
Chewy and PetMD: How a Retailer Owns Pet Health Content
Chewy owns PetMD, reported $12.6 billion in fiscal 2025 net sales, and ranks first in EPR's modeled Pet Citation Share Index. How PetMD reached Chewy and what other brands can learn.

Chewy owns PetMD, reported $12.6 billion in fiscal 2025 net sales, and ranks first in EPR's modeled Pet Citation Share Index. How PetMD reached Chewy and what other brands can learn.

Chewy generated $11.9B in fiscal 2024 revenue. Autoship at 80%+ of total sales. The pure-play pet retailer that beat Amazon by going deeper into a single category. The communications playbook that built it.

Modeled Citation Share across 25 pet brands and 5 AI engines. Chewy #1. The Farmer's Dog #2. Mars Petcare brands cluster in the top 10. BarkBox the strongest creator-driven brand. The 2026 baseline.

The U.S. pet economy crossed $150B in 2024. Chewy, BarkBox, The Farmer's Dog, Petco, PetSmart, Mars Petcare, Nestlé Purina. Everything-PR's operator file on the four pet companies AI engines retrieve together most often: categories, brands, and AI citation dynamics.

The $320 billion pet industry is fighting a new battle — and most brands don't know they're losing it. Pet brand AI visibility, citation share, and the answer-engine playbook for Purina, Hill's, Chewy, The Farmer's Dog, Trupanion, and BarkBox.

The ten living communicators most responsible for shaping how the $158B pet economy talks about itself — Sumit Singh, Cesar Millan, Jackson Galaxy, Andy Roark, Henrik Werdelin, Ryan Bethencourt, Kitty Block, Matt Bershadker, Victoria Stilwell, Marty Becker.