The attention sellers who buy attention

Seven of the thirty biggest bidders sell visibility for a living: backlinks, AI citations, UGC at volume, Reddit presence, launch audiences, and in one case a rival pay-to-rank leaderboard. Their placements are the most legible on the board, because a company that sells traffic can price what a click is worth to it better than anyone else here. It is also the group with the most to explain: every one of them is publicly demonstrating that its own channel was not enough.