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Leading E-commerce Platforms Brands in AI Search in Germany

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

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Returnly leads AI search visibility in E-commerce Platforms on Perplexity in Germany with a Goodie visibility score of 84.4, ahead of Zara (81.9) and Zooplus (80.9). The median score across the 10 ranked brands is 80.3, and a score above 79.5 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is youtube.com at 4.4% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 20.8%.

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

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · E-commerce Platforms · 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
80.3
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 76.3
Score to enter the top 10
79.5
Clearing 79.5 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 0.9 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
7.0
A typical answer names seven brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 6.6
Citation mix
  • UGC 7%
  • Editorial 2%
  • Video 3%
  • Reference 7%
  • Retail 4%
  • Other 77%
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
20.8%
Owned content sits below the index-wide average here: third-party sources decide most of these answers.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
55/100
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
01Returnly
84.4
10.5%Perplexity—60devopsschool.com
02Zara
81.9
10.1%Perplexity—54shippypro.com
03Zooplus
80.9
10.0%Perplexity—58zooplus.com
04Visa
80.7
10.0%Perplexity—41f6s.com
05Walmart
80.3
10.0%Perplexity—63healthline.com
06ASOS
80.3
9.9%Perplexity—50shippypro.com
07Shein
80.2
9.9%Perplexity—53shippypro.com
08Farfetch
79.6
9.9%Perplexity▼ 0.250shippypro.com
09Zalando
79.5
9.8%Perplexity▼ 1.549shippypro.com
10Instacart
79.5
9.8%Perplexity—71goodhousekeeping.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 E-commerce Platforms
#DomainCitation shareΔ vs last month
01youtube.com
4.4%
—
02reddit.com
3.9%
—
03cambridge.org
3.5%
—
04refundid.com
3.3%
—
05shopify.com
3.0%
▲ 0.2
06ebay.de
2.7%
—
07apple.com
2.6%
—
08google.com
2.6%
—
09otto.de
2.6%
—
10wikipedia.org
2.6%
—
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
01Which platforms offer the best buyer protection?2152
02Fashion e commerce sites trending this year4648
03Online marketplaces for pet supplies2444
04Platforms offering easy returns and refunds1834
05Wo kaufe ich online Zeug für Hund oder Katze, ohne Schrott zu erwischen?1019
5 of 35k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising

No rising brands this month.

Falling
Zalandoscore 79.5
▼ 1.5
Farfetchscore 79.6
▼ 0.2
2 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±0.8/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
95,722 searches sampled
Tracked markets for E-commerce Platforms, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States68K
02United Kingdom13K
03Germany4K
04France2K
05Canada2K
06Australia2K
07Egypt2K
08Saudi Arabia1K
09Italy580
10United Arab Emirates315
11Singapore254
12Japan241
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

Returnly leads E-commerce Platforms this edition with a visibility score of 84.4, ahead of Zara at 81.9.

youtube.com is the most-cited source grounding e-commerce platforms answers, at roughly 4.4% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 20.8% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked e-commerce platforms brands is 80.3, and a score above 79.5 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 · E-commerce Platforms

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Returnly currently leads AI search visibility in e-commerce platforms with a Goodie visibility score of 84.4, measured across the tracked AI models.

youtube.com is the most-cited source in e-commerce platforms AI answers, grounding roughly 4.4% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked e-commerce platforms brands is 80.3. A score above 79.5 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.