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Army Loses the AI Recruiting Answer
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Army Loses the AI Recruiting Answer

EPR's Citation Share study on the U.S. Army across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews — 25 buyer-aligned prompts, 5 engines. The Army built the largest military recruiting machine in America. The AI engines prefer someone else. Marines win brand queries. Space Force and Air Force own technology queries. The Army's recruiting challenge is now a retrieval challenge.

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The Sephora Citation Tax
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The Sephora Citation Tax

Sephora, Ulta, and Amazon product pages are functioning as retrieval anchors inside AI beauty answers. Brands without retailer review depth face a measurable Citation Share ceiling — even with premium positioning and strong editorial.

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Why Reddit Won Beauty
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Why Reddit Won Beauty

r/SkincareAddiction and r/MakeupAddiction are cited in AI beauty answers more frequently than most beauty trade publications. Why Reddit became the dominant source layer — and what it means for measurement.

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