B
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48%
48% -- share of citations from community platforms for AI search (2026)
48% of AI search citations come from community platforms like Reddit and YouTube according to AirOps's 2026 State of AI Search report.
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48%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
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B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
AirOps
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Tier B
https://useorion.ai/blog/why-link-building-doesnt-move-ai-citations ↗
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Why traditional link building doesn't move AI citations — and what does
Why traditional link building doesn't move AI citations — and what does
Across 60 prompts in 3 industries on our own GEO Graph index, plus a converging body of independent industry analysis, one pattern keeps showing up: AI citation likelihood is gated by entity recognizability across knowledge grap…
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AirOps
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AirOps 2026 State of AI Search report
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AI search: 48% share of citations from community platforms. Source: AirOps (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/airops-community-platform-citations
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