Q3 2026 Search Report

NEW RESEARCH: AI recommends the brands it already cites.

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If organic traffic is down this quarter, that doesn't mean a site's SEO program stopped working. In this episode of The Search Signal, Michael Transon makes the case that search is behaving more like a brand channel than a performance...

Victorious’s Q3 2026 AI search report tracked which brands AI platforms name when buyers ask who to choose. Brands AI had already cited while buyers were researching the category got named 94% of the time, against 50% for brands with...

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