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Last updated on October 5, 2026

Nike is the #1 running shoe brand in AI. Ask about flat feet and it drops to 20%

AI Visibility Index | Running Footwear | June 2026 GrowByData tracks AI brand visibility across 37 non-brand prompts in running footwear, covering ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, and Google...

ChatGPT Advertising - monitor ad placements

Last updated on October 6, 2026

ChatGPT advertising: what the data actually shows

Roughly one in eleven ChatGPT prompts GrowByData tracked across a full month came back with a sponsored ad sitting inside the answer, the leading edge of ChatGPT advertising showing...

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Published on October 7, 2026

Why MAP Compliance Needs Continuous Monitoring, Not a One-Time Audit

A MAP audit tells you how many sellers were below MAP when it ran. It can’t tell you whether that number is normal for your brand, getting better, or...

Compass Amazon Analytics Benchmark Banner

Published on October 7, 2026

New in GrowByData Compass: Four Comprehensive Reports for Amazon Competitor Analysis

Amazon competitor analysis is now built into GrowByData Compass. Under Marketplace > Amazon, four new reports show which brands lead Amazon search for the...

AI Search Visibility Ownership

Published on October 2, 2026

Who Owns AI Search Visibility? A Governance Framework for Marketing Teams

Your SEO team monitors rankings. Your paid team tracks ad performance. PR manages publisher relationships, and brand works on how customers understand what makes...

Published on October 2, 2026

ChatGPT Reddit Citations: Is OpenAI Changing Its Citation Algorithm?

ChatGPT Reddit citations have nearly disappeared on the US retail and travel prompts we track, and the same two-step drop hit both industries in...

Competitive price intelligence workflow showing product matching, price normalization, validation, and decision-ready ecommerce pricing data

Published on October 1, 2026

Competitive Price Intelligence for Ecommerce: How to Evaluate Data Quality Before You Buy

Quick Answer Competitive price intelligence should be evaluated on the accuracy of product matching, unit-of-measure normalization, competitor and catalog coverage, data freshness, quality controls,...

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Published on September 29, 2026

Competitor PPC Analysis: How to Measure Text Ad Share of Voice

Competitor PPC analysis measures which advertisers show text ads on the searches you care about, how often they appear, where they sit on the...

Published on September 29, 2026

LLM Brand Sentiment: How to Measure AI Brand Perception

LLM brand sentiment is the tone an AI engine takes when it mentions your brand in an answer: positive, neutral, or negative. Some teams...

Your competitors' ChatGPT ads are easy to miss: GrowByData research tracking 44 prompts from August 26 to September 24, 2026, New York, US

Published on September 25, 2026

How to Track Competitor Ads in ChatGPT

You can’t track competitor ads in ChatGPT the way you track them on Google. There’s no Auction Insights, no ad library, and no report...

Published on September 25, 2026

AI Search Visibility Gap Analysis: When AI Cites You But Doesn’t Name You

An AI search visibility gap analysis shows where AI answers name your competitors and leave you out. We ran one on GrowByData. Across 3,028...

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Your AI search competitors aren't just the ones in your rank tracker

Published on September 24, 2026

The AI Search Visibility Landscape Is Bigger Than Your Competitor List

We tracked 44 prompts about search and AI visibility across ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity. The result was not a...

Google Shopping MAP Violations What 618,000 Price Checks Reveal

Published on September 23, 2026

Google Shopping MAP Violations: An Analysis of 617,958 Reseller-SKU Observations

Minimum advertised price (MAP) policies keep advertised prices consistent and protect the retailers that follow them. Enforcing one is harder, because it depends on...

Google AI-generated What Customers Love summary appearing in paid search ads with GrowByData search visibility monitoring

Published on September 18, 2026

Google’s “What Customers Love” AI Summaries Are Adding a New Layer to Search Ads

Google is testing a new AI-generated block inside some sponsored Search results, labeled “What customers love.” The feature uses customer feedback signals to generate...

Published on September 17, 2026

12 Generative Engine Optimization Best Practices For 2026

Generative engine optimization best practices are the habits that make your pages easy for AI search tools to find, trust, and cite. On Google,...

ai prompt tracking - why single prompt is not enough

Published on September 17, 2026

AI Prompt Tracking for Enterprise Brand Visibility

AI prompt tracking helps marketing and SEO teams understand how their brand appears across AI-generated answers. But one prompt, one platform, or one visibility...

why map violations keep coming back

Published on September 16, 2026

Why MAP Violations Keep Coming Back (and How to Stop Them)

MAP violations keep coming back when a program is built to find more alerts instead of reducing the violations that matter. Programs that work...

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Published on September 16, 2026

AEO vs GEO vs SEO: What’s the Difference, and What Should You Measure?

AEO vs GEO vs SEO comes down to where you want to show up. SEO gets your page ranked in search results. AEO (answer...

aeo analysis tools - How to Find the Gaps Tracking Tools Miss

Published on September 11, 2026

AEO Analysis Tools: How to Find the Gaps Tracking Tools Miss

Most AEO budgets go toward the same purchase: a dashboard that tells you how often ChatGPT or Perplexity mentioned your brand this week. That...