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YouTube citations tracked
YouTube's share of Google AI Overviews citations
of YouTube citations come from AI Overviews and Perplexity
YouTube's rank among cited domains on AI Overviews and Perplexity
Google AI Overviews (54.2%) and Perplexity (42.4%) produce 97% of all YouTube citations. Gemini and ChatGPT together contribute under 4%.
| 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% |
Share of all citations on each platform. Reddit is the usual benchmark for social sources in AI answers.
YouTube beats Reddit on Perplexity (2.4 times as many citations) and Google AI Overviews (2.1 times). Reddit wins on ChatGPT (about 18 times as many) and Gemini (about 3 times).
Format signals read from the cited links. Only Google AI Overviews cites Shorts at a meaningful rate and uses timestamps at scale.
On Google AI Overviews, 12.2% of YouTube citations are Shorts and 49.4% link to a timestamp. Perplexity, ChatGPT and Gemini cite standard watch pages almost exclusively, with essentially no timestamps.
Based on video titles. The data does not include views, likes or upload dates, so this shows what cited titles look like, not what causes citations.
YouTube beats Reddit on Perplexity (2.4 times as many citations) and Google AI Overviews (2.1 times). Reddit wins on ChatGPT (about 18 times as many) and Gemini (about 3 times).
38% of ChatGPT's and 40% of Gemini's YouTube citations go to videos with "2026" in the title, against about 7% on AI Overviews and Perplexity. Videos titled 2024 or earlier are rare everywhere (under 3%).
Shown for the two platforms where YouTube matters. Every industry is under 1% on Gemini and ChatGPT.
On Perplexity, ecommerce websites get 5.7% of their citations from YouTube, against 1.6% to 2.9% for every other industry group. On Google AI Overviews the share is steadier (6.6% to 10.3%), but it varies a lot by website, from about 1% to 25%.
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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We analyze citation data across AI-generated answers to understand which sources are trusted, how visibility changes, and what signals influence AI citation patterns.
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