| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data clean rooms | GTM data and infrastructure | 10% | 5 of 100 | 18% | 28 | accepted challenger |
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Crawl (The Low-Risk Start): Start with walled gardens. If 60% of your ad budget goes to Google or Amazon, set up Google Ads Data Hub or Amazon Marketing Cloud.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Data clean rooms · scale prompt · first choice
“start with the free walled-garden options (Google, Amazon, Meta) depending on where you advertise most” MiniMax M2.5 · Data clean rooms · budget prompt · first choice
“If ad-focused, begin with free walled-garden DCRs (AMC/Google)—they solve 80% of needs without spend.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Data clean rooms · budget prompt · first choice
“Start with Amazon Marketing Cloud or Google Ads Data Hub. They are free at the license level” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Data clean rooms · budget prompt · first choice
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.
“Platform-owned environments such as Google Ads Data Hub, Amazon Marketing Cloud and Meta’s PET-based collaborations are widely adopted but raise lock-in, portability and conflict-of-interest questions.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Data clean rooms · negative prompt · soft negative
“Google Ads Data Hub and Amazon Marketing Cloud can be useful for analysis within their respective ecosystems, but don’t assume they provide a neutral view across all media.” GPT-6 Luna · Data clean rooms · negative prompt · soft negative
“Walled garden DCRs are incredibly powerful, but only within their own ecosystems. They are plagued by severe vendor lock-in.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Data clean rooms · negative prompt · soft negative
“Walled Garden Clean Rooms (Google, Meta, Amazon) ... Why to be cautious: Vendor lock-in” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Data clean rooms · negative prompt · soft negative
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 69 of the 72 answers that named Google Ads Data Hub and are not a share of its labels.
297 of the 297 domain citations in answers naming Google Ads Data Hub came from somebody else's page.
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
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.
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.
Fetched September 14, 2026, with a correction applied. These describe the company, not the product's standing, and a claimed page can dispute any of them. · Wikidata
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 Google Ads Data Hub'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 Google Ads Data Hub, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Google Ads Data Hub by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows: