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Monthly PR executive summary

Two paragraphs a CEO will read, with reprints separated from originals and an explicit list of what the coverage did not do.

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Write the August PR exec summary. Nine links across trade press plus one national business daily. The goal was to be quoted as a refill authority, not covered as a product launch.
Naise

"Quoted as an authority" and "covered as a launch" produce identical placement counts and completely different outcomes. The split is the whole report.

Reading the ten pieces before counting them. The goal was authority rather than volume, so what matters is whether Lumira appears as a source or as a subject.

Naise

August coverage summary

Lumira appeared in ten pieces in August, of which six were original articles and four were reprints of the same trade wire item. Against the month's goal of establishing refill authority rather than launch coverage, the result is mixed: four of the six originals covered the product launch, and two quoted Mei Tan as a source on refill logistics in stories that were not about Lumira. Those two are the ones that met the brief.

The most valuable placement was not the national business daily. It was a supply chain trade title with a fraction of the readership, which quoted Lumira twice in a piece about regional take-back economics and named the company as a reference point rather than an example. That is the shape of coverage the goal was asking for, and it came from a pitch that led with a number rather than a milestone. The national daily piece, by contrast, ran as a product story with a photo, which is good for awareness and does nothing for authority.

The split

TypeCountMet the goal?
Original, quoted as a source2Yes
Original, covered as a launch4No
Reprints of one wire item4No

Counting all ten as placements would be defensible and misleading. Six is the honest number, two is the number that matters.

Naise

What the coverage did not achieve

  1. No sustainability desk ran anything. That audience was in the target and is entirely absent. The lifecycle assessment was never used in a pitch, which is likely why.
  2. No piece mentioned the collection network, which is the actual differentiator. All six originals described the pouch.
  3. No second placement from any outlet. Every original was a first-time cover. Authority is built on being called back, and nobody called back.
  4. The national daily piece did not quote anyone. It was written from the release.

Point 3 is the one to act on. Two source-quotes in a month is a reasonable start; the test in September is whether either of those two journalists comes back without being pitched.

One limitation. Two of the ten pieces are paywalled, and I read them from headline and standfirst only. Both are trade titles and both appear to be reprints of the wire item, but I have marked them as such rather than confirmed it.

Naise created an artifact

August PR summary, 6 originalsExec summary · Markdown report
10 links, 6 originals
2 met the goal
4 gaps named

Two paragraphs against the authority goal, reprints stripped out, and four things the coverage did not do.

The honest count

TypeCountMet the goal?
Quoted as a source2Yes
Covered as a launch4No
Reprints of one wire item4No

Best placement was not the national daily. A small supply chain trade title quoted Lumira twice as a reference point. The national ran a product story written from the release.

Did not achieve

  • No sustainability desk ran anything
  • No piece mentioned the collection network
  • Nobody called back unprompted

Limitation: 2 of 10 paywalled, read from headline only.

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