Digital PR and Reddit marketing
Your own website was never going to be enough. AI engines build their view of a brand from what other people say about it, so we earn the third-party coverage and community mentions they actually cite.
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Digital PR for AI search is the practice of earning editorial coverage, brand mentions and third-party citations in the publications, lists and communities that AI engines retrieve from when they answer buyer questions. It focuses on how widely you are mentioned in your category and where those mentions sit.
Large language models judge a brand's authority by what other sources say about it, such as reviews, lists, forums and editorial coverage. Editorial coverage, expert commentary, original research and the Reddit threads your buyers already trust are the raw material AI engines pull from when they decide who to cite.
In an Ahrefs analysis of 75,000 brands, branded web mentions correlated with AI Overview visibility more than three times as strongly as backlinks did. We cover the evidence in our guide to measuring AI share of voice.
Traditional digital PR vs digital PR for AI search
| Traditional digital PR | Digital PR for AI search | |
|---|---|---|
| Main goal | Backlinks and domain authority | Brand mentions and citations in AI answers |
| Targets | High-authority sites in general | The specific sources AI retrieves for your category |
| Success measure | Links, referring domains | Citation rate, share of voice, mention volume |
| Best tactics | Campaigns and outreach | Research, expert commentary, lists, reviews, community |
Read the full guide: Digital PR for AI search
What our digital PR service includes
Earned coverage is the raw material AI engines cite. These five workstreams build it deliberately.
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Campaigns aimed at the specific publications AI engines retrieve from in your category, not at generic high-authority sites.
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Data-led campaigns, the tactic most likely to earn coverage and citations, built around questions your buyers care about.
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A deliberate strategy for the threads models already trust and cite, available as an add-on.
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Bylined placements and quoted commentary that build named-author authority in your category.
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Brand mention tracking and AI citation rate reporting, tied back to specific placements.
Want the full recommendation strategy these placements feed? That is our GEO programme. GEO agency
How a digital PR engagement works
Weeks 1 to 2
Prompt set built and the sources AI cites for your category identified, against your named competitors.
Weeks 3 to 6
Priority targets agreed, research and commentary angles developed, first outreach under way.
Months 2 to 6
Placements secured and tracked against citation rate and share of voice, with the plan adjusted monthly.
After that
We train your team on the system and step back to light advisory. No open-ended retainer by default.
In depth
When a buyer asks an AI tool to recommend software, the engine looks for evidence that independent sources have already evaluated the category and chosen certain brands. Industry roundups, "best of" lists, review platforms, analyst mentions and editorial coverage all supply that evidence. A brand that only describes itself gives the engine little reason to name it.
That is why a large share of GEO work happens off your own site. Our guide on how earned media and brand mentions drive AI citations explains the mechanism in more detail.
We do not chase generic domain authority. We start from the prompts your buyers use and work out which sources AI engines actually cite for them: which publications, which lists, which review platforms and which communities. The gap between the sources that mention your competitors and the ones that mention you is the target list.
That list is prioritised by likely effect and effort. Some targets are quick, such as inclusion in an existing list. Others take sustained work, such as earning expert commentary in a trade title. The cadence is scaled to your engagement.
Our digital PR work covers research and data-led campaigns, expert commentary and bylined placements, inclusion in comparison lists and review platforms, and community work including Reddit. Original research is the single tactic most likely to earn coverage that engines then reuse, so it is often where we start.
We track brand mentions and AI citation rate, and tie changes back to specific placements, so you can see which work moved which prompts.
AI engines cite Reddit constantly. For some comparison and "which is better" prompts it is among the most-used sources, because threads read as authentic, current and nuanced in a way static pages do not. For B2B categories with active communities, a deliberate Reddit strategy is often one of the quicker ways to move citation rate.
Community work only lasts if it is genuine, so it is handled with care. We engage openly and in line with each community's rules, and we do not post fake reviews or undisclosed promotion. Read more in why Reddit is a critical part of an AI search visibility strategy.
We run a consistent set of target prompts across ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and the other engines, tracking how often the brand appears and how citation rates shift after specific placements. Alongside that, we monitor brand mention volume across authoritative publications, the leading indicator that most strongly predicts AI visibility over time. The full method is on our methodology page.
In B2B software categories, third-party platforms dominate what AI engines cite. G2, Reddit and LinkedIn are cited far more often than vendor pages, and ChatGPT increasingly favours answer-first sources over conversion-first brand pages.
So the brands that win are the ones present in the sources AI already trusts, especially review platforms and community discussions, and not only on their own site.
Pick three third-party destinations that matter for your category and set a monthly target for new, specific reviews. Specificity beats praise, distribution beats containment and consistency beats spikes. Convert your best review themes into on-site proof pages, and build a comparison and alternatives page set that references them honestly, trade-offs included.
Digital PR is part of our Growth programme: opportunity review and priority targets are included, and actual placement work runs as an add-on. The strategy phase is priced from £5,995 (+VAT) and Growth retainers typically start from £3,500 (+VAT) per month.
Who you'd be working with
Every account draws on the whole team's experience, in-house and agency backgrounds spanning 30+ years combined in organic and AI search.
André Veiga
Content Strategist
Works day-to-day with B2B software companies on GEO, AEO and SEO strategy.
Doing this since 2021
Tom Batting
CEO & Founder
Forbes 30 Under 30. Built and exited multiple companies before founding FirstMotion.
Doing this since 2016
Alex Price
Investor & Director
Grew a digital agency from solo founder to ~35 people before selling it in 2022.
Doing this since 2015
Ben Hodgson
Growth Strategist - Technical
5+ years in technical SEO across agency roles at Total SEO and The Evergreen Agency.
Doing this since 2019
Ben Carter
Growth Strategist - Content
10+ years in content production, now focused on answer-first content for AI search.
Doing this since 2014
It is the practice of earning editorial coverage, brand mentions and third-party citations in the publications that AI engines retrieve from when generating answers to buyer queries. Where traditional digital PR focuses on backlinks and domain authority, this focuses on how widely you are mentioned in your category and where those mentions sit, across the sources AI engines use.
AI engines cite Reddit constantly. For some comparison and "which is better" prompts it is among the most-used sources, because threads read as authentic and current. For B2B categories with active communities, a deliberate Reddit strategy is often one of the quicker ways to move AI citation rate.
We run a consistent set of target prompts across ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, tracking how often the brand appears and how citation rates shift after specific placements. Alongside that, we monitor brand mention volume across authoritative publications.
Both. Our content team writes the briefs, drafts and published assets directly, so strategy and execution stay connected.
Yes. SEO and GEO work on your own site and technical foundations. Digital PR builds the third-party coverage and mentions that sit outside your domain, which is what AI engines weight most heavily when deciding who to cite.
Opportunity review and priority targets are included in Growth work. Actual placement work runs as an add-on. See the pricing page for how it is scoped.
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