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Google Ads Transparency Center

5Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

4 / 14Models named it

1Category

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10-05.2, 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. Google Ads Transparency Center was named 3 times in Competitive intel, where Kompyte led with 38%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business38 of 85

under the label threshold

Mid-market23 of 86

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In competitive intel · 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 Google Ads Transparency Center 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
Competitive intelligence tools	Marketing	0%	23 of 86	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Kompyte at 38%

Movement

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

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

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-constrained5 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative5 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“For Competitor Ad Creatives: Meta Ad Library & Google Ads Transparency Center” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Competitive intel · budget prompt · alternative

“Legally free access to live competitor ad creatives across platforms” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Competitive intel · 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 Google Ads Transparency Center, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Google Ads Transparency Center was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Google Alerts5 of 51Not among the top eight

Meta Ad Library5 of 51Not among the top eight

SpyFu5 of 51Not among the top eight

Visualping5 of 51Not among the top eight

Owler4 of 50Not among the top eight

Semrush4 of 50Not among the top eight

Kompyte3 of 51Not among the top eight

Ahrefs3 of 50Not among the top eight

Crayon3 of 50Not among the top eight

Klue3 of 50Not 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 Google Ads Transparency Center. 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 5 of the 5 answers that named Google Ads Transparency Center and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

visualping.io5

miniloop.ai3

prospeo.io3

tomba.io3

blog.hootsuite.com2

contify.com2

cotera.co2

datashake.com2

getapp.com2

improvado.io2

Twenty-six of the twenty-six domain citations in answers naming Google Ads Transparency Center came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

visualping.io/blog/top-free-competitive-intelligence-tools5

miniloop.ai/blog/competitive-intelligence-tools3

blog.hootsuite.com/competitive-intelligence-software2

cotera.co/articles/best-competitive-intelligence-tools2

datashake.com/blog/8-best-competitive-intelligence-tools-in-20262

improvado.io/blog/32-best-competitive-intelligence-companies2

prospeo.io/s/best-competitive-intelligence-tools2

tomba.io/blog/kompyte-pricing-reviews-pros-and-cons2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Google Ads Transparency Center

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Google Ads Transparency Center; a claim can dispute any of them.

Meta Ad Library + Google Ads Transparency Center 1

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The company

Google is the company behind Google Ads Transparency Center.

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On record

Wikidata

Website: google.com
Headquarters: Mountain View, California, United States
Founded: 1998
Ownership: Part of Alphabet Inc.
Also from Google: Adometry, Attribution 360, BigQuery, Firebase, Google ADH, Google Ad Manager, Google AdMob, Google AdSense and 81 more

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

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

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

where Google Ads Transparency Center 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 Google Ads Transparency Center, 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.