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Index Vendors › DV360 · September 2026 Edition
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DV360

71Judge labels
3First choices
38Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
3Categories
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
2% in Programmatic for small business buyers
Rank 96 of 96 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 59% of its 22 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 DV360 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 advertisingMarketing0%96 of 9659%22criticized challenger
Native and content advertisingMarketing0%60 of 7233%3under 10 labels · led by StackAdapt at 23%
Video advertisingMarketing0%99 of 12150%2under 10 labels · led by StackAdapt at 24%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for DV360 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 DV360 across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501012
GPT-5.4 mini01102
Gemini 3.5 Flash10023
Perplexity Sonar01102
Grok 4.1 Fast01012
Mistral Small00022
DeepSeek V4 Flash01236
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash00022
Kimi K200033
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.501012

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
Direct23 labels1
Paraphrase9 labelsNone
Comparative7 labelsNone
Budget-constrained18 labels1
Scale-constrained9 labels1
Negative5 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative71 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 4 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.

“Only partner with DSPs (like The Trade Desk, DV360, or highly rated mid-market transparent DSPs)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Programmatic · negative prompt · first choice
“unless your company is already deeply embedded in Google's stack, in which case DV360 may be the better operational fit” Perplexity Sonar · Programmatic · direct prompt · alternative
“Offers robust audience targeting, integration with Google's data, and extensive publisher inventory” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Programmatic · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Google DV360 | YouTube, Google ecosystem | ~$300K/yr | Integration with Google stack” MiniMax M2.5 · Programmatic · scale 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.

“Platforms to AVOID with Limited Budgets ... Requires $25,000-$50,000/month minimum” Kimi K2 · Programmatic · budget prompt · hard negative
“Avoid DV360/Trade Desk/Amazon DSP: High mins ($25K–$50K/month)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Programmatic · budget prompt · hard negative
“Requires Google Marketing Platform agreement; complex” Kimi K2 · Programmatic · direct prompt · hard negative
“DV360: Consumer-focused, complex setup” Mistral Small · Programmatic · direct prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as DV360, over the 71 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and DV360 was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
The Trade Desk64 of 716Not in the top three
StackAdapt55 of 7129Not in the top three
Amazon DSP32 of 711Not in the top three
AdRoll20 of 7111Not in the top three
LinkedIn Campaign Manager20 of 714Not in the top three
Choozle20 of 711Not in the top three
Google Ads16 of 713Not in the top three
Demandbase16 of 710Not in the top three
Hey Sid12 of 713Not in the top three
Vibe.co12 of 712Not 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 DV360. 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 11 of the 71 answers that named DV360 and are not a share of its labels.

Names read as DV360

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as DV360; a claim can dispute any of them.
DV360 (Display & Video 360) 1DV360 (Google Marketing Platform) 1DV360 (Google) 1Google Marketing Platform / DV360 1
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Claim this page

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 DV360'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 DV360, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at dv360.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.