Empire325 Research
Original research on marketing, AI search, and B2B growth
Empire325 Marketing publishes original research applying our methodology to live data. All reports are released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 — free to cite, quote, and republish with attribution.
The 2026 AI Recommendation Report
We asked an AI search engine to name the best marketing agency across 13 B2B verticals and recorded every source it cited — 190 citations, 138 domains. Finding: Reddit is the most-cited source, listicles out-cite agency websites, and 82% of domains appear in only one vertical. Includes downloadable dataset.
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State of AI Search Visibility 2026
Original analysis of AI-assistant citation patterns across 1,500+ marketing URLs. Six findings on what predicts citation in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini — plus a 6-trait checklist for AI search visibility.
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