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Reddit's ChatGPT Citations Fell 86%. It Happened Before and It Came Back.
Reddit nearly vanished from ChatGPT citations this month and the industry lost its mind. The same collapse happened in September 2025 and fully recovered. Meanwhile investors are panicking about 5% of Reddit's revenue and ignoring the 95% growing at 64%.
Is AI Advertising Illegal? What You Actually Have to Disclose in 2026
AI advertising is not illegal. But three sets of rules landed this summer that decide when your creative needs a label. Here is the plain English version, the dates that matter, and the number that explains why nobody wants to do it.
Time Sold Ads to AI Agents. Perplexity Blocked Them in Two Weeks.
Can publishers serve ads to AI agents? Time started placing sponsored FAQ blocks inside the markdown pages AI crawlers read, and Perplexity blocked all of them in under two weeks. The fight defines what an agent is allowed to see.
How to Advertise in AI in 2026: Google, ChatGPT, Amazon & Walmart
A plain guide to where AI advertising stands. Across Google, ChatGPT, Amazon, and Walmart, you cannot target the AI placement directly—it is opt-in inventory.
How AI Recommends Beauty Brands: We Measured 750 Answers Across 5 Engines
Fifty prompts, five AI engines, three runs each, 750 sampled answers, and a 95% confidence band on every number. This is how AI represents beauty brands in 2026.
94% of Our AI Citations Come From Two Listicles We Wrote Ourselves
The most effective AI search optimization tactic right now is publishing your own best-of list. We know because we did it. Here is why it decays, and the one test that separates a roundup from an advertisement.
Generative Engine Optimization in 2026: 10 AI Search Shifts to Know
The 10 biggest generative engine optimization shifts of 2026—from Google retiring the search box to why AI cites your listicle but names a competitor.
AI Brand Visibility: Why the CMO's New Metric Is Easy to Game
AI brand visibility reached the C-suite this year. But a high score usually just means you measured the easy questions. What you measure decides everything.
AI Doesn't Recommend Who You Think
The AI search visibility data from 1M+ citations, and why the brands winning are not the ones spending the most.
Black Hat AI Search Is Real. Here Is the Proof.
Google's AI Overview cited a hijacked medical journal, then sent clickers to a GLP-1 shop. We traced the full black-hat chain.
GA4 Now Has an AI Assistant Channel. Here's the Catch.
Google Analytics added an AI Assistant channel on May 13, 2026. It puts AI traffic on the dashboard, but counts forward only and hides the number you most want.
How to Measure AI Visibility in 2026 (Free Tools and Gaps)
Google and Microsoft now report AI visibility for free—but no single tool shows the whole picture. Here is the full stack, what each tool misses, and where prompt tracking still wins.