Agentic Search Doubled in July: Brightedge
The reason we’re hearing so much about optimizing for AI search is that it’s growing fast: Brightedge reports that referrals from ChatGPT grew 21% in a single month this July. Unfortunately for publishers, website visits by the ChatGPT agent doubled, meaning a growing share of queries were resolved without humans reaching publisher pages. This doesn’t bode well, although it’s hard to interpret the data because the report doesn’t show the actual number of searches.