B
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19%
19% -- share of teams saying ai improves content quality for Content teams (2026)
19% of surveyed teams say AI improves content quality.
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Value
19%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Sample Size
224
Evidence Quality
B
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Extraction
95
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Semrush
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Tier A
https://bfj.digital/insights/human-content-8x-more-likely-rank-google/ ↗
Source Article
Human Content Ranks on Google 8x More Than AI: Study
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Semrush
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Semrush survey of 224 SEO professionals
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Industrymarketing
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Content teams: 19% share of teams saying ai improves content quality. Source: Semrush (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/teams-ai-improves-quality-2026
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