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Leading Specialty Retail Brands in AI Search

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

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, MWI Animal Health leads AI search visibility in Specialty Retail on ChatGPT with a Goodie visibility score of 73.2, ahead of Home Depot (72.7) and Patterson Veterinary Supply (72.2). The median score across the 7 ranked brands is 71.5. The most-cited source grounding these answers is wikipedia.org at 4.1% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 28.7%.

35k prompts · 2.6m AI answers · 12.2m citations · Goodie AI Visibility Index

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · Specialty Retail · ChatGPT
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
71.5
Half of the 7 ranked specialty retail brands score below this. The midpoint, not the average, so a few dominant brands do not distort it.
Score to enter the top 10
—
Fewer than ten brands are ranked in this category, so there is no top-ten bar to report yet.
Brands named per answer
6.2
A typical answer names six brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Citation mix
  • UGC 1%
  • Editorial 2%
  • Reference 2%
  • Retail 1%
  • Other 94%
Other leads the third-party sources grounding specialty retail 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
28.7%
Owned content is in line with the index-wide average here.
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 · ▲ 7.4% vs September
Citations parsed
12.2m
1m in October · ▲ 3.0% vs September
Brands observed
1,657
7 ranked here · 1,650 unranked

Brand Visibility Leaderboard

Brand visibility leaderboard for Specialty Retail, ranked by six-month average AI visibility score
#BrandVisibility scoreShare of voiceModelsΔ vs last monthSentimentMarketsTop cited source
01MWI Animal Health
73.2
14.7%ChatGPT▼ 1.76111/13covetrus.com
02Home Depot
72.7
14.6%ChatGPT▼ 2.87213/13buildwithdave.com
03Patterson Veterinary Supply
72.2
14.5%ChatGPT—6110/13covetrus.com
04Nike
71.5
14.4%ChatGPT▲ 1.3275/13nike.com
05IKEA
70.9
14.2%ChatGPT▲ 2.0498/13tomsguide.com
06Covetrus
69.4
13.9%ChatGPT▲ 0.9638/13covetrus.com
07Lowe's
67.8
13.6%ChatGPT▼ 5.4498/13buildwithdave.com
7 ranked · visibility is a six-month average · worldwide ranking requires presence in at least 5 of 13 marketsTop 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 Specialty Retail
#DomainCitation shareΔ vs last month
01wikipedia.org
4.1%
—
02mediaworld.it
3.8%
▼ 2.5
03mallofegypt.com
3.6%
—
04unieuro.it
3.5%
▼ 2.5
05which.co.uk
3.0%
▼ 3.5
06bestbuy.ca
2.8%
▼ 1.7
072b.com.eg
2.8%
▲ 2.0
08hkexnews.hk
2.7%
—
09insider-trends.com
2.7%
—
10sportsmallegypt.com
2.7%
—
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 Specialty Retail, with distinct brands named and sources cited
#PromptBrandsSources
01Sporting goods retailers selling authentic brands4043
02Best veterinary medical supply retailers4341
03Electronics retailers with strong after sales support2939
04Furniture retailers balancing quality and price2634
05Which home improvement stores contractors prefer?1323
5 of 35k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising
IKEAscore 70.9
▲ 2.0
Nikescore 71.5
▲ 1.3
Covetrusscore 69.4
▲ 0.9
Falling
Lowe'sscore 67.8
▼ 5.4
Home Depotscore 72.7
▼ 2.8
▼ 1.7
6 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±2.3/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
3,650,414 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Specialty Retail, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States2.4M
02United Kingdom268K
03Canada224K
04Australia154K
05France151K
06Germany133K
07Japan121K
08Egypt61K
09Italy53K
10Saudi Arabia19K
11United Arab Emirates12K
12Singapore7K
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

MWI Animal Health leads Specialty Retail this edition with a visibility score of 73.2, ahead of Home Depot at 72.7.

wikipedia.org is the most-cited source grounding specialty retail answers, at roughly 4.1% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 28.7% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked specialty retail brands is 71.5.

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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

Each tracked industry has a fixed set of prompts modelled on how people actually ask about it, so one month can be compared directly with the next.

Global Model Interrogation

We run each industry's prompts across the tracked models in each 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 · Specialty Retail

Questions?
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the Answers.

MWI Animal Health currently leads AI search visibility in specialty retail with a Goodie visibility score of 73.2, measured across the tracked AI models.

wikipedia.org is the most-cited source in specialty retail AI answers, grounding roughly 4.1% of citations in this industry.

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.