How Publishers Can Monetize AI Visibility
A new study from Similarweb shows users who see a brand in an AI large language model are 2.5 times more likely to visit that brand's website within seven days and are twice as engaged as traditional …
A new study from Similarweb shows users who see a brand in an AI large language model are 2.5 times more likely to visit that brand's website within seven days and are twice as engaged as traditional …
Google AI Overviews appeared in 43% of U.S. searches tracked by Similarweb in May 2026, up from roughly 15% in January 2025, according to the market-intelligence company's new Generative AI Landscape …
Google's AI Overviews now appear in 43% of searches, up from 15% a year ago, according to a Similarweb report, driving a shift from search as a gateway to the web to Google itself becoming the destina…
Google's Gemini app reached 900 million monthly active users and 27.9% of the AI chatbot market by May 2026, but almost all growth came from Google pushing it through Search and Android rather than us…
Google is beginning to fence off free AI citations, mirroring its 2013 crackdown on press release SEO, according to Resonate Labs co-founder Shane Tepper. A Fuel Online audit found 62% of enterprise d…
Y Combinator-backed Context.dev launched a unified API that bundles web scraping, brand data extraction, and screenshot capture for AI agents, replacing the need for developers to build custom data pi…
AI engines use brand information in two distinct ways: usage (ingesting content without citation) and citation (directly referencing the brand as a source). A Pew Research study found users click link…
Habitual publisher traffic is collapsing as AI bot traffic surged 187% in 2025 while human traffic grew only 3.1%, eroding the click-based value exchange. Direct traffic to major publishers fell 19.9%…
Six top CMOs, including American Eagle's Craig Brommers and Chime's Vineet Mehra, are developing strategies to ensure their brands appear in AI-powered search results from platforms like Gemini and Ch…
A Forbes investigation citing The Information reveals that the majority of activity on xAI's Grok chatbot is driven by explicit content, including pornographic images and adult role-play. Similarweb d…
Google began rolling out its June 2026 spam update on June 24, clarifying that manipulating generative AI responses in Search, such as buying or altering citations, now falls under its spam policies. …
Google began rolling out its June 2026 spam update on June 24, expanding spam policies to include manipulation of generative AI responses such as buying or altering citations. The update, reported by …
Brands recommended by ChatGPT are 2.5 times more likely to receive a site visit within a week, according to a Similarweb report. The analysis found that 55.9% of traffic from AI-influenced visits came…
Similarweb Ltd. announced it has surpassed $300 million in Annual Recurring Revenue and signed two multi-year enterprise contracts worth approximately $47 million in total contract value, reflecting a…
Similarweb and Perplexity announced an expanded partnership that integrates Similarweb's digital market and consumer-intelligence data into Perplexity Computer workflows. The integration includes Simi…
Similarweb (NYSE: SMWB) and Perplexity announced an expanded partnership that integrates Similarweb's digital data directly into Perplexity's AI-native workflows, allowing users to access market, cons…
Similarweb and Manus are collaborating to integrate Similarweb's web traffic and engagement data into the Manus AI agent platform, enabling customers to assign agents tasks such as creating marketing …
OpenAI is testing conversation-targeted advertisements inside ChatGPT, with hundreds of companies including HubSpot, Dick's Sporting Goods, and Nordstrom purchasing early placements. Similarweb execut…
OpenAI's new advertising model, which places ads within ChatGPT conversations rather than targeting keywords, is generating early data that suggests it could challenge Google's search advertising domi…
Similarweb and Manus have expanded their data integration, making additional digital market analysis metrics such as keywords, search traffic, and referral data available to Manus Pro AI agents withou…