{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The GEO Show","title":"Stop Blocking Bots. Start Getting Paid.","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/e550f347\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1303,"description":"Welcome to episode 38 of The GEO Show, the briefing on Generative Engine Optimization and AI visibility. Brought to you by GEOforge.\nIn this episode, Paris Childress, founder of Hop AI and co-founder of GEOforge, covers ten stories: Profound's Google AI mode citation instability, Azoma's agentic commerce citations, Nexi's merchant catalog push in Europe, Mastercard Agent Pay credentials, BrandGhost's 11.8% cross-engine overlap, Machine Relations' long-tail citation map, AppScribed's live-vs-API tracking gap, Cloudflare's Disallow AI Training setting, the NYT \"doom loop\" filings, and Pyra's Primey race engineer.\nIn this episode:\n🤖 Profound flags Google AI mode citation variability\n Profound's status page says Google AI mode citation data remains affected by variability. One of the category's largest vendors is publicly acknowledging that AI search measurement can go unstable when the model layer moves. Treat those numbers with a grain of salt.\n🛒 Azoma: 86.5% of Alexa shopping citations are earned or social\n Dunnhumby Ventures invested in Azoma. Q2 analysis: 86.5% of citations behind Alexa shopping recommendations came from earned or social media (76% for Walmart Sparky), not brand.com. Off-site citation work is not optional in commerce GEO.\n🇪🇺 Nexi × Refi Buy: catalogs as AI infrastructure\n European payments giant Nexi is helping merchants structure product catalogs for AI agents. A forthcoming survey of ~28,000 consumers across 11 countries found more than half used AI in the prior month to search, find, or buy. Machine-readable catalogs are becoming table stakes.\n💳 Mastercard gives agents one-time payment credentials\n Mastercard Agent Pay into Alchemy's Agent Card means approved AI agents can use one-time tokenized credentials inside user-set constraints. Agentic commerce is moving from recommending to buying. Trust will follow the same path early online shopping did.\n📊 BrandGhost: only ~11.8% cross-engine source overlap\n Across 7,902 citations on ChatGPT,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7cDHOTKwTPJbamMzkSU5XMeYqbfRSPk5nMQ6zhbTeaI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kY2Ri/MGIyZjViNzJiODc5/ZGM5MmJhYmE4NmYx/MTVhYy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}