Beauty Brands Lose Ground in AI‑Driven Search: 2026 Visibility Index Shows The Ordinary Tops, Legacy Names Slip
July 6, 2026The AI communications firm 5W released its inaugural Beauty AI Visibility Index for 2026 on July 2, detailing how U.S. beauty brands fare in the artificial‑intelligence engines that now dominate consumer research. By measuring the proportion of AI‑generated answers that name each brand across five major large‑language‑model platforms—ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews—the index…
