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1 category · Named, not ranked

Dacast

14Judge labels

1First choices

2Negative labels

9 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.

Standing

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Dacast was named 3 times in Video hosting, where Wistia led with 56%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business8 of 48

under the label threshold

Mid-market19 of 56

under the label threshold

Enterprise10 of 48

under the label threshold

In video hosting · 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 Dacast 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
Video marketing and hosting	Marketing	0%	19 of 56	33%	3	under 10 labels · led by Wistia at 56%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Dacast 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 Dacast across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	1

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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase2 labels1

Comparative4 labelsNone

Budget-constrained4 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative14 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

“Other options to consider include Dacast, Goldcast Video Hubs, and Vidalytics.” Llama 4 Maverick · Video hosting · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“| Dacast | Live events, webinars | $39/month |” MiniMax M2.5 · Video hosting · direct 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.

“Generally reserved for enterprise organizations with massive video libraries” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Video hosting · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Dacast, over the 14 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Dacast was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Wistia12 of 147Not in the top three

Brightcove11 of 143Not in the top three

Vimeo9 of 142Not in the top three

Vidyard9 of 141Not in the top three

YouTube5 of 141Not in the top three

SproutVideo4 of 141Not in the top three

Gumlet4 of 140Not in the top three

Kaltura4 of 140Not in the top three

IBM Video Streaming3 of 140Not in the top three

Bunny Stream2 of 140Not 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.

What carried it into the answer

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

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 1 of the 14 answers that named Dacast and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

apollotechnical.com1

dacast.comYour site1

fast.io1

guideflow.com1

gumlet.com1

knowlify.com1

moonb.io1

muvi.com1

swarmify.com1

techradar.com1

Nine of the ten domain citations in answers naming Dacast came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

apollotechnical.com/video-hosting-platforms-for-businesses-compared1

dacast.com/blog/video-hosting-for-business1

fast.io/resources/video-hosting-platforms1

guideflow.com/blog/video-hosting-platform1

gumlet.com/learn/best-ad-free-video-hosting-platforms1

gumlet.com/learn/best-private-video-hosting-businesses1

gumlet.com/learn/top-business-video-hosting-platforms1

gumlet.com/learn/video-hosting-for-product-led-saas1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

The company

Dacast.

Website: dacast.com
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2008

From Wikidata, fetched September 14, 2026. These describe the company, not the product's standing, and a claimed page can dispute any of them. · Wikidata · LinkedIn · Crunchbase

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