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YouTube Citation Share in AI Search

How often ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews cite YouTube across the prompts tracked on Track My Visibility, which kinds of videos get cited, and how results vary by industry.

Share of each platform’s citations that point to youtube.com. Based on 2,039,796 citations across Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Gemini and ChatGPT.

65,869

YouTube citations tracked

8.59%

YouTube's share of Google AI Overviews citations

97%

of YouTube citations come from AI Overviews and Perplexity

#1

YouTube's rank among cited domains on AI Overviews and Perplexity

What this data reveals

YouTube is the most cited domain on Google AI Overviews (8.59% of citations) and on Perplexity (4.21%). On Gemini it ranks 5th at 0.58%, and on ChatGPT 44th at 0.15%.

🔥 Key Finding

Google AI Overviews (54.2%) and Perplexity (42.4%) produce 97% of all YouTube citations. Gemini and ChatGPT together contribute under 4%.

Gemini’s total includes 10,056 gstatic.com image thumbnails. Without them, YouTube is 0.61% of Gemini citations.

Top Sources Breakdown

Share of all citations, with YouTube’s rank among domains
1. Google AI Overviews (rank #1) 8.59%
2. Perplexity (rank #1) 4.21%
3. Gemini (rank #5) 0.58%
4. ChatGPT (rank #44) 0.15%

YouTube versus Reddit in AI search

Share of all citations on each platform. Reddit is the usual benchmark for social sources in AI answers.

-23.3%

Total ChatGPT citation volume, July → August
212,621 → 163,181

-24.0%

Unique domains cited, July → August
48,231 → 36,635

-56%

Reddit's share of citations, relative change
2.83% → 1.24%

4.63% → 3.07%

Combined share held by these 9 domains

Reading the shift

Overall ChatGPT citation volume dropped 23.3% from July to August, so every domain in this set was going to show some decline in raw mentions. The useful comparison isn’t “did it drop”, it’s “did it drop more or less than that 23.3% average”.

🔥 Key Finding

Platform and marketplace sites gained share in August. LinkedIn rose 73%, YouTube 92%, and Amazon 23%. Meanwhile, Forbes and TechRadar declined more than the overall average of 23.3%. Reddit was the exception. Despite being a major community-driven source, its share dropped, matching the broader decline in ChatGPT’s use of Reddit content seen in mid-August.

Editorial and trade press lost the most ground. Forbes and TechRadar each dropped 22 to 29 points past the average decline.

Everything else held steady or gained. Wikipedia, Business Insider, and Reuters barely moved, all within a few points of the baseline, while Amazon, LinkedIn, and YouTube each gained more than 20 points against it.

Which domains beat the average decline

Overall citations fell 23.3% month over month. Numbers show how far each domain’s own change was from that baseline, not from zero.
1. reddit.com-43.1 pts
2. wikipedia.org+3.5 pts
3. linkedin.com+56.5 pts
4. forbes.com-29.0 pts
5. youtube.com+63.2 pts
6.amazon.com+20.1 pts
7. businessinsider.com+13.3 pts
8. techradar.com-22.5 pts
9. reuters.com-17.0 pts

How we collect this data

At Track My Visibility, we collect citation data by monitoring AI-generated answers across platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and other AI search tools. We analyze which domains are cited, how often they appear, and where your brand stands against competing sources.

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