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Video advertising · September 2026 Edition

StackAdapt vs LinkedIn Campaign Manager

Two of twelve models named StackAdapt first on the direct prompt; seven named LinkedIn Campaign Manager. StackAdapt was named by twelve of the twelve models and LinkedIn Campaign Manager by nine and StackAdapt carries 31 labels and LinkedIn Campaign Manager 12, so the shares are not directly comparable.

StackAdapt

accepted challenger

Named in nine categories this edition.

LinkedIn Campaign Manager

accepted challenger

By LinkedIn, Sunnyvale, United States, founded 2002. Named in eight categories this edition.

First-choice share24%15%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate3%8%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#1#3A position in a field of 9; printed, not drawn.
Labels3112A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, StackAdapt reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.YouTube Ads was named alongside these two in eight of the twelve direct answers. StackAdapt vs YouTube Ads · YouTube Ads vs LinkedIn Campaign Manager

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all twelve models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the video advertising page.

By framing

How many of the twelve models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
StackAdaptFirst choices, of twelve modelsLinkedIn Campaign Manager
Direct271 against StackAdapt
Paraphrase80
Comparative00
Budget-constrained001 against LinkedIn Campaign Manager
Scale-constrained10
Negative00
Bars are first choices, 0 to 12 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to twelve.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where StackAdapt and LinkedIn Campaign Manager stood in it.

StackAdapt first, LinkedIn Campaign Manager an alternative

2 of 12 modelsLinkedIn Campaign Manager was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Claude Haiku 4.5StackAdapt alternatives: AdRoll ABM, MNTN, Vibe.co, YouTube Ads
Perplexity SonarStackAdapt alternatives: Demandbase, LinkedIn Campaign Manager, Vibe.co

LinkedIn Campaign Manager first, StackAdapt an alternative

7 of 12 modelsStackAdapt was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
GPT-5.4 miniLinkedIn Campaign Manager alternatives: YouTube Ads
Gemini 3.5 FlashLinkedIn Campaign Manager, YouTube Ads alternatives: MNTN, VISTY, Vibe.co
Grok 4.1 FastLinkedIn Campaign Manager alternatives: Demandbase CTV, YouTube Ads
DeepSeek V4 FlashLinkedIn Campaign Manager alternatives: StackAdapt, YouTube Ads
Qwen 3.7 FlashLinkedIn Campaign Manager, YouTube Ads via Google Video/PMax campaigns alternatives: Meta Ads, Reddit Ads
Kimi K2LinkedIn Campaign Manager alternatives: StackAdapt, YouTube Ads
GLM 4.7 FlashXLinkedIn Campaign Manager alternatives: Meta Ads, YouTube Ads

Neither was named

3 of 12 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Mistral SmallLinkedIn Video Ads alternatives: Vidyard, Wistia, YouTube Ads
Llama 4 Maverickno first choice alternatives: Goldcast, Vibe.co
MiniMax M2.5LinkedIn Video Ads alternatives: Vidyard, Wistia

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
LinkedIn Campaign Manager leads by four points.
LinkedIn Campaign Manager6%#– of 9
StackAdapt2%#6 of 9
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
The order flips: StackAdapt leads at mid-market.
StackAdapt24%#1 of 9
LinkedIn Campaign Manager15%#3 of 9
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
The order flips: LinkedIn Campaign Manager leads at enterprise.
LinkedIn Campaign Manager14%#– of 10
StackAdapt0%#7 of 10
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about StackAdapt

No label in this category carried a quote.

What the models said about LinkedIn Campaign Manager

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of three in this category shown.

“Usually not best for a limited budget because it tends to be expensive, but useful for B2B.” GPT-5.4 mini · budget prompt · soft negative
“If your target audience is highly niche and requires exact title targeting, start with LinkedIn Video Ads.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · direct prompt · first choice
“LinkedIn Ads (primary) + YouTube Ads (awareness) + StackAdapt (programmatic scale)” Kimi K2 · direct prompt · first choice
Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top three products in each category. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.