10 platforms for visibility in AI-driven answers in 2026
As AI tools pass 900 million weekly users, more and more people get their shortlist of products straight from an AI assistant rather than a page of links. To be named in those answers, a brand has to appear in the sources the models draw on.
A University of Toronto study found AI search leans overwhelmingly on earned, third-party publications over a brand’s own site. That makes steady placement in the right outlets the main lever for AI visibility. The problem is that pitching them one by one, across markets, doesn’t scale. Here are 10 platforms built to do it at scale.
Best platforms for visibility in AI-driven answers
We looked at platforms that help brands secure placements in the outlets AI assistants cite, and evaluated each on what it does differently, not on price or catalog size. Here are the 10 we picked.
| Platform | Best for |
| 1. Medialister | Agencies and enterprise teams running continuous, goal-based campaigns to keep a brand present in AI answers |
| 2. PRNEWS | International teams that need many placement formats and markets on one platform to build a broad footprint AI engines can draw on |
| 3. PressWhizz | SEO and PR teams that want placements only in hand-vetted, PBN-free publications AI models are likely to trust |
| 4. Linksman | SaaS and tech marketers who need to land in the expert reviews and software comparisons that LLMs cite |
| 5. PRposting | Teams after exclusive, manually vetted independent publishers not found on public marketplaces |
| 6. Respona | In-house teams willing to run direct outreach to win Tier-1 newsroom coverage that never sells placements |
| 7. Ereferer | Marketers building multilingual visibility who need local-language coverage for non-English AI answers |
| 8. NO-BS Marketplace | Buyers who want to vet each outlet’s metrics and approve the content before paying |
| 9. INSERT.LINK | SEO teams placing brand mentions into already-indexed, on-topic pages at high volume |
| 10. LinkBuilder | Buyers comparing vendor prices for the same outlet at the final step of planning |
1. Medialister
Medialister is built for running continuous, goal-based campaigns rather than one-off publications — the steady media presence that keeps a brand surfacing in AI answers. You set a business goal, from market expansion to a startup launch, and get a ready list of relevant outlets from a catalog of 106,000+ vetted publications.
Its distinctive feature is AI-assistant control: an MCP server connects your account to Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini, so you can ask in plain language where to publish and act on the answer. A Google Search Console integration finds the pages you already rank 3rd–20th for and suggests outlets to match.
For agencies, it runs multiple client projects with team roles and guest access, and post-payment rolls a month of placements into one invoice.
2. PRNEWS
PRNEWS is a platform for paid placements with one of the largest catalogs here: 107,000+ outlets across roughly 175 countries. One of its strengths is format range on a single outlet. Depending on the campaign, you can secure a press release, a full sponsored article, a contributor post, or even a mention. If necessary, add local-language translation to the same order since it’s an easy way to build the broad footprint AI engines draw on.
For heavier users, a PRO account adds enterprise tooling: a Bulk Site Checker matches a competitor’s backlink export against the catalog so you can place where they already appear, the full catalog exports to CSV with prices and metrics for budgeting, and filters flag outlets that allow tracking pixels. If you want to add a specific outlet, you can request it from PRNEWS’s team.
3. PressWhizz
PressWhizz stands out for their clean inventory: every one of its 41,000+ sites across 90+ countries is vetted by hand to keep out PBNs and spammed domains. Each placement includes a 12-month replacement guarantee, and the publishing time averages to about 18 hours.
Larger teams can hand the work to a managed service from $5,000, where the team takes over outlet selection and editorial contact. It allows them to execute campaigns at scale.
4. Linksman
Linksman is aimed squarely at software and B2B brands, and its SaaS-outreach format is the reason: instead of general placements, it works your product into the expert reviews, software comparisons, and analytical guides on IT and business publications — exactly the deep, independent content that AI pulls its answers from. Its catalog of 9,000+ sites is manually checked, with filters for domain authority, traffic, niche, and geography.
Pricing scales with format, from around $29 for a link insertion to $399 for guest-post packages, and every placement carries a replacement guarantee.
5. PRposting
PRposting is worth a look for its exclusive inventory: about a fifth of its 23,000+ outlets across 100+ countries are available only here, added through direct deals with owners rather than public exchanges. It’s important since independent publishers carry weight precisely because they aren’t everywhere. Each outlet shows a free audience breakdown by top source country, so you can confirm a site’s real geography before you place.
Payment is one-time and the content stays live for as long as the site runs, with no subscription or hidden fees. If a placement misses its agreed date, the platform refunds your balance automatically within seven days.
6. Respona
Respona takes the opposite approach to a marketplace: it’s a SaaS tool for direct outreach, which is the only way into the Tier-1 newsrooms that don’t sell their services though third-party catalogs or marketplaces. It finds relevant publications and authors, digs up personal email addresses, uses AI to personalize each pitch from the recipient’s recent work, and automates follow-ups.
The trade-off is honest effort: you still run the negotiations yourself. It suits in-house teams with the resource to build newsroom relationships, not anyone wanting a placement live the same week. Pricing is a monthly subscription, roughly $100–500 depending on volume.
7. Ereferer
Ereferer is a European platform that earns its place on multilingual reach: its catalog spans 50,000 sites worldwide (20,000+ in English) across French, English, Spanish, Italian, and German. That matters for AI visibility because generative engines tend to cite sources in the language of the query, so native-language media widens where you can surface.
It keeps costs low — guest posts start at €10, signup is free, and there’s no subscription. If needed, the platform offers native-speaker proofreading before publication. For expensive outlets, co-purchasing lets two buyers split a single placement’s cost.
8. NO-BS Marketplace
NO-BS Marketplace is built around seeing what you’re buying before you buy it: outlet metrics are visible and you approve the content before any money changes hands — useful when a placement will represent your brand in a source an AI might quote. Its catalog of roughly 10,000 outlets works two ways: Suggested Publishers, where the team picks sites to your target metrics, or self-service, where domains stay hidden for publisher privacy but 16 Ahrefs and Moz metrics are shown — enough to judge a site blind.
Every placement carries a 12-month guarantee with a full refund if the link comes down.
9. INSERT.LINK
INSERT.LINK is the speed option: a narrow tool for dropping brand mentions into articles that are already published and indexed. Its NLP search works at the page level — enter a keyword and it surfaces existing, on-topic pages across 45,000+ sites, so you place your mention inside content that already ranks. Orders are fully automated and pay-as-you-go at roughly $20–30 a link, with no approvals to wait on.
This is more of a volume play than a direct route into AI answers, and the platform doesn’t vet sites for you — so check a site’s metrics and quality yourself before buying.
10. LinkBuilder
LinkBuilder doesn’t win you visibility so much as stop you overpaying for it: it’s a price-comparison aggregator that lines up quotes from 50+ vendors for the same outlet across roughly 300,000 sites in 150+ countries. Upload domains in bulk by CSV, filter on 15+ SEO parameters, and compare — the spread between vendors on one site can be wide.
A Check Link Price Chrome extension shows placement costs directly inside Google, Ahrefs, Semrush, Moz, Majestic, and Serpstat. Use it at the end of planning, once you’ve decided where you want to appear.
Start with the goal, then pick the platform
None of these platforms is a strategy on its own. What lands a brand in AI answers is consistent presence in sources those models already trust. So an outlet’s credibility and repeated, relevant coverage matter more than raw volume.
Decide what you’re trying to do first — break into a new market, own a category conversation, cover a specific language — and let that choose the platform. What all ten sell is saving your time and resources at scale.