{"id":1809,"slug":"conductor-aio-25-11-percent-2026","title":"Conductor (21.9M queries) — AI Overview share at 25.11%, up from 13.14% in March 2025","kind":"reference","scope":"business","status":"current","audiences":["kevin","smb-owner","candid-team"],"topics":["measurement","ai-overview-prevalence"],"reference_body":"**Claim:** **Conductor** (21.9M queries) reported **25.11% AI-Overview share**, up from **13.14% in March 2025**.\n\n**Source:** conductor.com — 2026.\n\n**Confidence:** Single-source (vendor).\n\n**Caveat:** Vendor keyword sample. The Mar 2025 13.14% datapoint is interesting because it sits between Pew's 18% and Semrush's 6.49% for roughly the same window — illustrating that the spread is real and sample-driven.\n\n**Why this matters for Candid:** Sits in the middle of the vendor range. Useful as the third data point that makes the \"anchored to Pew, ranged across vendors\" framing credible.","rationale_body":null,"metadata":null,"links":{"outgoing":[{"slug":"pew-18-percent-google-searches-ai-summary-march-2025","title":"Pew Research Center — 18% of Google searches in March 2025 produced an AI summary (68,879 searches across 900 US adults; independent anchor)","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"}],"incoming":[{"slug":"research-brief-website-as-working-surface-june-2026","title":"Research brief: the website as a working surface of the business — four capabilities, AI-citation decoupling, freshness as a real signal (June 2026)","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"},{"slug":"reconciliation-aio-prevalence-pew-vs-vendor-trackers-definitional-gap","title":"Reconciliation: the 16% / 25% / 48% AI-prevalence gap is largely definitional — different keyword samples, \"tracked queries\" vs all queries, niche / long-tail inclusion","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"depends-on"},{"slug":"rule-cite-pew-as-anchor-vendor-trackers-as-range","title":"R6 — Cite Pew as the AI-prevalence anchor; cite vendor trackers (Semrush / BrightEdge / Conductor) as a range; never cite a single vendor as the level","kind":"rule","scope":"business","link_type":"depends-on"}]},"created_at":"2026-06-21T13:17:17.665Z","updated_at":"2026-06-21T13:17:17.665Z"}