B
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62%
62% -- ghost citation share of brand appearances for AI answer engines (2026)
62% of brand mentions in AI answers are ghost citations where the brand is named without surfacing a URL.
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62%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
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Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Adriel
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Tier B
https://thepromptinsider.com/aeo/how-to-get-your-brand-cited-by-chatgpt-gemini-claude-and-perplexity… ↗
Source Article
How to Get Your Brand Cited by ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini (2026)
Short Answer
How do you get your brand cited in AI answers?
Getting cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Grok requires three things on every priority page: an answer capsule of 120 to 150 characters under each H2, original first-party data AI cannot generate itself, and third-party vali…
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Cited from Adriel 2026 research
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AI answer engines: 62% ghost citation share of brand appearances. Source: Adriel (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ghost-citations-ai-answers-2026
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/ghost-citations-ai-answers-2026" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>62%</strong> -- ghost citation share of brand appearances for AI answer engines<br><small>Source: Adriel (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/ghost-citations-ai-answers-2026" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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