What Happens to Your Brand when LLMs Become the Gatekeeper?

What Happens to Your Brand when LLMs Become the Gatekeeper?

Author: Kantar & Saïd Business School, Oxford University May 13, 2026 Duration: 31:33

Is AI reinforcing or diluting your brand? Which brands do LLMs choose to surface and why?   

LLMs are actively shaping how brands are discovered, compared and chosen. They are becoming the new gatekeepers of growth. 

In this expert roundtable, Kantar leaders, from across disciplines and markets, discuss how LLMs are reshaping brand discovery.

You'll leave with clarity on:

1. New opportunities for growth in the AI era

2. Practical guidance to support confident, informed next steps for your brand

3. Data-led perspectives to shape what to focus on

 

Win the LLMs' choice using signal intelligence

Visibility is not enough. Brands need signal intelligence to understand how AI assistants are reshaping consumer decisions. Win the LLMs' choice by strengthening the brand signals AI relies on. 

BrandDigital AI signals goes beyond short-term discoverability to show how LLMs shape long-term brand equity, grounded in Kantar’s Meaningful, Different and Salient (MDS) framework.

From visibility metrics to MDS-aligned signals, it

reveals how brand predisposition is built or eroded

across AI assistants.

Find out more: Kantar BrandDigital AI signals


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