Brand Wars Hiking Shoes

Every week six AI assistants name the best Hiking Shoes brands; here are 25 weeks of it. The brand they rank highest over the last 4 weeks stands on top of the hill.

Pick a battlefield

All 46 battlefields

Bars: how much the top 6 moved from week to week this season; a new #1 counts most.

Hiking Shoes
Week 1/25
May 18 – 24

This week on the hill

  1. 1Merrell
  2. 2Salomon
  3. 3KEEN
  4. 4Columbia
  5. 5Vasque
  6. 6Oboz
Bar: score vs #1

Merrell starts on top of the hill.

Who won?

Merrell wins the hill: on top 22 of 25 weeks.

  • Longest run at #1: 12 weeks in a row
  • In the top 3 every week
  • Already on top in week 1

Weeks on top of the hill

  • Merrell22 wk
  • Salomon3 wk

Real data: the AI brand chart for Hiking Shoes, 25 weeks, from the week of May 18 – 24 to the week of Nov 2 – 8. Every week six AI assistants answer the same buying questions, and a brand's place is its average over the last 4 weeks, as on the chart. Place on the hill is the place that week; the bar is the brand's score as a share of that week's #1; a tall tick on the timeline marks a week the top changed hands. The shooting is just for fun.

See the Hiking Shoes chart · How the chart works