{"id":305000,"date":"2026-01-26T21:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/305000\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T21:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:03:13","slug":"youtube-overtakes-reddit-as-go-to-citation-source-on-ai-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/305000\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Overtakes Reddit as Go-To Citation Source on AI Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The social platform hierarchy in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adweek.com\/category\/artificial-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AI<\/a> citations is changing. Once dominated by Reddit, citations in large language models are now pointing more often to YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>New data from four sources finds that YouTube has overtaken Reddit as the most frequently cited social platform in AI-generated responses. YouTube had previously fallen behind other user-generated sources because of the difficulty large-language models, or LLMs, have in pulling information from videos, but transcripts, explainers, and other information associated with videos on YouTube have allowed the video platform to flourish as a source that machines can easily read. <\/p>\n<p>Bluefish found that YouTube appeared as a cited source in 16% of LLM answers over the past six months, compared with 10% for Reddit\u2014a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adweek.com\/media\/reddit-advertisers-ai-search-visibility-deck\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reversal<\/a> from earlier periods when Reddit was the dominant social source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The social platform hierarchy in AI citations is changing. Once dominated by Reddit, citations in large language models&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[119828,54813,291,19335,289,290,18,11139,4500,19,17,19976,1560,41985,149929,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-305000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ad-tech-industry-news","9":"tag-advertising-news","10":"tag-ai","11":"tag-ai-news","12":"tag-artificial-intelligence","13":"tag-artificialintelligence","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-emerging-technologies","16":"tag-exclusive","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-media-news","20":"tag-premium","21":"tag-search-engine-optimization","22":"tag-software-technology","23":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115963429050015119","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}