3 categories · Named, not rankedExploding Topics
Exploding Topics is a market intelligence platform from Explo that is used for trend discovery · explodingtopics.com ↗
Gane, the publisher, sells software in Competitive intel, where this product is measured. It is measured there by the same method as every other product. How the conflict is handled.
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Exploding Topics has 4.
Why models recommend it
“Best for Emerging Market & Trend Intelligence: Exploding Topics”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Free for basic trend discovery; pro plans for deeper data.”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Best for: Trend discovery and early signal detection”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Exploding Topics, over the 16 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 2 | View → | |
| 5 | 1 | View → | |
| 5 | 1 | View → | |
| 5 | 1 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 4 | View → | |
| 4 | 1 | View → | |
| 4 | 1 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 14 of the 16 answers that named Exploding Topics and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Thirty-two of the forty domain citations in answers naming Exploding Topics came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 693 | 23 | 2026-09-24 | SEO, BI & dashboards | |
| Comparison | 126 | 1 | 2026-09-04 | SEO | |
| Template or tool | 36 | 4 | 2026-08-01 | SEO | |
| News or press | 12 | 10 | 2026-08-01 | ||
| Podcast or video | 11 | 0 | 2025-05-19 | SEO | |
| Case study | 9 | 3 | 2026-09-15 | ||
| Conference or event | 4 | 2 | 2026-08-01 | SEO | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 3 | 2 | 2026-08-01 | ||
| Report or ebook | 3 | 3 | 2026-08-01 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 3 | 2 | 2026-08-01 |
Most recent
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How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page explodingtopics.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name SEO (48); 0 name its categories the models place it in. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.