How often ChatGPT and Claude read youtube.com before they make a recommendation
For each assistant, country and kind of business: the share of answers that read youtube.com, the share that cited it, and its rank among the sites read there.
- ChatGPT: answers that read it
- 3.6%
- Claude: answers that read it
- 0%
- Cited as a source
- 0%
- Rank among all sources
- 16
In October 2026, ChatGPT and Claude answered 3,256 questions about businesses, software and brands with web search on. They read youtube.com in 2.8% of them and gave it as the source of a recommendation in 0%. It is number 16 among all sources. It ranks highest in Mexico, where 5.5% of answers read it, and for car brands, where 28% did.
By assistant
Each assistant’s share of its own answers with web search on.
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<a href="https://aigrow.gg/ai-sources/site/youtube.com"><img src="https://aigrow.gg/og/ai-sources-site-youtube.com.jpg" width="1200" height="630" alt="How often ChatGPT and Claude read youtube.com and where it ranks highest, October 2026" style="max-width:100%;height:auto"></a>
<p><a href="https://aigrow.gg/ai-sources/site/youtube.com">Source: AIGROW AI Source Map, October 2026</a></p>By country
Countries with at least 5 answers where youtube.com was read, the most read first. Rank is its place among the sources read there.
| Country | Read | Rank | Cited | Answers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MexicoCited 0% · 128 answers | 5.5% | 18 | 0% | 128 |
| United StatesCited 0% · 303 answers | 4.0% | 32 | 0% | 303 |
| CanadaCited 0% · 153 answers | 3.9% | 29 | 0% | 153 |
| NorwayCited 0% · 103 answers | 3.9% | 49 | 0% | 103 |
| PortugalCited 0% · 103 answers | 3.9% | 44 | 0% | 103 |
| United KingdomCited 0% · 228 answers | 3.5% | 36 | 0% | 228 |
| AustraliaCited 0% · 153 answers | 3.3% | 53 | 0% | 153 |
| NetherlandsCited 0% · 153 answers | 3.3% | 33 | 0% | 153 |
| BrazilCited 0% · 127 answers | 3.1% | 41 | 0% | 127 |
| PolandCited 0% · 127 answers | 3.1% | 49 | 0% | 127 |
| DenmarkCited 0% · 102 answers | 2.9% | 48 | 0% | 102 |
| SpainCited 0% · 178 answers | 2.8% | 75 | 0% | 178 |
| FranceCited 0% · 228 answers | 2.2% | 87 | 0% | 228 |
| BelgiumCited 0% · 153 answers | 2.0% | 100 | 0% | 153 |
| IrelandCited 0% · 102 answers | 2.0% | 90 | 0% | 102 |
| GermanyCited 0% · 228 answers | 1.8% | 126 | 0% | 228 |
| ItalyCited 0% · 228 answers | 1.8% | 116 | 0% | 228 |
| AustriaCited 0% · 128 answers | 1.6% | 114 | 0% | 128 |
| SwedenCited 0% · 128 answers | 1.6% | 117 | 0% | 128 |
| SwitzerlandCited 0% · 203 answers | 1.5% | 146 | 0% | 203 |
By kind of business
Kinds of business with at least 5 answers where youtube.com was read, across every country, the most read first. No answer read it for 22 other kinds of business with enough answers.
| Kind of business | Read | Rank | Cited | Answers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accounting softwareCited 0% · 20 answers | 30% | 4 | 0% | 20 |
| Car brandsCited 0% · 40 answers | 28% | 3 | 0% | 40 |
| SupermarketsCited 0% · 39 answers | 26% | 3 | 0% | 39 |
| E-commerce platformsCited 0% · 20 answers | 20% | 6 | 0% | 20 |
| Payroll softwareCited 0% · 20 answers | 20% | 6 | 0% | 20 |
| Mobile carriersCited 0% · 40 answers | 18% | 7 | 0% | 40 |
| Appointment booking softwareCited 0% · 20 answers | 15% | 11 | 0% | 20 |
| Email marketing softwareCited 0% · 20 answers | 15% | 8 | 0% | 20 |
| Energy suppliersCited 0% · 39 answers | 13% | 3 | 0% | 39 |
| Online brokersCited 0% · 39 answers | 10% | 8 | 0% | 39 |
| RestaurantsCited 0% · 108 answers | 10% | 10 | 0% | 108 |
| BanksCited 0% · 40 answers | 10% | 4 | 0% | 40 |
| Home internet providersCited 0% · 40 answers | 10% | 8 | 0% | 40 |
| Restaurant POS systemsCited 0% · 20 answers | 10% | 13 | 0% | 20 |
| Electronics retailersCited 0% · 39 answers | 5.1% | 16 | 0% | 39 |
| Car insurance companiesCited 0% · 40 answers | 5.0% | 28 | 0% | 40 |
| CRM softwareCited 0% · 20 answers | 5.0% | 16 | 0% | 20 |
| Help desk softwareCited 0% · 20 answers | 5.0% | 16 | 0% | 20 |
| Project management softwareCited 0% · 20 answers | 5.0% | 18 | 0% | 20 |
| Website buildersCited 0% · 20 answers | 5.0% | 24 | 0% | 20 |
| GymsCited 0% · 108 answers | 4.6% | 35 | 0% | 108 |
| Moving companiesCited 0% · 108 answers | 0.9% | 369 | 0% | 108 |
What this means for a business
In no kind of business in any one country did more than half of the answers read youtube.com. It ranks highest in Mexico, where 5.5% of answers read it, and for car brands, where 28% did. No answer that read it gave it as the source of a recommendation.
Questions
- Does ChatGPT read youtube.com?
- Yes. In October 2026, ChatGPT read a page of youtube.com in 3.6% of its 2,580 answers with web search on, and gave it as the source of a recommendation in 0%.
- Does Claude read youtube.com?
- Not in this data. In October 2026, Claude read no page of youtube.com in any of its 676 answers with web search on.
- Where do AI assistants read youtube.com most?
- It ranks highest in Mexico, where 5.5% of answers read it, and for car brands, where 28% did.
How this was measured
- The question
- Each assistant was asked the questions a buyer asks, with web search on: about a local trade in a city, or about software or a consumer brand in a country. Every page its searches returned and every page it gave as a source was kept.
- Counting
- A site counts once per answer, however many of its pages the answer read. Read is the share of answers that read at least one page of the site; cited is the share that gave one of its pages as the source of a recommendation.
- Sources
- A site counts as a source only when it appears on 3 or more pages of the Index. Below that it is almost always a business’s own website or a one-off article.
- Edition
- October 2026. 3,256 answers: ChatGPT 2,580, Claude 676.
- Coverage
- Not every assistant has answered on every page yet this month, so read each assistant’s shares next to its own number of answers.
Citing this data
AIGROW, AI Source Map, youtube.com, October 2026, aigrow.gg/ai-sources/site/youtube.com. The figures and the data are published under CC BY 4.0: reuse them with a link to this page.
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Edition October 2026 · data under CC BY 4.0