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title: "Best Buy: search popularity in United States"
description: "Best Buy is an electronics retailer. Branded searches tell you how often people look for a brand by name or related terms. Comparing these searches across competitors helps you see how popular each brand is over time."
canonical: "https://gobrandwave.com/demand/us/brands/best-buy"
publisher: "Brandwave"
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# Best Buy: search popularity in United States

Best Buy is an electronics retailer. Branded searches tell you how often people look for a brand by name or related terms. Comparing these searches across competitors helps you see how popular each brand is over time.

## Key facts

- **Brand**: Best Buy
- **Market**: United States
- **Measured month**: Sep 2026
- **Share of Search among electronics retailers**: 83.4%

## Where the brand sits

| Competitive set | Rank | Share of Search | Estimated monthly branded searches |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Electronics retailers | 1 | 83.4% | 16.6M |

- [Electronics retailers](/demand/us/categories/us-electronics-retailers)

## How has branded search demand for Best Buy changed in United States over the last 12 months?

- Across the 12 months ending September 2026, estimated monthly branded searches for Best Buy in United States held steady at 16.6M.
- Across the 12 months ending September 2026, Best Buy’s estimated Share of Search among electronics retailers in United States peaked at 83.7% in December 2025 and was lowest at 80.5% in January 2026.

## How did search popularity change for United States electronics retailers in September 2026?

- In September 2026, Best Buy gained estimated Share of Search among electronics retailers in United States, from 81.3% to 83.4%.
- In September 2026, Micro Center lost estimated Share of Search among electronics retailers in United States, from 13.4% to 11.2%.
- Estimated monthly branded searches for B&H Photo in United States rose 19.5% over 12 measured months, from 337K to 402K in September 2026.

## Historical estimated branded-search demand

| Month | Competitive set | Estimated monthly branded searches | Share of Search | Rank |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Oct 2025 | Electronics retailers | 16.6M | 83.6% | 1 |
| Nov 2025 | Electronics retailers | 24.9M | 83% | 1 |
| Dec 2025 | Electronics retailers | 24.9M | 83.7% | 1 |
| Jan 2026 | Electronics retailers | 16.6M | 80.5% | 1 |
| Feb 2026 | Electronics retailers | 13.6M | 80.5% | 1 |
| Mar 2026 | Electronics retailers | 16.6M | 83.1% | 1 |
| Apr 2026 | Electronics retailers | 13.6M | 80.9% | 1 |
| May 2026 | Electronics retailers | 16.6M | 81.4% | 1 |
| Jun 2026 | Electronics retailers | 16.6M | 81.3% | 1 |
| Jul 2026 | Electronics retailers | 16.6M | 83.5% | 1 |
| Aug 2026 | Electronics retailers | 16.6M | 81.3% | 1 |
| Sep 2026 | Electronics retailers | 16.6M | 83.4% | 1 |

## How is Best Buy measured?

Brandwave collects information about searches that people make online using Best Buy’s name. When viewed over time, estimated search volumes for this branded term can be used to understand whether interest in the brand is growing, holding steady, or fading.

- “best buy”

## Which electronics retailers compete with Best Buy?

- [Micro Center](/demand/us/brands/micro-center): Head-to-head: /demand/us/compare/best-buy-vs-micro-center
- [Newegg](/demand/us/brands/newegg): Head-to-head: /demand/us/compare/best-buy-vs-newegg
- [B&H Photo](/demand/us/brands/b-h-photo): Head-to-head: /demand/us/compare/b-h-photo-vs-best-buy

## Methodology

- [How is branded search demand measured?](/demand/methodology): Where the figures come from, what they compare, and how they may be reused.

## Cite this page

Brandwave. "Best Buy: search popularity in United States". https://gobrandwave.com/demand/us/brands/best-buy

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