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56.5%

56.5% -- share of ai brand mentions without citation link for AI brand mentions (ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity) (2026)

Name: Share Of AI Brand Mentions Without Citation Link Statistics
Creator: Lighthouse Intelligence
Published: 2026-09-30

2026 · n=107,432 · AmICited

56.5% of 107,432 AI brand mentions across ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and Perplexity had no citation link at all.

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Value

56.5%

Unit

Percentage

Data Vintage

2026

Entity

AI brand mentions (ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity)

Sample Size

107,432

Evidence Quality

Strong, reliable evidence

Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.

61/100 confidence

Single source - not yet corroborated

Score breakdown

Extraction

Source Trust

Citation Chain

Independence

Methodology

Freshness

Source

AmICited Primary Tier B

https://www.amicited.com/da/author/vzeman/index/ ↗

Confidence: 53/100 Vintage: 2026 Channel: Common Crawl

Source Article

Viktor Zeman

Original Research

AmICited · Original study ↗

Methodology

Analysis of 107,432 AI brand mentions across five AI platforms

Methodology documented

Segmentation

Industrymarketing

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AI brand mentions (ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity): 56.5% share of ai brand mentions without citation link. Source: AmICited (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-brand-mentions-no-citation-link

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