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Consumer Electronics & Appliances,
according to AI

Every week we ask ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini the questions real UK consumers ask about consumer electronics & appliances — and record exactly which brands they put forward. Right now, Very owns the conversation.

0 AI answers this run · 0 brands named · measured, never estimated

The podium

Very is the default answer.

Named in 17% of consumer electronics & appliances answers, typically in position 3.2. Amazon follows at 12%, Currys at 12%.

Amazon
12% of answers
Very
17% of answers
Currys
12% of answers
The full board

Every brand AI names, ranked.

Visibility is the share of answers naming the brand; citation share is its slice of all brand-owned pages cited; read→cited is how often its pages convert a read into a citation.

#BrandVisibilityAvg. positionCitation shareRead→cited
1Very 17% 3.2 0%
2Amazon 12% 3.4 3% 50%
3Currys 12% 3.9 22% 21%
4Beko 10% 1.3 0% 0%
5Scan 10% 1.5 0%
6Samsung 10% 3.0 0% 0%
7Bosch 10% 3.2 0%
8AO 8% 2.2 17% 25%
9Appliances Direct 8% 2.8 19% 63%
10Box 8% 3.0 3%
11Hisense 8% 3.8 0%
12Sonos 7% 1.3 8% 67%
13Apple 7% 2.8 0%
14Ninja 7% 3.3 3% 25%
15Hoover 7% 3.8 0%
What AI wants here

Very is named most. That is not the same as being wanted.

Being named is visibility. Underneath it, every answer describes a brand in three ways — how much it stands out, how much it belongs, and how much it is returned to. In consumer electronics & appliances, Apple leads attraction at 132 against RGB Direct at 75, indexed on the category at 100.

Attraction
Apple132
RGB Direct75
57-point spread · tracks being named 0.34
Affinity
Apple125
RGB Direct75
50-point spread · tracks being named 0.29
Attachment
Amazon112
RGB Direct83
29-point spread · tracks being named 0.38
Apple: Attraction 132, Affinity 125, Attachment 108
Apple
Complete desire
John Lewis: Attraction 106, Affinity 118, Attachment 108
John Lewis
Complete desire
Samsung: Attraction 116, Affinity 107, Attachment 104
Samsung
Complete desire
AttractionAffinityAttachment

Each whorl lights one ring per index threshold cleared. See the full consumer electronics & appliances desire edition →

Who AI trusts here

The referees of consumer electronics & appliances.

The independent sources AI models cite when answering consumer electronics & appliances questions — the places a brand needs to be seen, reviewed and ranked.

mumsnet.com 6 cites
which.co.uk 6 cites
youtube.com 6 cites
aol.com 3 cites
appliancecity.co.uk 3 cites
bbcgoodfood.com 3 cites
energysavingtrust.org.uk 3 cites
rtings.com 3 cites
tomsguide.com 3 cites
tomshardware.com 3 cites
Read is not cited

Sonos converts reads into citations. Samsung doesn't.

When Claude or ChatGPT opens a brand's own pages while answering, does the page make the cited-sources list? Sonos converts 67% of reads; Samsung just 0%. That gap is a content problem, not a visibility problem.

Sonos · read 3×67%
Appliances Direct · read 8×63%
AO · read 8×25%
Ninja · read 4×25%
Currys · read 14×21%
Samsung · read 3×0%
Full data table
#BrandVisibilityAvg. positionCitation shareRead→cited
1Very17%3.20%
2Amazon12%3.43%50%
3Currys12%3.922%21%
4Beko10%1.30%0%
5Scan10%1.50%
6Samsung10%3.00%0%
7Bosch10%3.20%
8AO8%2.217%25%
9Appliances Direct8%2.819%63%
10Box8%3.03%
11Hisense8%3.80%
12Sonos7%1.38%67%
13Apple7%2.80%
14Ninja7%3.33%25%
15Hoover7%3.80%
Which AI you ask

The models do not agree on who leads.

Ask about consumer electronics & appliances and the brand you are shown depends on the assistant: Claude → Beko, Gemini → Very, ChatGPT → Very. Their top-five lists share just 0% of names.

Claude recommends
Beko
named in 10% of its answers
Gemini recommends
Very
named in 25% of its answers
ChatGPT recommends
Very
named in 25% of its answers

Brands whose visibility swings most between models — the bar per model, widest gap on the right.

Very 25pp
Box 20pp
Currys 20pp
Amazon 15pp
Apple 15pp
Argos 15pp
John Lewis 10pp
Scan 10pp
ClaudeGeminiChatGPT
The data behind this chart
BrandClaudeGeminiChatGPTSpread
Very0%25%25%25pp
Box0%20%5%20pp
Currys0%15%20%20pp
Amazon5%20%10%15pp
Apple0%15%5%15pp
Argos0%5%15%15pp
John Lewis5%0%10%10pp
Scan5%15%10%10pp
Bosch5%10%15%10pp
AO5%15%5%10pp
What AI reads here

How-to guides carry consumer electronics & appliances.

Every page AI opened while answering, classified by what kind of page it is. How-to guides supply the most citations; Listicles convert best — 92% of the ones models opened were actually cited.

How-to guides
46 cited · 7 read only
87% of reads cited
Editorial
31 cited · 16 read only
66% of reads cited
Comparisons
27 cited · 11 read only
71% of reads cited
Listicles
23 cited · 2 read only
92% of reads cited
Reviews
15 cited · 2 read only
88% of reads cited
category-page
15 cited · 4 read only
79% of reads cited
Product pages
8 cited · 2 read only
80% of reads cited
Other
7 cited · 11 read only
39% of reads cited
The data behind this chart
Page typeCitedRead but not citedConversion
How-to guides46787%
Editorial311666%
Comparisons271171%
Listicles23292%
Reviews15288%
category-page15479%
Product pages8280%
Other71139%
What gets cited

Structured data is what separates cited from ignored.

Of the consumer electronics & appliances pages models actually opened, how much more often each feature's pages ended up in the cited sources. Structured data is worth 21 percentage points; hard statistics pages fare 23pp worse. Measured within the read population, so selection can't flatter it.

Structured data +21pp
Specifications +2pp
Named author +0pp
Comparison table -3pp
Answer up front -11pp
Updated this year -15pp
Hard statistics -23pp
The data behind this chart
FeaturePages withCited %Pages withoutCited %Difference
Structured data22176%5655%+21pp
Specifications7573%20272%+2pp
Named author13472%14372%+0pp
Comparison table7770%20073%-3pp
Answer up front12866%14977%-11pp
Updated this year10863%16978%-15pp
Hard statistics9357%18480%-23pp
Citation readiness

Box builds pages AI can quote.

Readiness scores each brand's own pages on the structure models reward — a direct answer up front, tables, hard numbers, named authors, structured data, recency, specifications. Samsung is the widest gap: well-built pages that still aren't converting into citations.

BrandReadinessPages citedPages profiled
Box 38 20% 5
Marks Electrical 38 40% 5
Samsung 35 0% 12
Hotpoint 34 25% 4
Overclockers 33 0% 3
AO 33 4% 107
Beko 31 0% 103
Costco 29 0% 3
Appliances Direct 29 43% 14
Argos 29 43% 7

Readiness is the share of eight measurable structural signals present on a brand's profiled pages. It is a build-quality measure, not a ranking of the brand.

What the answers answer

The questions consumer electronics & appliances pages have to settle.

Read straight off the pages AI cited: the consumer questions cited content answers most often. Content that fails to settle these is content models have no reason to quote.

What is the best integrated fridge freezer?
What is the best budget washing machine?
What are the delivery hours?
What is the best budget graphics card?
What are built-in appliances?
What is multi-room audio?
What is the best high-end graphics card?
What is the best budget fridge freezer?
Keep exploring

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Method: 20 unbranded consumer prompts per category, spread across the buying journey, run weekly against ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Read→cited uses Claude and ChatGPT only (Gemini does not separate the two). Correlational observations of model behaviour at the time of the run. Data from the run completed Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:21:06 GMT.

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