Companies Using BrightEdge

I expected an enterprise SEO platform to show up on a few hundred corporate sites. Our October 2026 crawl finds BrightEdge on 5,005 live domains, 2,884 of them matched to a company, 12th of 48 in SEO Tools. A domain counts when its pages load BrightEdge's on-page script, mostly the Autopilot script from cdn.bc0a.com. That is the only part of BrightEdge that touches a customer's website. Keyword research and reporting run inside BrightEdge's own app, so customers who use only those are invisible to us, which is one reason our count doesn't line up with the 2,400 customers on BrightEdge's about page.

Accounts, not domains

BrightEdge puts an account number in its script address, so we can count accounts as well as domains. In the 3,144 live domains where it was readable we found 949 accounts. 544 of them sit on a single domain. At the other end, 58 accounts with ten or more domains hold 1,465 of the 3,144 between them. Several of the biggest belong to a single organisation. Wärtsilä's account covers 188 domains, nearly all country or misspelt addresses that redirect to wartsila.com, and 49 domains carry Orkin's homepage title. One account covers 81 tyre dealers' domains.

Sales signal: dedupe a BrightEdge list by account or redirect target before you count companies. A raw domain export shows Wärtsilä 188 times.

The franchisor we took out

Winmark franchises five resale brands: Plato's Closet, Once Upon A Child, Play It Again Sports, Style Encore and Music Go Round. Each brand runs BrightEdge under its own account, and each store has its own domain, such as onceuponachildcomo.com, that redirects to a location page on the brand site. Our crawl saw BrightEdge on 1,461 of those store domains, nearly a quarter of everything it found. They are one buying decision, so this page counts the brand sites and leaves the store domains out.

Sales signal: for franchise and multi-location marketing tools, Winmark is a working example of BrightEdge rolled out to store level. For anything sold per company, it is one account.

One point on the chart

On this cleaned basis our chart starts in October 2026, so it shows where BrightEdge stands rather than how fast it moves. The churn figure is the one to watch. Since tracking began on 16 March 2026, 604 domains have dropped BrightEdge, about 100 of which still run it on another hostname.

"BrightEdge's footprint is about 950 accounts with big web estates. Count domains instead and one franchisor's store sites would have been nearly a quarter of the total." - Emma Davies, Data Analyst at TechnologyChecker.io

Sales signal: treat this as a stable pool of large accounts and watch the removals. A domain that drops the script may have rebuilt its site or be reviewing its SEO tools.

Old, large and often in healthcare

16.91% of matched companies with a known size have more than 1,000 staff, about ten times the 1.64% median across the 586 profiles we've published with size data. 25.09% were founded before 1960, about five times the 4.69% median across 589 profiles. Lockheed Martin, Qualcomm, Fortinet, Kantar and Trend Micro are on the list. The 26.29% with 1 to 10 employees is less small than it looks. Of the 403 such companies whose account we could read, 210 share it with nine or more other domains, such as tyre dealers inside one account.

Hospitals and Health Care (8.39%) and Medical Practices (6.51%) make healthcare 14.9% of matched companies, more than three times Retail's 4.25%. Mercy, Boston Children's Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Beth Israel Lahey Health are on the list, and BILH runs bilh.org, bidmc.org and lahey.org under one account.

Sales signal: the buyer is a web or SEO team inside a large, established organisation, and hospital systems are the clearest vertical. They run many sites, for locations, foundations and careers, and that suits BrightEdge's internal-linking and schema agents.

An English-speaking list

2,322 of the 2,884 matched companies are American. The United Kingdom (130), Canada (90) and Australia (72) bring the four English-speaking markets to 2,614, about nine in ten. The Netherlands (30) and Germany (25) lead the rest, and Wärtsilä's 188 domains are the main exception to the pattern.

Sales signal: don't build a European campaign on this list. Outside English-speaking markets it's thin.

Running beside Yoast

The SEO Tools table is mostly WordPress plugins, so the rivals in it are rarely real alternatives. 639 domains run BrightEdge and Yoast SEO together today, out of 785 we've ever seen with both. Ahrefs shares 51 live domains with it (55 ever) and Search Atlas 4. With most pairs still in place, we don't read any of this as switching. The rivals that come up in BrightEdge comparison searches, Conductor and seoClarity, aren't technologies we detect, so we can't measure that contest.

"Most sites that run BrightEdge alongside Yoast still run both. The plugin writes the page's basic SEO tags and BrightEdge works on top of it." - Emma Davies, Data Analyst at TechnologyChecker.io

Sales signal: a WordPress SEO plugin on a BrightEdge site is not a churn signal. For an enterprise SEO vendor competing with BrightEdge, the account list is the prospect list, and contract timing matters more than the stack.

The stack around it

Google Tag Manager runs on 92.63% of BrightEdge domains and Google Analytics on 77.0%. WordPress is on 20.34%, while Drupal (7.01%), Adobe Experience Manager (6.33%), Sitecore (5.71%) and Progress Sitefinity (4.96%) together reach 24.01%. OneTrust (22.58%) is the most common consent tool, ahead of Osano (10.57%) and TrustArc (3.6%). VWO (7.35%) and Optimizely (4.76%) show testing teams on a minority of sites.

Sales signal: a BrightEdge site is usually a governed web estate with a tag manager, a consent tool and often an enterprise CMS. Vendors selling to AEM, Sitecore or Drupal teams will find their buyers here.

What it costs

BrightEdge doesn't publish prices. Its product pricing page asks for a contact form or a call, and the home page leads with a demo request (checked 13 October 2026). The on-page product has a new name: what was Autopilot is now the Site Agents Suite, whose agents build internal links, generate JSON-LD schema and push title and heading changes into WordPress, Drupal or another CMS.

Sales signal: quoted pricing and enterprise buyers mean long cycles. Agencies already working inside BrightEdge accounts are the faster way in.

Key takeaways

1. 5,005 live domains, 12th of 48 in SEO Tools and 49 domains behind Yoast SEO for Shopify.

2. 949 accounts behind the 3,144 domains that show one, and 58 of them hold 1,465 of those domains.

3. 1,461 Winmark store domains left out of the count; Winmark's brand sites stay in.

4. Old, large customers: 25.09% founded before 1960 and 16.91% above 1,000 staff, with healthcare at 14.9%.

5. BrightEdge and Yoast SEO run together on 639 domains, and we see no switching between them.

How to use this list

Filter by industry and company size, then dedupe by account or redirect target. For the full list of 5,005 BrightEdge domains with company, size and stack data, explore TechnologyChecker.io. Our search engine market share analysis covers the search referrals these sites compete for.