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Today β€” 18 June 2026Main stream

New Adobe tool shows where brands win and lose in AI search

18 June 2026 at 18:25
Brand visibility

Adobe announced a new solution to help businesses ensure their brands are visible, trusted, and chosen across AI surfaces.

Called Adobe Brand Visibility, the product is part of Adobe CX Enterprise, an agentic AI system designed to simplify customer lifecycle management β€” from acquisition and prospect engagement to conversion and long-term loyalty.

AI traffic is exploding. The use of LLMs to identify and research products and services marks a significant shift for both marketers and consumers. Alongside the announcement, Adobe released data showing substantial growth in LLM usage. AI traffic to U.S. retail sites surged 1,324% between October 2024 and May 2026. In the travel sector, AI traffic increased 2,215% over the same period.

  • β€œWe used to get back the same thing (a SERP page with links on it). Now, the answers appear to be random, but they aren’t at scale. But companies don’t have tools to do it,” Loni Stark, vice president of strategy and product, Adobe, told MarTech.

Measuring brand visibility in AI search. Adobe Brand Visibility is Adobe’s first generative engine optimization (GEO) product since its acquisition of Semrush in May. It combines Adobe LLM Optimizer with Semrush’s AI Optimization tool.

Adobe Brand Visibility draws on nearly 300 million real-world AI search prompts, which Adobe says is the largest global database of its kind, helping teams identify which prompts they’re winning or losing.

Combined with Adobe’s first-party signals from owned channels, the platform gives marketers a view of how their brands appear across ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Microsoft Copilot, and Perplexity. Metrics include mention frequency, audience reach, competitive share of voice, and content gaps. AI agents then surface prioritized recommendations, enabling teams to deploy updates quickly and measure their impact directly in the platform.

Competitive intelligence. Adobe Brand Visibility includes competitive brand comparison tools that let marketers benchmark against competitors, identify where their brands are cited, track brand mentions, and analyze historical trends.

The platform also includes SEO intelligence, reflecting the continued importance of SEO fundamentals in AI search visibility. Powered by Semrush data spanning 28.5 billion keywords and 43 trillion backlinks collected over 17 years, it shows where existing search authority should be generating AI citations and where content investments can close gaps across both channels.

There’s still much to learn about how LLMs work and how brands can improve visibility, but Star is confident Adobe is well positioned to lead in this space.

  • β€œAdobe had owned data. Semrush had data and trends. We don’t have all of the answers, but we have the best data,” Stark said.
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