We are thrilled to announce that Stacker has been named AEO Solution Provider of the Year in the 2026 MarTech Breakthrough Awards!
While we may be team GEO (not AEO 😉) here at Stacker, we’re honored to be recognized alongside winners like Adobe, Klaviyo, and Sprinklr in a program that evaluated more than 4,000 nominations across the advertising, sales, and marketing technology space this year.
Now in its 9th year, the MarTech Breakthrough Awards score nominations based on innovation, market impact, and product execution. Brands are moving fast to build for AI search, and the program's judges were evaluating that shift across the entire martech landscape, not just inside earned media– which is what makes this win particularly sweet.
As AI platforms increasingly shape how people discover information and form opinions about brands, companies need an entirely new way to earn visibility inside those answers. Stacker is uniquely positioned to address that need: connecting brand expertise with a trusted network of publishers, then measuring how that content performs across AI-generated responses. There are plenty of tools that tell brands where and how they are showing up in AI search, but we are building one of the few platforms that helps them meaningfully change the answer and control the narrative.
What the recognition is actually for
It's fair to ask what "AEO Solution Provider of the Year" means in practice. For Stacker, it's been a year of shipping new updates meant to put brands meaningfully in the driver’s seat of against the ever-changing challenge that is GEO, including:
- GEO Reporting, giving brands direct visibility into Response Presence Rate, Citation Rate, Citation Lift, Share of Voice, and Platform Visibility — plus Competitive GEO Reporting to see how that stacks up against the field.
- Source decay research, built with Scrunch AI, tracking how long content actually survives in AI citations before it drops out of view.
- Expanded platform partnerships with AskNews and ProRata.ai, extending where Stacker network content gets surfaced as the number of AI platforms brands need to show up on keeps growing.
We didn’t do this to win an award, but the recognition is a testament to the work of our teams across product, GTM, editorial, and leadership, for seeing what is needed to optimize for our customers. With the rate of change we’re up against, standing still isn't an option in this category.
The data behind the recognition
Content distributed through the Stacker network holds AI citations roughly 2x longer than non-network domains.
This award signals that our approach is right, but trust that we’ll keep building.
Onwards and upwards 🚀
Benjamin Chipman is a GenZ brand and content marketer at the intersection of media and storytelling. Informed by his experiences across the creator economy and the TODAY Show, Benjamin has a unique perspective about where traditional and new media converge. Passionate about where brands come together with culture and community, he brings this to all things brand and content at Stacker.
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