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Index Vendors › ad:personam · September 2026 Edition
1 category · Ranked

ad:personam

6Judge labels
3First choices
0Negative labels
5 of 12Models named it
1Category
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-09-16.3, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
4% in Programmatic for mid-market buyers
Rank 5 of 96 in the mid-market standing
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 4 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In programmatic · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named ad:personam for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Programmatic and display advertisingMarketing4%5 of 960%4under 10 labels · led by StackAdapt at 61%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for ad:personam yet. The next is due October 1, 2026. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated ad:personam across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small10001
DeepSeek V4 Flash01001
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash10001
Kimi K201001
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained6 labels3
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative6 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 3 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“AdRoll and ad:personam offer the lowest barriers to entry for true programmatic advertising on limited budgets.” Mistral Small · Programmatic · budget prompt · first choice
“ad:personam (Best Overall for Strict Budget Constraints)... widely considered the best entry-level platform” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Programmatic · budget prompt · first choice
“Consider ad:personam or SmartyAds if you need: Access to inventory outside Google's ecosystem” Kimi K2 · Programmatic · budget prompt · alternative
“Native self-serve DSP with no minimum spend and a free planning mode, plans from ~€149/month” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Programmatic · budget prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as ad:personam, over the 6 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ad:personam was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Choozle6 of 60Not in the top three
DV3606 of 60Not in the top three
AdRoll5 of 62Not in the top three
StackAdapt5 of 60Not in the top three
The Trade Desk5 of 60Not in the top three
Amazon DSP4 of 60Not in the top three
Google Ads3 of 61Not in the top three
Ad Geeks2 of 60Not in the top three
Adform2 of 60Not in the top three
Adwave2 of 60Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
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