YouTube marketing agencies: AI search visibility ranking (2026)
How AI search engines rank youtube marketing agencies by visibility and citations. 20 brands measured monthly across Google AI Mode: which brands the AI names in answers, which domains it cites as sources, and how the leaders compare. YouTube marketing agencies helping brands grow channels, produce creator-led campaigns, run video ads, and improve subscriber and watch-time performance. Composite score: 70% visibility (% of AI answers naming the brand) + 30% citation rate (% citing the brand's domain). Full methodology →
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When AI engines like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity answer questions about YouTube marketing agencies, Vireo Video comes up most often, appearing in 12.5% of tracked responses and earning citations in 25% of relevant answers. Vidico and Single Grain round out the top three. Across 20 ranked brands, that citation gap between Vireo Video and the rest is meaningful.
The sources AI engines pull from most heavily are youtube.com, clutch.co, and marketerhire.com, alongside the agency sites vidico.com and vireovideo.com. Clutch and Marketer Hire are aggregator and review platforms, which means agencies with strong third-party review profiles on those sites earn disproportionate AI visibility. A brand ranking well here has likely accumulated verified client reviews and consistent coverage across multiple independent sources.
For a buyer using this page, the most concrete thing to check is whether an agency on this list has recent reviews on Clutch or similar platforms specifically mentioning YouTube work, not just general video production. AI engines weight topical specificity and recency, so an agency with 40 reviews from 2022 may rank lower than one with 15 reviews from the past year that explicitly cover YouTube channel growth or paid YouTube campaigns.
At a glance
What we observed in this categoryauto-generated
Vireo Video holds the only non-zero visibility score in this category at 12.5%, against a category average of just 0.6%. Its composite score of 16.2 is more than 4 points ahead of second-placed Vidico at 11.2. That gap matters because only two brands register any AI presence at all, meaning the remaining 18 brands tracked, including Bamboo, MOMENTiQ, and NoGood, have zero composite score and are effectively invisible to Google AI Mode responses in this category.
Vidico presents the sharpest divergence between citation and visibility in the dataset. It holds a 37.5% citation rate, the highest in the category, yet records 0.0% visibility. Single Grain mirrors this pattern with 25.0% citation but zero visibility. Vireo Video is the only brand where both metrics are non-zero, suggesting citation alone does not reliably translate into named presence within AI-generated answers, and that being referenced as a source differs from being surfaced as a recommended brand.
Google AI Mode is the top engine recorded for every brand in the dataset, indicating the audit is anchored entirely on that single engine. Among cited sources, youtube.com and clutch.co appear alongside individual agency domains including vidico.com and vireovideo.com, suggesting the AI draws on review aggregators and platform authority rather than brand-owned content alone. Third-party sources such as marketerhire.com, lyfemarketing.com, superside.com, and designity.com also feature, pointing to listicle and directory content as a key input signal.
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Biggest visibility risers
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Vireo Video 0% → 12% · rank #0 → #1+12pp
The ranking
| # | Brand | Visibility | Citation | Top engine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
vireovideo.com
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12% | 25% | Google AI Mode |
Vireo Video is the sole brand with non-zero visibility at 12.5%, and its 25.0% citation rate sits 20.6 points above the 4.4% category average. |
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| 2 |
vidico.com
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0% | 38% | Google AI Mode |
Vidico leads all brands on citation at 37.5% yet records zero visibility, the widest citation-to-visibility gap of any brand in the dataset. |
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| 3 |
singlegrain.com
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0% | 25% | Google AI Mode |
Single Grain matches Vireo Video on citation at 25.0% but has no visibility score, placing it in the same cited-but-not-named pattern as Vidico. |
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| 4 |
bamboo.agency
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
Bamboo holds a composite score of 0.0 with no citation or visibility recorded, identical to the 17 other brands ranked below third place. |
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| 5 |
momentiq.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
MOMENTiQ scores zero on every metric, making it indistinguishable from the majority of tracked brands in terms of Google AI Mode presence. |
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| 6 |
littlemonstermediaco.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 7 |
nogood.io
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 8 |
sociallypowerful.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 9 |
tuffgrowth.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 10 |
powerdigitalmarketing.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 11 |
moburst.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 12 |
ninjapromo.io
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 13 |
directiveconsulting.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 14 |
theinfluencermarketingfactory.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 15 |
ubiquitousinfluence.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 16 |
freshcontentsociety.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 17 |
firebellymarketing.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 18 |
pixated.agency
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 19 |
channelbakers.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 20 |
adventureppc.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
Sources AI engines trust in this category
Across the 8 buyer-intent queries we ran on youtube marketing agencies, these are the domains Google AI Mode cited most often. If you're not on this list — or if your competitors are — that's a concrete PR / linkbuilding target.
How to read this ranking
Four things worth knowing before you act on the numbers above. These are the same definitions across every industry page — for category-specific observations, see the What we observed section above (where available) and the per-brand insights inline in the ranking.
Visibility = being named
A brand's visibility % is the share of AI answers that mention it by name in the response prose. This is who AI engines actively recommend to the buyer. More on visibility →
Citation rate = being trusted
Citation rate is the share of AI answers that include the brand's domain as a clickable source link. This is what the AI treats as authoritative evidence, different from being named. More on citation rate →
Top engine differs by brand
The "top engine" column shows which AI surface each brand performs best on. Big gaps between a brand's score across engines usually points to specific content or schema gaps. How AI engines pick sources →
Rankings move month to month
AI engines re-crawl and re-rank on shorter cycles than classical search. We re-audit every brand on this list at least every 30 days and refresh this page automatically. How AI search ranking works →
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Frequently asked about youtube marketing agencies AI visibility
Who leads AI visibility in the YouTube marketing agencies category?
Vireo Video leads with a visibility score of 12.5% and a composite score of 16.2, the only brand in the category with a non-zero visibility figure.
What is the average AI visibility for YouTube marketing agencies?
The category average visibility is 0.6% and the average citation rate is 4.4%, reflecting how few brands register any meaningful presence in Google AI Mode.
Which brand has the highest citation rate despite low visibility?
Vidico holds the highest citation rate at 37.5% but has zero visibility, showing it is referenced as a source without being named as a recommended agency.
What sources does Google AI Mode anchor on for YouTube marketing agency queries?
The top cited sources include youtube.com, clutch.co, and marketerhire.com alongside individual agency domains such as vidico.com and vireovideo.com, with listicle sites like lyfemarketing.com and superside.com also featured.
How many YouTube marketing agencies have any AI visibility at all?
Only one brand, Vireo Video, records a non-zero visibility score out of 20 tracked brands, meaning 19 agencies have zero AI visibility in this category.
Does high citation rate reliably predict AI visibility in this category?
No. Vidico and Single Grain both carry citation rates of 37.5% and 25.0% respectively yet score zero on visibility, indicating citation and visibility are not directly correlated here.