Neil Patel and Eric Siu compare ChatGPT and Gemini's market share. ChatGPT dropped from 87% to 68% of generative-AI traffic while Gemini climbed to 18.2%. Younger users are shifting to Gemini and Perplexity, partly because they're free and don't require credit cards.
12 months ago, ChatGPT was 87% of GenAI website traffic share. Gemini was 5.4%. You fast forward to December 5th, ChatGPT is 68%, Gemini is 18.2%. And you know what's interesting, Neil? Last week we talked about how you said that your nephews and maybe the young kids, they're all using Gemini. So I actually tweeted this out and it's actually a mixed bag. Some people are using— some kids are using Perplexity. Yeah. Some kids are using ChatGPT, a lot are using Gemini. It's kind of a mixed bag right now. And the reason they say ChatGPT is for old people, it is because old people like us keep talking about it all the time.
No, but I've talked to enough young people after that, and I still say the majority end up using Google products. And the reason being is not because it's better or worse, it's because it's free and they don't have credit cards to spend. You can't go to your parents and be like, I want to cheat on my schoolwork, can you pay for an upgraded version of ChatGPT? It doesn't work.
