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6.8% -- share of chatgpt citations for Forbes (2025)
Forbes accounts for 6.8% of ChatGPT citations according to Profound's analysis of 680 million citations.
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6.8%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
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680,000,000
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B
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75
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60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
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https://www.tryhikoo.com/en/blog/guides/competitive-analysis-geo-ai-citations-guide-2026/ ↗
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Hikoo Blog | GEO & AI Visibility Resources
Optimizing your content for AI is no longer enough. An Ahrefs study on 75,000 brands shows that 26% of them have zero mentions in AI Overviews . Not because their content is bad, but because they have no visibility within the source ecosystem AI consults. The real question is not "is my content opti…
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Forbes: 6.8% share of chatgpt citations. Source: Profound (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/chatgpt-citations-forbes-share-2025
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