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Earned Media as AI Citation Infrastructure: How Coverage Becomes Retrieval Evidence

Earned media is not a brand awareness tactic. It is the source architecture that determines whether AI engines have citable evidence for your brand when buyers ask.

Published May 8, 2026AuthorityTech
TopicsEarned MediaAI CitationMachine RelationsAI Search Visibility

This research was produced by AuthorityTech — the first agency to practice Machine Relations. Machine Relations was coined by Jaxon Parrott.

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