10/06/2026
"Alongside the company's site and other familiar search results, a searcher may now encounter Google's synthesis of information about the brand.
That means ranking well for your own brand may no longer tell you everything you need to know about your branded search visibility. If an AI Overview appears, marketers also need to know whether their brand appears in the answer, how Google describes it, which sources support the response, and whether competitors appear alongside it. "
That puts AI ahead of YouTube as a source of signups, and second only to Google. If we'd relied on our referral traffic alone, we'd have badly undersold