Earned media · Digital PR

Coverage you earned, not coverage you bought.

We build research worth writing about, then put it in front of the reporters and editors who already cover that beat.

103
Placements verified live
34
Government publishers
69
University publishers
0
Paid for

The Canny Vulture is an earned media practice, working with brands directly and white-label for the agencies that serve them.

We do one thing. We get you written about on the publications your customers already read, through work an editor chose to run rather than a slot somebody paid for.

Build the thing first, then pitch it.

One

Something worth covering

Most outreach fails because there is nothing to write about. We build the asset first, usually original research from public data, and it lives on your domain rather than ours.

Two

Pitched to real people

Individually written pitches to the journalists, editors and resource librarians who cover the subject. Never a list blast. You get the target list every time.

Three

Reported in counted numbers

What ran, where, and when. No modelled traffic, no projected value, and nothing in the report you could not verify yourself in a browser.

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 below 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 work has run.

A selection from 103 placements confirmed still live and still carrying the link on 14 August 2026.

Northwestern University Cornell University UCLA Brown University Rice University University of Notre Dame Washington University in St. Louis University of Minnesota Berklee College of Music NC State University Michigan Technological University University of Maryland Rush University Ohio State University UC Irvine UC Santa Cruz National Weather Service Nutrition.gov (USDA)

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