What the Data Says About Crypto Media and AI Citations
We measured which crypto outlets ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini cite. We plan placements around these numbers.
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24% of AI citations go to crypto media
In 36 crypto queries on 4 AI engines, 49 crypto outlets earned 24% of 1,137 citations. Five outlets held 44% of those crypto media citations. -
crypto.news leads with a 13.9% citation score
CryptoSlate follows with 12.5%, CoinDesk with 11.8% and Cointelegraph with 8.3%. Only crypto.news and CoinDesk were cited by all four engines. -
4.1x more citations outside Google AI
ChatGPT, Perplexity and Grok cite crypto publishers 4.1 times more often than Google’s AI Overviews, AI Mode and Gemini combined (40 publishers, 55,055 citations). -
76 minutes to 15 languages
In the Ledger incident, no article ran before the company’s first statement. Within 76 minutes of it, the story was in 15 languages.