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48% -- share of ai citations from community platforms for Reddit, YouTube, LinkedIn (2025)
Community platforms (Reddit, YouTube, and LinkedIn) account for 48% of all AI citations.
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48%
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Data Vintage
2025
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B
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75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
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Digital Bloom
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https://www.seobility.net/en/blog/link-building-off-page-seo-ai-age/ ↗
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Why link building and off-page SEO matter more than ever in the age of AI
“Backlinks are dead.” I’ve been hearing that line for more than 20 years, and it has never been more wrong. ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews: search is being reshaped in real time. But if you take that to mean off-page SEO is losing relevance, you’re missing what has actually changed.
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Reddit, YouTube, LinkedIn: 48% share of ai citations from community platforms. Source: Digital Bloom (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-citations-community-platforms
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