featured.com/podcast/76-of-domains-cited-by-ai-appeared-only-once.md) (2026-10-15): Featured CEO Brett Farmiloe joins Spin Sucks: 34% of AI citations come from sites under DA 40, 21% of HARO pitches are fully AI-written. Full transcript.
- [Featured Launches A Free Newsjacking Tool That Lets PR Agencies Run Reactive PR For Every Client](https://press.featured.com/press-release/featured-launches-a-free-newsjacking-tool-that-lets-pr-agencies-run-reactive-pr.md) (2026-10-14): One workflow per client. As often as every 15 minutes, Featured flags breaking stories with a suggested angle and the reporters and HARO requests to pitch.
- [Featured CEO Brett Farmiloe on What Still Wins a Journalist in Ten Seconds](https://press.featured.com/media-mention/featured-ceo-brett-farmiloe-on-what-still-wins-a-journalist-in-ten-seconds.md) (2026-10-13): How to get featured in the media, from Featured CEO Brett Farmiloe: the HARO pitch checklist, realistic first-month results, and what gets pitches deleted.
- [64% of AI citations come from editorial coverage, data says](https://press.featured.com/podcast/64-of-ai-citations-come-from-editorial-coverage-data-says.md) (2026-10-13): Brett Farmiloe, Featured CEO, tells The Nick Standlea Show why 64% of AI citations come from earned media and how small businesses get into AI answers.
- [Journalists Hate AI-Generated PR | Pangram x Featured](https://press.featured.com/media-mention/pangram-case-study-journalists-hate-ai-generated-pr.md) (2026-09-23): Pangram's case study on a year of AI detection across Featured, HARO and Connectively: 1.39M pitches, 21% fully AI-generated, 35% of journalists opt out.
- [How to Get Subject Matter Experts Into the Media](https://press.featured.com/podcast/in-clear-focus.md) (2026-09-22): Featured CEO Brett Farmiloe on Bigeye's IN CLEAR FOCUS: how brands get subject matter experts in front of journalists, and why human pitches win 3 to 1.
- [Featured Workflow Usage Report — September 2026](https://press.featured.com/research/featured-workflow-usage-report-september-2026.md) (2026-09-21): Featured's automated workflows help users find press opportunities on a custom cadence. Here's the data we've gathered so far.
- [Featured Launches Find Awards To Search 4,596 Business Awards, Rankings And Best-Of Lists Across 43 Industries](https://press.featured.com/press-release/featured-launches-find-awards.md) (2026-09-15): Featured launches Find Awards to help PR professionals and experts find relevant awards to apply for all in natural language.
- [Inngest Profiles Featured's Orchestration Layer](https://press.featured.com/media-mention/inngest-featured-orchestration-layer.md) (2026-09-15): How Connectively, HARO, and Featured run three brands and 2,500 articles a month on a team of seven — and where the reliable, boring layer underneath actua
- [Featured on Vercel: 100K Media Pitches a Month](https://press.featured.com/media-mention/featured-on-vercel-100k-media-pitches-a-month.md) (2026-09-13): How Featured's users make 100K media pitches per month on Vercel, with a three-person engineering team managing three brands, including HARO.
- [35% of Journalists Opt Out of AI Pitches](https://press.featured.com/podcast/comms-confidential-brett-farmiloe-ai-pitches.md) (2026-09-08): Brett Farmiloe of Featured on Comms Confidential: AI detection on every HARO pitch finds 21% fully AI-generated; 35% of journalists opt out of AI pitches.
- [HARO Statistics (2026): 100M Emails, 2M Pitches, AI Trends](https://press.featured.com/research/haro-statistics.md) (2026-08-31): 21% of HARO pitches are written entirely by AI. Journalists are about three times more likely to use a human-written pitch, and 35% now block AI-generated
- [Featured Launches GEO Audit](https://press.featured.com/press-release/featured-launches-geo-audit.md) (2026-08-25): Featured launches GEO audit to help users see how their brand is showing up across the 4 largest LLMs. Check how your brand shows up against search prompts
- [Featured AI Citation Report, June-August 2026](https://press.featured.com/research/ai-citation-report-august-2026.md) (2026-08-24): We analysed 405 GEO audits and 22,881 real citations from AI search. More than a third pointed to domains with Domain Authority under 40.
- [Featured Launches Find Creators Search With 380 Million Creators Across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube](https://press.featured.com/press-release/featured-launches-find-creators.md) (2026-08-18): Featured launches Find Creators to help PR and marketing teams discover relevant creators across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube using natural language.
- [HARO Subscribers Are Up 54% Year Over Year](https://press.featured.com/media-mention/haro-subscribers-up-54-percent.md) (2026-08-17): HARO (Help a Reporter Out) subscribers are up 54% year over year, as more experts and PR pros sign up for free journalist requests by email each weekday.
- [One in Three Journalists Now Filter Out AI-Written Pitches, Says Featured CEO Brett Farmiloe](https://press.featured.com/press-release/one-in-three-journalists-filter-out-ai-pitches.md) (2026-08-13): One in three HARO journalists chose to filter out AI pitches, a box that is left unchecked by default.
- [HARO Journalist Requests Climb 68% Year Over Year](https://press.featured.com/media-mention/haro-journalist-requests-climb-68-percent.md) (2026-08-12): Journalist requests posted on HARO (Help a Reporter Out) climbed 68% year over year, giving experts and PR pros more free chances to land media coverage.
- [HARO Rejects 32% of Journalist Requests](https://press.featured.com/media-mention/haro-rejects-32-percent-of-journalist-requests.md) (2026-08-11): HARO (Help a Reporter Out) rejects 32% of journalist requests, nearly 1 in 3, after vetting the journalist and outlet so sources can trust what they see.
- [Why Your AI-Written Pitch Might Never Reach a Journalist](https://press.featured.com/podcast/lets-talk-pr-and-more-ai-written-pitch.md) (2026-08-11): Featured CEO Brett Farmiloe on Let's Talk PR & More with Sherry Goldman: 21% of HARO pitches are AI-written, and 35% of journalists filter them out.
- [AI Has Made Media Pitching Noisier and Less Effective, Says Featured CEO Brett Farmiloe](https://press.featured.com/press-release/ai-has-made-media-pitching-noisier.md) (2026-08-08): AI is making media pitching noisier. HARO and Connectively are cracking down by using AI detection on every pitch.

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