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Leading Pharmaceuticals Brands in AI Search in Australia

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

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Merck & Co. leads AI search visibility in Pharmaceuticals on Copilot in Australia with a Goodie visibility score of 79.9, ahead of Johnson & Johnson (79.7) and Roche Diagnostics (79.1). The median score across the 10 ranked brands is 77.2, and a score above 74.9 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is wikipedia.org at 15.5% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 31.7%.

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

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · Pharmaceuticals · 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
77.2
Half of the 10 ranked pharmaceuticals brands score below this. The midpoint, not the average, so a few dominant brands do not distort it.
Index-wide median is 71.7
Score to enter the top 10
74.9
Clearing 74.9 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 2.3 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
9.6
A typical answer names ten brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 6.9
Citation mix
  • Editorial 2%
  • Reference 26%
  • Other 72%
Other leads the third-party sources grounding pharmaceuticals 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
31.7%
Owned content is in line with the index-wide average here.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
50/100
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
315k in October · ▲ 5.4% vs September
Citations parsed
11.6m
1m in October · ▼ 2.3% vs September
Brands observed
570
10 ranked here · 560 unranked

Brand Visibility Leaderboard

Brand visibility leaderboard for Pharmaceuticals, ranked by six-month average AI visibility score
#BrandVisibility scoreShare of voiceModelsΔ vs last monthSentimentTop cited source
01Merck & Co.
79.9
10.3%Copilot▼ 2.249onedayadvisor.com
02Johnson & Johnson
79.7
10.3%Copilot▲ 1.355evaluate.com
03Roche Diagnostics
79.1
10.2%Copilot▲ 1.134onedayadvisor.com
04GSK
77.5
10.0%Copilot▼ 10.145pharmashots.com
05Eli Lilly
77.3
10.0%Copilot▼ 6.455onedayadvisor.com
06GlaxoSmithKline
77.0
10.0%Copilot—58who.int
07AstraZeneca
76.9
9.9%Copilot▼ 0.750onedayadvisor.com
08Sanofi
76.2
9.8%Copilot—50who.int
09Pfizer
75.4
9.7%Copilot—52who.int
10Novartis
74.9
9.7%Copilot▲ 0.449onedayadvisor.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 Pharmaceuticals
#DomainCitation shareΔ vs last month
01wikipedia.org
15.5%
—
02fda.gov
10.3%
—
03fiercepharma.com
6.3%
—
04who.int
3.4%
▼ 1.7
05unicef.org
3.2%
—
06generichealth.com.au
2.7%
—
07lilly.com
2.7%
—
08publicnow.com
2.3%
—
09fiercebiotech.com
2.1%
▼ 3.6
10axios.com
1.8%
—
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 Pharmaceuticals, with distinct brands named and sources cited
#PromptBrandsSources
01Pharma companies driving innovation in oncology4130
02Which companies lead rare disease treatments?5728
03Generic drug companies doctors trust2524
04Pharma companies investing heavily in R and D2721
05Vaccine manufacturers supplying global markets5520
5 of 35k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising
▲ 1.3
▲ 1.1
Novartisscore 74.9
▲ 0.4
Falling
GSKscore 77.5
▼ 10.1
Eli Lillyscore 77.3
▼ 6.4
Merck & Co.score 79.9
▼ 2.2
7 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±3.2/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
85,947 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Pharmaceuticals, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States39K
02Japan28K
03United Kingdom12K
04Egypt2K
05Germany990
06Italy895
07Saudi Arabia723
08Australia669
09Canada613
10Singapore534
11France121
12United Arab Emirates104
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

Merck & Co. leads Pharmaceuticals this edition with a visibility score of 79.9, ahead of Johnson & Johnson at 79.7.

wikipedia.org is the most-cited source grounding pharmaceuticals answers, at roughly 15.5% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 31.7% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked pharmaceuticals brands is 77.2, and a score above 74.9 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 · Pharmaceuticals

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Merck & Co. currently leads AI search visibility in pharmaceuticals with a Goodie visibility score of 79.9, measured across the tracked AI models.

wikipedia.org is the most-cited source in pharmaceuticals AI answers, grounding roughly 15.5% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked pharmaceuticals brands is 77.2. A score above 74.9 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.