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ECOWAS (ecowas.int) scores 82 out of 100 on Brand Analyzer, placing it in the Strong Brand tier among Government brands, Non-profit brands, in the 88th percentile of 14243 Government brands.
ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) is a regional intergovernmental organization established to promote economic integration and cooperation among West African nations. It coordinates policy, trade, security, and development initiatives across member states, aiming to foster shared regional development. Its stakeholders include citizens, governments, policymakers, businesses, youth, and international development partners throughout West Africa.
| Brand Name | ECOWAS |
|---|---|
| Domain | ecowas.int |
| Industry | Government, Non-profit |
| Founded | 1993 |
| Headquarters | Prachovice |
| Parent Company / Owner | Cemex Czech Republic |
| Main Competitors | African Union (82/100), Southern African Development Community (76/100), East African Community (77/100), Economic Community of Central African States (72/100), Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (83/100) |
Moz Domain Authority 61/100 vs category average 47 / leader 97 - a strong backlink profile, so AI systems frequently encounter mentions of the brand.
Ranked #46,343 on the Tranco list of most-visited sites - strong traffic reinforces the brand's prominence to AI models.
ECOWAS appears on Wikipedia but without a dedicated company entity, so AI models can confuse it with similarly named subjects.
The homepage meta description reads "To promote economic integration and cooperation among West African nations for shared regional development." (No meta description) - this is the summary AI engines are most likely to quote.
Structured data on the homepage: canonical. Adding Organization and FAQ schema would further help AI crawlers parse the brand's identity.
AI-crawler access: robots.txt present, no AI bot restrictions - robots.txt controls whether engines like GPTBot and ClaudeBot can read the site at all.
Detected tech stack: Nginx, WordPress, Ghost.
Social footprint: verified profiles on Facebook, LinkedIn, X (Twitter), YouTube, Instagram, GitHub - consistent profiles reinforce the brand's identity across the web.
0 Reddit mentions - community discussion signals real-world reputation to AI models.
Live results from asking a general-purpose AI assistant about the brand, checked October 2026.
When asked "What is ECOWAS?", Claude could identify the brand as of October 2026. ECOWAS, the Economic Community of West African States, is a regional political and economic union of 15 West African countries (though Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger have recently moved to withdraw) established in 1975 to promote economic integration and regional stability. It coo Best known for Regional economic and political integration of West African nations, including a common market and peacekeeping interventions.
When asked "Best brands similar to ECOWAS?", Claude would recommend ECOWAS as of October 2026. It's the most prominent regional bloc in West Africa, so it would naturally come up when discussing African regional organizations like the AU or SADC.
Common questions people ask in Google, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and other AI search engines.
ECOWAS's main competitors in Government: African Union (82/100), Southern African Development Community (76/100), East African Community (77/100), Economic Community of Central African States (72/100), Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (83/100).
Sources: Brand Analyzer scan
ECOWAS has limited AI-search visibility, scoring 48/100 on Brand Analyzer's AI visibility composite (visibility 49, trust 37, recommendation 58). This estimates how likely AI engines like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity are to know, trust, and recommend the brand.
Sources: ECOWAS official site
ECOWAS was founded in 1993. ECOWAS operates in the Government category. It is analyzed by Brand Analyzer across seven brand dimensions and AI-search visibility.
Sources: Wikidata
ECOWAS is headquartered in Prachovice. ECOWAS operates in the Government category.
Sources: Wikidata
ECOWAS scores 58/100 on Brand Analyzer's AI recommendation signal, indicating it is reasonably likely to be surfaced when AI assistants like ChatGPT suggest Government options. Recommendation depends on crawlability, structured data, and category authority; a Wikipedia presence helps.
Sources: ECOWAS official site
ECOWAS can improve AI discoverability by strengthening structured data (Organization and FAQ schema), maintaining an accurate Wikipedia/Wikidata entity, earning authoritative citations, and keeping content crawlable for AI bots. Brand Analyzer measures these as visibility, trust, and recommendation signals.
Sources: ECOWAS official site
ECOWAS is owned by or part of Cemex Czech Republic. ECOWAS operates in the Government category.
Sources: Wikidata
ECOWAS is a regional intergovernmental organization made up of West African states, established to promote economic integration and cooperation among its member nations for shared regional development.
Sources: ECOWAS official site
ECOWAS coordinates policy, trade, security, and development initiatives among its member states in West Africa, working to drive economic integration and collective progress across the region.
Sources: ECOWAS official site
ECOWAS serves citizens, governments, policymakers, youth, businesses, and development partners across West Africa and the broader international community.
Sources: ECOWAS official site
ECOWAS scores 48/100 for AI visibility - how well ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews can discover, identify and cite the brand.
ECOWAS has a limited AI-visibility profile at 48/100 - a proxy for how readily ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews can recognise and cite it. Its strongest area is recommendation likelihood (58/100) and its weakest is trust (37/100). It benefits from a Wikidata knowledge-graph entry, a global traffic rank of #46,343 (Tranco) and a Moz Domain Authority of 61/100. The main gaps holding it back: no clear Wikipedia entity to anchor it in LLM training data, thin schema.org structured data and no llms.txt to steer AI to its best pages. In a live check, Claude could already identify ECOWAS from memory (October 2026) - a sign these signals are paying off.
The score combines seven dimensions - name quality, digital presence, visual identity, messaging clarity, trust foundation, AI discoverability, and brand authority - into a single objective benchmark.
Ranked closest to ECOWAS: eBallot (82/100), Region of Durham (82/100), Ecube Labs (82/100), ElectionBuddy (82/100).
A step up - brands to learn from: Yr (91/100), Yoti (91/100).
Category leader: ABC News (96/100).
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