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Expert insights on getting your brand cited in ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Claude, Gemini and other AI-powered search platforms.

Measurement Aug 2026

Microsoft Clarity AI Citations: What Grounding Queries Do and Do Not Tell You

Clarity now splits branded from non-branded. Microsoft says grounding queries may differ from what users type, so a branded one does not by itself establish brand demand.

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Paid AI Search Aug 2026

ChatGPT Ads in Europe: What Advertisers Can Buy From 24 August 2026

31 markets, Free and Go users only, sales-team access first, self-serve later this summer. The operational launch guide from a team already running ChatGPT Ads.

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AI Search Jul 2026

How to Check if Competitors Appear in AI Answers Instead of You

A practical method for testing who ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Google AI name in your category: the questions to ask, how often to run them, and what to record.

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AI Search Jul 2026

Why AI Answers Cite Third-Party Reviews, Not Your Official Site

AI engines treat your site as a source of facts and third parties as sources of judgement. Why that is, how it differs per engine, and how to earn a place in the pool.

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Strategy Jul 2026

Missing From AI Answers: The Root-Cause Checklist

An ordered diagnostic a marketing team can run in an afternoon: seven checks from confirming the absence properly through citations, content shape and entity consistency.

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Strategy Jul 2026

Which Pages Do AI Overviews and Claude Pull From When They Mention You?

Seeing which specific pages AI answers are built from, yours and third parties: the DIY version, why it does not scale, and who does this properly.

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Paid AI Search Jul 2026

The OpenAI Ads Pixel (oaiq): Setup, Events, and Troubleshooting

The pixel behind ChatGPT Ads loads from oaiq.min.js. How it installs, which events matter for lead gen versus commerce, and the failures we hit running our own campaign.

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AI Search Jul 2026

How ChatGPT Chooses and Cites Its Sources

ChatGPT does not search your question. It writes its own searches, runs them on Bing and OAI-SearchBot, checks facts on the real sites, then cites a few. The mechanism, and how to get cited.

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AI Search Jul 2026

How to Choose an AI Visibility or GEO Agency

The three kinds of provider, monitoring tools, content agencies extending into GEO, and specialist AI-search practices, and the five questions that separate a real partner from a repackaged one.

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Comparison June 2026

Best AI Visibility Tools 2026: Profound, Peec, Otterly, AthenaHQ Compared

A straight comparison of the main AI visibility platforms, what each does, what it costs and who it is for, plus where an expert-run service beats a dashboard.

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Paid AI Search Jun 2026

ChatGPT Ads Conversion Tracking: The Setup Most Guides Get Wrong

The real pixel SDK URL, the init object, the CSP gotcha that silently blocks it, and why zero conversions usually means measurement, not your ads.

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AI Visibility May 2026

Why Claude Doesn't Cite Your Brand: It's the Brave Index

Claude's web search runs on Brave, not Google. One Profound study found 86.7% of Claude citations come from Brave's top results. What changes operationally.

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Definitive Guide Apr 2026

AI Search Intelligence: The Definitive Guide (2026)

How brands monitor, analyse, and optimise visibility across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Google AI Mode. Data from 5,600+ queries.

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Research Mar 2026

How ChatGPT Decides Who to Recommend (And What You Can Do About It)

ChatGPT's citation algorithm changed 46 days before ads launched. Here's what our category dataset reveals about how to get your brand recommended.

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Framework Feb 2026

How AI Decides Which Brands to Recommend

AI doesn't rank pages. It builds an entity model of your brand from thousands of sources. Here's how that model forms, and how to shape it.

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Strategy Feb 2026

AI Citation Strategy: How to Get Cited by ChatGPT and Gemini

AI platforms cite from Reddit, reviews, and publishers, not brand websites. Here's a practical citation strategy that works.

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How-To Feb 2026

How to Get Recommended by ChatGPT: What Actually Works

ChatGPT has 900 million weekly active users. Here's what drives its recommendations, and the practical steps to get your brand cited.

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How-To Feb 2026

How to Appear in Google AI Overviews: A Practical Guide

Brands cited inside AI Overviews earn 35% more clicks than those ranked below. Here's exactly how to get your brand in.

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Enterprise Feb 2026

AI Search for Enterprise Brands: What's Different and What to Do

Enterprise brands face an AI visibility challenge that's categorically different from small businesses. More markets, more complexity, higher stakes.

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Framework Feb 2026

The AI Visibility Scorecard: 10 Questions Every Marketing Leader Should Answer

A practical framework for assessing whether your brand is winning or losing in ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews.

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Strategy Feb 2026

Why Brands Don't Show Up in AI Answers

Five reasons your brand is invisible to ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, and how to fix each one.

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Strategy Feb 2026

AI SEO vs AI Search Visibility: What Transfers, What Doesn't, and What's New

Good SEO builds the foundation for AI visibility, but it's no longer the whole strategy. Here's what carries over and what you need on top.

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Strategy Feb 2026

What Is Search Intelligence?

The complete guide to monitoring and improving how your brand appears across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode.

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Explainer Updated Jun 2026

What Is AEO (Answer Engine Optimisation)?

AEO is the discipline of making your brand visible in AI-generated answers. What it means, how it differs from SEO, and what to do first.

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Measurement Jan 2026

Share of Memory: Measuring Brand Impact in AI Search

A new metric for the AI era. How to measure whether your brand occupies space in LLM memory.

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Strategy Jan 2026

What Is AI Search Visibility?

AI search visibility measures how often and how prominently your brand appears in AI-generated answers.

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Travel Jan 2026

AI Search for Travel Brands

How hotels, OTAs and tourism brands can win visibility in AI-powered travel recommendations.

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Strategy Jan 2026

GEO vs SEO: What's Different?

Generative Engine Optimisation vs traditional SEO. What's changed and why you need both.

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Strategy Jan 2026

Future of AI Search for Marketers

What comes after SEO? How GEO, Search Everywhere and Share of Memory are reshaping marketing.

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