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3.1%

3.1% -- ai citation share for YouTube (2026-02)

Name: AI Citation Share Statistics
Creator: Lighthouse Intelligence
Published: 2026-10-02

2026-02 · Lantern

YouTube accounted for 3.10% of all tracked AI citations analyzed across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude.

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Last verified: 2026-10-02 · How we verify data →

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Value

3.1%

Unit

Percentage

Data Vintage

2026-02

Entity

YouTube

Evidence Quality

Strong, reliable evidence

Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.

61/100 confidence

Single source - not yet corroborated

Score breakdown

Extraction

Source Trust

Citation Chain

Independence

Methodology

Freshness

Source

Lantern Primary Tier B

https://www.asklantern.com/blogs/10-most-cited-domains-across-chatgpt-perplexity-gemini-and-claudee-… ↗

Confidence: 53/100 Vintage: 2026-02 Channel: Common Crawl

Source Article

10-most-cited-domains-across-chatgpt-perplexity-gemini-and

Original Research

Lantern · Original study ↗

Methodology

Citation share = percentage of all tracked citations attributed to the domain; 200M+ citations analyzed

Methodology documented

Trend Over Time

Period	Value	Change
2025	13%
2026-02 (current)	3.1%	-76.2%

Segmentation

Industrymarketing

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YouTube: 3.1% ai citation share. Source: Lantern (2026-02). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/youtube-citation-share-ai-search

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