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Leading Streaming Services Brands in AI Search in Japan

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

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Hulu leads AI search visibility in Streaming Services on Perplexity in Japan with a Goodie visibility score of 82.9, ahead of DirecTV Stream (82.7) and FuboTV (81.5). The median score across the 10 ranked brands is 79.2, and a score above 77.3 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is youtube.com at 7.8% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 23.8%.

31k prompts · 2.5m AI answers · 11.7m citations · Goodie AI Visibility Index

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · Streaming Services · Perplexity
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
79.2
Half of the 10 ranked streaming services brands score below this. The midpoint, not the average, so a few dominant brands do not distort it.
Index-wide median is 77.8
Score to enter the top 10
77.3
Clearing 77.3 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 1.9 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
6.1
A typical answer names six brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 6.5
Citation mix
  • UGC 3%
  • Editorial 15%
  • Video 5%
  • Reference 7%
  • Other 70%
Other leads the third-party sources grounding streaming services 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
23.8%
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
54/100
Mean tone of mentions across the ranked brands that carry a measured value. Per-brand sentiment sits on each brand profile.
Prompts sampled
31k
Real buyer phrasing, 4 models
AI answers analysed
2.5m
219k in October · ▼ 14.1% vs September
Citations parsed
11.7m
1m in October · ▲ 14.8% vs September
Brands observed
407
10 ranked here · 397 unranked

Brand Visibility Leaderboard

Brand visibility leaderboard for Streaming Services, ranked by six-month average AI visibility score
#BrandVisibility scoreShare of voiceModelsΔ vs last monthSentimentTop cited source
01Hulu
82.9
10.4%Perplexity—37pcmag.com
02DirecTV Stream
82.7
10.4%Perplexity—54goal.com
03FuboTV
81.5
10.2%Perplexity—63pcmag.com
04YouTube TV
80.3
10.1%Perplexity—49pcmag.com
05Netflix
79.5
10.0%Perplexity▼ 15.052pcmag.com
06Amazon Prime Video
78.9
9.9%Perplexity▼ 22.166pcmag.com
07Spotify
78.8
9.9%Perplexity▼ 16.777onestowatch.com
08Xbox
78.7
9.9%Perplexity▼ 22.060bigo.tv
09Apple Music
77.8
9.7%Perplexity—50onestowatch.com
10Kick
77.3
9.7%Perplexity—39pcmag.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 Streaming Services
#DomainCitation shareΔ vs last month
01youtube.com
7.8%
—
02pcmag.com
7.7%
▲ 1.7
03dazn.com
6.7%
—
04freeyourmusic.com
4.2%
—
05rnb.co.jp
4.2%
—
06goal.com
3.7%
▲ 9.1
07cambridgeaudio.com
3.6%
—
08whathifi.com
3.5%
—
09app-liv.jp
3.4%
—
10my-best.com
3.4%
—
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 Streaming Services, with distinct brands named and sources cited
#PromptBrandsSources
01Which video streaming service offers best value?2744
02Music streaming apps with strong discovery features1843
03Best sports streaming platforms 2932
04Best video game streaming platforms 2730
05自社ドラマを作って、人が実際に見てる配信はどこ?814
5 of 31k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising

No rising brands this month.

Falling
▼ 22.1
Xboxscore 78.7
▼ 22.0
Spotifyscore 78.8
▼ 16.7
4 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±19.0/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
502,854 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Streaming Services, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States398K
02United Kingdom52K
03Australia14K
04Canada12K
05Germany7K
06Japan6K
07Italy5K
08France4K
09Egypt2K
10Saudi Arabia2K
11United Arab Emirates245
12Singapore205
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

Hulu leads Streaming Services this edition with a visibility score of 82.9, ahead of DirecTV Stream at 82.7.

youtube.com is the most-cited source grounding streaming services answers, at roughly 7.8% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 23.8% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked streaming services brands is 79.2, and a score above 77.3 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 · Streaming Services

Questions?
We Have
the Answers.

Hulu currently leads AI search visibility in streaming services with a Goodie visibility score of 82.9, measured across the tracked AI models.

youtube.com is the most-cited source in streaming services AI answers, grounding roughly 7.8% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked streaming services brands is 79.2. A score above 77.3 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.