# Press & media mentions

## Media mentions

- [Journalists Hate AI-Generated PR: Pangram's Case Study on a Year of AI Detection Across Featured, HARO and Connectively](https://brettfarmiloe.com/media-mentions/pangram-case-study-journalists-hate-ai-generated-pr) — September 23, 2026. 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.
- [Inngest Profiles How Featured Runs Three Media Brands With A Team Of Seven](https://brettfarmiloe.com/media-mentions/inngest-featured-orchestration-layer) — September 15, 2026. 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's Users Make 100,000 Media Pitches a Month, Running on Vercel](https://brettfarmiloe.com/media-mentions/featured-on-vercel-100k-media-pitches-a-month) — September 13, 2026. How Featured's users make 100K media pitches per month on Vercel, with a three-person engineering team managing three brands, including HARO.

## Press releases

- [Featured Launches Find Awards To Search 4,596 Business Awards, Rankings And Best-Of Lists Across 43 Industries](https://brettfarmiloe.com/press-releases/featured-launches-find-awards) — September 15, 2026. Featured launches Find Awards to help PR professionals and experts find relevant awards to apply for all in natural language.
- [Featured Launches GEO Audit to Show Brands Which Publications AI Search Engines Cite and Which Ones to Pitch](https://brettfarmiloe.com/press-releases/featured-launches-geo-audit) — August 25, 2026. 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 Launches Find Creators Search With 380 Million Creators Across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube](https://brettfarmiloe.com/press-releases/featured-launches-find-creators) — August 18, 2026. Featured launches Find Creators to help PR and marketing teams discover relevant creators across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube using natural language.
- [One in Three Journalists Now Filter Out AI-Written Pitches, Says Featured CEO Brett Farmiloe](https://brettfarmiloe.com/press-releases/one-in-three-journalists-filter-out-ai-pitches) — August 13, 2026. One in three HARO journalists chose to filter out AI pitches, a box that is left unchecked by default.
- [AI Has Made Media Pitching Noisier and Less Effective, Says Featured CEO Brett Farmiloe](https://brettfarmiloe.com/press-releases/ai-has-made-media-pitching-noisier) — August 8, 2026. AI is making media pitching noisier. HARO and Connectively are cracking down by using AI detection on every pitch.
- [Featured.com Acquires Help A Reporter Out (HARO) from Cision](https://brettfarmiloe.com/press-releases/featured-com-acquires-help-a-reporter-out-haro-from-cision) — April 16, 2025. HARO, founded in 2008 and owned by Cision since 2014, returns to its original free, email-based format under Featured's ownership.

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