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Leading Insurance Brands in AI Search in Australia

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

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Erie Insurance leads AI search visibility in Insurance on Perplexity in Australia with a Goodie visibility score of 86.9, ahead of Guardian Life (81.6) and Northwestern Mutual (80.4). The median score across the 10 ranked brands is 78.7, and a score above 75.8 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is insurance.com at 4.3% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 7.7%.

35k prompts · 2.6m AI answers · 11.3m citations · Goodie AI Visibility Index

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · Insurance · 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
78.7
Half of the 10 ranked insurance brands score below this. The midpoint, not the average, so a few dominant brands do not distort it.
Index-wide median is 76.1
Score to enter the top 10
75.8
Clearing 75.8 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 3.0 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
7.1
A typical answer names seven brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 7.0
Citation mix
  • UGC 4%
  • Editorial 7%
  • Video 2%
  • Reference 9%
  • Other 78%
Other leads the third-party sources grounding insurance 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
7.7%
Owned content is weak here: third-party sources decide most of these answers.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
61/100
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
325k in October · ▲ 8.7% vs September
Citations parsed
11.3m
1m in October · ▼ 3.1% vs September
Brands observed
959
10 ranked here · 949 unranked

Brand Visibility Leaderboard

Brand visibility leaderboard for Insurance, ranked by six-month average AI visibility score
#BrandVisibility scoreShare of voiceModelsΔ vs last monthSentimentTop cited source
01Erie Insurance
86.9
11.0%Perplexity—50money.com
02Guardian Life
81.6
10.3%Perplexity—58advratings.com
03Northwestern Mutual
80.4
10.1%Perplexity▼ 9.769marketwatch.com
04New York Life
80.3
10.1%Perplexity▼ 5.463marketwatch.com
05GEICO
79.4
10.0%Perplexity▼ 5.050thezebra.com
06Kaiser Permanente
78.1
9.8%Perplexity▼ 6.768forbes.com
07State Farm
77.9
9.8%Perplexity▼ 12.359insurance.com
08Amica
76.8
9.7%Perplexity—68insurance.com
09USAA
76.6
9.7%Perplexity▼ 4.560insurance.com
10Travelers
75.8
9.5%Perplexity▼ 8.668insurance.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 Insurance
#DomainCitation shareΔ vs last month
01insurance.com
4.3%
▼ 2.6
02cambridge.org
3.6%
—
03ncfbins.com
3.6%
—
04oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com
3.6%
—
05youtube.com
3.6%
—
06forbes.com
3.3%
▲ 2.9
07moneygeek.com
3.2%
—
08insure.com
2.8%
—
09investopedia.com
2.8%
▼ 1.7
10choice.com.au
2.7%
—
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 Insurance, with distinct brands named and sources cited
#PromptBrandsSources
01Health insurance providers with smooth claims experience1855
02Life insurance providers with strong financial ratings2239
03Auto insurance companies trusted by drivers2538
04Which insurance companies settle claims fastest?3734
05Takaful insurance providers popular in the region3128
5 of 35k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising

No rising brands this month.

Falling
State Farmscore 77.9
▼ 12.3
▼ 9.7
Travelersscore 75.8
▼ 8.6
7 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±7.5/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
101,065 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Insurance, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States71K
02United Kingdom19K
03Japan3K
04Australia2K
05Canada2K
06Germany1K
07Saudi Arabia908
08United Arab Emirates417
09Italy415
10Egypt387
11France300
12Singapore259
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

Erie Insurance leads Insurance this edition with a visibility score of 86.9, ahead of Guardian Life at 81.6.

insurance.com is the most-cited source grounding insurance answers, at roughly 4.3% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 7.7% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked insurance brands is 78.7, and a score above 75.8 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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FAQ · Insurance

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Erie Insurance currently leads AI search visibility in insurance with a Goodie visibility score of 86.9, measured across the tracked AI models.

insurance.com is the most-cited source in insurance AI answers, grounding roughly 4.3% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked insurance brands is 78.7. A score above 75.8 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.