

5 Aug 2026 · 1m · 1 chapter

Tyson Stockton interviews Joe Dorian (Chief Product Officer at Botify) about an AI search trend retailers overreact to.
Retailers focus too much on “share of voice” (how often they’re mentioned) and “prompt volume” (how many prompts are executed), treating them as meaningful performance signals. Dorian argues both metrics are probabilistic and synthetic, with no accurate, transparent, publisher-level data, making it hard to prove they reflect real shopper behavior.
The episode contrasts these metrics with the need for marketer-relevant, representative data.
Joe Dorian, Chief Product Officer at Botify.
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Discussion on prompt execution metrics and their implications for marketers.
“And how many prompts are actually being executed?”

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0:41Joe Doran: Here's today's host of the Voices of Search podcast, Tyson Stockton. My name is Tyson, and today I'm joined with Joe Dorian, Chief Product Officer at Botify. What's one AI search trend retailers are overreacting to? One of the biggest things people will look at, the first thing they'll look at is they'll look at their share voice, which is kind of like how often I'm mentioned. But the other thing that they overreact to is prompt volume. Time for a one-minute break to hear from our sponsor, Previsible. So you're looking for SEO help, and you've got a couple of options. You could start replying to spam from agencies that claim they can get you to rank number one on Google.
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2:38And how many prompts are actually being executed? Both those metrics are probabilistic metrics. Both of them are synthetic. No one is publishing. accurate transparent data we really struggle to go and represent to the marketer that this data is meaningful and is representative of their shoppers
Enterprise retailers index only 40-50% of their product pages. Joe Doran, Chief Product Officer at Botify, breaks down why LLM crawlers—decades behind Googlebot in sophistication—struggle to render JavaScript-heavy PDPs and confirmation-crawl product data before citing it. Learn why product feeds now demand the same scrutiny as on-page SEO, how OpenAI's Agentic Commerce Protocol reshapes structured data requirements, and why citation rate and crawl volume correlations outperform synthetic share-of-voice metrics for measuring AI search visibility.
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