Original research · Earned media

We build the research
reporters want to write about.

We turn public data into county-level studies, publish them on your site, and pitch the reporters who already cover that subject. Last month, a story we placed in one local paper was picked up by MSN and Yahoo News.

Our clients' research has been covered by

Every name above opens the actual article. Click any of them.

Earned links across news, .gov, and .edu, including the National Weather Service, Nutrition.gov (USDA), the Florida State Courts System, Cornell, Brown, UCLA, Northwestern, and Notre Dame. Every one verified still live.

Why earned coverage compounds.

A study a reporter chose to write about earns links from places that don't sell them, and those are the same high-authority sources that search engines and AI assistants pull answers from. It compounds, it survives an audit, and it keeps working after the campaign stops, because the research lives on your domain.

We work with high-growth companies and, white-label, with the agencies that serve them.

Five things, done properly.

Data-led digital PR

Original research built from public data

Census, CDC, and federal datasets cut to the level a newsroom can actually use, usually county by county. The study is published on your domain, so the coverage points at you rather than at us.

Survey & study production

Commissioned surveys when the data doesn't exist

Panel surveys with the sample size and fielding month stated in the pitch itself. Small samples get flagged up front rather than buried, because a reporter will find it either way and we'd rather they hear it from us.

Media relations & link reclamation

Pitches written one at a time, to named writers

We find the reporters who covered this subject in the last few months and write to them individually about their beat. Never a list blast. You get the target list every time, before it goes out.

Content & on-site SEO

The page the coverage points at has to be able to rank

Long-form blog and service-page content built around search intent, keyword research, and competitor gap analysis. We have run this across a 25-client portfolio and tripled monthly organic traffic, so the authority a campaign earns actually lands somewhere it can convert.

White-label digital PR

White-label for agencies

We run the research and the outreach under your name, report in counted numbers you can forward without editing, and stay out of your client relationship entirely.

Why we can reach the desks that matter.

16,000+

named staff writers and editors

Across 2,076 US newsrooms, with direct contacts at USA Today, The Guardian, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Seattle Times, the LA Times, the Dallas Morning News, Newsday, Newsweek, Business Insider, Fortune, WIRED, BuzzFeed, Semafor, and TechCrunch. Built in-house over the last year.

2,076

newsrooms mapped to their parent network

We know which local papers feed Yahoo News, MSN, and USA Today, so one study can be aimed at national desks and at the locals that syndicate upward on the same day.

95k

monthly sending capacity, zero spam placement

Every pitch is written to the individual reporter and built on your data. The volume is there when a campaign needs it. The writing never becomes a template.

What the work has produced.

Broadband comparison site

Their first month.
MSN and Yahoo News both ran it.

A county-level read on who has no internet at home

Census five-year estimates pulled county by county, the places sitting furthest above their own state identified, and a separate pitch written for each. Twenty-plus stories published in the first month, three of which syndicated to Yahoo News and MSN.

  • GovTech cited the study by name in its own reporting
  • A US Senator's field office asked for the county file and is working from it
  • Two Yahoo copies and one MSN copy, from three local placements

Senior care

One dataset.
English and Spanish-language press, same week.

How many older adults are aging alone, county by county

The same method turned on a different dataset, pitched to regional dailies and to the Spanish-language outlets covering the same communities, because the story mattered to both and almost nobody pitches both.

  • Ran in regional dailies across several states
  • Picked up by a national Spanish-language outlet
  • Two sister papers ran it from a single pitch to their group

What we don't do

We don't buy placements, use link networks, or pay for insertions. Those are the ones that surface the moment anyone audits a link profile, and most agencies' own off-page policies exclude them anyway.

We won't promise a fixed number of placements a month. An editor either says yes or they don't. You get the goal, the target list, and the pipeline, and anyone quoting you a guaranteed monthly count is buying them.

We don't promise .gov or .edu coverage either. The work above happened. That is not the same as being able to sell it to you by the month, and anyone who says otherwise is describing something you should walk away from.

Where the numbers come from.

If we've pitched you, this is what sits behind it. We'll send the underlying file rather than ask you to take our word for anything.

  • Sources are named. Census Bureau American Community Survey five-year estimates, the CDC PLACES county release, and commissioned panel surveys with the sample size and fielding month stated.
  • Small samples get flagged in the pitch, not buried. If a survey ran 99 people through a commercial panel, the email says so before you ask.
  • We don't pay for coverage, buy insertions, or work with link networks. If a placement would need money to happen, we don't want it.
  • The study lives on the client's site, so you're linking to a source rather than to an agency.
  • Corrections matter more to us than the link. We have asked papers to change our own attribution when they got it wrong.

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