PR Strategy | Public Relations for Technology Companies

Sep 03

Consumer tech team reacting to a PR mistake during a product launch

Common PR Mistakes Consumer Tech Brands Make (and how to avoid them)

By Lindsay Davis PR Strategy

Consumer tech PR looks relatively straightforward from the outside. Build a good product. Write a press release. Send it to tech journalists. Get reviews and coverage. Anyone who has actually launched a consumer technology product knows it rarely works that way. Journalists receive more products, pitches and announcements than they…

Jul 30

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Why American Retail Habits Are the Edge U.S. Tech Brands Keep Leaving on the Table

By Lindsay Davis Independent research, PR Strategy

Quick answer Chinese consumer tech brands entering the U.S. market tend to over-invest in Amazon and their own direct-to-consumer (DTC) websites. China-based sellers already account for roughly half of all third-party listings on Amazon's U.S. marketplace, according to Marketplace Pulse, and brands including Shein and Anker have built much of…

Jul 29

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Hands reviewing consumer research charts and survey data illustrating U.S. consumer trust, technology purchasing behavior, and manufacturing perceptions.

Why U.S. Consumers Still Hesitate on Chinese Technology: New Research for Consumer Tech Brands in 2026

By Lindsay Davis Independent research, PR Strategy

A data-driven look at how origin, trust, and transparency shape U.S. tech purchasing decisions, and how domestic consumer tech companies can turn that hesitation into competitive advantage. 65.7% of U.S. consumers name China as their top country of concern when it comes to where tech products are manufactured, more than…

Jun 24

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How the right PR agency can help tech brands build trust and traffic

By Lindsay Davis PR Strategy

Campaigns that succeed are not the ones with the most visibility. They are the ones where narrative, trust, and transparency are tightly connected. Media coverage is not a single outcome. It is a network of signals across multiple sources. Trust is built through repeated exposure, consistent messaging, and credible third-party…

Jun 20

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How PR Agencies Help a Consumer Tech Brand During A Crisis

By Lindsay Davis Founder centric, PR Strategy

Why modern crisis communications is about protecting trust, visibility, and AI search presence all at once. Every consumer technology company eventually gets punched in the face. Sometimes it's a defective product. Sometimes it's a battery issue, a product recall, an executive who says something spectacularly unhelpful, or a manufacturing controversy…

Jun 19

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How We Helped HOTO Tools Transform and Own a Mature Category in the US

By Lindsay Davis AI & Search (GEO), PR Strategy

TAKING TOOLS TO A WHOLE NEW PLACE HOTO Tools came to us with an audacious multi-front mandate: build brand equity and awareness in the United States, drive e-commerce and Amazon sales, and establish category leadership against brands with decades of shelf space and consumer trust. Founded in Shanghai in 2016…

Apr 25

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Hybrid PR vs. Traditional PR Retainer Models

By Lindsay Davis AI & Search (GEO), Case Studies, Industry Commentary, PR Strategy, Thought leadership

Why Outcome-Tied Billing Is Reshaping PR in 2026 Traditional PR still runs on large annual retainers, with little connection between spend and outcome. Proper Propaganda takes a hybrid approach. A base fee funds the system, and performance-based upside ties the work to what actually moves the business, from revenue and…

Apr 23

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Top Agencies That Understand GEO in 2026

By Lindsay Davis AI & Search (GEO), Industry Commentary, PR Strategy

This report profiles eight agencies focused on getting brands surfaced within AI-generated responses, from ChatGPT to Google AI Overviews and other LLM-driven discovery sources. Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) brings together structured data, answer-oriented content, and measurement systems designed to track when and how brands are cited, included, and explained within…

Apr 14

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AI Is Not Top of Funnel: What GLP-1 Search Data Reveals About the Full Buyer Journey

By Jackson Wightman AI & Search (GEO), Case Studies, Industry Commentary, PR Strategy

Americans are hungry to be thin. So much so that AI searches around GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic are outpacing queries for movies and TV across major LLMs, according to a landmark data set from Scrunch. While I find the preponderance of searches around GLP-1s sadly predictable, the analysis…

Apr 08

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Top PR Agencies for Founder Thought Leadership in Tech Media

By Proper Propaganda AI & Search (GEO), Founder centric, Industry Commentary, PR Strategy, Thought leadership

In Short The best PR agencies for founder thought leadership in tech media are those that position founders as repeatable, credible sources in coverage, not just spokespeople for their companies. The strongest firms combine narrative strategy, commentary pitching, and media integration to drive consistent inclusion in articles, not one-off mentions.…