The PingMyBrand quarterly report · Q3 2026
The State of AI Search: what our own scan corpus shows.
Every scan run through PingMyBrand — free or paid, curated study brand or a visitor checking their own domain — adds a real data point to this corpus. Each quarter we compute a fresh set of original stats straight from it: which AI engine cites brands most, how invisible the average brand really is, and who moved most since their last scan. Every number below is linkable and quotable, and traces back to a real, stored scan — never a placeholder.
Looking for the curated household-name leaderboard instead? See The State of AI Visibility study, our hand-picked SaaS-brand comparison. This report is the wider, whole-corpus companion to it.
Brands in the corpus
#35
Real, non-mock scans on record across the whole PingMyBrand corpus as of Q3 2026.
Average AI-visibility score
#30/100
Mean unprompted AI-visibility score across every real brand scan in the corpus.
Effectively invisible to AI
#51%
Scored under 30/100 — AI barely surfaces them on its own, unprompted.
Methodology: every stat above is computed at request time from the same live scan pipeline that powers every free report on this site — no editorializing, no hand-tuning, no placeholder numbers. Simulated (no live engine key) scan snapshots are excluded from every average. Stats that need more history than the corpus currently has (e.g. movers, a citation gap between two engines) say so explicitly instead of showing a guessed number.
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About this report
The State of AI Visibility study is a hand-picked comparison of well-known SaaS brands across four categories. This report is the wider, whole-corpus companion — it covers every brand ever scanned through PingMyBrand, free or paid, curated study brand or a visitor's own domain.
How often an engine backs its answer with a real, checkable source link for the brand — not just naming the brand in passing. Only engines with at least one live (non-simulated) scan are ranked as most- or least-citing.
A brand needs at least two real scans on record so the change between them is measured, never guessed — this quarter, 5 brands qualify. A brand with only one real scan can't yet show a gainer or decliner.
No — simulated snapshots with no live engine key are excluded from every average and leaderboard on this page, the same rule the whole corpus follows.
Every stat is computed at request time from the live scan corpus, not a fixed publish date — the Q3 2026 numbers you see reflect the corpus as it stands right now and keep moving as new scans complete.
Your brand isn't in this corpus until you scan it.
These stats are only as good as the scans behind them — and every free scan adds one. Run yours now and see exactly where your brand lands against these numbers, per engine, per question. Free, no signup, about a minute.
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