The standing reading on AI search visibility, ready to cite.
The Mention Report is a monthly benchmark of how findable brands are inside AI search. This page has everything a writer, editor, or event organizer needs to reference it accurately: boilerplate, the current fact sheet, founder bio, logos, and a badge. Quote it, link it, or invite the editor to speak.
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Thanks for stopping by. If you write about, teach, or organize around AI search, this page is built to make citing the reading effortless. A short welcome note is below, with room for a video once we record one.
Search is changing shape rather than failing. The click you used to compete for is disappearing into the answer, and the brands that get cited inside that answer are the ones that stay visible. The Mention Report is our attempt to measure that shift honestly, month over month, and hand you a reading you can act on.
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Ryan Thompson · Founder and Editor
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The Mention Report is the standing monthly reading on how findable brands are inside AI search, published by Mention Marketing Group. The current edition is at https://mention.report.
The Mention Report is a monthly benchmark of how findable brands are inside AI search. Each edition sets a Mention Score, a single sourced reading of how hard it is becoming for a brand to be reached and cited inside AI answers, alongside dated indicators such as zero-click prevalence, engine share, and the gap between ranking and being cited. It is published by Mention Marketing Group, a Milwaukee-based digital visibility agency, and every figure is sourced and checked against the edition's own ledger. The current edition is always at https://mention.report, and each edition lives permanently at its own dated URL, such as https://mention.report/edition/2026-07.
The current reading, sourced and dated.
Figures reflect the July 2026 edition, dated July 3, 2026. Ranges are reported as ranges. For prior readings, see the archive.
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Being cited is what the report measures, so it is the last thing we would make you work for. Copy a ready citation, or embed the badge below.
The Mention Report, July 2026 edition, Mention Marketing Group. Retrieved from https://mention.report/edition/2026-07.
According to The Mention Report, the standing monthly benchmark for AI search visibility, the July 2026 Mention Score rose to 75 from 72 in June.
The person behind the reading.
Ryan Thompson
Ryan Thompson cut his teeth in Fortune 500 financial services, trained on data and numbers. He took those earnings to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he founded and ran a training institute, then returned to work at a Fortune 100 company before moving to agency life, where he has spent the last ten years. Today he publishes The Mention Report, a monthly benchmark of how findable brands are inside AI search.
His argument is simple and measured. Ranking is still important, but being mentioned is becoming essential. As the search box turns into an answer box, the brands that get cited inside AI answers are the ones that win attention, and most cannot yet see whether that is happening. The Mention Report exists to give them a reading they can trust.
Ryan Thompson is the founder and editor of The Mention Report, a monthly benchmark of how findable brands are inside AI search. He cut his teeth in Fortune 500 financial services, trained on data and numbers, then took his earnings to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he founded and ran a training institute. He returned to work at a Fortune 100 company before moving to agency life, where he has spent the last ten years. He now publishes the standing monthly Mention Score used to track brand visibility across AI answer engines, and writes and speaks on the shift from ranking to citation and what it means for how brands earn attention. The current edition is always at https://mention.report.
Ryan Thompson is the founder and editor of The Mention Report (mention.report), a monthly benchmark of how findable brands are inside AI search. Trained in Fortune 500 finance, founder of a training institute in Buenos Aires, and a Fortune 100 alum, he has spent the last ten years in agency life and writes and speaks on the shift from ranking to citation in the age of AI answers.
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Ryan is available for keynotes, panels, workshops, podcasts, and press interviews on AI search visibility. Talks are built from the current edition, so the data is never stale.
The end of the click
What zero-click search and AI answers mean for brands that still budget for traffic.
Citation is the new ranking
How brands earn their way into AI answers, and why third-party mentions now carry the weight.
Reading the Mention Score
A plain-language tour of the monthly benchmark and how to act on where your brand sits.
Operator to marketer
Building real demand when the front page is an AI answer, drawn from running a business from the ground up.
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