UGC AI Visibility Trends
Track which user-generated content platforms are most visible across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Grok, Google AI Overviews, and AI Mode.
17 UGC platforms tracked
6 AI assistants
Analyzed for Aug 8 ’24 – Oct 7 ’26
Based on data from Brand Radar
Updated: Oct 8, 2026
Responses collected on Oct 7, 2026
Google AIO
4.68M
Google AI Mode
3.28M
ChatGPT
678.5K
Gemini
541.4K
Perplexity
179.2K
Copilot
794.9K
By AI platform
Share of each AI platform’s tracked responses that reference a UGC platform, one tab per AI platform. Counts aren’t shown: tracked-prompt coverage grows over time, so shares stay comparable across dates where absolute counts don’t.
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Current snapshot
Oct 7, 2026 · found-in % · 4,678,092 tracked responses
YouTube24.21% (1,132,627)
Wikipedia (en)8.79% (411,301)
Facebook8.02% (375,068)
Reddit7.85% (367,140)
Instagram5.98% (279,955)
TikTok2.19% (102,245)
Pinterest1.57% (73,355)
Quora1.17% (54,547)
LinkedIn0.77% (36,003)
X0.37% (17,106)
Medium0.30% (14,020)
Trustpilot0.22% (10,333)
GitHub0.17% (7,981)
JustAnswer0.15% (6,809)
Substack0.09% (4,032)
Discord0.02% (1,033)
Grokipedia<0.01% (68)
30-day growth (by found-in %)
Sep 7, 2026 → Oct 7, 2026
Grokipedia+2208.1%
Pinterest+133.3%
X+45.5%
Trustpilot+41.6%
TikTok+37.8%
Discord+35.9%
GitHub+32.1%
Instagram+22.1%
Facebook+18.0%
Medium+17.6%
Substack+17.4%
LinkedIn+17.3%
YouTube+16.8%
Quora+3.1%
Wikipedia (en)+1.7%
Reddit0.0%
JustAnswer−4.4%
All AI platforms combined
Share of tracked responses across the AI platforms on the active tab, one line per UGC platform. Combined lines divide summed references by summed tracked responses, so each platform counts in proportion to its volume.
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Current snapshot
Oct 7, 2026 · found-in % · 7,961,503 tracked responses
YouTube19.04% (1,515,577)
Wikipedia (en)9.14% (727,392)
Facebook7.11% (566,384)
Reddit5.66% (450,486)
Instagram5.38% (428,598)
TikTok1.72% (136,986)
Pinterest1.39% (110,930)
Quora0.88% (70,178)
LinkedIn0.84% (67,253)
X0.54% (43,212)
Medium0.25% (20,116)
Trustpilot0.24% (18,890)
GitHub0.16% (12,612)
JustAnswer0.11% (8,411)
Substack0.07% (5,790)
Discord0.02% (1,646)
Grokipedia<0.01% (75)
30-day growth (by found-in %)
Sep 7, 2026 → Oct 7, 2026
Grokipedia+1684.4%
Pinterest+120.1%
X+119.6%
Trustpilot+51.2%
LinkedIn+30.9%
Discord+30.5%
GitHub+29.1%
TikTok+20.7%
Instagram+18.1%
Medium+9.9%
Facebook+9.5%
Substack+9.2%
Wikipedia (en)+7.0%
YouTube−0.6%
Quora−10.1%
Reddit−17.1%
JustAnswer−20.1%
Pooled across both Google surfaces, so it can sit outside the range of either one. AI Mode’s collected volume fell over this window, so it now carries far less weight in the pair and the pooled figure tracks AI Overviews more closely.
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By UGC platform
Share of tracked responses on every AI platform for one UGC platform. Pick a UGC platform to drill in.
UGC platform:
Current snapshot
Oct 7, 2026 · found-in %
Perplexity2.53%
4,540 of 179,215 trackedGoogle AI Mode0.95%
31,250 of 3,283,411 trackedGoogle AIO0.77%
36,003 of 4,678,092 trackedCopilot0.56%
4,468 of 794,931 trackedChatGPT0.35%
2,358 of 678,548 trackedGemini<0.01%
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Top 100 cited domains by AI platform
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All Countries · Oct 7, 2026 · Responses collected: 4,678,092 (denominator for % of prompts — the same daily figure the charts above use)
| # | Domain | Top categories | Cited | % of prompts |
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| #1 | www.youtube.com | Communities | 1,130,267 | 24.16% |
| #2 | en.wikipedia.org | — | 411,301 | 8.79% |
| #3 | www.facebook.com | — | 374,094 | 8.00% |
| #4 | www.reddit.com | — | 367,089 | 7.85% |
| #5 | www.instagram.com | Communities Society | 277,811 | 5.94% |
| #6 | www.google.com | Business Internet | 208,867 | 4.46% |
| #7 | www.tiktok.com | Communities Entertainment Shopping Internet | 101,689 | 2.17% |
| #8 | es.wikipedia.org | — | 78,165 | 1.67% |
| #9 | www.amazon.com | — | 71,963 | 1.54% |
| #10 | my.clevelandclinic.org | Health | 62,177 | 1.33% |
| #11 | www.mayoclinic.org | Health | 57,131 | 1.22% |
| #12 | www.quora.com | — | 51,971 | 1.11% |
| #13 | dictionary.cambridge.org | Reference | 49,588 | 1.06% |
| #14 | www.merriam-webster.com | Reference Games | 48,702 | 1.04% |
| #15 | www.pinterest.com | Leisure Shopping Communities | 45,519 | 0.97% |
| #16 | www.britannica.com | Reference | 40,073 | 0.86% |
| #17 | support.google.com | — | 39,003 | 0.83% |
| #18 | www.imdb.com | — | 37,440 | 0.80% |
| #19 | www.healthline.com | Health Food Beauty | 32,991 | 0.71% |
| #20 | fr.wikipedia.org | — | 30,895 | 0.66% |
| #21 | pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov | Health Science Reference | 30,138 | 0.64% |
| #22 | play.google.com | — | 28,063 | 0.60% |
| #23 | medlineplus.gov | Health Government | 27,163 | 0.58% |
| #24 | de.wikipedia.org | — | 25,923 | 0.55% |
| #25 | www.scribd.com | Reference Computers and electronics Government Communities | 25,796 | 0.55% |
| #26 | ru.wikipedia.org | — | 23,270 | 0.50% |
| #27 | apps.apple.com | — | 23,252 | 0.50% |
| #28 | pt.wikipedia.org | — | 22,356 | 0.48% |
| #29 | open.spotify.com | Entertainment Communities Internet Computers and electronics | 22,348 | 0.48% |
| #30 | www.linkedin.com | — | 21,090 | 0.45% |
| #31 | www.webmd.com | Health News | 20,999 | 0.45% |
| #32 | www.canva.com | Internet Computers and electronics Entertainment Communities | 19,978 | 0.43% |
| #33 | ja.wikipedia.org | — | 19,842 | 0.42% |
| #34 | www.nhs.uk | Health | 18,930 | 0.40% |
| #35 | www.collinsdictionary.com | Reference | 18,282 | 0.39% |
| #36 | www.dictionary.com | Reference Games | 17,972 | 0.38% |
| #37 | www.amazon.in | Shopping Computers and electronics Entertainment Beauty | 17,907 | 0.38% |
| #38 | www.medicalnewstoday.com | Health News | 17,700 | 0.38% |
| #39 | support.apple.com | Computers and electronics Internet Business Shopping | 17,345 | 0.37% |
| #40 | study.com | — | 17,336 | 0.37% |
| #41 | www.tripadvisor.com | Travel | 17,242 | 0.37% |
| #42 | it.wikipedia.org | — | 16,914 | 0.36% |
| #43 | x.com | — | 16,648 | 0.36% |
| #44 | www.adobe.com | Computers and electronics Business Internet | 16,249 | 0.35% |
| #45 | www.booking.com | Travel | 15,354 | 0.33% |
| #46 | www.alodokter.com | Health | 15,275 | 0.33% |
| #47 | www.walmart.com | Shopping Internet Health Government | 15,166 | 0.32% |
| #48 | www.halodoc.com | Health | 14,311 | 0.31% |
| #49 | www.sciencedirect.com | — | 14,170 | 0.30% |
| #50 | id.wikipedia.org | — | 14,131 | 0.30% |
| #51 | lista.mercadolivre.com.br | Shopping Business Home Computers and electronics | 14,129 | 0.30% |
| #52 | www.goodrx.com | Health Business Beauty | 14,089 | 0.30% |
| #53 | support.microsoft.com | Computers and electronics Internet | 13,864 | 0.30% |
| #54 | www.tuasaude.com | Health Beauty | 13,828 | 0.30% |
| #55 | www.investopedia.com | Finance Business | 13,372 | 0.29% |
| #56 | dle.rae.es | Reference | 13,267 | 0.28% |
| #57 | www.vocabulary.com | Reference Jobs and education Games | 11,257 | 0.24% |
| #58 | www.msdmanuals.com | Health Reference | 11,162 | 0.24% |
| #59 | www.bbc.com | News | 10,954 | 0.23% |
| #60 | www.netflix.com | — | 10,879 | 0.23% |
| #61 | www.cdc.gov | Government Health Business | 10,836 | 0.23% |
| #62 | www.ebay.com | Computers and electronics Shopping Leisure Autos | 10,016 | 0.21% |
| #63 | medium.com | Communities Books Reference Society | 9,935 | 0.21% |
| #64 | www.wikihow.com | — | 9,183 | 0.20% |
| #65 | www.indeed.com | Jobs and education | 9,146 | 0.20% |
| #66 | pl.wikipedia.org | — | 8,982 | 0.19% |
| #67 | note.com | Entertainment Communities Internet | 8,737 | 0.19% |
| #68 | www.trendyol.com | Shopping Business Beauty | 8,298 | 0.18% |
| #69 | ar.wikipedia.org | — | 8,174 | 0.17% |
| #70 | www.1mg.com | Health Business | 7,904 | 0.17% |
| #71 | learn.microsoft.com | — | 7,888 | 0.17% |
| #72 | tr.wikipedia.org | — | 7,567 | 0.16% |
| #73 | www.espn.com | Jobs and education Business Entertainment | 7,535 | 0.16% |
| #74 | www.flipkart.com | Shopping Internet Business Computers and electronics | 7,525 | 0.16% |
| #75 | www.amazon.co.uk | — | 7,459 | 0.16% |
| #76 | quillbot.com | Business Jobs and education Computers and electronics Science | 7,380 | 0.16% |
| #77 | www.tokopedia.com | Shopping Business | 7,277 | 0.16% |
| #78 | www.drugs.com | Health | 7,257 | 0.16% |
| #79 | byjus.com | Jobs and education Computers and electronics Reference | 7,240 | 0.15% |
| #80 | detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp | Business Jobs and education Entertainment Reference | 7,215 | 0.15% |
| #81 | www.samsung.com | Computers and electronics Internet | 7,206 | 0.15% |
| #82 | health.clevelandclinic.org | Health News | 7,111 | 0.15% |
| #83 | brainly.in | Jobs and education Entertainment Reference Business | 6,831 | 0.15% |
| #84 | www.target.com | Shopping Computers and electronics Leisure Business | 6,831 | 0.15% |
| #85 | www.bbc.co.uk | — | 6,467 | 0.14% |
| #86 | www.vedantu.com | Jobs and education Reference | 6,403 | 0.14% |
| #87 | id.scribd.com | Jobs and education Business Society Reference | 5,527 | 0.12% |
| #88 | listado.mercadolibre.com.mx | — | 5,318 | 0.11% |
| #89 | www.microsoft.com | Computers and electronics Business Internet | 5,303 | 0.11% |
| #90 | zh.wikipedia.org | — | 5,242 | 0.11% |
| #91 | www.makemytrip.com | — | 5,214 | 0.11% |
| #92 | people.com | Entertainment News | 5,078 | 0.11% |
| #93 | www.detik.com | News Government Sensitive | 4,982 | 0.11% |
| #94 | www.verywellhealth.com | Health News | 4,920 | 0.11% |
| #95 | testbook.com | Jobs and education Reference | 4,570 | 0.10% |
| #96 | www.etsy.com | Shopping Leisure | 4,507 | 0.10% |
| #97 | www.goodreads.com | Books Communities | 4,263 | 0.09% |
| #98 | simple.wikipedia.org | — | 4,231 | 0.09% |
| #99 | shopee.co.id | Shopping Games Business Computers and electronics | 4,014 | 0.09% |
| #100 | www.petmd.com | Pets Health | 3,997 | 0.09% |
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