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Columbus Crew

Columbus Crew

MLS franchise

League
MLS
Location
Columbus, OH
Valuation
$0.6B · Forbes
Forbes Rank
#20
Avg Mentions/Run
1.9
Share
#11Charlotte FC#13San Diego FC
AI insight

Columbus Crew's AI visibility is concentrated in Claude, which drives 50% of its mentions.

BX Overall trend

Bowstone Index
8.7

BX Overall combines AI visibility and social momentum across all tracked franchises.

MLS (BX 10.3)
Fair
1-week change
-2.9

vs. Aug 15, 2026

Both weeks are reconstructed from the mentions and social snapshots on record now, not captured at the time — so a later correction to either input moves a week already reported.

Driver mix (this week)
AI Visibility
-0.1
Social Presence
-8.0
AI Visibility Rank
#8
of 30 MLS franchises
ranked by AI mention share
AI Visibility Rank (all leagues)
#93
of 230 franchises
ranked by AI mention share
BX Overall Rank
#100
of 230 franchises
combines AI visibility + social momentum
AI Visibility
12.90.1
normalized across all 230 franchises55th percentile
14.9 within MLS
Social Presence
0.78.0
+0.1% WoW · normalized across all 230 franchises68th percentile
1.9 within MLS
Market Signal
46.4
Mentions (latest run)
2
0.0
Dominant platform
Claude
1 of 2 mentions
Avg. rank when listed
8.5
2 ranked appearances
Total followers
486.7K
+0.1%

Why it moved this week

0 mentions

Aug 15, 2026 → Aug 22, 2026 · one or both runs reconstructed from stored mentions

Too little movement to attribute. The week's changes are within the range a single re-run of the same prompts would produce.

Attribution is probabilistic. These are the prompts, models and sources whose measurements changed most alongside this entity — not a claim that any of them caused the movement.

Platform dependence

  • Claude1 (50%)
  • GPT-4o0 (0%)
  • Gemini0 (0%)
  • Perplexity1 (50%)

Recommendation quality

13total mentions across all tracked runs
  • Top Mention0 (0%)
  • Strong Mention0 (0%)
  • Listed13 (100%)
  • Qualified0 (0%)

AI sentiment breakdown

Positive 100%Neutral 0%Negative 0%
Sentiment by platform
  • Claude100% positive
  • GPT-4o—
  • Gemini—
  • Perplexity100% positive

Social followers over time

AI mentions trend

ClaudeGPT-4oGeminiPerplexity

Top cited domains

Perplexity only · cited per question, not per entity

  • en.wikipedia.org2 prompts100%
  • forbes.com2 prompts100%
  • reddit.com2 prompts100%
+23 more domainsPaid tier

Share of the 2 cited questions this entity was mentioned in.

Recent news mentions

Weekly digests · entity named, not necessarily the lead story

  • MLS names Larry Berg as Don Garber’s successor

    Sports Business Journal · Aug 17–23, 2026

  • The most significant MLS sports business news story this week is Nationwide Mutual Insurance’s agreement to bu…

    MLS news · Jul 6–12, 2026

Why it matters

  • Concentrated on Claude

    50% of current AI visibility comes from Claude — presence on GPT-4o and Gemini is the biggest growth opportunity.

  • AI visibility holding steady

    AI mention share moved -0.0% run-over-run. Rising AI visibility often precedes broader attention — track this entity against social growth on the Correlation view.

  • Latest market value on record

    $580M (forbes, Jun 10, 2025). Market Signal is tracked as a standalone data point alongside the Bowstone Index, not as one of its weighted components — see the Correlation view.