When AI engines answer "best tanning near me"-style buyer questions, one tanning brand comes up more than any other in our data: Palm Beach Tan. NameBeam's September 2026 corpus recorded 88 namings of the brand across three US markets (62 by Perplexity, 26 in Google results), the highest total of any tanning brand tracked.
The count breaks down as 62 Perplexity namings and 26 Google citations across Charlotte (NC), Columbus (OH), and Tyler (TX), measured September 1 to 28, 2026. The second most-named tanning brand, Glo Tanning, totaled 48 across Columbus and Tyler.
| Brand | Markets | Perplexity | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palm Beach Tan | Charlotte NC, Columbus OH, Tyler TX | 62 | 26 | 88 |
| Glo Tanning | Columbus OH, Tyler TX | 32 | 16 | 48 |
Per-business day counts are verified for Perplexity and Google SERP. Per-business counts for ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude are not published in this release.
Corpus: September 2026, 28 run days, 22 local US markets. The same buyer-intent questions ("best [service] in [city]"-style local queries) were asked daily to ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini, with Google SERP as a baseline.
Metric: days per market on which each engine named the business, summed across markets. Every market report is public and dated.
Receipts: full brand leaderboard · Charlotte report · Columbus report · Tyler report
NameBeam, operated by Carter Enterprise LLC, runs a free AI visibility check for local businesses: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI, with dated transcripts. Motto: "Every claim owes the future a receipt."