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Leading Specialty Retail Brands in AI Search in Canada

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

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Best Buy leads AI search visibility in Specialty Retail on Copilot in Canada with a Goodie visibility score of 77.4, ahead of Home Depot (75.6) and ANTA Group (74.0). The median score across the 10 ranked brands is 72.3, and a score above 67.1 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is bing.com at 15.2% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 34.2%.

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

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · Specialty Retail · 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
72.3
Half of the 10 ranked specialty retail brands score below this. The midpoint, not the average, so a few dominant brands do not distort it.
Index-wide median is 71.6
Score to enter the top 10
67.1
Clearing 67.1 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 5.2 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
4.9
A typical answer names five brands, so the consideration set is narrow and a mention is hard-won.
Index-wide average is 7.0
Citation mix
  • UGC 3%
  • Editorial 2%
  • Reference 6%
  • Other 89%
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
34.2%
Owned content is unusually strong here, brand domains are a citation source in their own right rather than just the subject of third-party coverage.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
59/100
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
10 ranked here · 1,647 unranked

Brand Visibility Leaderboard

Brand visibility leaderboard for Specialty Retail, ranked by six-month average AI visibility score
#BrandVisibility scoreShare of voiceModelsΔ vs last monthSentimentTop cited source
01Best Buy
77.4
10.7%Copilot—60bestbuy.ca
02Home Depot
75.6
10.5%Copilot▼ 0.574hiri.org
03ANTA Group
74.0
10.2%Copilot—67ensun.io
04Costco
73.4
10.1%Copilot—78—
05Sport Chek
72.6
10.0%Copilot—47canproshop.com
06RONA
72.0
9.9%Copilot—40toarn.com
07Best Buy Canada
72.0
9.9%Copilot—64bestbuy.ca
08Lowe's
70.3
9.7%Copilot—47hiri.org
09Dispomed
69.1
9.6%Copilot—68ensun.io
10Article
67.1
9.3%Copilot▼ 3.546lxhomedecor.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 Specialty Retail
#DomainCitation shareΔ vs last month
01bing.com
15.2%
—
02google.com
15.2%
—
03wikipedia.org
3.4%
—
04consumerreports.org
3.0%
—
05retail-insider.com
2.9%
—
06covetrus.com
2.8%
—
07ikea.com
2.7%
—
08bestbuy.ca
2.3%
▲ 0.2
09hbsdealer.com
2.3%
—
10aceitcanada.com
1.9%
—
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 brands2354
02Best veterinary medical supply retailers3645
03Electronics retailers with strong after sales support2545
04Which home improvement stores contractors prefer?2320
05Furniture retailers balancing quality and price1518
5 of 35k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising

No rising brands this month.

Falling
Articlescore 67.1
▼ 3.5
Home Depotscore 75.6
▼ 0.5
2 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±2.0/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
115,760 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Specialty Retail, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States63K
02Japan32K
03United Kingdom4K
04Australia4K
05France3K
06Germany3K
07Canada3K
08Egypt2K
09Italy1K
10Saudi Arabia542
11United Arab Emirates313
12Singapore164
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

Best Buy leads Specialty Retail this edition with a visibility score of 77.4, ahead of Home Depot at 75.6.

bing.com is the most-cited source grounding specialty retail answers, at roughly 15.2% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 34.2% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked specialty retail brands is 72.3, and a score above 67.1 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 · Specialty Retail

Questions?
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the Answers.

Best Buy currently leads AI search visibility in specialty retail with a Goodie visibility score of 77.4, measured across the tracked AI models.

bing.com is the most-cited source in specialty retail AI answers, grounding roughly 15.2% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked specialty retail brands is 72.3. A score above 67.1 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.