Waseit study · UK · collected 2026-07-31

Which marketing agencies do AI assistants recommend in Manchester?

We asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity 6 real buying questions about marketing agencies in Manchester - the way customers actually ask. Every answer named specific businesses: 41 names came back for this trade in this city.

No name here is cited by more than one assistant: each of the 41 businesses found comes from a single engine. This is a field without consensus - being cited by one says nothing about the others.

The names the assistants cite most

1.Digital Media Teamcited 2 times · by perplexity
2.BGN Agencycited 2 times · by perplexity
3.CEEK Marketingcited 2 times · by perplexity
4.One Day Agencycited 2 times · by perplexity
5.Soap Mediacited 2 times · by perplexity
6.Holdens Agencycited 2 times · by perplexity
7.Junglecited 1 time · by openai
8.The SEO Workscited 1 time · by openai

Counts are citations across our sampled answers for this trade and city, collected 2026-07-31 via the assistants' APIs. Answers vary between runs - across the whole study, assistants agreed with each other on only 3% of names. A snapshot, honestly labelled, not a permanent ranking.

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Full dataset and method: the 2026 UK study (1464 answers, 244 trade×city cells) · our methodology