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The State of AI Search.

Buyers are asking ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity instead of Google. This whitepaper breaks down how AI search is reshaping brand discovery, and what visibility leaders are doing to stay cited, recommended, and found.

Promptwatch Research

The State of AI Search

How brands win visibility in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews

2026 Edition

What's inside

  • How AI assistants decide which brands to cite and recommend
  • Benchmark data across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews
  • The content formats and sources AI models cite most often
  • A practical GEO playbook to grow your AI search visibility
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AI search for marketing teams

What AI search changes for marketing teams

Discovery is moving from ten blue links to a single synthesized answer. Brands now compete to be cited and recommended inside ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews — so content has to answer real buyer prompts, and measurement shifts from rankings and clicks to visibility and sentiment in AI answers.

900M+

weekly active ChatGPT users, per OpenAI's latest disclosure

68%

of Google searches end without a single click (SparkToro)

4.4x

higher conversion rate from AI search visitors vs. organic (Semrush)

20%+

of Google searches now trigger an AI Overview (Ahrefs)

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