The sites that come through this intact all have one thing in common. They own something a language model can’t just restate. Everything else is downstream of that. Start with the damage, because it’s worse than the averages suggest and it isn’t distributed evenly. Over roughly two years, small publishers lost about 60% of their search referrals. Mid-sized sites lost around 47%. The big ones lost 22%. Google Search page views across the web fell about a third in a single year.

Semrush used the Adobe Summit to announce a formal operating model built around what the company is calling “Brand Visibility”—a framework designed to replace channel-by-channel marketing execution with a coordinated system for managing how brands are discovered across both human and AI-mediated surfaces. The launch is accompanied by two research reports: Brand Visibility Orchestration: How to Execute on the Brand Visibility Operating Model and Brand Visibility in the AI Search Era: A Strategic Framework for CMOs.