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title: "The social platforms in the citation"
description: "Top social sources cited by AI: YouTube, Reddit, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Quora across ChatGPT and Google."
canonical: https://shoutrank.com/data-studies/top-social-sources
markdown: https://shoutrank.com/data-studies/top-social-sources.md
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# The social platforms in the citation

Top social sources cited by AI: YouTube, Reddit, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Quora across ChatGPT and Google.
Social hosts are their own cut of the same ranking. The share is among those hosts.

Updated October 8, 2026. United States.

This data is accumulated from multiple sources and internal training data, which helps us get the client cited.

## This chart

| Domain | Mentions | Google | ChatGPT | Share |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| youtube.com | 434k | 433k | 418 | 56.8% |
| reddit.com | 250k | 236k | 14k | 32.7% |
| facebook.com | 62k | 62k | 1 | 8.1% |
| quora.com | 16k | 16k | 0 | 2.1% |
| linkedin.com | 1,532 | 1,484 | 48 | 0.2% |

Perplexity and Gemini are not in this ranking. An AI Overview coverage rate is not published here as if it were measured.

## This chart is the source for

- [Home services](https://shoutrank.com/industries/home-services.md)
- [Real estate](https://shoutrank.com/industries/real-estate.md)

## Questions on Top social sources

### Is YouTube treated as social?

Yes. In this cut YouTube is a social host. Quora is listed with the forums on the UGC study.

### How often does this update?

The date on the page is the day this ranking was last updated.