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IKEA

Category leadership score: 4.5

Furniture Village

Category leadership score: 7.44

DFS

Category leadership score: 10.73

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What does category leadership mean?

Category leadership isn't the brand with the biggest budget. It's not even the brand with the largest market share.

To own a category, you have to be two things: found and wanted.

Discoverable - showing up when people search, whether that's Google or AI. And...
In demand - the brand people are actually asking/searching for by name when it comes to that category

We've partnered with Ahrefs to measure exactly that.

For every category, we pull the most visible brand in Google, the most visible brand in AI search and LLMs, and the most in-demand brand. Those three signals combine into a single Leadership Score.

How to read the metrics

Scores run from 1 to 100. The closer to 1, the stronger your position.

Low scores need defending. High scores is where your opportunity lies.

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Category leadership score

Google Discovery Data (pos score)

Brand & category demand SV

AI visibility/ share of voice

#	Company	Domain	Google Discovery Data (pos score) Search Discoverability Score A weighted score prioritising top rankings for hundreds of non-branded terms. In simple terms, are you showing up and discoverable when people search for what you sell	Brand & category demand SV Brand Demand Score A blended score combining searches for your brand alone and your brand plus category terms. In simple terms, are people thinking about you and looking for you by name when looking for your category	AI visibility/ share of voice AI Recommendation Score A weighted score of your visibility across AI platforms like ChatGPT, Google, and Copilot. In simple terms: are you being recommended when people ask AI what to buy?	Category leadership score A composite index blending Brand plus Category Demand, Search Visibility, and AI Recommendation scores.
1	I	IKEA ikea.com	4	5	4	4.5
2	F	Furniture Village furniturevillage.co.uk	2	12	7	7.44
3	D	DFS dfs.co.uk	10	10	13	10.73
4	S	Sofology sofology.co.uk	1	21	10	11.01
5	O	Oak Furniture Land oakfurnitureland.co.uk	10	15	18	13.65
6	S	ScS scs.co.uk	6	22	20	15.59
7	D	Dunelm dunelm.com	28	4	16	16.09
8	L	Loaf loaf.com	7	19	32	16.86
9	N	Next next.co.uk	33	2	17	17.69
10	A	Amazon amazon.co.uk	32	1	31	19.46
11	D	Dusk dusk.com	24	11	27	19.65
12	J	John Lewis johnlewis.com	32	7	19	19.79
13	A	Argos argos.co.uk	38	3	15	19.79
14	T	The Range therange.co.uk	38	6	27	23.45
15	F	Furniture Choice furniturechoice.co.uk	19	31	25	25.35
16	W	Wayfair wayfair.co.uk	47	9	13	25.39
17	C	Cambridge cambridge.org	16	16	68	26.63
18	I	Ideal Home idealhome.co.uk	28	40	2	27.7
19	H	Habitat habitat.co.uk	36	13	40	27.98
20	G	Gumtree gumtree.com	53	8	22	29.14

Why these three metrics define category leadership - and not just one

Every brand is ranked using a leadership score

We talk to brands every week who have strong awareness but disappear the moment someone starts searching.

Big TV spend. Millions of impressions. But no presence in the moments that actually drive decisions.

That's not category leadership. That's brand recognition without commercial impact.

The data shows it clearly: discoverability drives demand, and demand drives discoverability. Google and AI reward brands that are talked about, recommended, and earning mentions across the web. They surface what the internet already endorses.

So visibility alone isn't enough. If your non-brand SEO is strong but nobody's searching for you by name - if your PR, social and creative aren't building that pull - you won't win the category.

You need both. Discovery and demand. Together, they're what makes a category leader.

Category leaders:

How Ninja became a category leader with Rise at Seven

They were the most in demand brand for airfryers, famous in the category but they couldn't get past page 2 on Google. They had a discovery problem, and we helped them solve that.