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19%
19% -- ai overview citation share for YouTube (in Google AI Overviews) (2026)
Google AI Overviews cite YouTube in nearly 19 percent of responses.
- Stated as 'nearly 19 percent'
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19%
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Data Vintage
2026
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B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
60
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
blogherald.com
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Tier C
https://blogherald.com/social-media/google-threatened-by-twitter/ ↗
Source Article
Google threatened by Twitter: a 2009 prediction that missed the real story - The Blog Herald
Editor’s note: This article was originally published in 2009 and has been updated to reflect how the competitive dynamics between Google and real-time platforms have evolved dramatically since then.
In early 2009, a question rippled through the blogging and tech world that felt genuinely urgent at t…
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blogherald.com
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YouTube (in Google AI Overviews): 19% ai overview citation share. Source: blogherald.com (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/google-ai-overviews-youtube-citations
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/google-ai-overviews-youtube-citations" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>19%</strong> -- ai overview citation share for YouTube (in Google AI Overviews)<br><small>Source: blogherald.com (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/google-ai-overviews-youtube-citations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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