Solutions Review Brings Its Listicle Authority to Video, Starting With AI-Native CRM

Solutions Review is relaunching its video listicle series with an entry spotlighting nine top AI-native CRM platforms. The video brings our established editorial approach to an audience of more than 300,000 YouTube subscribers, and it is the first of many. We plan to extend the format across the enterprise technology categories we cover, because video is quickly becoming part of how buyers and AI systems decide which sources to trust.

Our Listicle Model, Now on Video

The listicle has been part of Solutions Review’s editorial DNA for years. Our best-of lists, buyer’s guides, and category coverage help enterprise technology buyers make sense of crowded software markets. Video listicles carry that same authoritative trust into a new medium.

Buyers Are Already Researching on YouTube

Gartner reports that “YouTube has overtaken LinkedIn as the leading platform for B2B IT and high-tech buyers,” with 53 percent of IT and high-tech buyers now using YouTube to guide their product and vendor decisions. As a result, videos from trusted, independent sources are more valuable than ever, as they can put the right vendors in front of those buyers at the moment they are forming a short list.

AI Discovery Is Going Multimodal

Early GEO conversation centered on written content: citations, information gain, entity authority, and third-party validation. Those still matter, but GEO will not stay a text-only discipline.

A brand’s authority footprint now spans editorial content, research, social media, podcasts, communities, images, and video. Video carries authority on its own, alongside the written coverage it once only promoted. The end state of GEO will be far broader than SEO for ChatGPT: brands will need to manage the entire information environment around them.

Third-Party Video Outweighs Vendor Video

GenAI has made content cheap to produce. Authoritative content is still hard to produce. A vendor’s video about its own product carries far less weight than an established third-party publication placing that product within its broader market.

The goal for marketers has shifted from creating more content about their brands to building a larger body of credible evidence around them. That means appearing in the right contexts, alongside the right entities, within sources that have genuine subject-matter authority, across every format buyers use.

A Proven Citation Model in a New Format

We already know this approach earns AI visibility. Our CRM Best Of list, published in January 2026, was cited by AI answer engines within ten days and drove a 324 percent increase in our citations across platforms, as validated by Brandi AI’s AI Visibility Index for the CRM market.

Our video listicles apply the same discipline. Each one is built around real buyer questions, with clear category framing and explicit criteria, and sits alongside our written coverage of the AI-native CRM space and every other market we cover.

What Featured Providers Gain

For the companies featured in these videos, the result is third-party multimedia validation inside the market they are trying to lead. Featured Providers gain inclusion in category-defining content across written and video formats, alignment to buyer-intent prompts, and the chance to be cited consistently as AI systems build answers about their market. That presence compounds as citations persist across prompts, platforms, and formats.

AI answer engines are still settling on the sources they trust for each category, so the window to get in early is open now. Watch the AI-native CRM video listicle, then reach out to us to learn whether your brand would be a good fit for the next one.

FAQ

What is Solutions Review’s video listicle series? A series of YouTube videos that extend Solutions Review’s best-of lists and category coverage into video, published to an audience of more than 300,000 subscribers.

What category does the first video cover? The first video spotlights nine of the top AI-native CRM platforms. More enterprise technology categories will follow.

Why is Solutions Review publishing video listicles? AI discovery is increasingly multimodal, and Gartner reports that 53 percent of IT and high-tech buyers use YouTube for product and vendor decisions. Video extends Solutions Review’s third-party category authority into a format that both buyers and AI systems draw on.

How can a vendor be featured? Technology vendors can contact Solutions Review to learn how to become a Featured Provider.