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

These 5 threads account for 77 of the 187 citations.

Perplexity supplies the largest share of the citations (71%, 132 of 187), ahead of Gemini at 18%.

By question type, describing a problem accounts for 46% of the answers that cited r/whatcarshouldIbuy, then comparing products or competitors (33%) and looking for a product to buy (21%).

Citations are spread out: the most-cited thread accounts for 22% of them and the top three for 32%, out of 57 different threads.

Under 1% of the 531 comments we scanned in r/whatcarshouldIbuy contained a link, so a comment that names a brand without linking is the norm here.

Of 4,849 posts we sampled in r/whatcarshouldIbuy, 1% linked out to another site, so posts here are mostly text.

It is #151 of the 211 subreddits where we have placed 50 or more verified comments, 0.1% of all our verified Reddit comments, and #9 of the 12 car and auto subreddits listed on this site by that count.

The subreddit had about 757,070 members when we last checked it.

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