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Leading Consumer Electronics – General Brands in AI Search

The same monthly sample, re-ranked using only AI Mode answers.

August 2026 edition

Across the six months through August 2026, Apple leads AI search visibility in Consumer Electronics – General on AI Mode with a Goodie visibility score of 77.0, ahead of Bose (72.2) and Sony (72.1). The median score across the 10 ranked brands is 70.3. The most-cited source grounding these answers is google.com at 15.1% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 36.2%.

5k prompts · 1.7m AI answers · 7.6m citations · Goodie AI Visibility Index

Industry Benchmarks

August 2026 · Consumer Electronics – General · AI Mode
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
70.3
Half of the 10 ranked consumer electronics – general brands score below this. The midpoint, not the average, so a few dominant brands do not distort it.
Index-wide median is 71.9
Score to enter the top 10
—
Fewer than ten brands are ranked in this category, so there is no top-ten bar to report yet.
Brands named per answer
5.4
A typical answer names five brands, so the consideration set is narrow and a mention is hard-won.
Index-wide average is 8.8
Citation mix
  • UGC 5%
  • Editorial 25%
  • Video 6%
  • Reference 1%
  • Retail 4%
  • Other 59%
Other leads the third-party sources grounding consumer electronics – general answers. Brand-owned citations sit in the next cell and are not counted here.
Brand-owned citation share
36.2%
Owned content is unusually strong here — brand domains are a citation source in their own right, not just the subject of third-party coverage.
Index-wide average is 24.2%
Industry sentiment
80/100
Mean tone of mentions across all ranked brands. Per-brand sentiment sits on each brand profile.
Prompts sampled
5k
Real buyer phrasing, 4 models
AI answers analysed
1.7m
202k in August · ▲ 5.8% vs July
Citations parsed
7.6m
1m in August · ▼ 0.7% vs July
Brands observed
332
10 ranked here · 322 unranked

Brand Visibility Leaderboard

All models AI Mode ChatGPT Copilot Perplexity
Brand visibility leaderboard for Consumer Electronics – General, ranked by six-month average AI visibility score
#BrandVisibility scoreShare of voiceModelsΔ vs last monthSentimentTop cited source
01Apple
77.0
11.1%AI Mode▼ 1.483au.pcmag.com
02Bose
72.2
10.4%AI Mode▼ 10.881escape.com.au
03Sony
72.1
10.4%AI Mode▲ 7.481escape.com.au
04Dell
71.0
10.2%AI Mode—81au.pcmag.com
05Microsoft
70.4
10.1%AI Mode▼ 5.080google.com
06Samsung
70.2
10.1%AI Mode▲ 8.480techradar.com
07Lenovo
68.3
9.8%AI Mode—79au.pcmag.com
08HP
66.2
9.5%AI Mode▼ 18.178au.pcmag.com
09Wacom
64.3
9.2%AI Mode—77xp-pen.com
10Sennheiser
63.4
9.1%AI Mode▼ 8.177escape.com.au
10 ranked · visibility is a six-month averageTop source = most frequent source in answers mentioning the brand · Δ compares Aug with Jul

Most-Cited Domains

The answer supply chain
Most-cited domains in AI answers for Consumer Electronics – General
#DomainCitation shareΔ vs last month
01google.com
15.1%
▼ 4.4
02au.pcmag.com
9.5%
—
03youtube.com
8.0%
▲ 4.6
04pcmag.com
5.2%
▲ 6.4
05zdnet.com
4.5%
—
06vertu.com
4.0%
▲ 1.8
07xp-pen.com
3.7%
—
08rtings.com
3.6%
—
09sundr.ca
3.6%
—
10lenovo.com
3.6%
—
Top 10 of 1k domains observedΔ compares Aug with Jul, in percentage points

Prompts, Topics & Movers

What's driving this month's answers

Top prompts

Top prompts sampled for Consumer Electronics – General, with distinct brands named and sources cited
#PromptBrandsSources
01Flagship smartphones that feel worth the price699
02Tablets creative professionals use for work881
03Which laptops do students rely on daily?867
04Tech products known for durability and support2059
05Noise canceling headphones for frequent flyers626
Top 5 of 5k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Aug vs Jul
Rising
Samsungscore 70.2
▲ 8.4
Sonyscore 72.1
▲ 7.4
Falling
HPscore 66.2
▼ 18.1
Bosescore 72.2
▼ 10.8
Sennheiserscore 63.4
▼ 8.1
7 ranked brands scored in both Jul and AugIndustry avg ±8.4/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
4,674,740 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Consumer Electronics – General, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States2.2M
02United Kingdom747K
03Germany604K
04Australia251K
05Canada211K
06Japan177K
07Egypt123K
08France107K
09Italy75K
10Saudi Arabia67K
11United Arab Emirates63K
12Singapore43K
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

Apple leads Consumer Electronics – General this edition with a visibility score of 77.0, ahead of Bose at 72.2.

google.com is the most-cited source grounding consumer electronics – general answers, at roughly 15.1% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 36.2% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked consumer electronics – general brands is 70.3, and a score above 54.4 reaches the industry top ten.

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Our Methodology

Our Approach to Gathering AI Visibility Data

We process millions of real prompts across AI Mode, ChatGPT, Copilot and Perplexity, then track which brands, products, and domains show up in the answers. That's the raw data behind every score in the Index.

Real Intent Capture

This data results from processing millions of real user prompts. We use advanced semantic and agentic processing to categorize them and define intent, filtering out noise to focus on high-value queries.

Global Model Interrogation

We execute these prompts across different models, including GPT, Perplexity, AI Mode, and more, and across different regions. This allows us to map model understand exactly "how they think" in each market.

Attribution Mapping

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Apple currently leads AI search visibility in consumer electronics – general with a Goodie visibility score of 77.0, measured across the tracked AI models.

google.com is the most-cited source in consumer electronics – general AI answers, grounding roughly 15.1% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked consumer electronics – general brands is 70.3. A score above 54.4 places a brand in the industry top ten.

Each edition samples the same tracked prompt set across the models Goodie follows, then ranks brands by how often they are named in those answers.

Monthly. Each edition re-samples the tracked prompt set so month-over-month figures are directly comparable.