Maria Dykstra is an AI Visibility Architect who has diagnosed algorithmic authority failures for 50+ B2B companies. She built global ad systems at Microsoft that drove $2B in revenue across 1B+ ads per month. She ran TreDigital for 13 years across Fortune 500s and startups. She is embedded with agentic AI companies to translate their…
A founder can win the YouTube algorithm and still lose the AI citation layer. The channel grows for humans. The visibility for buyers stays flat.
Roughly 41% of YouTube videos cited by AI had fewer than 1,000 views at the time of citation. About 35% of cited channels had fewer than 10,000 subscribers. The median cited channel had under 41 videos total.
A channel with 2,000 subscribers routinely beats a channel with two million when the text architecture is better. AI does not read the recommendation signals YouTube reads. It reads the extractable text around the video.
Most definitions of SEO, AEO, and GEO are wrong. They treat three distinct optimization disciplines as variations of the same thing. They’re not. They target different surfaces. They require different signals. They operate on different timelines. A strategy built for one doesn’t automatically serve the others. This blogs explains the difference and tells you how to optimize for each one.
