What is Prompt Visibility?
Prompt visibility is the practice of measuring whether and how a brand surfaces across a representative set of real buyer prompts inside major LLMs — typically a curated basket of category, comparison, evaluation, and 'best of' prompts run weekly or monthly. Unlike single-query citation tracking, prompt visibility looks at the full distribution: where you appear, what position in the answer, what context you're cited in (positive, neutral, comparative), and which competitors are cited alongside you. It is the equivalent of rank tracking for the answer-engine era. Crackle PR runs weekly prompt-visibility scans for clients across a curated basket of category, comparison, and 'best of' prompts — the answer-engine equivalent of rank tracking, and the earliest signal that a positioning shift is starting to land.
“Prompt visibility is the new rank tracking. The difference is that being invisible in a prompt is worse than being on page two of Google — there is no page two.”
Related terms
LLM Citation Rate
The percentage of LLM-generated answers about a defined query set that cite your brand as a source.
Share of Model
Your brand's share of citations within a competitive set across LLM-generated answers — the AI-era equivalent of share of voice.
AI Share of Voice
Your brand's portion of total mentions across AI-generated answers within a defined category and time window.
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