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Leading E-commerce Platforms Brands in AI Search in the United States

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

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Gymshark leads AI search visibility in E-commerce Platforms on Copilot in United States with a Goodie visibility score of 75.7, ahead of PetSmart (75.5) and eBay (75.1). The median score across the 10 ranked brands is 73.3, and a score above 70.8 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is statista.com at 6.4% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 25.7%.

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

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · E-commerce Platforms · Copilot
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
73.3
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 71.3
Score to enter the top 10
70.8
Clearing 70.8 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 2.5 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
6.6
A typical answer names seven brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 7.2
Citation mix
  • UGC 2%
  • Editorial 3%
  • Reference 18%
  • Retail 17%
  • Other 60%
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
25.7%
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
60/100
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
01Gymshark
75.7
10.3%Copilot—70shopify.com
02PetSmart
75.5
10.3%Copilot—53thevetdesk.com
03eBay
75.1
10.2%Copilot—63ebay.com
04Shein
74.9
10.2%Copilot—71alibaba.com
05Chewy
73.4
10.0%Copilot—74thevetdesk.com
06Amazon
73.2
10.0%Copilot—56thevetdesk.com
07Instacart
73.1
9.9%Copilot—39fortune.com
08AfterShip
72.3
9.8%Copilot—63aftership.com
09Walmart
71.3
9.7%Copilot▼ 4.867walmart.com
10Petco
70.8
9.6%Copilot▼ 6.447thevetdesk.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
01statista.com
6.4%
—
02chewy.com
5.4%
—
03wikipedia.org
3.6%
—
04shopify.com
3.5%
—
05amazon.com
2.7%
—
06ebay.com
2.1%
—
07walmart.com
2.1%
—
08consumerreports.org
1.9%
—
09alibaba.com
1.8%
—
10purchy.ai
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
01Fashion e commerce sites trending this year3733
02Platforms offering easy returns and refunds2723
03Grocery delivery apps with reliable service2023
04Online marketplaces for pet supplies2217
05Which platforms offer the best buyer protection?2416
5 of 35k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising

No rising brands this month.

Falling
Petcoscore 70.8
▼ 6.4
Walmartscore 71.3
▼ 4.8
2 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±5.6/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
78,123 searches sampled
Tracked markets for E-commerce Platforms, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States47K
02United Kingdom7K
03Germany6K
04France4K
05Australia3K
06Canada3K
07Egypt3K
08Saudi Arabia2K
09Japan1K
10Italy981
11United Arab Emirates551
12Singapore450
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

Gymshark leads E-commerce Platforms this edition with a visibility score of 75.7, ahead of PetSmart at 75.5.

statista.com is the most-cited source grounding e-commerce platforms answers, at roughly 6.4% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 25.7% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked e-commerce platforms brands is 73.3, and a score above 70.8 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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Gymshark currently leads AI search visibility in e-commerce platforms with a Goodie visibility score of 75.7, measured across the tracked AI models.

statista.com is the most-cited source in e-commerce platforms AI answers, grounding roughly 6.4% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked e-commerce platforms brands is 73.3. A score above 70.8 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.