AI & Brands
73% of B2B buyers use AI to research before they buy 360 / 1,000 Google searches produce a click — one ChatGPT session forms a complete brand opinion 67% of B2B buyers ask AI about a brand before contacting sales 31.3% of US adults now use AI as a primary search tool $6M raised by PeakMetrics to track AI-generated brand narratives

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Sunday, April 26, 2026

Brand Visibility

Microsoft Copilot and Gmail AI Suggest Vendors to B2B Buyers — Is Your Brand Showing Up?

B2B buyers can now get vendor shortlists from AI built into Word and Gmail — without ever opening Google. Your brand either appears in that answer or it doesn’t. You have no way to know which.

Brand Visibility

Microsoft Copilot and Gmail AI Suggest Vendors to B2B Buyers — Is Your Brand Showing Up?

B2B buyers get AI-generated vendor shortlists inside Word and Gmail without ever opening Google. Here’s what that means for your brand and how to show up where decisions are being made.

How-To

GPT-5.5 Just Made AI Brand Audits a Weekly Marketing Job

The new model does deeper vendor research than any previous version. A weekly AI brand audit checklist — what to run, where to look, and how to act on what you find.

Research

GEO Measurement Is Broken — Here’s the Dashboard to Properly Measure GEO

Most brands tracking GEO performance are measuring the wrong things. The 5 metrics that actually tell you if your AI search strategy is working — and how to build the dashboard.

Research

ChatGPT vs Google: One AI Session Replaces 15 Searches — What It Costs Your Brand

360 of every 1,000 Google searches produce a click. A single ChatGPT session forms a complete brand opinion. Here’s what the data means for marketers.


Brand Safety

Real Companies, Real AI Brand Damage: What the Case Files Show

The deals brands don’t know they’re losing to inaccurate AI narratives.


Search Strategy

GEO Techniques That Have No SEO Equivalent

Optimizing for AI-generated answers is a fundamentally different discipline.


Perspective

AI Brand Visibility Is Now a Managed Marketing Channel

It belongs in dashboards next to organic search and paid. Here’s the case.


Research

ChatGPT Is Showing Fewer Citations. What That Means for Brand Trust.

When AI stops citing sources, brands lose visibility — and accountability shifts.


AI Search

Agentic Engine Optimization: Building Pages AI Agents Actually Ingest

The next frontier after GEO — structuring content for AI that acts, not just answers.


Search Strategy

Why Review Sites Are Now Your Most Important AI Citation Source

G2, Capterra, and TrustRadius aren’t just for buyers anymore — they’re feeding AI recommendations.

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