2026 TRUELOGIC RESEARCH REPORT
AI and a New Era of Search
Brands aren’t just being found, they’re being filtered. See which Philippine enterprises are surfacing in AI-powered search, which are fading from view, and what separates the winners from the rest.
Informational queries now generate AI results 84% of the time, from 12% at the start of 2025
Average decrease in branded traffic to PH brands due to 0-click AI results
Sectors analyzed: banks, marketplaces, e-commerce, education, insurance, real estate
THE CHALLENGE
How AI search raises the stakes for Philippine enterprises
Brands with proven trust, authority, and strong demand consistently surface. In the 12 months of 2025 brand searches declined from 3% to 12% and AI intercepted up to 84% of Informational queries in December from 12% in January.
Good SEO is Good GEO
Based on a study of 50 brands across 12 months, what we found is that brands with sound SEO execution outperformed their peers by at least 30% in terms of gains in AI citations
Content volume is out
You can’t brute force your way into relevance. Publishing 300 articles a year is not going to help you. It’s about context, structure medium and quality
Quality over Quantity
The new battle isn’t about being the answer to everything. It’s about being recognized as the trusted answer where it matters most to your customers and prospects.
THE FINDINGS
A small group of brands is pulling away
Our research tracked dozens of leading Philippine brands across banks, e-Commerce, education, healthcare, insurance, and real estate. The picture is stark: marketplaces and banks accelerated sharply in both absolute and percentage gains, while insurance and retail struggled to convert low baselines into sustainable presence.
Brand-level outliers like Zalora (16x increase), Shopee (8x increase), and Ayalaland (75x increase) are outpacing not just competitors but their own sector averages by multiples. Major banks have made gains tightly with each other, averaging 700% to 900% among the major brands
Visibility in AI search rewards digital authority and demand — not legacy size or physical ubiquity.
WHAT THE DATA PROVES
Five levers that drive AI visibility
Rapid growth isn’t random. High-performing brands combine these signals systematically. Legacy “content sprawl” and commercial-only tactics fail.
Brand Search Demand
Volume of branded queries signals trust and relevance to AI models.
Technical Fundamentals
Speed, schema, security, content scan-ability, and mobile friendliness matter in an AI-powered, mobile-first world.
Authority
Be present, be heard, and don’t be shy to put your name on it. Being closely relevant to a tight group of ideas does better than being relevant for everything.
Content Structure
Utilize your headers wisely, remember your schema due diligence. When users can easily home-in to the answers they need, so can the AI.
Content Ecosystem
Being consistent to the ideas you’re invested in within your owned, earned, leased and paid assets.
THE FULL REPORT
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20 pages of sector-by-sector analysis, brand-level outliers, and the execution checklist winning Philippine enterprises are following.
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