How Soar measures this

What we measure, how we refresh it, and how we pull the citation data behind every brand leaderboard.

The directory pulls from three places:

  1. Operational subreddit data, structure, posting gates, rules, and activity signals Soar has tracked for years running Reddit campaigns.
  2. AI citation data from Parse, the brands that show up in Reddit threads cited by ChatGPT, Claude, and Google AI Overviews.
  3. Soar's editorial read, what the numbers mean for marketers, based on programs we actively run.

What we measure

  • Posting gates come from Soar's curated subreddit requirements and the latest structured rule captures.
  • Rules, flairs, and self-promotion stance come from Reddit rule pages and recent subreddit metadata.
  • Brand leaderboards are built from every brand mention Soar observes in AI citations pulled from a subreddit.
  • Timing, content, removal, and activity come from sampled post and outcome data.
  • Top posters track recurring high-performers in the last 90 days, excluding owned accounts.

Refresh cadence

The full directory re-runs on a scheduled cadence. Every section renders a "refreshed" timestamp so you can see exactly when the underlying data was pulled.

When pages disappear

If a subreddit is quarantined, banned, removed upstream, or editorially suppressed, Soar tombstones the page and returns an HTTP 410 Gone. We remove stale pages rather than keep stale advice live.