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Leading Specialty Retail Brands in AI Search in China

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

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Midea leads AI search visibility in Specialty Retail on ChatGPT in China with a Goodie visibility score of 77.0, ahead of Under Armour (76.9) and Patterson Veterinary Supply (71.7). The median score across the 10 ranked brands is 67.5, and a score above 65.7 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is wikipedia.org at 6.1% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 23.3%.

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
67.5
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 69.8
Score to enter the top 10
65.7
Clearing 65.7 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 1.8 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
7.7
A typical answer names eight brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 11.0
Citation mix
  • UGC 1%
  • Editorial 4%
  • Reference 10%
  • Retail 3%
  • Other 82%
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
23.3%
Owned content sits below the index-wide average 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
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
01Midea
77.0
11.1%ChatGPT▼ 6.760xdjd.cn
02Under Armour
76.9
11.0%ChatGPT▼ 6.725asics.com.cn
03Patterson Veterinary Supply
71.7
10.3%ChatGPT—70wikipedia.org
04Haier
71.4
10.2%ChatGPT—77xdjd.cn
05Covetrus
67.7
9.7%ChatGPT—71covetrus.com
06Decathlon
67.3
9.7%ChatGPT—55asics.com.cn
07Home Depot
66.7
9.6%ChatGPT—74hiri.org
08Midwest Veterinary Supply
66.2
9.5%ChatGPT—63covetrus.com
09OPPO
66.2
9.5%ChatGPT—66disq.de
10Petco
65.7
9.4%ChatGPT—53acemedical.my
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
01wikipedia.org
6.1%
—
02furnituretoday.com
2.7%
—
03hkexnews.hk
2.7%
—
04zelmanassociates.com
2.7%
—
05sgieurope.com
2.5%
—
06alibaba.com
2.3%
—
07grandviewresearch.com
2.3%
—
08jd.com
2.3%
▲ 0.9
09hiri.org
2.1%
—
10apnews.com
2.0%
—
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 brands5844
02Best veterinary medical supply retailers5042
03Furniture retailers balancing quality and price2437
04Electronics retailers with strong after sales support5733
05哪家电器店付钱之后售后还真的管?108
5 of 35k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising

No rising brands this month.

Falling
Under Armourscore 76.9
▼ 6.7
Mideascore 77.0
▼ 6.7
2 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±6.7/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

Midea leads Specialty Retail this edition with a visibility score of 77.0, ahead of Under Armour at 76.9.

wikipedia.org is the most-cited source grounding specialty retail answers, at roughly 6.1% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 23.3% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked specialty retail brands is 67.5, and a score above 65.7 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.

Midea currently leads AI search visibility in specialty retail with a Goodie visibility score of 77.0, measured across the tracked AI models.

wikipedia.org is the most-cited source in specialty retail AI answers, grounding roughly 6.1% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked specialty retail brands is 67.5. A score above 65.7 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.