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        "rendered": "How to Measure If Your Brand Is Being Mentioned in AI Search"
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        "rendered": "<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Most Vietnam brands have no idea whether AI engines are mentioning them, because they have never checked.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Key Takeaways<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Brand mention and domain citation are two distinct metrics. A brand can be frequently mentioned without its domain being linked, and vice versa. Both matter and must be tracked separately.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Three core AI visibility KPIs: AI citation rate, AI visibility score, and AI share of voice. Each measures a different dimension of your brand&#8217;s AI presence.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No meaningful industry benchmark for AI visibility exists in Vietnam right now. The correct approach is to measure your own baseline and set relative targets month over month.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Manual prompt tracking (15-25 prompts, run biweekly) is sufficient to establish a reliable baseline before investing in dedicated tools.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Visitors arriving from AI search are 4.4x more valuable and 3x more likely to convert than other channels, even though AI traffic is still around 1% of total sessions.<sup data-fn=\"7ed46100-ce2a-471f-80b3-3184391269aa\" class=\"fn\"><a id=\"7ed46100-ce2a-471f-80b3-3184391269aa-link\" href=\"#7ed46100-ce2a-471f-80b3-3184391269aa\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bain reports 80% of consumers rely on AI-written results for at least 40% of their searches, reducing organic traffic by 15-25%. <sup data-fn=\"44211c38-93da-4542-b73c-e907118c5c23\" class=\"fn\"><a id=\"44211c38-93da-4542-b73c-e907118c5c23-link\" href=\"#44211c38-93da-4542-b73c-e907118c5c23\">2<\/a><\/sup> This is why measuring AI visibility is no longer optional.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>AI output is probabilistic. The same prompt entered twice can return different results, so a single measurement does not produce a reliable reading.<sup data-fn=\"23ab503a-8295-4dac-a228-cd4c071c5129\" class=\"fn\"><a id=\"23ab503a-8295-4dac-a228-cd4c071c5129-link\" href=\"#23ab503a-8295-4dac-a228-cd4c071c5129\">3<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"brand-mention-vs-domain-citation-the-core-distinction\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Brand Mention vs Domain Citation: The Core Distinction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>These are two different things that most people conflate, and treating them as identical leads to wrong conclusions about your AI visibility performance.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Brand mention:<\/strong> Your brand name appears in the body of an AI-generated answer. Example: &#8220;Agencies specialising in AEO in Vietnam include Brandgineer, which focuses on AI visibility for B2B brands.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Domain citation:<\/strong> Your website is listed as a source that the AI retrieved content from. Example: A Perplexity answer with &#8220;Sources: brandgineer.co\/insights\/what-is-aeo&#8221; linked at the bottom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These metrics are independent. A brand can have high mention visibility, appearing in many answers, without its domain being cited (the AI learned about the brand from other sources). Conversely, a brand&#8217;s domain can be cited frequently as a source without the brand name appearing prominently in the answer body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Why both matter:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brand mention drives consideration. When AI mentions your brand as a recommended option, you are shaping purchase intent at the decision stage, the same effect as earned media, but inside an AI model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Domain citation drives credibility and traffic. McKinsey research found that brand websites account for only 5-10% of the sources AI uses to construct answers, while 85% of brand mentions come from third-party domains. <sup data-fn=\"8fbb4d93-508a-4e51-9185-7aef308865a8\" class=\"fn\"><a id=\"8fbb4d93-508a-4e51-9185-7aef308865a8-link\" href=\"#8fbb4d93-508a-4e51-9185-7aef308865a8\">4<\/a><\/sup>That makes domain citation harder to win than brand mention, and more valuable when you do. When your domain is listed as a source, users can click through. It also signals to AI models that your content is trusted and worth retrieving, building the citation feedback loop that compounds over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The practical question to answer for each:<\/strong> &#8220;For how many of our target prompts does our brand name appear in the answer?&#8221; and separately, &#8220;For how many does our domain appear as a cited source?&#8221; Track both numbers independently, by engine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"the-three-ai-visibility-kpis\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Three AI Visibility KPIs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"kpi-1-ai-citation-rate\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">KPI 1: AI Citation Rate<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Definition:<\/strong> The percentage of your target prompts for which your domain is cited as a source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Formula:<\/strong> (Number of prompts where your domain appears as a source) \/ (Total prompts tracked) = citation rate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Example:<\/strong> You track 25 prompts. Your domain appears as a cited source in 3 of them. Citation rate = 12%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What it measures:<\/strong> Content authority, meaning how often AI retrieval systems trust your domain enough to link it as a source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How to set a target:<\/strong> There is no reliable industry standard figure at this point. Measure your own baseline in month one, then set a relative growth target by quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"kpi-2-ai-visibility-score\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">KPI 2: AI Visibility Score<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Definition:<\/strong> The percentage of your target prompts for which your brand name appears anywhere in the AI-generated answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Formula:<\/strong> (Number of prompts where brand is mentioned) \/ (Total prompts tracked) = visibility score<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What it measures:<\/strong> Brand awareness within AI models, how often AI engines include your brand as a relevant entity for queries in your category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Important nuance:<\/strong> Visibility score can be gamed by having your brand mentioned in negative context. Track sentiment alongside visibility, is the mention positive, neutral, or qualified?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"kpi-3-ai-share-of-voice\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">KPI 3: AI Share of Voice<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Definition:<\/strong> Your brand&#8217;s percentage of AI mentions within your category, relative to competitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Formula:<\/strong> (Your brand&#8217;s mentions across tracked prompts) \/ (All brand mentions in category across same prompts) = share of voice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Example:<\/strong> Across 25 prompts in the AEO\/marketing category, 3 brands are mentioned a total of 30 times. Your brand accounts for 4 of those mentions. Your share of voice = 13%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What it measures:<\/strong> Competitive positioning, whether AI engines favour you, a competitor, or no local brand in your category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Why this is often the most actionable metric:<\/strong> A low visibility score only tells you that you are absent. Share of voice tells you who is occupying that space and by how much, which gives you a concrete mark to chase rather than an abstract number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"how-to-track-manually\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to Track Manually<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Manual tracking is sufficient for most brands in the first 3-6 months and costs nothing beyond time.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Step 1: Define your prompt set<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Write 15-25 prompts that represent the questions your target customers are actually asking AI engines, in the language they actually use. Split across:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Category queries: what the service is and how it works<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Brand comparison queries: who the best providers are in your market<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Problem-aware queries: how to solve the specific problem your service addresses<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Buying-stage queries: what to look for when choosing a provider<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Step 2: Run each prompt across engines, multiple times<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the most important methodological point and the one most often done wrong. <strong>AI output is probabilistic, not deterministic.<\/strong> The same prompt entered twice can return different answers, with different brand lists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Evertune, a platform specialising in AI visibility measurement, samples each prompt 100 times per model to reach statistical significance. You do not need to go that far, but running once and drawing a conclusion is methodologically wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In practice:<\/strong> run each prompt 3 to 5 times in the same session and record the <strong>proportion of runs<\/strong> in which your brand appeared rather than a yes or no. A prompt where you appear 2 out of 5 times is entirely different information from 5 out of 5, even though both get logged as &#8220;yes&#8221; on a single run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Run everything on the same day to remove time-based variance. Record:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Does your brand name appear? (Y\/N)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Does your domain appear as a source? (Y\/N)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Which competitor brands or domains appear?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Is the mention positive, neutral, or negative?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Use a simple spreadsheet: rows = prompts, columns = engine\/date, cells = Y\/N for mention and citation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Step 3: Establish baseline<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Run the full prompt set twice in week 1, then every two weeks. Calculate citation rate and visibility score after each round. You need at least 3-4 data points before the trend line is meaningful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Step 4: Identify priority gaps<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prompts where competitors appear but you do not are your highest-priority content gaps. These represent queries where another brand&#8217;s content is structurally better positioned for AI retrieval than yours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"connecting-ai-visibility-to-business-outcomes-in-ga4\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Connecting AI Visibility to Business Outcomes in GA4<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Measuring AI visibility in isolation tells you about impressions. Connecting it to GA4 tells you whether those impressions are driving business outcomes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The problem:<\/strong> AI-referred traffic defaults to &#8220;direct&#8221; traffic in GA4. Without deliberate UTM tagging, you cannot distinguish a user who typed your URL from a user who clicked a link in a Perplexity response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The solution:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Add UTM parameters to AI-accessible links.<\/strong> Any link that appears in a context where it might be cited by AI engines, newsletter links, social bios, directory listings, should carry: ?utm_source=ai_search&amp;utm_medium=citation&amp;utm_campaign=aeo<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"2\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Create a GA4 custom segment.<\/strong> Filter for sessions where: source contains &#8220;perplexity&#8221; OR &#8220;chatgpt&#8221; OR utm_source matches &#8220;ai_search&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"3\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Build a monthly report.<\/strong> Track: AI-referred sessions, pages per session (quality proxy), conversion events from this segment.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The diagnostic value:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If AI citation rate is rising but AI-referred sessions are flat, your content is being cited but not linked. This is common in conversational AI engines (ChatGPT does not always include links). Prioritise getting into Perplexity citations, where source links are standard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If AI-referred sessions are rising but conversion rate is low, users arriving from AI citations need a stronger transition from informational content to commercial intent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"are-competitors-being-mentioned-more-than-you\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Are Competitors Being Mentioned More Than You<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This is the most actionable question in AI visibility measurement, and the one most often skipped.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why it matters more than your own number: a 5% citation rate could be excellent or disastrous depending on where competitors sit. Without competitive context, every AI visibility figure is meaningless. All four platforms specialising in this space (Profound, Peec AI, Evertune, Scrunch) put competitive comparison at the centre rather than tracking one brand&#8217;s absolute numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How to measure it with your existing prompt set<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For every prompt you track, record <strong>every brand mentioned<\/strong>, not just yours. Use a simple grid: rows are prompts, columns are brands, cells hold the count of appearances out of total runs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After one measurement round you will see one of four situations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1. No local brand appears at all.<\/strong> This is a genuine gap. AI is answering with foreign sources, aggregators, or generic content. This is the best situation to act on because the bar to clear is low.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2. One brand appears repeatedly across many prompts.<\/strong> That is the mark to chase. The work is to analyse their content on exactly those prompts: which sub-questions they answer, in what format, and which sources cite them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>3. Several brands share the space with no clear leader.<\/strong> The market is fragmented. The opportunity is in covering more prompts than anyone else, not in winning one specific prompt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>4. You appear but late in the list.<\/strong> This is the subtlest case. You have visibility but you are not the default choice. Position within the answer matters: the brand named first carries more psychological weight than the fourth. Evertune scores visibility multiplied by average position for exactly this reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What to avoid in competitor analysis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do not conclude anything from a single run. If a competitor appears 3 out of 5 times and you appear 2 out of 5, that gap may be noise. You need at least 3 to 4 measurement rounds before treating a gap as real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, do not measure brand mention alone. There are cases where a competitor is mentioned more often while your domain is cited as a source more often. That means AI is using your content to answer while recommending your competitor, which is a very different problem requiring a different fix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"periodic-reporting-what-to-measure-and-how-often\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Periodic Reporting: What to Measure and How Often<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Measurement cadence and conclusion cadence are two different things. Measure monthly, conclude quarterly.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reason: AI model perceptions of a brand shift on roughly a 3 to 6 month cycle. Monthly measurement gives you data to catch problems early, but drawing conclusions about a programme&#8217;s effectiveness within 30 days leads to wrong decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A monthly report should contain four parts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1. The three core KPIs and their direction.<\/strong> Citation rate, visibility score, share of voice. What matters is the direction of the trend line, not that month&#8217;s absolute figure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2. New prompts gained and prompts lost.<\/strong> In the early stages this is more useful than all three KPIs above. If 90 days of implementation produces no new prompts, the problem is in the content or entity signals, not in needing more time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>3. Comparison against 2 to 3 main competitors on the same prompt set.<\/strong> Without comparison you cannot tell whether you are gaining ground or standing still while the market stands still too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>4. AI-referred sessions in GA4.<\/strong> This connects visibility to business outcomes. If citation rate rises but sessions do not, content is being cited without being linked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A quarterly review should answer three questions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is the programme producing new prompts? Is the gap to the leading competitor narrowing or widening? And is AI-referred traffic converting to leads?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>One note on freezing methodology<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keep the prompt set, the number of runs per prompt, the engine list, and the person recording constant. Change the prompt set midway and every earlier comparison loses its value. Document the method on the first measurement round, even when it feels obvious at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"how-to-build-your-own-benchmark\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to Build Your Own Benchmark<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>There is no reliable industry benchmark for AI visibility in Vietnam right now. Anyone quoting an &#8220;average industry citation rate&#8221; is guessing.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reason: AI visibility depends on which prompts you choose, the query language, which engines you measure, and when you measure. Two brands in the same industry using different prompt sets will produce two numbers that cannot be compared. This is unlike keyword rankings, where everyone is measuring the same thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The right approach is to build your own benchmark:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Step 1: Measure the baseline, do not judge it.<\/strong> Run your full prompt set in week one. Record three numbers: citation rate, visibility score, share of voice. That number may be 0%. That is normal and says nothing about the quality of your business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Step 2: Measure competitors using the same prompt set.<\/strong> This matters more than your own baseline. For each prompt, record which brands are being mentioned. If no local brand appears, you are looking at an open gap. If one brand appears repeatedly, that is the mark to chase and their content is worth analysing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Step 3: Set relative targets, not absolute ones.<\/strong> Instead of &#8220;reach 10% citation rate,&#8221; set targets like &#8220;appear in 3 new prompts per quarter&#8221; or &#8220;double share of voice from the current level within 6 months.&#8221; Relative targets survive changes to your prompt set or to engine algorithms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Step 4: Freeze your methodology.<\/strong> Same prompt set, same engines, same day of the week, same person recording. If you change the prompt set midway, every earlier comparison loses its meaning. Document the method on the first measurement run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What to watch at month three:<\/strong> not the absolute number, but the direction of the trend line and the count of new prompts where you started appearing. If 90 days of implementation produces no new prompts at all, the problem is in the content or entity signals, not in needing more time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"frequently-asked-questions\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How do I know if AI search is mentioning my brand?<\/strong> Manual check: run 15-25 target prompts in ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Gemini, record results weekly. Automated: use tools like Profound or Ahrefs Brand Radar to track brand mention and domain citation at scale. Start manual to understand your baseline before investing in tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What is the difference between brand mention and domain citation in AI search?<\/strong> Brand mention = your brand name appears in the AI answer. Domain citation = your website URL is listed as a source. They are independent metrics. A brand can have high visibility (mentioned often) but low citation rate (rarely linked). Track both separately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What are the core KPIs for measuring AI visibility?<\/strong> Three KPIs: (1) AI citation rate, percentage of prompts where your domain is cited, (2) AI visibility score, percentage of prompts where your brand is mentioned, (3) AI share of voice, your brand&#8217;s percentage of category mentions vs. competitors. Each measures a different dimension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What is a good AI citation rate?<\/strong> There is no reliable standard figure. AI visibility depends on your prompt set, query language, engines measured, and timing, so two brands in the same industry can produce numbers that are not comparable. Measure your own baseline, then set relative growth targets by quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Is Vietnamese-language content at a disadvantage in AI search?<\/strong> For Google AI Overview, no. Profound&#8217;s analysis of 3.25 billion citations found AIO prefers content in the query language.<sup data-fn=\"2f2afab6-2169-4589-abe7-f91505a97cc4\" class=\"fn\"><a id=\"2f2afab6-2169-4589-abe7-f91505a97cc4-link\" href=\"#2f2afab6-2169-4589-abe7-f91505a97cc4\">5<\/a><\/sup> ChatGPT differs: Peec AI found 43% of its background queries run in English even when the original prompt was in another language, so local sources can be eliminated at the retrieval stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"author\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Author<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Written by Abbie, AEO Expert at Brandgineer | brandgineer.co<\/em> <br><em>Optimised for AI visibility across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ready to start measuring and improving your AI visibility?<\/strong> <a href=\"\/en\/contact\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"\/contact\/\">Book a consultation with Brandgineer \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"data-sources\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Data Sources<\/h2>\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-footnotes\"><li id=\"7ed46100-ce2a-471f-80b3-3184391269aa\">AI Search Referral Traffic Statistics 2026. Semrush and Conductor data. <a href=\"https:\/\/thestacc.com\/blog\/ai-search-referral-traffic-stats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/thestacc.com\/blog\/ai-search-referral-traffic-stats\/<\/a> <a href=\"#7ed46100-ce2a-471f-80b3-3184391269aa-link\" aria-label=\"Jump to footnote reference 1\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><li id=\"44211c38-93da-4542-b73c-e907118c5c23\">Consumer Reliance on AI Search Results Signals New Era of Marketing. 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Evertune. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.evertune.ai\/platform\/methodology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.evertune.ai\/platform\/methodology<\/a> <a href=\"#23ab503a-8295-4dac-a228-cd4c071c5129-link\" aria-label=\"Jump to footnote reference 3\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><li id=\"8fbb4d93-508a-4e51-9185-7aef308865a8\">New Front Door to the Internet: Winning in the Age of AI Search. McKinsey &amp; Company. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mckinsey.com\/capabilities\/growth-marketing-and-sales\/our-insights\/new-front-door-to-the-internet-winning-in-the-age-of-ai-search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.mckinsey.com\/capabilities\/growth-marketing-and-sales\/our-insights\/new-front-door-to-the-internet-winning-in-the-age-of-ai-search<\/a> <a href=\"#8fbb4d93-508a-4e51-9185-7aef308865a8-link\" aria-label=\"Jump to footnote reference 4\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><li id=\"2f2afab6-2169-4589-abe7-f91505a97cc4\">How Query Language Reshapes AI Citations. 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