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Leading Consumer Electronics – General Brands in AI Search in China

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

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Apple leads AI search visibility in Consumer Electronics – General on AI Mode in China with a Goodie visibility score of 74.8, ahead of Sony (72.6) and Samsung (71.9). The median score across the 10 ranked brands is 69.7, and a score above 65.5 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is youtube.com at 5.9% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 15.7%.

35k prompts · 2.5m AI answers · 11m citations · Goodie AI Visibility Index

Industry Benchmarks

October 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
69.7
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
65.5
Clearing 65.5 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 4.2 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
6.1
A typical answer names six brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 7.9
Citation mix
  • UGC 5%
  • Editorial 21%
  • Video 4%
  • Reference 3%
  • Retail 2%
  • Other 65%
Other leads the third-party sources grounding consumer electronics – general answers. Brand-owned citations sit in the next cell and are not counted here. “Other” covers domains we have not classified into a type yet.
Brand-owned citation share
15.7%
Owned content is weak here: third-party sources decide most of these answers.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
74/100
Mean tone of mentions across the ranked brands that carry a measured value. Per-brand sentiment sits on each brand profile.
Prompts sampled
35k
Real buyer phrasing, 4 models
AI answers analysed
2.5m
311k in October · ▲ 7.6% vs September
Citations parsed
11m
991k in October · ▲ 3.3% vs September
Brands observed
413
10 ranked here · 403 unranked

Brand Visibility Leaderboard

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
74.8
10.7%AI Mode▲ 9.871youtube.com
02Sony
72.6
10.4%AI Mode▲ 6.675rtings.com
03Samsung
71.9
10.3%AI Mode▲ 9.372youtube.com
04Bose
71.6
10.3%AI Mode▲ 4.479rtings.com
05HP
69.9
10.0%AI Mode▼ 7.072pcmag.com
06Google
69.4
10.0%AI Mode▲ 1.679pcmag.com
07Lenovo
68.8
9.9%AI Mode▲ 4.769pcmag.com
08OnePlus
66.9
9.6%AI Mode▲ 5.581alibaba.com
09ASUS
65.9
9.4%AI Mode—68compuden.co.za
10Oppo
65.5
9.4%AI Mode▲ 2.974alibaba.com
10 ranked · visibility is a six-month averageTop source = most frequent source in answers mentioning the brand · Δ compares Oct with Sep

Most-Cited Domains

The answer supply chain
Most-cited domains in AI answers for Consumer Electronics – General
#DomainCitation shareΔ vs last month
01youtube.com
5.9%
▲ 0.9
02pcmag.com
5.6%
—
03mashable.com
4.7%
—
04forbes.com
4.5%
—
05xp-pen.com
4.2%
—
06techadvisor.com
3.6%
—
07croma.com
3.6%
—
08rtings.com
3.2%
▲ 0.9
09trustedreviews.com
3.2%
—
10phonebot.com.au
2.9%
—
Top 10 of 1k domains observedΔ compares Oct with Sep, in percentage points

Prompts, Topics & Movers

What's driving this month's answers

Sampled prompts

Prompts sampled for Consumer Electronics – General, with distinct brands named and sources cited
#PromptBrandsSources
01Flagship smartphones that feel worth the price1468
02Noise canceling headphones for frequent flyers1765
03Which laptops do students rely on daily?1253
04Tablets creative professionals use for work1942
05学生每天真正在用哪台笔记本?97
5 of 35k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising
Applescore 74.8
▲ 9.8
Samsungscore 71.9
▲ 9.3
Sonyscore 72.6
▲ 6.6
Falling
HPscore 69.9
▼ 7.0
9 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±5.8/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
2,549,323 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Consumer Electronics – General, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States1.2M
02United Kingdom411K
03Germany352K
04Australia135K
05Canada107K
06Japan100K
07Egypt66K
08France49K
09Italy46K
10Saudi Arabia32K
11United Arab Emirates31K
12Singapore22K
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

Apple leads Consumer Electronics – General this edition with a visibility score of 74.8, ahead of Sony at 72.6.

youtube.com is the most-cited source grounding consumer electronics – general answers, at roughly 5.9% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 15.7% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked consumer electronics – general brands is 69.7, and a score above 65.5 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 run these prompts across the tracked models and across every market we cover, so each market is scored on its own answers rather than on a global average applied everywhere.

Attribution Mapping

We analyze the generated answers to capture the "Kingmaker" domains: the specific sources models cite most often in the answers that name a brand, so you can see which sources the models lean on where you appear and where you do not.

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FAQ · Consumer Electronics – General

Questions?
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the Answers.

Apple currently leads AI search visibility in consumer electronics – general with a Goodie visibility score of 74.8, measured across the tracked AI models.

youtube.com is the most-cited source in consumer electronics – general AI answers, grounding roughly 5.9% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked consumer electronics – general brands is 69.7. A score above 65.5 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.