GEO & AI search visibility agencyWe Develop Narrativesand Echo Them AcrossDigital Media.
Future proof your brand with the latest digital marketing strategies and technologies. Starting with being the brand ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews recommend.
“Who are the best companies in my category?”
Based on structured data, citation coverage and recent press placements, your competitor is consistently cited as a leader. You are not mentioned.
1,600+
Publications
17
Paid Channels
20+
Years of Digital Marketing Experience
It's your message. We amplify it for you.
Non-partisan political advertising services for candidate campaigns.
We do not write your platform, pick your side or tell you what to say. You bring the message. We put it in front of the people inside your district who have to hear it.
Inside one boundary that means advertising to a voter file street by street rather than to a media market that bills you for three counties. Drawing a fence around a precinct, a campus, a depot or a Sunday car park and reaching the phones that were inside it. Building a lookalike of your own donor and supporter list to find the households that resemble them. Following everyone who visited the campaign site and left without signing up, then reaching the same household again on a different screen so the message lands twice without sounding twice.
14 of 17 paid channels take political advertising. Amazon, LinkedIn and TikTok refuse it outright, and no budget changes that — worth knowing before a plan is built on it.
One vendor, layering ad tech across every digital medium toward one goal.
12 precision targeting methods across 17 paid channels. GEO built for AI answers. Paid editorial access to 1,600+ publications.
One team plans and executes all of it, so every layer works toward the same outcome instead of five vendors optimizing separate dashboards.
Start with your problem. We show you the exact methods used to solve it.
Not Enough Leads
The pipeline is thin, and what does come in arrives by luck rather than by anything you switched on.
What fixes it
- Behavioural Targeting
- Custom Audiences & Lookalikes
- Keyword & Content Targeting
What these mean
- Behavioural Targeting
- Advertise to people based on what they actually do online, not who they are on paper.
- Custom Audiences & Lookalikes
- Upload your customer list. Advertise to them, and to people who resemble them.
- Keyword & Content Targeting
- Put your ad next to the subject people are reading about.
Wasted Ad Spend
Money goes out every month, the numbers look busy, and nobody can point to what it bought.
What fixes it
- AI Optimisation
- Website Retargeting
- Cross-Platform Sequencing
What these mean
- AI Optimisation
- The campaign tunes itself daily, and a human checks its work.
- Website Retargeting
- Follow the people who visited your site and left without doing anything.
- Cross-Platform Sequencing
- Reach the same person on one channel, then meet them again on another.
No Proof It Worked
The reports show impressions and clicks, and nothing connects them to a customer who actually turned up.
What fixes it
- On-Site Visit Tracking
- Identity Resolution
- Cross-Platform Sequencing
What these mean
- On-Site Visit Tracking
- See who saw your ad and then actually turned up.
- Identity Resolution
- Find out who your anonymous website visitors actually are.
- Cross-Platform Sequencing
- Reach the same person on one channel, then meet them again on another.
Losing to a Competitor
Someone else is taking the customers you want, in the places you both sell, and you are reacting rather than aiming.
What fixes it
- Geo-Fencing & Geo-Retargeting
- Address & Household Targeting
- Behavioural Targeting
What these mean
- Geo-Fencing & Geo-Retargeting
- Draw a shape on a map. Advertise to the phones inside it.
- Address & Household Targeting
- Advertise to specific street addresses.
- Behavioural Targeting
- Advertise to people based on what they actually do online, not who they are on paper.
Invisible to AI Search
Ask ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google's AI Overviews about your category and somebody else is the answer.
What fixes it
- Keyword & Content Targeting
- AI Optimisation
What these mean
- Keyword & Content Targeting
- Put your ad next to the subject people are reading about.
- AI Optimisation
- The campaign tunes itself daily, and a human checks its work.
Traffic That Does Not Convert
People find you, look around and leave, and you never learn who they were or get a second chance at them.
What fixes it
- Website Retargeting
- Identity Resolution
- Managed Lead Capture
What these mean
- Website Retargeting
- Follow the people who visited your site and left without doing anything.
- Identity Resolution
- Find out who your anonymous website visitors actually are.
- Managed Lead Capture
- A real person answers the chat on your site and hands you the lead.
1,600+ publishers. Not some number we just made up.
Every one bookable on its own, at a published price. These are paid placements, not press we hope for — we supply the article, so the narrative is ours to set rather than somebody else's to interpret. See every publication, A–Z.
We position you for AI search in Google, Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity. Then we buy the media behind it.
One stop shop for the media buying behind your digital campaign. Six kinds of client, three ways we work, and the free audit is the same either way.
Business Owners
You are the marketing department, and you would rather be running the business.
Free audit →
Brand Managers
You own the number, and you need a partner who reports against it rather than around it.
Free audit →
Agencies & Experts
You sell the strategy and want a buying desk behind it. Nothing we send carries our name.
Free audit →
Personal Brands
Your reputation is the product, and you need the press and the AI answers to say so.
Free audit →
Local Businesses
Your customers are inside a radius, and you want the advertising to respect that.
Free audit →
Corporations
You need many channels under one contract, with one team accountable for the whole of it.
Free audit →
Tell us your campaign goals. We will come back with ideas.
Use this tool to tell us about your campaign goals and we will get back to you via email with ideas. Five questions about your business, nothing about advertising.
No account · Nothing charged · A person prices it
Five questions, then swipe through the methods and products that fit. Keep what you want, drop what you do not.
Build my brief
What it looks like when it works.
Three campaigns we ran, with every figure quoted from the record it sits under.
Banking and lending
near 70×
Click-through rate
the national average — 4.89% measured
70 squares — Click-through rate at near 70× the national average
A not-for-profit collateral lending organisation wanted reach against people actively in market, without a national brand budget.
How we ran it →
Higher education
25×
Click-through rate
the national average — 1.76% measured
25 squares — Click-through rate at 25× the national average
A college of nursing and health sciences needed applications, not impressions, from a shortlist of catchment areas.
How we ran it →
Car wash
66×
Scan rate
the benchmark — 0.20% measured
66 squares — Scan rate at 66× the benchmark
A car wash wanted television-style presence and a way to prove the television was doing something.
How we ran it →Pluto TV. Spotify. Billboards. Your competitor's parking lot.
17 paid channels, 1,600+ publications, and the AI answers themselves — aligned in a single strategy, so every dollar and placement compounds toward the same outcome instead of competing for credit across disconnected campaigns.
17
Paid Channels
Streaming TV, audio, out-of-home, social, search, mobile and retail.
1,600+
Publications
Paid placements, individually bookable at a published price.
AI
Answer Visibility
Being the brand an assistant names. Audited free, from public data.
Where Your Ads Run
All 17 channels. Every name here is a surface we can buy.
Where the ads run
- Facebook Feed, desktop and mobile
- Facebook Marketplace
- Facebook Audience Network
- Facebook Messenger
- Facebook Stories
- Facebook Search
- Threads
B2B targeting by job title, seniority, company and industry — the one network where professional identity is the targeting data.
Where the ads run
- YouTube — the free, ad-supported platform
- YouTube TV — the paid live TV service, including over 100 networks and channels
- Google TV — the free, ad-supported smart TV platform
- YouTube Movies — rented and purchased full-length films
A sample of the streaming services
- Pluto TV, Tubi, Xumo, Plex, Redbox
- Sling, DirecTV, Fubo, Philo, Frndly
- AMC, MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, TLC, Discovery, History, Lifetime
- NBC, ABC, CBS News, Fox Sports, Telemundo, Univision
- The Weather Channel, Food Network, National Geographic, Court TV
- Samsung TV Plus, LG Channels, Roku Channel, Google TV
What makes up an ad
- Up to 15 headlines, which Google mixes and matches for performance
- Four descriptions, mixed the same way
- Four sitelink extensions pointing at your most important pages
- Callout extensions for short highlights such as Licensed, Insured or Local
- Structured snippets for services, materials or financing
Where the ads run
- Amazon.com
- IMDb, Prime Video, Fire TV, Twitch, Amazon Vehicles
- The Amazon Publishers Network — including CNN, USA Today, Forbes, Reddit, BuzzFeed, Mashable, HGTV, Food Network, MLB.com, NBA.com, Fubo TV and Tubi
Programmatic display and native units placed in context, bought against audience data rather than cheap impressions.
Screen types
- Billboards
- Transit shelters
- Urban panels
- Malls
- Gas stations
- Restaurants
- Gyms
- Hotels
- Sports complexes
- Convenience stores
Managed conversational capture on your own site, so paid traffic converts instead of bouncing.
A sample of the streaming services
- Spotify, iHeartRadio, Audacy, TuneIn, Pandora-style music services
- Podcast networks including Podbean and PodcastOne
- News and publisher audio including CNN, Reuters, NPR, Forbes, Newsweek, Los Angeles Times
- Entertainment and sport including NFL, Sports Illustrated, Variety, IMDb, Hulu
Location-based mobile targeting — geo-fencing, competitor conquesting and footfall attribution.
What the audience feeds
- Social Mirror ads
- Native ads
- Meta ads
- Video ads
- Online audio ads
- Display ads
Directories that matter
- Google Business Profile
- Yelp
- Bing
- Yellow Pages
- Manta
- Better Business Bureau
- Angi
Where the ads run
- Websites, in and around video content
- Mobile apps
- In-app video content
- Gaming platforms
If you need help with picking the right strategies for your campaign, use our "Plan My Campaign" tool to give us some data about your campaign and we'll have a conversation about
One team, the whole job.
The media, the site it lands on, and the signs and shirts that carry it into the street. Websites, printing and merch are priced openly — full tables, real quantity breaks, no quote form.
- AI Search VisibilityBe the brand ChatGPT and AI Overviews name. Free audit.
- Paid Media (17)Every channel side by side, with what each is best for.
- Targeting (12)The methods, in plain words.
- Publication Placements1,600+ publications, each bookable at a published price.
- Political AdvertisingNon-partisan media buying, aimed at your district.
- Websites & Web AppsLanding pages, marketing sites and full web applications, at a fixed price for a fixed scope — built to be found by AI search and instrumented for the media that will point at them.
- Marketing Materials PrintingBusiness cards, flyers, postcards, brochures, posters, yard signs, banners, rigid signs and table covers — with the full price table at real quantity breaks, not a quote form.
- Branded MerchTees, hoodies, caps, totes, mugs, stickers and drinkware, printed to order with the blank named and the price per piece published.
- Build a BriefFive questions about your business. We come back with ideas.
Every engagement follows the same four phases.
We use data to make informed decisions about your campaign. From research through execution, our process is focused on understanding the campaigns key drivers.
Research
Where you stand today, measured across AI answers, search and your competitors.
What happens in this phase
The cycle opens with measurement, not opinion. We capture your current answer share in AI responses, your competitors' citation and media footprint, and real query demand across both LLMs and classic search, then freeze it as a baseline. Every phase after this is judged against that number.
Strategy
Turning that baseline into a ranked plan rather than a wish list.
What happens in this phase
Topics, entities, publisher targets and channels are ordered by the gap between where you already show up and where the demand actually sits, so effort goes to the opportunities with measurable upside first. This is also where the mix gets decided: what is answered with AI visibility work, what with press, and what with paid media.
Planning
Building the plan into something that can actually be bought and read.
What happens in this phase
Budgets, flighting, audiences and creative are set per channel, and the schema, structured data and entity markup that make you machine-readable are built alongside them. This is where decisions become a media plan a buyer can execute and data a model can parse, attribute and cite.
Deployment & Monitoring
Everything goes live instrumented, and the numbers come back.
What happens in this phase
Campaigns launch, placements go out, and we monitor results. For running campaigns, this is where we drive insights and refine our research focus, starting the process again.
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Start with phase 1A Full Breakdown of Our Targeting Strategies.
Reaching people by where they physically go. We pick an area and then market to mobile devices in that boundary.
A roofing company fenced the areas its crews were actively working and ran at a 1.01% click-through rate on that targeting alone.
Products that include it
The cheapest audience you will ever buy, because they already came to you once. Most visitors leave without converting, and this is the only way to get a second attempt at them.
A festival retargeted everyone who looked at the ticket page and did not buy, and recorded 12,937 conversions in seven weeks.
Proving that advertising moved people through your door, for any business where the sale happens in person. It closes the gap between an impression and a real-world outcome.
A tax service verified 1,607 visits across 24 offices from a single campaign.
Products that include it
Turning traffic you already paid for into named, addressable people — then advertising to them, emailing them, or handing them to sales.
A medical clinic identified around 3,000 visitor profiles in 30 days, and 80% could be matched and reached online.
Products that include it
Finding people in market right now. Demographics tell you someone is 35 and owns a home; behaviour tells you they have been reading about replacement windows for a fortnight.
A dealership targeted in-market auto shoppers down to specific models and finished at four times the national click-through average.
Two jobs at once — winning back people you already know, and finding new people who look statistically like your best customers rather than like your general market.
A dealership matched its own service customers, and the resulting offer redeemed at 9%.
Products that include it
Catching intent without paying search prices — appearing alongside the articles, videos and pages about your category at the moment someone is researching it.
A pest control company built a 484-keyword list and ran at over ten times the national click-through average.
Products that include it
Campaigns aimed at a known list of buildings — a voter file, a service territory, a set of businesses, the households a direct mail drop went to.
A senate campaign served over 800,000 mobile impressions against an address list for the district.
Products that include it
Repetition that does not feel like repetition. Someone reached twice across different contexts converts at a materially different rate than someone reached twice in the same feed.
A university merchandise retailer sequenced mobile into social and recorded over 8,300 view-through conversions.
Products that include it
Squeezing performance out of a live campaign — bids, budgets, frequency, creative rotation — at a cadence no human would sustain by hand.
On a B2B forum campaign, the AI-driven targeting strategy outperformed every manual one at over 1.50% click-through.
Products that include it
Businesses whose demand is made by the forecast — roofing after a storm, HVAC in a heatwave, garden centres on the first warm weekend.
Budget stops going out on days the product is not relevant, and concentrates on the days it is.
Products that include it
Converting the traffic your other channels are already producing. Most visitors will not fill in a form, but a good number will start a conversation.
A roofing company took 154 billable leads in five months, charged only when the enquiry qualified.
Products that include it
Our thinking on AI search, PR and paid media.
Articles by founder Jason Steinberg.
How Much Does It Cost to Get Featured in the Press?
Press coverage has a real price tag. We publish all 1,666 of ours, from $150 to $88,500, and explain what drives it.
- press coverage cost
- paid media placements
- digital PR pricing
How to Get Your Business Cited by ChatGPT: A Tactical Playbook
A Monday morning playbook: the exact steps that make ChatGPT and other answer engines cite your business.
- get cited by ChatGPT
- generative engine optimization
- AI visibility
What Is GEO? The Plain-English Guide for Business Owners
Generative engine optimization (GEO) is the practice of making your business the source AI answer engines cite. Here is what it means.
- what is GEO
- generative engine optimization
- AI search
PR Firm vs. Buying Media Placements: An Honest Cost and Timeline Comparison
Hiring a PR firm or buying placements directly? A fair comparison of cost, timeline, certainty, and control.
- PR firm cost
- PR retainer
- paid media placements
The New Jersey Business Owner's Guide to Getting Found by ChatGPT
NJ customers ask ChatGPT who to hire. Here is how local businesses get named in the answer.
- New Jersey marketing
- ChatGPT for local business
- local SEO
Evolution of AI Search: DeepMind’s New Ranking Models and Emerging Publisher Monetization Frameworks
The search and digital publishing landscapes are undergoing structural changes as search engines transition from traditional link-driven indexes to AI-synthesized answer models.
- search engine marketing
Questions we get asked
- What does The Profound Agency actually do?
- We are a visibility agency in Hillsborough, New Jersey. We do AI visibility (GEO), the work that gets a business cited by ChatGPT and other answer engines, and we buy paid media across 17 channels including social, search, Connected TV, streaming audio, digital out-of-home and geo-targeted mobile. We also run a public directory of 1,600+ publications where you can buy press placements directly at published prices.
- How is buying a press placement different from hiring a PR firm?
- A PR firm pitches your story and usually charges a monthly retainer, with no promise of coverage. Buying a placement means you choose the publication, see its published price, Domain Authority, turnaround and sponsored labelling, and your story runs there. Prices in our directory run from $150 to $88,500, the median is $1,150, and nothing is published without your final approval.
- Do you only work with big brands?
- No. We work with enterprise brands, local businesses, founders, professionals and personal brands. A local service business buying a single placement goes through the same checkout and the same approval process as a national brand buying ten.
- What does a paid media campaign cost?
- Paid media across our 17 channels is priced per campaign, not from a rate card. You submit a brief describing what you want to achieve, and a person replies with a quote, so the price follows the actual media plan rather than a preset package.
- How do I start working with you?
- Book a call at book.theprofound.agency and tell us what you are trying to achieve. If you already know you want press coverage, you can skip the call and buy placements directly from the publication directory.
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Before ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity will recommend you, they have to trust you. We understand what builds that trust, the data structures those systems are looking for, and we can see if you're positioned for the future of AI search.
We're Marketing Futurists
We've been tracking digital marketing trends since Myspace and have helped brands position throughout the transitions of digital trends.
Full-Funnel, One Partner
GEO, paid editorial, and 17 paid channels coordinated together, with the same team understanding the assignment.
Data Informed Decision Making
A structured 4-phase cycle that uses data at the heart of our decision making process.
A Network You Can Check
1,600+ publishers, shop them now in our Publication Store. A full list of pricing and information, not hidden behind a paywall.