# Light Years Ahead

> Light Years Ahead is a national boutique public relations agency founded in 1995. It works mainly with consumer brands, founders and experts across beauty, wellness, food, parenting, lifestyle and technology, selling hands-on strategy and earned-media execution rather than guaranteed placements. Its clearest public case study is KC Cattle Company: months of pitching preceded a Food & Wine feature that sent 500,000 visitors and 7,500 orders to a two-person business overnight - a reminder that publicity can create an operations problem as quickly as it creates demand.

- **Founded:** 1995
- **Headquarters:** Los Angeles, United States
- **Founders:** Bette Light (Founder & Chief Strategic Officer)
- **Team size:** Approximately 15 employees in the supplied Apollo record; the official website publicly profiles five senior team members.
- **Products:** Comprehensive brand strategy, Media relations and press coverage, Influencer and creator campaigns, Thought leadership development, Product launches
- **Notable:** Founded in 1995 and still operating as a national boutique agency., A Light Years Ahead pitch helped KC Cattle Company land a Food & Wine feature that drove 500,000 website visits and 7,500 orders by the next morning, according to the client., KC Cattle Company later described Light Years Ahead as its best marketing return on investment.

## Products & services

- **Comprehensive brand strategy** — Positioning, messaging, brand voice and narrative development aligned with business goals.
- **Media relations and press coverage** — Story development, pitching and follow-up across digital, broadcast, podcast and print outlets.
- **Influencer and creator campaigns** — Vetting and managing creator relationships intended to reach relevant consumer audiences.
- **Thought leadership development** — Interviews, expert commentary, op-eds and contributed content for executives and specialists.
- **Product launches** — Launch strategy for new products, retail rollouts and partnerships.
- **Crisis and reputation support** — Proactive planning, rapid-response messaging, online listening and reputation management.
- **AI and search visibility strategy** — Messaging and authoritative placements designed to improve discovery in search engines and AI-powered search tools.
- **Internal PR training** — Training for founders or in-house staff who need to run outreach without a full agency retainer.

## Achievements

- Founded in 1995 and still operating as a national boutique agency.
- A Light Years Ahead pitch helped KC Cattle Company land a Food & Wine feature that drove 500,000 website visits and 7,500 orders by the next morning, according to the client.
- KC Cattle Company later described Light Years Ahead as its best marketing return on investment.
- Leadership reports placements across outlets including Today, Good Morning America, The New York Times, Forbes, Bloomberg, Wired, CNET and People.
- Current CEO Megan Bennett joined shortly after college, worked at the agency for 18 years, then purchased it with a business partner.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Megan Bennett discussed the agency’s current focus on consumer brands, experts and services, and distinguished earned editorial coverage from paid promotion on School for Startups Radio.
- **2026** — The agency’s service menu includes AI and search visibility strategy alongside media relations, creator campaigns, thought leadership and crisis support.
- **2025-01** — Megan Bennett and KC Cattle Company founder Patrick Montgomery revisited the long-running client relationship and the operational consequences of a viral media hit on The How of Business podcast.
- **2024-07** — Megan Bennett described buying the agency with a business partner after 18 years and outlined the firm’s hour-long discovery and pitch-development process in Women’s Business Daily.

## Links

- Website: https://www.lightyearsahead.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/light-years-ahead/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/lyapr
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lyapr/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lightyearsaheadpr

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Last updated: 2026-09-17