AEO Intelligence · June 22–2026 (day: 28)

AEO Intelligence Digest — Week of June 22, 2026

This week's AEO crawl surfaced a critical warning for brands tracking citation share as their primary AI visibility metric: a new study found Google AI Overviews cite brands' own listicle content as sources while recommending competitors in 69% of cases — meaning citation and recommendation are now two separate races. Meanwhile, every major SEO authority platform (Semrush, Moz, Ahrefs, SEJ, Search Engine Land) is simultaneously publishing dedicated AEO topic clusters, signaling that the early-mo