Press

Featured press releases, research reports, podcast appearances, and media mentions.

• Media mentions · September 23, 2026

  Journalists Hate AI-Generated PR | Pangram x Featured

  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.

• Podcast appearances · September 22, 2026

  How to Get Subject Matter Experts Into the Media

  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.

• Research reports · September 21, 2026

  Featured Workflow Usage Report — September 2026

  Featured's automated workflows help users find press opportunities on a custom cadence. Here's the data we've gathered so far.

• Press releases · September 15, 2026

  Featured Launches Find Awards To Search 4,596 Business Awards, Rankings And Best-Of Lists Across 43 Industries

  Featured launches Find Awards to help PR professionals and experts find relevant awards to apply for all in natural language.

• Media mentions · September 15, 2026

  Inngest Profiles Featured's Orchestration Layer

  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

• Media mentions · September 13, 2026

  Featured on Vercel: 100K Media Pitches a Month

  How Featured's users make 100K media pitches per month on Vercel, with a three-person engineering team managing three brands, including HARO.

• Podcast appearances · September 8, 2026

  35% of Journalists Opt Out of AI Pitches

  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.

• Press releases · August 25, 2026

  Featured Launches GEO Audit

  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

• Press releases · August 18, 2026

  Featured Launches Find Creators Search With 380 Million Creators Across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube

  Featured launches Find Creators to help PR and marketing teams discover relevant creators across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube using natural language.

• Press releases · August 13, 2026

  One in Three Journalists Now Filter Out AI-Written Pitches, Says Featured CEO Brett Farmiloe

  One in three HARO journalists chose to filter out AI pitches, a box that is left unchecked by default.

• Podcast appearances · August 11, 2026

  Why Your AI-Written Pitch Might Never Reach a Journalist

  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.

• Press releases · August 8, 2026

  AI Has Made Media Pitching Noisier and Less Effective, Says Featured CEO Brett Farmiloe

  AI is making media pitching noisier. HARO and Connectively are cracking down by using AI detection on every pitch.

• Podcast appearances · August 5, 2026

  Why Are Journalist Request Platforms So Important for SEO?

  Brett Farmiloe joined Majestic's SEO in 2026 podcast to share insights on how to leverage journalist request platforms like HARO and Connectively for SEO a

• Podcast appearances · May 30, 2026

  AI Is the New Front Page | Brett Farmiloe on In Reality

  Featured CEO Brett Farmiloe on In Reality with Eric Schurenberg: AI is the new front page, 21% of HARO pitches are AI-written, and 3,000+ accounts banned.

• Podcast appearances · March 27, 2026

  Inside the HARO Acquisition and the Launch of Featured

  Featured CEO Brett Farmiloe on The Brandinc PR Podcast with Brandi Sims: why HARO still matters, what its acquisition signals, and how AI fits in.

• Podcast appearances · March 18, 2026

  Eight Revenue Streams For Journalists

  Featured CEO Brett Farmiloe on Under Embargo: HARO's AI detection, the two camps of journalists on AI pitches, and why influence moved to individuals.

• Podcast appearances · March 13, 2026

  AI in PR: The Strategic Edge

  Featured CEO Brett Farmiloe on PureLogics Pulse: human-in-the-loop PR, why unedited AI pitches hurt credibility, and what a good pitch looks like in 2026.

• Podcast appearances · March 10, 2026

  Media Mentions Help With Model Mentions

  Featured CEO Brett Farmiloe on On Top of PR with Jason Mudd: why HARO came back, how it scores pitches, and why media mentions feed AI model mentions.

• Podcast appearances · March 6, 2026

  AI Has Set a New Quality Threshold for Pitches

  Brett Farmiloe of Featured on Cognito Media's cogcast: AI raised the bar for every pitch, journalists are now entrepreneurs, and outlets may be people.

• Podcast appearances · March 3, 2026

  Get Quoted by a Human, Found by Machines

  Featured CEO Brett Farmiloe on the Human-First AI Marketing Podcast: reactive PR for SMBs, and why media mentions get brands cited by AI models.

• Podcast appearances · February 20, 2026

  The AI PR Hack: Match Stories to Journalists

  Featured CEO Brett Farmiloe on The Edward Show: an AI feature that matches your press release to the right journalists from HARO's 33,000-plus.

• Podcast appearances · February 11, 2026

  Earned Media in the Agent Era

  Featured CEO Brett Farmiloe on The AI SEO Insighter with Chris Raulf: AI scores on every HARO pitch, why roundups still work, and AI agents as sourcers.

• Podcast appearances · January 19, 2026

  Human in the Loop, on Everything: AI and PR

  Featured CEO Brett Farmiloe on Build a Better Agency: every HARO pitch is AI-scored, 21% are fully AI-generated, and a human still decides what gets sent.

• Podcast appearances · December 9, 2025

  DIY PR Pitching to US Media With HARO

  HARO CEO Brett Farmiloe on Hack Your Own PR with Odette Barry: expert commentary in US media, the HARO pitch formula, and what citations mean for LLMs.

• Podcast appearances · December 4, 2025

  How HARO Helps You Stand Out

  Brett Farmiloe on The Real Connect with Tamika Carlton: how HARO works behind the scenes, what journalists want, and using AI without losing your voice.

• Podcast appearances · November 26, 2025

  Founder to Founder on HabitStack

  Featured founder Brett Farmiloe on the HabitStack Podcast with Scott Ward: HARO pitch rules, life after product-market fit, and a fourth founder's habits.

• Podcast appearances · November 11, 2025

  21% of HARO Pitches Are AI-Generated

  About 21% of pitches submitted through HARO score as fully AI-generated, and journalists split into a camp that filters them out and a camp that cares only

• Podcast appearances · November 5, 2025

  The Two PR Tools You Need | Brett Farmiloe on Visibility Era

  Featured founder Brett Farmiloe on Visibility Era: how he built Featured, why he bought HARO, and why niche blogs and expert sources matter for LLMs.

• Podcast appearances · September 24, 2025

  Scaling Trust: Nobody Has the Definitive Answer for LLM Visibility

  Featured CEO Brett Farmiloe with Jason Barnard on Fastlane Founders: short expert contributions, AI citations, and an audit-first path to visibility.

• Podcast appearances · September 23, 2025

  How To Get Free Press Coverage in an AI World

  Featured CEO Brett Farmiloe on Brand Rescue with Whitney Lee: reviving HARO, why trust in media matters more than ever, and going from agency to platform.

• Podcast appearances · September 20, 2025

  Sourcing Experts Is an Infinite Problem

  Featured CEO Brett Farmiloe on Right About Now with Ryan Alford: the HARO relaunch, AI detection on every pitch, and how to measure PR in 2025.

• Podcast appearances · September 17, 2025

  Navigating HARO's Relaunch | Brett Farmiloe on PRessing On

  Featured CEO Brett Farmiloe on PRessing On: Real Life in Public Relations: the 2025 HARO relaunch, AI in PR, and building the expert economy.

• Podcast appearances · September 16, 2025

  42 Answers Per Query: How Featured and HARO Work

  Featured CEO Brett Farmiloe on the Public Relations Review Podcast: three daily HARO emails, about 42 answers per query, and a freemium model for experts.

• Podcast appearances · September 15, 2025

  Your New Customer Is AI

  Featured CEO Brett Farmiloe on PR Yourself with Leah Frazier: 175,000 experts, 3,000 publishers, HARO's three daily emails, and why your customer is AI.

• Podcast appearances · July 31, 2025

  70% of HARO's Audience Is in the US, 15% in the UK

  Featured CEO Brett Farmiloe on Propellernet's Digital PR Podcast: where HARO's audience is, when its three daily editions send, and how to pitch now.

• Podcast appearances · July 22, 2025

  HARO Reloaded: How to Pitch Like It's 2025

  Featured CEO Brett Farmiloe on Stories and Strategies: why HARO faded, how it came back, and how to pitch when 7 to 14 people pitch every journalist.

• Podcast appearances · July 6, 2025

  PR Hacks for Small Business Owners

  Featured CEO Brett Farmiloe on Marketer of the Day with Robert Plank: how small business owners land media features by being concise and credible.

• Podcast appearances · July 2, 2025

  Cracking the B2B Marketplace Code

  Featured CEO Brett Farmiloe on SaaS That App: turning a manual PR service into a two-sided marketplace, Magic Moments metrics, and manual-first automation.

• Podcast appearances · June 27, 2025

  HARO for Australian Entrepreneurs

  HARO's Brett Farmiloe on Media Magnet with Liz Nable: how Australian and New Zealand experts break into global media, six days after HARO's relaunch.

• Podcast appearances · June 17, 2025

  Transforming Knowledge Into Media Opportunities

  Featured's Brett Farmiloe on Your Brand Amplified with Anika Jackson: why experts struggle to share knowledge and how Featured links them with journalists.

• Podcast appearances · June 17, 2025

  Featured Acquires HARO: Domain Name Wire Podcast #539

  Brett Farmiloe returns to the Domain Name Wire Podcast: how the Featured.com domain and rebrand paid off, and why Featured acquired HARO in 2025.

• Podcast appearances · June 15, 2025

  The New Frontier of PR and Journalism

  Featured CEO Brett Farmiloe on Beyond the Edge, the English-language video podcast from Italian PR agency Disclosers, on where PR and journalism go next.

• Podcast appearances · May 16, 2025

  Pursuing Your Passion to Build a Profile

  Featured founder Brett Farmiloe on That's Audacious with Lauren Clemett: from the Pursue the Passion road trip to a platform that gets experts published.

• Podcast appearances · May 2, 2025

  Why the Golden Era of Digital PR Is Just Beginning

  Brett Farmiloe on Linkifi's Market Movers, two weeks after HARO's relaunch: the original email format, the anti-spam vetting, and outlets already back.

• Podcast appearances · April 24, 2025

  HARO Is Back: The Guy Who Revived It

  Featured CEO Brett Farmiloe on The Edward Show on HARO's relaunch day: bought from Cision April 15, 2025, live April 22, and a harder line on spam.

• Podcast appearances · April 19, 2025

  HARO Is Back: First Interview With the New Owner

  Brett Farmiloe's first interview as HARO's owner on BuzzStream's podcast: why Featured bought HARO from Cision, the anti-spam plan and the April 22 return.

• Press releases · April 16, 2025

  Featured.com Acquires Help A Reporter Out (HARO) from Cision

  HARO, founded in 2008 and owned by Cision since 2014, returns to its original free, email-based format under Featured's ownership.

• Podcast appearances · March 7, 2025

  Get Featured With AI, SEO and Digital PR

  Featured CEO Brett Farmiloe on The Long Game with Elijah Murray: creativity in AI businesses, why new data matters, and monetizing unique expertise.

• Podcast appearances · February 5, 2025

  Digital PR Hacks That Boost SEO

  Featured CEO Brett Farmiloe on PageTraffic's Agency Insider Show: four-minute time to value, 1,000+ publishers, and a client that 25x'd organic traffic.

• Podcast appearances · November 12, 2024

  Redefining Digital PR | Brett Farmiloe on Marketing Quacks

  Featured founder Brett Farmiloe on the Marketing Quacks Podcast: media placements for SEO, quality versus quantity in PR, and AI in content creation.

• Podcast appearances · June 14, 2024

  The Power of Earned Media | Brett Farmiloe on What The Frac?

  Featured CEO Brett Farmiloe on What The Frac? with Nicole Zeno and Tamara Laine: how earned media drives growth and turns stories into visibility.

• Podcast appearances · August 8, 2023

  Upgrading to Featured.com: Why Terkel Rebranded | DNW #447

  Brett Farmiloe on the Domain Name Wire Podcast, August 2023: why Terkel acquired Featured.com and rebranded as Featured, and what the domain did for trust.

• Research reports

  HARO Statistics (2026)

  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 responses.

• Research reports

  Featured AI Citation Report, June-August 2026

  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.