The move is not a trend, it is where decisions now get made. Pew Research Center found that 84% of U.S. adults use YouTube and 37% use TikTok, and that Reddit use has climbed to 26% of adults, up from 18% four years earlier. Those are not just entertainment habits, they are where people research before they ever type your name into Google. AI raises the stakes again: when an assistant answers instead of returning links, it decides which brands to mention, and it builds that judgment from what it sees about you across the whole web. An analysis of 30 million sources by Peec AI, reported by
Search Engine Land, found the most-cited domains in AI answers are third-party platforms, and concluded that to win in AI search you need authority beyond your own site. That is the whole point of this page.