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Leading Consumer Electronics – General Brands in AI Search in China

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

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Honor leads AI search visibility in Consumer Electronics – General on Perplexity in China with a Goodie visibility score of 76.3, ahead of Apple (73.7) and Lenovo (72.1). The median score across the 10 ranked brands is 71.6, and a score above 68.5 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is sina.cn at 12.9% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 7.5%.

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

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · Consumer Electronics – General · Perplexity
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
71.6
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 73.0
Score to enter the top 10
68.5
Clearing 68.5 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 3.2 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
5.8
A typical answer names six brands, so the consideration set is narrow and a mention is hard-won.
Index-wide average is 8.1
Citation mix
  • UGC 2%
  • Editorial 17%
  • Video 6%
  • Retail 2%
  • Other 73%
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
7.5%
Owned content is weak here: third-party sources decide most of these answers.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
65/100
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
01Honor
76.3
10.6%Perplexity▲ 11.247youtube.com
02Apple
73.7
10.3%Perplexity▲ 3.963youtube.com
03Lenovo
72.1
10.0%Perplexity▲ 7.162youtube.com
04Samsung
72.1
10.0%Perplexity▼ 2.461pcmag.com
05Google
71.7
10.0%Perplexity▲ 5.272gsmarena.com
06Microsoft
71.6
10.0%Perplexity—72pcmag.com
07Sony
71.4
10.0%Perplexity▲ 9.275popsci.com
08OnePlus
71.1
9.9%Perplexity▲ 2.371mobileverse.co.uk
09Bose
69.2
9.6%Perplexity▲ 3.069popsci.com
10Dell
68.5
9.5%Perplexity—63electroiq.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
01sina.cn
12.9%
▲ 3.3
02youtube.com
8.6%
—
03sina.com.cn
8.4%
▼ 0.4
04pcmag.com
4.3%
▼ 3.2
05cnet.com
4.0%
▲ 2.9
06nytimes.com
3.9%
▼ 4.1
07mashable.com
3.3%
—
08holdmybill.com
3.3%
—
09vocus.cc
3.1%
▲ 1.1
10163.com
3.1%
▼ 0.7
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
01Tablets creative professionals use for work1037
02Which laptops do students rely on daily?837
03Flagship smartphones that feel worth the price1033
04Noise canceling headphones for frequent flyers930
05哪家电子产品耐用,售后也真的有人理?623
5 of 35k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising
Honorscore 76.3
▲ 11.2
Sonyscore 71.4
▲ 9.2
Lenovoscore 72.1
▲ 7.1
Falling
Samsungscore 72.1
▼ 2.4
8 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±5.6/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
137,901 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Consumer Electronics – General, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States76K
02United Kingdom31K
03Germany13K
04Australia4K
05Canada3K
06Japan3K
07Egypt2K
08France2K
09Italy1K
10Saudi Arabia991
11United Arab Emirates962
12Singapore692
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

Honor leads Consumer Electronics – General this edition with a visibility score of 76.3, ahead of Apple at 73.7.

sina.cn is the most-cited source grounding consumer electronics – general answers, at roughly 12.9% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 7.5% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked consumer electronics – general brands is 71.6, and a score above 68.5 reaches the industry top ten.

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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.

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Honor currently leads AI search visibility in consumer electronics – general with a Goodie visibility score of 76.3, measured across the tracked AI models.

sina.cn is the most-cited source in consumer electronics – general AI answers, grounding roughly 12.9% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked consumer electronics – general brands is 71.6. A score above 68.5 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.