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State of Digital PR Report (2025)

With interest in “digital PR” growing almost 30% in the past few years, we wanted to put together a snapshot of today's industry, looking at tactics, challenges, tools, and much more. We interviewed over 150 digital PR professionals worldwide between November and December 2024 to give you Read more
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Where Do #Journorequests Come From [Data Study]

76 #journorequests come in per day, making it the most common media request hashtag 78.5% of #journorequests are UK-based, compared to 11.6% in the US Entertainment is the most popular category of UK #journorequest With all the conversations around HARO/Connectively closing, PRs can still Read more
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How Ahrefs’ Best Bootstrapped Backlink Builders Got Their Links [Analysis]

Promotion (this includes link exchange, purchased links, and organic mentions.) was the most common way sites gained links over the past year. Promotion also stands out as the most penalized strategy, with 12 sites. 28 sites appeared to get hit by the Link Spam Update. 13 sites were hit Read more
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70 Link Building Statistics (Based on Reports from 2025)

Interest in link building is at an all-time high Digital PR interest is also at an all-time high Backlinks and DR are less correlated with appearing in AI Overviews than brand mentions Digital PR is rated the most effective link building tactic 65% of users still click on traditional Read more
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BuzzStream Data: The Outperforming Outreach Tactics We Learned From Analyzing 12,000 Campaigns

Outreach is at the heart of any strategy geared towards getting links, building buzz, or increasing brand awareness. Still, despite the fact that almost every company that cares about promoting their site or content sends outreach, there are tons of questions. Some of the ones we hear most often Read more
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