Market cut · Japan

Leading Personal Care & Household Brands in AI Search in Japan

The Personal Care & Household index re-ranked using only prompts and answers from Japan.

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Colgate leads AI search visibility in Personal Care & Household in Japan with a Goodie visibility score of 77.5, ahead of Pampers (76.7) and Tide (76.2). The median score across the 21 ranked brands is 37.1, and a score above 37.5 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is ubuy.com at 8.2% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 10.3%.

34k prompts · 2.6m AI answers · 11.5m citations · Goodie AI Visibility Index

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · Personal Care & Household · Japan
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
37.1
Half of the 21 ranked personal care & household brands score below this. The midpoint, not the average, so a few dominant brands do not distort it.
Index-wide median is 73.2
Score to enter the top 10
37.5
Clearing 37.5 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 0.5 points above the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
9.0
A typical answer names nine brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 7.6
Citation mix
  • UGC 3%
  • Editorial 3%
  • Video 1%
  • Reference 5%
  • Retail 1%
  • Other 87%
Other leads the third-party sources grounding personal care & household 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
10.3%
Owned content is weak here: third-party sources decide most of these answers.
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
34k
Real buyer phrasing, 4 models
AI answers analysed
2.6m
301k in October · ▲ 19.9% vs September
Citations parsed
11.5m
1m in October · ▲ 19.5% vs September
Brands observed
1,122
21 ranked here · 1,101 unranked

Brand Visibility Leaderboard

Brand visibility leaderboard for Personal Care & Household, ranked by six-month average AI visibility score
#BrandVisibility scoreShare of voiceModelsΔ vs last monthSentimentTop cited source
01Colgate
77.5
10.1%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▲ 1.354nbcnews.com
02Pampers
76.7
10.0%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 1.656babylist.com
03Tide
76.2
10.0%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 0.671consumerreports.org
04Crest
57.9
7.6%AI ModeChatGPTPerplexity▼ 1.359nbcnews.com
05Huggies
57.3
7.5%ChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 1.857babylist.com
06Sensodyne
39.8
5.2%AI ModePerplexity—63nbcnews.com
07Johnson's Baby
38.5
5.0%CopilotPerplexity▼ 0.154moast.io
08Persil
37.9
5.0%AI ModeChatGPT—73consumerreports.org
09Blueland
37.8
4.9%CopilotPerplexity—66blueland.com
10CeraVe
37.5
4.9%AI ModeCopilot—69freeyourself.com
21 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 Personal Care & Household
#DomainCitation shareΔ vs last month
01ubuy.com
8.2%
—
02amazon.co.jp
7.5%
—
03liberia.ubuy.com
6.4%
—
04instagram.com
4.9%
—
05apple.com
4.8%
—
06note.com
4.2%
—
07my-best.com
3.8%
—
08ada.org
3.8%
▲ 6.2
09thingtesting.com
3.6%
—
10ubuy.com.bh
3.6%
—
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 Personal Care & Household, with distinct brands named and sources cited
#PromptBrandsSources
01Baby care brands parents trust136200
02Personal care brands consumers buy repeatedly126169
03Household cleaning brands with eco friendly products87142
04Toothpaste brands recommended by dentists53113
05ちゃんと落ちて、環境にもそこまで悪くない洗剤はどれ?1525
5 of 34k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising
Sarayascore 18.9
▲ 2.0
Colgatescore 77.5
▲ 1.3
Lululunscore 18.6
▲ 0.3
Falling
Ecoverscore 17.6
▼ 2.7
▼ 2.5
Methodscore 19.7
▼ 2.2
16 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±1.3/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
2,384,714 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Personal Care & Household, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States1.3M
02United Kingdom592K
03Australia134K
04Canada107K
05Japan88K
06Germany68K
07Italy39K
08Egypt19K
09France18K
10Singapore13K
11United Arab Emirates11K
12Saudi Arabia11K
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

Colgate leads Personal Care & Household this edition with a visibility score of 77.5, ahead of Pampers at 76.7.

ubuy.com is the most-cited source grounding personal care & household answers, at roughly 8.2% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 10.3% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked personal care & household brands is 37.1, and a score above 37.5 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 · Personal Care & Household

Questions?
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the Answers.

Colgate currently leads AI search visibility in personal care & household with a Goodie visibility score of 77.5, measured across the tracked AI models.

ubuy.com is the most-cited source in personal care & household AI answers, grounding roughly 8.2% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked personal care & household brands is 37.1. A score above 37.5 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.