OtterlyAI becomes headline sponsor of BrightonSEO San Diego 2026

OtterlyAI announced on June 24 that it will be the headline sponsor of brightonSEO San Diego 2026, the September 15-16 conference at the San Diego Convention Center. The move puts one of the newer names in AI search visibility in front of the biggest search-marketing crowd on the U.S. West Coast, and it does it at a moment when the category is shifting from novelty to budget line.

The San Diego event is part of brightonSEO’s global conference series, and brightonSEO says the San Diego edition is returning to a brand-new Convention Center venue. Registration opens at 8:15 a.m., with talks starting at 9:15 a.m. on both Tuesday and Wednesday, a format that puts OtterlyAI in the middle of a two-day run of search marketers who are already living with AI Overviews, AI Mode, and answer-engine reporting.

The sponsorship makes sense on the numbers OtterlyAI is willing to share. The company says North America already accounts for 47% of its customer base, and it says it has more than 30,000 users. That is a clear signal that the United States is now the center of gravity for AI visibility tools, not just a test market. If a vendor wants to be taken seriously by agencies and in-house teams, a headline slot at brightonSEO San Diego is a faster path than another round of product-led marketing alone.

OtterlyAI’s own history is short but aggressive. The company says it was founded in 2024 by Thomas Peham, Josef Trauner, and Klaus-M. Schremser. It says its first product launched in October 2024, reached more than 1,000 marketers by December 2024, and grew to 10,000 marketers in 2025. That pace is the kind of trajectory vendors use to justify bigger conference bets, and OtterlyAI is now pairing it with claims of coverage across Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and Perplexity.

The broader commercial signal is hard to miss. brightonSEO calls itself the world’s largest search marketing conference and says the San Diego event sits inside a global series with flagship gatherings in the U.S. and the U.K. That makes it a prime place to sell not just software, but category leadership. OtterlyAI also says it won the Best AI Search Analytics Software Solution category at the European Search Awards 2026, another credential that helps a young vendor argue that AI search monitoring, prompt research, content audits, and GEO optimization are no longer fringe features. They are becoming part of the standard search stack.