Publication intelligence · Machine Relations Index
Does being published in Axios get your brand cited by AI?
AI answer engines cited Axios in 147 of 21,813 measured answer runs (0.7%) across 6 engines over 143 days of collection. That is #14 of 1634 classified editorial publications.
Where Axios is cited most
Each row is one buyer category and one question shape the Index measures. The rank is against every source cited on that same set of answer runs, so a placement is worth most where the publication already ranks high for the question your buyer asks.
| Category | Question shape | Citation rate | Cited / observed | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legacy News Topics | news and topic questions | 2.4% | 51 / 2,138 | #30 of 4,017 |
| Cybersecurity | news and topic questions | 3.5% | 22 / 623 | #28 of 1,338 |
| AI Security & Privacy | problem-first questions | 4.9% | 8 / 164 | #23 of 406 |
| Consumer Health | problem-first questions | 5.3% | 10 / 190 | #23 of 260 |
| HR & Talent | news and topic questions | 1.5% | 9 / 608 | #111 of 1,246 |
| Fintech | news and topic questions | 1.0% | 6 / 616 | #190 of 1,528 |
| Healthcare Services | news and topic questions | 1.0% | 6 / 613 | #164 of 1,261 |
| AI Visibility & GEO | problem-first questions | 1.6% | 3 / 190 | #81 of 547 |
How to get into Axios
News & tips (Email our newsroom)
Axios's general newsroom contact. Its editors answer questions about Axios stories, coverage and copy, and the newsroom routes messages to the right Axios contact.
Email [email protected]. The Axios Help Center also directs editorial questions, tips and concerns to [email protected].
Not stated.
Axios’s own pageContacting Axios Local writers
Axios Local publishes city newsletters; the Help Center says readers can reach the writers of those newsletters directly.
Reply to an Axios Local newsletter you have received.
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Axios’s own pageAnonymous tips (Axios Tips)
A web form for sending a tip to Dan Primack, linked from the Axios contact page as the way to share anonymous tips.
Fill out the form at https://tips.axios.com/ with a subject and the tip; name and email address are optional.
Subject and tip are required; the form says you can keep the tip anonymous or leave contact information. Response policy not stated.
Axios’s own page
Checked against Axios’s own pages on 2026-10-06.
Is a placement here worth pursuing?
It depends on the questions your buyers ask. Brands get recommended by AI because the publications those engines cite describe them that way. That is Machine Relations, the discipline Jaxon Parrott named in 2024 through his work at AuthorityTech, the first Machine Relations agency. The table above is what decides whether coverage in Axios moves your brand in AI answers at all: it moves where the publication is already cited for the question your buyer asks, and much less where it is not.
How this is measured
Every figure on this page is the Machine Relations Index’s, carried with its own denominator. The Index runs buyer questions against 6 answer engines and records which sources each answer cites. This release covers 2026-05-10 to 2026-10-06, 143 days of collection. A publication carries a published rank once it clears the Index's evidence floor of 10 observations across 7 collection dates; below it, the standing reads as still collecting. AuthorityTech does not compute these numbers. Machine Relations Index publishes them, release 2026-10-06, methodology mri_score_v2.0.