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Leading E-commerce Platforms Brands in AI Search in Canada

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

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Amazon leads AI search visibility in E-commerce Platforms on ChatGPT in Canada with a Goodie visibility score of 73.8, ahead of Shein (72.0) and Zara (71.4). The median score across the 10 ranked brands is 70.9, and a score above 67.5 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is reddit.com at 3.6% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 34.7%.

35k prompts · 2.6m AI answers · 11.6m citations · Goodie AI Visibility Index

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · E-commerce Platforms · ChatGPT
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
70.9
Half of the 10 ranked e-commerce platforms brands score below this. The midpoint, not the average, so a few dominant brands do not distort it.
Index-wide median is 70.0
Score to enter the top 10
67.5
Clearing 67.5 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 3.4 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
8.0
A typical answer names eight brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 8.7
Citation mix
  • UGC 5%
  • Editorial 5%
  • Reference 4%
  • Retail 11%
  • Other 75%
Other leads the third-party sources grounding e-commerce platforms 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
34.7%
Owned content is unusually strong here, brand domains are a citation source in their own right rather than just the subject of third-party coverage.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
58/100
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
2.6m
319k in October · ▲ 7.0% vs September
Citations parsed
11.6m
1m in October · ▼ 2.6% vs September
Brands observed
1,176
10 ranked here · 1,166 unranked

Brand Visibility Leaderboard

Brand visibility leaderboard for E-commerce Platforms, ranked by six-month average AI visibility score
#BrandVisibility scoreShare of voiceModelsΔ vs last monthSentimentTop cited source
01Amazon
73.8
10.5%ChatGPT▼ 13.861paypal.com
02Shein
72.0
10.2%ChatGPT▼ 7.273semrush.com
03Zara
71.4
10.1%ChatGPT▼ 12.265semrush.com
04Walmart Canada
71.1
10.1%ChatGPT▼ 12.361instacart.ca
05H&M
71.0
10.1%ChatGPT—29semrush.com
06eBay
70.8
10.0%ChatGPT▼ 8.565paypal.com
07Walmart
70.2
9.9%ChatGPT—66apnews.com
08PayPal
69.9
9.9%ChatGPT—63paypal.com
09Petco
68.3
9.7%ChatGPT—45bargainmoose.ca
10Instacart
67.5
9.6%ChatGPT—48instacart.ca
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 E-commerce Platforms
#DomainCitation shareΔ vs last month
01reddit.com
3.6%
—
02ebay.ca
2.7%
▼ 4.5
03walmart.ca
2.7%
—
04wikipedia.org
2.7%
—
05paypal.com
2.1%
▼ 1.7
06localpetreviews.com
1.9%
—
07etsy.com
1.8%
▼ 2.7
08alibaba.com
1.8%
—
09canada.ca
1.8%
—
10closo.co
1.8%
—
Top 10 of 2k domains observedΔ compares Oct with Sep, in percentage points

Prompts, Topics & Movers

What's driving this month's answers

Sampled prompts

Prompts sampled for E-commerce Platforms, with distinct brands named and sources cited
#PromptBrandsSources
01Online marketplaces for pet supplies4142
02Fashion e commerce sites trending this year5433
03Which platforms offer the best buyer protection?1533
04Grocery delivery apps with reliable service2727
05Platforms offering easy returns and refunds2323
5 of 35k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising

No rising brands this month.

Falling
Amazonscore 73.8
▼ 13.8
Walmart Canadascore 71.1
▼ 12.3
Zarascore 71.4
▼ 12.2
5 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±10.8/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
3,265,664 searches sampled
Tracked markets for E-commerce Platforms, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States1.8M
02United Kingdom460K
03Germany247K
04Canada189K
05France161K
06Australia133K
07Egypt104K
08Saudi Arabia72K
09Italy40K
10United Arab Emirates21K
11Singapore17K
12Japan10K
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

Amazon leads E-commerce Platforms this edition with a visibility score of 73.8, ahead of Shein at 72.0.

reddit.com is the most-cited source grounding e-commerce platforms answers, at roughly 3.6% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 34.7% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked e-commerce platforms brands is 70.9, and a score above 67.5 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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Amazon currently leads AI search visibility in e-commerce platforms with a Goodie visibility score of 73.8, measured across the tracked AI models.

reddit.com is the most-cited source in e-commerce platforms AI answers, grounding roughly 3.6% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked e-commerce platforms brands is 70.9. A score above 67.5 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.