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llms.txt GeneratorYouTube leads the current citation index
youtube.com accounts for 2.75% of citation appearances in the current Trakkr index.
YouTube ranks first in the October 14, 2026 snapshot, ahead of google.com and Reddit.
The numbers behind it.
- YouTube share
- youtube.com ranks first with 2,222,347 citation appearances.
- 2.75%
- Citation appearances
- 80,769,585 appearances in the verified October 14, 2026 snapshot.
- 80.8M
The evidence.
Source
AI Citation Index
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| YouTube share youtube.com ranks first with 2,222,347 citation appearances. | 2.75% |
| Citation appearances 80,769,585 appearances in the verified October 14, 2026 snapshot. | 80.8M |
Population and method
Built from 80,769,585 citation appearances across 725,777 unique domains in the latest valid snapshot for 1,928 tracked brands, observed from October 3, 2025 to October 14, 2026.
Where the evidence stops
The index is a changing panel of tracked brands and prompts, not a random sample of all AI responses.
Domain share is observational. It does not establish causal influence or reveal the full retrieval set.
The hand-maintained source taxonomy is partial: 88.40% of citation appearances remain in “other”.
Model attribution, response-level citation denominators, geography, raw prompts, and raw responses are not retained in the public aggregate.
What to do with this
The head of the observed citation index includes creator and community platforms, not only reference sites.
Cite this fact.
Source study: Citation Sources“youtube.com accounts for 2.75% of citation appearances in the current Trakkr index.”
AI Citation Index - Trakkr Research · YouTube leads the current citation index
AI Citation Index · Trakkr Research · Updated 14 October 2026