Condé Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, Forbes Travel Guide form the working short list for luxury hospitality. Michelin Keys is the watch-this-space new entrant. Awards franchises compound citation weight more cleanly here than any other vertical.
Punchbowl News has taken the daily-Hill citation crown from Politico. Bloomberg Government holds the structured-data lobbying lane. Axios owns smart-brevity policy-business. The Beltway press is now the gatekeeper to the answer box, not just to humans.
Bloomberg dominates IR citations second only to ESPN in sports. Reuters, WSJ, Seeking Alpha, Schwab, FactSet round out the top tier. Earnings call transcripts are now the highest-value IR-citation asset — what your CEO says becomes literal answer-engine training data.
CoinDesk and The Block dominate. But Latham, K&L Gates, Ropes & Gray, and Sidley out-cite editorial on regulatory questions. The first vertical where law firm blogs compete with crypto press for citation share.
Goop, MindBodyGreen, Healthline, PureWow, Sunset Magazine — which wellness publications AI engines cite most when answering product, trend, retreat, and lifestyle questions. First-edition spot capture across 10 buyer-intent queries.
ESPN dominates. The Athletic is the attribution moat. Below them: legacy network brands and category specialists. First-edition spot capture across 11 buyer-intent queries spanning NBA, NFL, MLB, soccer, NIL, and sports business.
Refinery29, Marie Claire, Allure, WWD, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Elle — the beauty publications AI engines cite most when buyers ask product, brand, and category questions. First-edition spot capture across 14 buyer-intent queries.
Everything-PR's running index on how ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews cite Indian cinema. 30 stars, 5 engines, prestige tier, crore problem, South India blind spot.
California sits at the top tier of citation share inside the AI engines mediating destination discovery — and the structural reasons why, the exposures, and the 2026 action set.
Answer engines weight review corpora differently than search engines. How ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews use Trustpilot, G2, Yelp, and Reddit data to decide which brand gets named.
