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TapeManBlue: AI Visibility Report

TapeManBlue ranks #2 with 4% visibility, tied with Electro Tape but trailing by positioning consistency. The brand appears in niche product queries but is absent from broader contractor and professional painter searches, representing a 96% coverage gap.

AI Visibility

4%

Prompt coverage

7

/

50

Net Sentiment

+67

#1. How often does AI mention me?

This breaks down your brand visibility in AI, showing summary of mentions and citations.

Overall Visibility

Share of tracked prompts where you appear at all

AI Visibility Breakdown by Prompt

Ranked #1 · Mentioned · Not mentioned

Ranked #1 3 6%
Mentioned 4 8%
Not mentioned 46 92%

Your biggest issue is not ranking lower; it's being absent from the majority of conversations happening in your category.

#2. Where do I stand vs competitors?

A head-to-head look at how your brand and competitors appear across AI answers.

#1
Electro Tape - 4%
#2
TapeManBlue - 4%
#3
Trimaco - 3%
#4
Presto Tape - 2%
#5
Surface Shields - 2%

You’re just one step behind your top competitor, but ahead of the rest. This is a gap worth improving.

Stay ahead of your competitors

One AI answer can shift the buyer’s choice. Get an alert the moment a competitor overtakes you on a prompt, so you react in days, not after losing a quarter of buyers to them.

#3. Which AI platforms cite me the most?

A platform-by-platform look at how visible your brand is across AI platforms

ChatGPT - 6%
Perplexity -2%

#4. Branded vs category prompt visibility

A look at how your brand performs in branded versus category searches.

Branded Prompts

0 prompts · visibility 0%

Non-branded (category) prompts

50 prompts · visibility 4%
Your brand appears in 4% of category prompts. This shows how often AI mentions or recommends you when buyers search by product, need, or category rather than by brand name.

The actual questions your customers ask AI

A sample of tracked prompts and whether your brand showed up

Invisible Here
websites selling adhesive tapes to contractors
current top brands for adhesive tapes in America
shops selling pro-grade painting tape online
sites selling bulk tape to small businesses
top brands for painting tape used by professionals
Visible Here
where can I buy painter's tape in bulk
top brands for stucco protection tape in the US
where can I buy surface protection film bulk
how do I select transfer tape for vinyl

Find the prompts that matter most for your brand

Generate relevant buyer questions across branded, category, comparison, and discovery searches, so you can track the prompts that actually influence visibility.

#5. How AI describes your brand?

See whether AI mentions your brand in a positive, neutral, or negative context.

+67
Mostly positive

This is working in your favor


A sentiment score here means AI is representing your brand well. The impression buyers are getting is a positive one. Now it is about making sure that impression gets stronger and reaches more people.

#6. Visibility gaps behind your AI performance

This shows which content and trust signals may be limiting how often AI cite your brand.

You
Top competitors avg

Where the gaps are

The specific signals limiting your AI visibility
Contractor-focused queries

Missing from adhesive tape supplier searches where Electro Tape and IPG dominate.

Professional brand positioning

Absent from pro-grade painter tape rankings dominated by 3M, FrogTape, Shurtape.

Bulk business segment

Underrepresented in small business bulk tape queries where Uline and packaging suppliers lead.

Perplexity model coverage

Only 2% visibility on Perplexity versus ChatGPT, limiting reach across search platforms.

Knowing the gap is step one. Closing it is next.

Prioritize the content, source, and page-level actions most likely to improve how AI understands and includes your brand.

#7. Where does AI pull information?

The sources AI relies on most often when answering the buyer questions in this report.

Where AI looks

Top sources cited for your category

Lowes
Cited in 22 Answers
Domain Rating 88
Homedepot
Cited in 17 Answers
Domain Rating 90
Youtube
Cited in 17 Answers
Domain Rating 99
Reddit
Cited in 16 Answers
Domain Rating 95
Co.uk
Cited in 20 Answers
Domain Rating 75

Source types

Of all citations AI uses, who owns the sites it pulls from

Your site 7 0.92%
Competitor sites 11 1.45%
Other 739 97.62%

Only 0.92% of AI citations reference your website as a source. Most citations point toward third-party sources where your brand barely appears. Getting featured there can help you show up in more AI answers.

Be the source AI trusts

Identify the pages, publishers, reviews, and communities most likely to influence how AI answers your target prompts, take inspiration, and grow your AI search visibility.

#8. What should you prioritize next?

A focused action plan based on the biggest opportunities found in your AI visibility report.

Your Roadmap

Ordered by what moves visibility fastest

Expand contractor-focused content

Create guides positioning bulk tape solutions for contractor supply chains.

Build professional credibility

Develop comparison content against 3M and FrogTape for pro-grade applications.

Strengthen Perplexity presence

Optimize schema markup and product data for Perplexity's content discovery algorithms.

Target bulk business messaging

Launch small business bulk tape guides to compete with Uline and packaging platforms.

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How we measured this

Study Parameters:

Total Prompts

100 unique prompts tracked within TMV

AI Engines

ChatGPT, Perplexity

Time Window

Jun 2, 2026 to Jun 9, 2026

Category

blue painter's tape, masking tape, stucco tape, transfer tape, surface protection films, bulk tape products

Intent Mix

Commercial-heavy with supporting informational, comparison, and trust queries