Does Medium get cited in AI answers?
Yes. In the September Index, medium.com appeared among the cited hosts in 6 of 150 valid project-management answers, 3 of 150 CRM answers and 1 of 149 hotel-property-management answers. Project-management captures span 22 and 23 September 2026; the CRM and hotel captures are from 22 September. These are exact-host observations, not a platform-wide estimate of Medium's influence.
What we measured
Measured. The September release, published 23 September 2026, records source domains at category level. A host contributes one count when a valid answer's cited URLs contain it at least once. Several Medium links in that answer would still contribute one answer to this measure.
| Category | Answers containing medium.com | Capture date |
|---|---|---|
| CRM | 3 of 150 | 22 September 2026 |
| Hotel property management | 1 of 149 | 22 September 2026 |
| Project management | 6 of 150 | 22 and 23 September 2026 |
The other eleven category panels recorded zero answers containing that exact host. These category counts combine the five engines in the release; they do not identify which engine produced each Medium observation. They also do not include an author's separate custom domain merely because that author may publish through Medium.
Reasoned. The observations establish that this host appeared in the retained source lists. They do not establish that a new Medium article would be cited, that a cited article changed a product shortlist or that readers clicked a link.
Every figure comes from the published method, v1.1.
What this means for you
If you are deciding where to publish, first ask whether the proposed article supplies useful, checkable evidence for the actual question. A platform's appearance in one category cannot decide that editorial question for you.
Open the full cited URL before attributing the answer to a Medium author. Record the page, author where identified, date and relevant passage. A shared hostname is too broad to establish which person's work supported the statement.
Keep the complete category bases when presenting this example. Removing the zero panels would conceal where this collection did not observe the host, while pooling the three nonzero panels would hide their different subjects and dates.
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In Free 10-question check (one engine), inspect the specific source destination rather than using a familiar publishing platform as a trust score. No email is needed; runs are limited per network and per day, and by the site's daily allowance.
If a dated page carries the inaccurate fact used in one answer, Fix one answer, $490 can work from that claim and receipt. This count is no promise of a placement result.
Prepared by the Broadcastwell team.
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