# BrightEdge — the record

Enterprise SEO platform whose weekly AI-search analyses — Reddit's citation curve, YouTube slices, category shifts — supply a large share of this record's measured numbers.

Ten items and one throughline: BrightEdge's weekly panel is where the record's Reddit numbers come from. Its analysis put Reddit's tracked search footprint up roughly 33x between June 2025 and February 2026 and its AI citations up about 84% from February to July before plateauing; a later cut found Reddit citations skew to shoppers who already know the brand; and in September its Education-category panel showed Reddit's ChatGPT citations falling from 17.2% to zero in two weeks. The same panel keeps finding that the two big engines cite differently — different assets within the same social platforms, different slices of the same YouTube video (Google links a timestamped moment in 50% of its YouTube citations, ChatGPT in 0.6%), and different authorities in health, where ChatGPT's top five cited domains are all government agencies or hospital systems. On the product side BrightEdge launched Agent Edge, which serves agents a Markdown version of a page at the CDN layer, and rebranded Autopilot as Site Agent inside a new agents suite. Every study is vendor-published and labelled as such; the record carries no independent replication of the panel.

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- 2026-09-11: BrightEdge: Reddit's ChatGPT education citations hit zero (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-09-11-brightedge-reddit-s-chatgpt-education-citations-hit-zero/)
  Reddit's presence in ChatGPT's Education-category citations fell from 17.2% to 0% across two weeks in August 2026, according to a BrightEdge analysis…
- 2026-09-03: BrightEdge renames Autopilot to Site Agent, adds two more automation agents (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-09-03-brightedge-renames-autopilot-to-site-agent-adds-two-more-automation/)
  BrightEdge has rebranded Autopilot — its internal-linking automation tool with a decade of production history — as "Site Agent," now the first of three…
- 2026-08-31: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews split on health authority sources (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-31-chatgpt-google-ai-overviews-split-on-health-authority-sources/)
  ChatGPT's top five cited domains for health questions are all government agencies or hospital systems, with YouTube absent from its top ten, while Google…
- 2026-08-27: BrightEdge: Reddit citations skew to brand-aware AI shoppers (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-27-brightedge-reddit-citations-skew-to-brand-aware-ai-shoppers/)
  BrightEdge's latest weekly AI-search analysis, covering May 17-August 2, 2026 across Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT in nine industries, finds that…
- 2026-08-26: BrightEdge launches Agent Edge to make sites AI-agent ready (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-26-brightedge-launches-agent-edge-to-make-sites-ai-agent-ready/)
  BrightEdge launched Agent Edge, a platform that detects AI-agent requests at the CDN layer and serves a lightweight, Markdown-formatted version of a…
- 2026-08-24: AI Overviews' finance expansion flipped who wins ticker queries (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-24-ai-overviews-finance-expansion-flipped-who-wins-ticker-queries/)
  Google AI Overviews expanded into the finance category in April 2026, shifting query volume toward ticker lookups, according to a BrightEdge analysis of…
- 2026-08-20: Google and ChatGPT cite different slices of the same YouTube video (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-20-google-and-chatgpt-cite-different-slices-of-the-same-youtube-video/)
  Google AI Overviews links to a timestamped moment in 50% of its YouTube citations and to Shorts in 17.5%, versus 0.6% and 1.1% for ChatGPT, according to a…
- 2026-08-16: BrightEdge: Reddit's AI citation surge has plateaued at a higher baseline (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-16-brightedge-reddit-s-ai-citation-surge-has-plateaued-at-a-higher/)
  Reddit's tracked search footprint expanded roughly 33x between June 2025 and February 2026, and its AI citations grew about 84% between February and July…
- 2026-08-16: Study finds ChatGPT and AI Overviews cite different parts of social platforms (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-16-study-finds-chatgpt-and-ai-overviews-cite-different-parts-of-social/)
  Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT cite different assets within the same social platforms, not just different domains, according to a BrightEdge analysis of…

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