YOUTUBE AEO GUIDE: HOW TO DOMINATE AI SEARCH WITH YOUTUBE

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YouTube now draws roughly 200x more AI citations than any other platform, and its share of social citations 4x in four months to overtake Reddit as the top-cited social source in Q1 2026. Automatic transcripts are the core driver, turning every explainer video into a searchable text document AI models can parse directly instead of relying on tags or descriptions alone. That citation strength concentrates almost entirely in long-form video, since AI models weight depth and comprehensive topic coverage that Shorts aren't built to carry.