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AI Performance Insights in Merchant Centre reveals brand visibility in AI surfaces
AI Performance Insights is a new Merchant Centre reporting suite that shows how products are being discovered on AI Mode, Gemini, and AI Overviews. The reporting includes brand Share of Voice vs. similar brands, journey-stage breakdown (discovery, evaluation, purchase), product term popularity, and structured attribute completeness scoring.
What changed
Smarter Ecommerce (smec) , who attended GML Dublin and GML Bay View for the practitioner-level briefings, called this "an incredibly rich, useful report": Google leading on AI-visibility transparency.
The reporting addresses the "new black box" problem: PMax and AI Max are transparent by design, whereas AI Overviews and AI Mode have been opaque. AI Performance Insights closes that gap for retailers.
Why it matters for advertisers
For you, this means retailers and brands selling through Merchant Centre should engage with their Google account teams now to scope beta access. Worth using reporting as the structural input to product data enrichment priorities: popularity-weighted attribute completeness gives a direct read on which gaps will drive the fastest AI visibility lift. Availability: Closed Beta in summer 2026, US/CAN/AU/IN/NZ, English.
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AI Performance Insights in Merchant Centre reveals brand visibility in AI surfaces
AI Performance Insights is a new Merchant Centre reporting suite that shows how products are being discovered on AI Mode, Gemini, and AI Overviews. The reporting includes brand Share of Voice vs. similar brands, journey-stage breakdown (discovery, evaluation, purchase), product term popularity, and structured attribute completeness scoring. Smarter Ecommerce (smec) , who attended GML Dublin and GML Bay View for the practitioner-level briefings, called this "an incredibly rich, useful report": Google leading on AI-visibility transparency.
The reporting addresses the "new black box" problem: PMax and AI Max are transparent by design, whereas AI Overviews and AI Mode have been opaque. AI Performance Insights closes that gap for retailers.
For you, this means retailers and brands selling through Merchant Centre should engage with their Google account teams now to scope beta access. Worth using reporting as the structural input to product data enrichment priorities: popularity-weighted attribute completeness gives a direct read on which gaps will drive the fastest AI visibility lift.
Availability: Closed Beta in summer 2026, US/CAN/AU/IN/NZ, English.
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