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PR by Web3 natives. Here, we share industry-first crypto media reports, research and field-tested comms tactics built on market awareness and performance data, plus more from our agency blog: https://www.outsetpr.io/blog


PR as the driving force behind crypto adoption: Why some products break out while others stay niche

24 Jan 2026 6 minute read 1 comment Mike Ermolaev

Strong technology does not guarantee adoption. In fact, many technically superior products never leave their niche, while simpler or less innovative solutions reach mass audiences. The difference rarely lies in engineering alone. More often, it lie...

Why most media partnerships in Web3 fail to build trust

24 Jan 2026 4 minute read 0 comments Mike Ermolaev

“Media partnership” is one of the most overused and misunderstood terms in Web3 PR. Teams say they’re building partnerships, but in reality they’re buying placements. The word sounds long-term, but the practice almost never is. Based on our conv...

46% of Europe’s crypto-native traffic still comes from search as discovery narrows in Q3 2025 – Outset Data Pulse

6 Jan 2026 13 minute read 0 comments Mike Ermolaev

Outset Data Pulse continues to map global shifts in the crypto mediascape. Following our in-depth reports on Asia, Latin America, and individual European subregions, we now turn our focus to Europe as a whole, examining how crypto-native and mainst...

August-to-October crypto media traffic in Asia drops 14.5% as audience consolidates around top 20 outlets – Outset report

19 Dec 2025 18 minute read 0 comments Mike Ermolaev

Outset Data Pulse continues to track the evolving structure of crypto media across regions. From August to October, the crypto mediascape in Asia saw a drop in total traffic. Despite the overall contraction, direct traffic remained steady at slight...

Asia has no “New York Times of crypto” and that matters for your media strategy – Outset report

12 Dec 2025 23 minute read 0 comments Mike Ermolaev

Asian crypto news does not live in one market or one model. Our Q2 2025 survey of media founders, editors, and KOLs maps three competing ecosystems: venture-driven media groups, exchange-anchored networks, and independent outlets under tight regula...

South Korea leads Asia in crypto media traffic, but KAIA’s on-chain activity plunges 90% in Q2 — Outset report

10 Dec 2025 12 minute read 0 comments Mike Ermolaev

Outset Data Pulse continues to map the global crypto mediascape. Building on our recent Asia-wide Q2 analysis, this report zooms in on South Korea – the region’s most influential and behaviorally unique market – to examine how media attention, on-c...

How Outset PR engineered topical authority in data-driven crypto PR and turned it into broader LLM visibility

5 Dec 2025 11 minute read 0 comments Mike Ermolaev

AI is quickly becoming part of the everyday information routine. The shift is already visible: organic traffic is flattening, SEO volatility keeps growing, and users are no longer relying on a single discovery channel. Instead, they’re increasingly...

Direct visits to crypto-native outlets reach 54% as tier-1 publishers capture 82% of Asia’s traffic in Q2 – Outset report

11 Nov 2025 17 minute read 0 comments Mike Ermolaev

Outset Data Pulse is keeping track of global trends in the crypto mediascape. Following our latest reports on Europe and LATAM, we now focus on East and Southeast Asia in Q2 2025 – a region, where adoption is accelerating under vastly different con...

Inside Outset PR’s syndication map: How we built a navigation system for crypto media

28 Oct 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Mike Ermolaev

In crypto PR, getting covered is just the beginning. True visibility is about understanding how that coverage travels – and what kind of business ripple it actually creates. That's why syndication tracking has become the quiet hero of data-driven P...

AI visibility will define who stays relevant in crypto

17 Oct 2025 1 minute read 1 comment Mike Ermolaev

ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Google’s AI Overviews are changing not just how people discover information – but how visibility is earned. Instead of ranking links by keywords and clicks, AI models now decide what deserves to be seen based on reputat...