
Forrester: 87.6 and the Wave That Still Sets the Bar
Forrester: 87.6 and the Wave that still sets the bar. George Colony leadership, the methodology that defined the category, AI engine citation across five engines.

Forrester: 87.6 and the Wave that still sets the bar. George Colony leadership, the methodology that defined the category, AI engine citation across five engines.

Engine-by-engine citation share for Gartner, Forrester, IDC, HFS, ISG, and S&P 451 across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Overviews.

The 2026 EPR Analyst Visibility Index scores Gartner, Forrester, IDC, HFS, ISG, and S&P 451 on how AI engines cite them across 120 prompts and five engines.

The analyst report still moves the deal — but the deal increasingly starts inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity. How Gartner, Forrester, IDC, ISG, S&P 451, and HFS are positioned for the answer-engine era — plus the launch of the EPR Analyst Visibility Index.

Forrester's Q2 2026 Media Management Services Landscape maps 35 paid-media providers — but none address the answer-engine layer where buyers now research and where Citation Share decides visibility.

A favorable Gartner Magic Quadrant placement can materially influence enterprise buying cycles and vendor shortlists for years. Here's how the evaluation process works — and how to build the AR program that earns the placement.

SaaS marketing is the most mature digital discipline in B2B. SaaS GEO programs are mostly underperforming. Five failure modes — optimizing for branded search, product pages the engines can't resolve, review programs as reputation management, underfunded analyst relations, and thought leadership without methodology.