r/carbuying for brand marketing: what AI answers cite and where we have posted

These 5 threads account for 43 of the 63 citations.

Perplexity supplies the largest share of the citations (79%, 50 of 63), ahead of Gemini at 11%.

By question type, comparing products or competitors accounts for 35% of the answers that cited r/carbuying, then describing a problem (35%) and looking for a product to buy (30%).

Citations are spread out: the most-cited thread accounts for 22% of them and the top three for 49%, out of 19 different threads.

Under 1% of the 329 comments we scanned in r/carbuying contained a link, so a comment that names a brand without linking is the norm here.

Of 2,675 posts we sampled in r/carbuying, 2% linked out to another site, so posts here are mostly text.

It is #6 of the 211 subreddits where we have placed 50 or more verified comments, 0.7% of all our verified Reddit comments, and #1 of the 12 car and auto subreddits listed on this site by that count.

The subreddit had about 45,956 members when we last checked it.

Before you post anything yourself, read the rules of r/carbuying; moderators change them. For how these threads reach answers, see the AI search guide.