Every category where a model named BrandShield 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.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Brand protection platforms	Marketing	17%	2 of 84	21%	52	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for BrandShield yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated BrandShield across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	1	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	3	0	0	3
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1	0	1	3
Perplexity Sonar	1	1	1	0	3
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	2	1	2	6
Mistral Small	0	1	1	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	1	3	6
Llama 4 Maverick	1	1	3	0	5
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	1	2
Kimi K2	0	2	0	1	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	4	0	1	5
MiniMax M2.5	2	0	2	0	4
GPT-6 Luna	0	2	0	0	2
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	2	1	2	6

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

Direct32 labels11

Paraphrase28 labels8

Comparative36 labels3not counted in share

Budget-constrained18 labelsNone

Scale-constrained15 labels1

Negative27 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative156 labels in all, every segment counted; 20 of the 24 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.

“I would recommend BrandShield as a tool to take down counterfeits and brand impersonation for a mid-sized B2B company.” Llama 4 Maverick · Brand protection · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“the strongest default choice is usually BrandShield or Red Points, with BrandShield often the better fit” Perplexity Sonar · Brand protection · direct prompt · first choice

“#1 Leader on G2 Grid® (Fall 2025), excels in mid-market quadrant for usability, implementation, and relationships.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Brand protection · direct prompt · first choice

“Best All-Around for B2B Impersonation & Phishing: BrandShield ... is the top recommendation.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Brand protection · paraphrase prompt · first choice

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.

“This is the platform with the most sustained public criticism in the recent set of reviews.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Brand protection · negative prompt · hard negative

“Don't pay for enterprise platforms (Red Points, BrandShield, ZeroFox)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Brand protection · budget prompt · hard negative

“requires sales engagement; less transparent” Kimi K2 · Brand protection · paraphrase prompt · hard negative

“rated strongest for scale but "its custom pricing and advanced features may not be suitable for small businesses with limited budgets."” Muse Glimmer 30B · Brand protection · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as BrandShield, over the 156 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and BrandShield was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Red Points144 of 15661Compare →

Corsearch83 of 1567Not among the top eight

ZeroFox69 of 1564Compare →

MarqVision55 of 1566Compare →

Netcraft42 of 1564Not among the top eight

Bolster39 of 1561Compare →

MarkMonitor36 of 1561Not among the top eight

OpSec17 of 1560Not among the top eight

CSC15 of 1560Not among the top eight

IP Moat13 of 1566Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named BrandShield. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 150 of the 156 answers that named BrandShield and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

redpoints.com128

brandshield.comYour site72

g2.com71

expertinsights.com69

thecmo.com69

guideflow.com64

spotsaas.com62

gartner.com56

quasa.io56

marqvision.com51

626 of the 698 domain citations in answers naming BrandShield came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

redpoints.com/blog/best-brand-protection-software114

expertinsights.com/compliance/the-top-brand-protection-solutions68

guideflow.com/blog/brand-protection-software63

thecmo.com/tools/best-brand-protection-software60

quasa.io/insights/7-best-brand-protection-platforms-in-2026-ranked-reviewed56

gartner.com/reviews/market/brand-protection-software53

bitsight.com/guides/best-brand-protection-impersonation-monitoring-platforms32

g2.com/categories/brand-protection/small-business32

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

brandshield.com ranks first on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, BrandShield takes 17% of first choices and Red Points takes 40%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “brand protection platform”

Position for “best brand protection platform”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 720 a month (“brandshield”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 48 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 1,117 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 242 · 18 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 1,449
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

64 ads · 32 text, 17 video, 15 image · 24 shown in the last 30 days

First shown October 2021, as BrandShield LTD, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 37 in the year, 27 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

17%

rank 2 of 84 in brand protection

Segment leader

40%

Red Points

First choices: 20 across its categories
Named in: 156 answers
Its own site cited: in 150 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on brandshield.com

561

subdomains included

Content

486

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

24 · 1

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	343	18	2026-09-29	Mobile apps, Ecommerce
News or press	99	2	2026-09-30
Case study	12	5	2026-08-27
Report or ebook	11	1	2026-09-15
Conference or event	9	3	2026-07-17
Comparison	9	5	2026-08-30
Glossary or explainer	3	0	2025-09-16

Most recent

2026-09-30Cybersecuritydive ai scams news or press
2026-09-29Gaming scams blog
2026-09-23Brand phishing blog
2026-09-17Elevate your brand protection strategy in 2026 blog
2026-09-15Ai scams consumer fraud report report or ebook
2026-09-10Executive impersonation blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page brandshield.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.

Follow BrandShield

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

BrandShield is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: AI-powered digital risk and brand protection platform that detects and eliminates online threats targeting your brand, executives, and customers, across every digital channel.
brandshield.com
For: IT Security Teams
brandshield.com/who-we-serve/roles/security
Price stated: exclusive pricing brandshield.com/company/partners
Free plan or trial: free demo brandshield.com
Customers named: La Vie en RoseBang & OlufsenFerraraPlaytikaLiontrust
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting

What BrandShield's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: brandshield.com, brandshield.com/who-we-serve/roles/security, brandshield.com/products, brandshield.com/company/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when BrandShield's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as BrandShield, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for BrandShield by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where BrandShield is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name BrandShield, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where BrandShield is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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BrandShield is among the products AI models recommend first in Brand protection platforms this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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<a href="https://gtm-ai-index.com/marketing/brand-protection/"><img src="https://gtm-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/brandshield--brand-protection-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Brand protection platforms, October 2026 Edition, GTM AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Brand protection platforms standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://gtm-ai-index.com/marketing/brand-protection/"><img src="https://gtm-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/brandshield--brand-protection-square.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Brand protection platforms, October 2026 Edition, GTM AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Brand protection platforms standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://gtm-ai-index.com/marketing/brand-protection/"><img src="https://gtm-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/brandshield--brand-protection-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Brand protection platforms, October 2026 Edition, GTM AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Brand protection platforms standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.