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Reddit's AI Citation Share Fell 50%. When AI Does Cite It, It's Often the Only Source.
Conductor analyzed 238,212 prompts where Reddit was cited by AI systems. Citation share dropped from 2.02% to 1.01% between October 2025 and January 2026. Over the same period, Reddit's sole-source authority rose 31%. Here's what that split tells B2B SaaS brands about Reddit as a GEO channel.
44% of SaaS Brands in Google's Top 10 Get Zero ChatGPT Citations
EMGI Group analyzed 150 SaaS companies across 120 keywords. 44% of brands in Google's top 10 get zero ChatGPT citations. 81% of ChatGPT-cited brands don't rank in Google's top 10. Topical authority has a 0.76 correlation with AI citations. Organic traffic has a 0.23 correlation. Here's what the data shows.
Brand Authority Is the Strongest Predictor of AI Citations. Most B2B Teams Are Optimizing the Wrong Thing.
Brand web mentions correlate with AI citation frequency at 0.664. Brand search volume comes in at 0.334. Both beat backlinks and content quality scores. A Omniscient Digital analysis of 23,000+ citations found 89% came from earned media, not owned channels. Here's what the data means for B2B strategy.
Google AI Overviews Are 91% Accurate. Their Sources Often Can't Prove It.
A joint study by Oumi and The New York Times tested 4,326 Google searches. Accuracy improved from 85% to 91% with Gemini 3. But 56% of correct answers now cite sources that don't actually support the answer, up from 37% under Gemini 2. Here's what that means for content strategy.
Citation Drift: Why Your AI Visibility Changes Weekly
If your brand is cited by ChatGPT this week and missing next week, that is not random. Citation drift is the normal churn of AI visibility, driven by freshness, prompt mix, source replacement, and platform behavior.
ChatGPT Shopping: What Actually Triggers Product Recommendations (1.18M Prompts Analyzed)
Profound analyzed 1.18 million ChatGPT prompts to reverse-engineer when Shopping cards appear. The biggest finding: product category matters far more than purchase intent. Here's what that means for ecommerce GEO and AEO strategy.
AI Citations Expire Faster Than You Think. Here's the Data.
Scrunch and Stacker analyzed 3.5 million citation events across AI platforms. The average AI citation loses half its visibility in just 4.5 weeks. ChatGPT is even faster at 3.4 weeks. Here's what that means for your GEO and AEO strategy.
ChatGPT's Query Fan-Outs Just Doubled. Here's Why That Changes Everything.
Peec AI analyzed 20 million ChatGPT query fan-outs and found the average word count doubled in four months. For brands trying to get cited by AI, this is the biggest shift since AI Overviews launched.
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