Will AI Recommend You?

Simon Young - Question.Marketing Founder
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Will AI recommend your business, or your competitor's? Will AI Recommend You? is the podcast about AEO (Answer Engine Optimisation): how UK businesses get named by ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity when a buyer asks who to use. Hosted by Simon Young, founder of Question.Marketing. Thirty years in search, and publishing on AEO since October 2019, 1,153 days before ChatGPT launched. Each episode answers one question business owners are actually asking. What gets a company cited? What's just SEO with a new sticker on it? What do the numbers say, and where are they still small? Plain English, a receipt for every claim, and guests who have done the work. Ask an AI about your industry today. Does your name come up? Full transcripts and show notes at question.marketing.

Episodes

  1. 6d ago

    SEO Isn't Dead. The Name Is. Tell Me I'm Wrong.

    Read the full transcript: https://question.marketing/library/seo-isnt-dead-the-name-is Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsdM0Bv2MFs The name of the job has always followed the machine. Search engines gave us SEO and answer engines gave us AEO. Now AI agents shortlist, decide and often complete the booking. Agents don't search, they choose, so what do we call the job? In this episode: the names in circulation (AEO, GEO, LLMO, AAO, AX), the cited, recommended, chosen ladder, five questions an agent asks about your business, the honest counterweight, and a test you can run today. Notes on figures - Research on whether ChatGPT reduces Google searches is split: one study (Lam et al., US panel, hosted by the FTC) found Google searches fell about 31% from 20 weeks after adoption; a Semrush study (Aug 2025) found no change. - Research on AI referral conversion rates is also split: one study of 94 stores (Visibility Labs, 2025 data) found ChatGPT traffic converted 31% better than non-branded organic; a study of 973 sites (Marketing Science, 2026) found it converted 13% worse than organic. - Pew Research (July 2025): clicks on 8% of visits with an AI summary vs 15% without. Simon Young, Question.Marketing. https://question.marketing Chapters: as YouTube pack.

  2. Oct 15

    Which AI search visibility tools should you use?

    Read the full transcript: https://question.marketing/library/which-ai-search-visibility-tools-2026 Disclosure: Simon ran this demo on Nimt's free trial. Question.Marketing has no paid or affiliate relationship with Nimt. Nimt saw this video before release and requested no changes. Which tools track whether ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Mode and Copilot mention your brand, and can you trust the numbers? In this episode Simon Young of Question.Marketing explains why tracking costs climb with every prompt, competitor and AI engine you add, why local results depend on where the tracking runs from, and why fan-out queries and different models give different answers. He then sets up Question.Marketing live in Nimt, looks at branded and general prompts, and explains why being recommended matters far more than being cited. Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3Uo5sPj76k Chapters 00:00 Which tools track whether AI cites your brand? 01:40 Questions that convert: cited, clicked or recommended 03:30 Why tracking prompts gets expensive 04:50 Local search: where your tracking runs from 06:16 Fan-out queries and different models 07:10 Semrush and Ahrefs Brand Radar 07:43 Setting up my own brand in Nimt 09:14 The prompts the tool suggests 11:35 Conversational search, not hundreds of pages 12:54 Competitors, and why the AI engines aren't competitors 14:00 Branded search: you should at least find yourself 16:02 Don't use AI to produce slop 16:33 Fill the knowledge gaps 18:01 Google's top 10 versus AI citations 18:33 NotebookLM video case studies 19:51 Results: branded prompts 21:38 South Yorkshire and Doncaster prompts 22:18 Can you outrank ChatGPT on ChatGPT? 23:03 Accountancy firms and long-tail prompts 24:49 E-commerce prompts 25:41 Cited versus recommended 28:02 Interpreting the data, and how to get help Notes on figures as spoken 07:13 Semrush's AI Visibility Toolkit is listed at $99 a month per domain, billed annually, on its pricing page (checked 14 October 2026). 18:07 The 13% figure is from Meikai's September 2026 study and is about ChatGPT, not Perplexity: 13% of the domains ChatGPT cited ranked in Google's organic top 10 for the same prompt. Meikai sells a brand monitoring tool. 19:07 Content reaching the top of Google within 48 to 72 hours is from Simon's own case studies, not a published study. 20:14 The 60% AI Mode figure for Question.Marketing is one run on one day for a branded prompt. 15:31 the free audit Simon mentions is a basic free audit for potential clients. Question.Marketing's full AI visibility audit is a paid service. 21:03 Question.Marketing launched at the end of June 2026. Simon says "three months" at 10:43 and "three, four months" at 20:58. Key sources Meikai study: https://www.meikai.ai/blog/seo-vs-ai-search-google-ranking-chatgpt-citations Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit pricing: https://www.semrush.com/pricing/ai/ Nimt pricing: https://www.nimt.ai/pricing

  3. Oct 8

    Is the Meta Muse Charm a surveillance Tamagotchi? Should we worry about AI companions?

    Is Meta's Muse Charm a "surveillance Tamagotchi"? Simon Young of Question.Marketing asks whether we should worry about AI companions that live in our pockets, learn from our conversations and might one day sell to us. He covers who owns the data you give these devices, whether Big Tech should pay us for it, what happens when your AI companion turns salesperson, the right to opt out, and why society may split over devices that record us. He also explains how he uses an AI recorder himself, and why he still encourages people to teach AI what only they know. Chapters 00:00 The Meta Muse Charm: should we be afraid of it? 00:33 The surveillance Tamagotchi: you are the data 01:26 From Alexa and Siri to an AI assistant in your pocket 02:29 Keywords out, conversational search in 03:40 Where are we on privacy? Social media and how young people vote 05:06 Are we close to a privacy backlash? Glasses, Android and location data 06:55 A generation that has never known life offline 07:31 Should Big Tech pay us for our data? 08:49 When your AI companion becomes a salesperson 09:37 Devices that listen: Pocket, Claude, Grok and OpenAI's Dots 11:04 Do we have the right to opt out? 12:08 A split in society: people who refuse to be recorded 12:56 Can anyone control AI now? 13:32 Teach the AI what only you know 14:33 Should we be worried? Tell me in the comments Notes on what is said 03:50 Simon says the 2016 UK general election. There wasn't one: 2016 was the EU referendum, and the general elections either side were in 2015 and 2017. 09:54 If you record calls or meetings with a device like Pocket, get everyone's consent first. Pocket notes that phone call transcription requires consent. 10:43 Simon says dots.com. The domain is dot.com: it is held by xAI and redirects to Grok, while dots.com belongs to a long-defunct company (TechCrunch, 29 Sep 2026). The $20 million price is unconfirmed. 11:05 The Charm is tap to talk. Zuckerberg: tap the fingerprint sensor in the corner and you can start talking (TechCrunch, 23 Sep 2026). 13:57 Teaching AI what you know is Simon's experience, not a guarantee of being cited. On the record Muse trains on your conversations by default and you can opt out in Muse settings (Meta): https://research.meta.ai/blog/security-and-safety-for-ai-agents-our-approach-with-muse The Charm reveal (TechCrunch): https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/23/meta-made-a-tamagotchi-like-wearable-for-its-muse-ai-agent/ Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA5X8lJczdM Full article, five signposts to watch and transcript: https://question.marketing/library/surveillance-tamagotchi-meta-muse-charm-ai-companions-privacy-2026 Previous episode on Muse Charm privacy (25 Sep): https://www.buzzsprout.com/2650282/episodes/19863615 Simon Young, Question.Marketing: https://question.marketing

  4. Oct 6

    Stop thinking about keywords: how conversational search really works

    Keywords are no longer the unit of search. The conversation is. In this episode Simon Young of Question.Marketing explains how search has turned into a conversation. Google AI Mode, ChatGPT and Gemini take one long question, break it into many hidden searches, and write a single answer from what comes back. He covers what Google's People Also Ask box was telling us for a decade, two worked examples (a Doncaster accountant and a South Yorkshire recruitment agency), why a top 10 ranking is now closer to a raffle ticket, and a practical plan for this week. Read the full article and transcript: https://question.marketing/library/stop-thinking-about-keywords-conversational-search-2026 Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgOnpI5vxHM Chapters 00:00 Why stop thinking about keywords? 00:47 From typing keywords to asking questions 01:50 Why so many Google searches are brand new 03:01 What People Also Ask was telling us 04:41 Who writes the People Also Ask answers now? 07:27 Search is now a conversation 08:23 What is a fan-out query? 10:52 Fan-out examples: lawn care and headphones 11:57 Why your keyword tool misses the questions that matter 14:09 Why a top 10 ranking is now a raffle ticket 15:53 How fast is AI Mode growing? 18:10 Longer questions get the machine's answer 19:02 Ad money is following longer searches 20:05 UK searches are getting longer 20:47 How many follow-up questions do people ask? 22:36 Worked example: choosing a recruitment agency 25:44 Is this still just SEO? 28:18 Keywords are no longer the unit of search 28:35 What to do this week: start with questions 30:00 Use People Also Ask as a free map 30:45 One page per conversation 31:15 Say what only you know 32:23 Ask it the long way and check if AI names you 33:07 Sources and wrap-up Notes on figures as spoken 01:25 Semrush's 23 words is for ChatGPT prompts without web search, against about 3 to 4 words for a Google search (2024 data). 03:41, 06:18 and 32:04 Google's 15% new-searches figure covers Google Search only, not AI platforms or the wider web. 10:57 Google's own lawn example lists herbicides, weeding without chemicals and weed prevention. Grass types and watering are my additions. 11:41 No study shows that queries with a date or statistics get cited more. That's my observation, not a published finding. 15:56 Google's billion is monthly active users of AI Mode, not searches. 27:31 AI referrals were about 1% of traffic on Conductor's 2025 US data and 0.14% on Semrush's 2026 data. Key sources Google 15% new searches (Search Engine Journal): https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-revisits-15-unseen-queries-statistic-in-context-of-ai-search/543160/ People Also Ask answers now AI Overviews (Brafton, AlsoAsked data): https://www.brafton.com/blog/seo/google-ai-overviews-are-taking-over-people-also-ask-heres-what-marketers-should-know/ Query fan-out in Google AI Mode (Search Engine Journal): https://www.searchenginejournal.com/query-fan-out-technique-in-ai-mode-new-details-from-google/552532/ Gemini 3 fan-out research (Seer Interactive): https://www.seerinteractive.com/insights/gemini-3-query-fan-outs-research AI Overview citations from top 10 pages (Ahrefs via Search Engine Journal): https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-ai-overview-citations-from-top-ranking-pages-drop-sharply/568637/ Pew Research Center on AI summaries and clicks (The Decoder): https://the-decoder.com/pew-finds-that-only-1-percent-of-users-click-a-source-link-directly-from-googles-ai-overviews/ How AI Mode is changing search (Google): https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/ai-mode-us-insights/ Google's AI search guide and scaled content abuse (TechWyse): https://www.techwyse.com/news/ai-search/google-ai-search-guide-seo-geo-hacks Semrush ChatGPT prompt length study: https://www.semrush.com/news/379285-new-semrush-study-reveals-chatgpt-search-trends-insights-from-80-million-clickstream-records/ Google Search Central guide to generative AI features: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/ai-optimization-guide AI referral traffic benchmarks (Conductor): https://www.conductor.com/academy/aeo-geo-benchmarks-report/ Traffic channel mix study (Semrush): https://www.semrush.com/blog/traffic-channel-mix-study/ Peec, what is a query fan-out: https://docs.peec.ai/research/what-is-a-query-fanout RealityMine, UK search behaviour: https://www.realitymine.com/articles/ai-powered-search-how-google-search-behavior-is-shifting Question.Marketing: https://question.marketing Simon Young on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aeo/

  5. Oct 1

    Wrong on the timing, not the destination: voice search, AEO and who gets named

    I got voice search wrong in 2019. Not the destination. The timing. People did not want to talk to a speaker in the corner for real search. Weather, timers, radio. That was about it. Smart speakers sold. Ownership is not voice search. What has changed is the brain behind the microphone. In this episode I cite Google's own August 2026 figure that 63% of Gemini users talk to it, and Gemini past a billion monthly users. Treat those as on-camera cites until we check the primary. Google Assistant is off on Android as of 4 September 2026. Hey Google now means an LLM. We walk through the recycled "50% voice by 2020" myth, why AEO has been the house category at Question.Marketing since 2019, five guesses I label as opinions, and why every major voice still reads the same web. Publish corroborated niche truth, or none of them will say your name. Series: Will AI Recommend You? Full transcript: https://question.marketing/library/voice-search-wrong-on-timing-aeo-2026 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcbtIi04Sas

  6. Sep 29

    How to Get Cited by ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews: The AEO Guide

    How do you get your business cited by ChatGPT and recommended in Google's AI Overviews? In this full walkthrough, Simon Young, founder of Question.Marketing, sets out the four gates every business has to clear: access, retrieval, extraction and trust. He also covers how to test whether AI engines name you today, and what to fix first. We cover: - why rankings can hold while clicks from search fall; - how to test your own visibility with ten real customer questions; - checking you aren't blocking AI crawlers; - why being talked about beats being linked to; - putting the answer first on the page; - measuring honestly; - what to stop paying for. Read the full guide, with a source for every figure: https://question.marketing/aeo/how-to-get-cited Read the transcript: https://question.marketing/aeo/how-to-get-cited-video-transcript Watch the video, with chapters: https://youtu.be/3UWiEJGECVk Sources: falling clicks, Ahrefs (December 2025 data) https://ahrefs.com/blog/ai-overviews-reduce-clicks-update; mentions vs links, Ahrefs (Google AI Overviews, 75,000 brands, May 2025) https://ahrefs.com/blog/ai-overview-brand-correlation/ Question.Marketing: https://question.marketing Simon on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aeo/ AEO leads to SEO. Which of the four gates do you think is stopping your business being named?

  7. Sep 25

    Should we be worried about Meta's Muse Charm? Privacy, consent and your voice

    Should we be worried about our privacy now that Meta's Muse, and the Muse Charm device, are here? Simon Young of Question.Marketing has spent years targeting ads on Google and Meta. In this episode he talks about who owns the data, what "on by default" means, whether these devices should be anywhere near children, and why he thinks ads inside AI assistants will turn into sales agents that know your budget. What is on the record: - Meta hasn't said Muse Charm is always listening. The demo was tap-to-talk (TechCrunch, 23 Sep 2026). - Muse uses your interactions to train Meta's AI by default. Meta calls that "a good default" in its Muse safety post (Meta, 8 Sep 2026, https://research.meta.ai/blog/security-and-safety-for-ai-agents-our-approach-with-muse; also quoted by Business Insider, 21 Sep 2026). You can switch it off in Muse under Settings, then Data controls (Meta Help Centre). - Meta says Muse conversations aren't shared with its ad systems (Meta Newsroom, 8 Sep 2026). - Muse is 18+ (Muse terms and the Apple App Store listing, via Daily Caller News Foundation, 10 Sep 2026). The UK's under-16 social media ban is expected to come into force in spring 2027 (GOV.UK, 15 Jun 2026). - Muse has no UK launch date yet (as of 25 Sep 2026). - Meta has launched camera-free Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses alongside its camera models (The Verge, 24 Sep 2026). - Instagram head Adam Mosseri said in October 2025 that Meta does not use the phone's microphone to eavesdrop on you (The Verge, 1 Oct 2025). That was a general statement, not about Muse. When Simon says his phone is listening, that is his personal view. The sales agent scenario is Simon's prediction, not a Meta announcement. Full transcript and receipts: https://question.marketing/library/muse-charm-privacy-should-we-be-worried-2026 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC3vAfGNzXE Would you want your voice built into a training model for an AI? Chapters 00:00 Should we be worried about our privacy? 00:48 Muse, Muse Charm and the AI assistant race 01:39 Who owns our data? 02:07 Voice assistants and answer engines 02:54 Should these devices listen to children? 03:42 Living with an AI pocket device 05:05 Who's learning everything? 05:34 Influence, elections and social feeds 06:34 When AI assistants become sales agents 08:27 Opt out, not opt in 08:49 Is the phone listening? (Simon's view) 10:12 Controls for kids 10:35 A knowledge race 11:13 Your voice in a training model? Question.Marketing: https://question.marketing/

  8. Sep 22

    Proof that the SEO game has completely changed: 9 views, page one, AI Overview

    Simon Young (Question.Marketing) shows live Google proof from a Stitch AI client knowledge-gap publish: bulk WhatsApp marketing and UK PECR / data-protection content. On film: a Google Search result for the companion YouTube video showing 9 views · 4 days ago, and Google AI Overviews citing the Stitch blog and video. Queries shown include whatsapp PECR regulations in the uk and the long-tail bulk WhatsApp UK compliance question. Edit note: this episode audio follows the jump-cut master (tangent ~3:00-10:30 removed; light typing scrub before the long-tail paste). Soft / spoken-only (not title hard-claims): Simon also says on camera that the video went to the top of YouTube in about 20 minutes. Visual receipt locked for packaging remains Google SERP + AI Overview, not a YouTube.com ranking screenshot. 72 hours is not spoken on this film. Full transcript: https://question.marketing/library/proof-seo-is-not-aeo-stitch-ai-9-views-ai-overview-2026 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSAcQXXpxIM Chapters 00:00 SEO is not AEO or GEO 03:00 Knowledge gaps and multi-property publish 10:01 Live Google proof 10:36 9 views on Google Search 11:54 AI Overview citation 14:31 Broader query: blog + video 14:56 What changes for AEO / GEO Question.Marketing: https://question.marketing/

  9. Sep 16

    Proof that Google and ChatGPT are NOT reading the same internet

    Simon Young walks a GEOforge study of 10.2 million AI citations, published 16 September 2026. The film argument is simple: ChatGPT and Google are not reading the same internet. Social citation is largely a Google-side phenomenon. ChatGPT barely cites YouTube. Engagement looks more like a threshold than a ladder. Receipts on film / brief: ChatGPT ~42 YouTube citations of ~1.06M (~0.004%); Google AI Mode YouTube ~6.34%; Google AI Overviews YouTube ~6.63% on film (brief 6.83%); social ~8.8% of the corpus; LinkedIn citations often ~35 days after publish. Full transcript: https://question.marketing/library/proof-google-chatgpt-not-reading-same-internet-2026 Disclosure for show notes (not spoken as a formal partnership line on camera in this take): Question.Marketing delivers AEO and GEO work in partnership with GEOforge, who produced the study. Method published. More: https://question.marketing AEO hub: https://question.marketing/aeo Study: https://getgeoforge.com/blog/social-engagement-ai-citations-study Chapters: 0:00 Intro: engagement vs rankings 2:00 The dataset (10.2M citations) 6:30 ChatGPT and Google are not reading the same internet 10:10 Audience thresholds and LinkedIn delay 14:50 Next experiment + outro

    Proof that Google and ChatGPT are NOT reading the same internet

  10. Sep 15

    Which tools track AI search share of voice and citations? (Episode 2)

    Episode 2. We unpack why many AEO and AI visibility tools give a thin share of voice: too few queries per model, real AI credit burn for robust sampling, and the missing prompt-volume data that Google Keyword Planner used to give marketers for traditional search. Named platforms include ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode. We also touch localised B2B prompting and how AI visibility tracking cost differs from SEMrush or Ahrefs. Tool list coming on Question.Marketing. OpenAI ChatGPT ads stack update (verify product detail): expanding ChatGPT ads tooling / Ads Manager plugin; verify user-facing agent behaviour. More: https://question.marketing AEO hub: https://question.marketing/aeo Transcript: https://question.marketing/library/which-tools-track-ai-search-share-of-voice-citations-2026 Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:18 Thin SoV methods and tool flood 4:15 Cost of accurate tracking 5:10 No LLM prompt volume 8:15 OpenAI ChatGPT ads stack update (verify product detail) 10:05 Localised search 12:30 vs SEMrush / Ahrefs 14:05 Outro

    Which tools track AI search share of voice and citations? (Episode 2)

  11. Sep 15

    Answer engines vs search engines: what I actually believe in 2026

    Simon Young (Question.Marketing) on Answer Engine Optimisation as distinct from Google SEO. Topics as filmed: adoption (VHS/Betamax), voice and spoken answer engines, citations in ChatGPT/Claude/Perplexity, brand trust vs irrelevant links, AI-slop sites, conversational search, unique perspective, AI-assisted outreach to earn citations, AI Overviews, and a warning about gold-rush ranking tools. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaWcxhBlUp8 Transcript: https://question.marketing/library/answer-engines-vs-search-engines-2026 I'm Simon Young. Question.Marketing.

    Answer engines vs search engines: what I actually believe in 2026
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Will AI recommend your business, or your competitor's? Will AI Recommend You? is the podcast about AEO (Answer Engine Optimisation): how UK businesses get named by ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity when a buyer asks who to use. Hosted by Simon Young, founder of Question.Marketing. Thirty years in search, and publishing on AEO since October 2019, 1,153 days before ChatGPT launched. Each episode answers one question business owners are actually asking. What gets a company cited? What's just SEO with a new sticker on it? What do the numbers say, and where are they still small? Plain English, a receipt for every claim, and guests who have done the work. Ask an AI about your industry today. Does your name come up? Full transcripts and show notes at question.marketing.

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    Simon Young - Question.Marketing Founder
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