As AI adoption and zero-click searches accelerate, the last-click model marketers have long relied on is finally exposed for what it always was: a convenient fiction. In this session, Semrush's Skyler Rudolfsky walks through the data behind the 'searchpocalypse', including findings showing that 80% of consumer journeys contain influential AI waypoints and 71% of AI users say it actively shapes their final purchase decision. Drawing on Semrush Journey clickstream data, Skyler shows how AI doesn't just add a touchpoint, it shortcuts the entire decision-making process, collapsing consideration sets in ways traditional referral tracking completely misses. Attendees will leave knowing what their attribution stack isn't seeing, how AI and search interplay, and why the full consumer journey has never mattered more.
The Searchpocalypse: The surprising interplay of AI and Search in the modern consumer journey
San Diego, September 2026
Win decisions, not keywords: Mapping buyer choice points for AI visibility
San Diego, September 2026
Garrett delivers an evolution of co-citation analysis that'll split your skull WIDE OPEN.
Stop obsessing over domain citations and start comparing the pages AI cites for different roles in the same buying committee - the champion, the CEO, the gatekeeper - all seeking input on the same decision at the same moment from their INSANELY different perspectives.
Using a live teardown - one purchase decision fanning out into 1,063 pages read, 72 cited, across four roles with one isolated veto-holder - Garrett shows you how to find your own isolated veto-seat, build off-domain content that fills it, and turn anchor text into the ANCHOR CONTEXT an AI can actually act on.

