YouTube Tops AI Citations: Google's AI Cites It 6,894 Times vs 5 for ChatGPT

    YouTube is the most-cited website in AI answers, and almost all of that comes from Google: Google AI Overviews cites YouTube 6,894 times, while ChatGPT cites it 5 times on the same 2,984 questions. Across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI features, YouTube appears in 20.1% of all answers, ahead of Reddit and Wikipedia.

    Share of AI answers citing it by website
    youtube.com
    20.1%
    reddit.com
    11.8%
    wikipedia.org
    11.1%
    facebook.com
    5.1%
    nih.gov
    4.7%
    investopedia.com
    3.6%
    healthline.com
    3.4%
    clevelandclinic.org
    3.2%
    google.com
    2.7%
    microsoft.com
    2.5%
    yahoo.com
    2.5%
    indeed.com
    2.4%
    consumerfinance.gov
    2.2%
    amazon.com
    2%
    irs.gov
    1.4%

    Source: Suff Digital analysis of 155,312 citations · answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI features, September 2026

    Citations from that engine by engine
    Google AI Overviews
    6,894
    Google AI Mode
    5,162
    Perplexity
    979
    ChatGPT
    954
    Gemini
    273

    Source: Suff Digital analysis of 155,312 citations · answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI features, September 2026

    Share of its citations going to its top 20 websites by engine
    Google AI Overviews
    38.5%
    Google AI Mode
    35.8%
    ChatGPT
    34.6%
    Gemini
    20.2%
    Perplexity
    18.2%

    Source: Suff Digital analysis of 155,312 citations · answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI features, September 2026

    Source: YouTube Tops AI Citations: Google's AI Cites It 6,894 Times vs 5 for ChatGPT - Suff Digital