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Index Vendors › Google App Campaigns · September 2026 Edition
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Google App Campaigns

30Judge labels
6First choices
1Negative labels
11 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.
Best standing
9% in Mobile apps for mid-market buyers
Rank 5 of 136 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 17 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In mobile apps · 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 App Campaigns 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
Mobile appsMarketing9%5 of 1360%17accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Google App Campaigns 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 Google App Campaigns across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00101
Gemini 3.5 Flash01102
Perplexity Sonar02002
Grok 4.1 Fast10102
Mistral Small11002
DeepSeek V4 Flash01001
Llama 4 Maverick10001
Qwen 3.7 Flash11002
Kimi K201001
GLM 4.7 FlashX10001
MiniMax M2.501102

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
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative8 labelsNone
Budget-constrained13 labels6
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative8 labels4not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative30 labels in all, every segment counted; 6 of the 10 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.

“Why it’s best for budget: Uses automated bidding across Google Search, YouTube, Play Store, and Display Network. No minimum daily spend requirement.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Mobile apps · budget prompt · first choice
“is Meta Advantage+ App Campaigns and Google App Campaigns. They have no minimum spend requirement” Llama 4 Maverick · Mobile apps · budget prompt · first choice
“Google App Campaigns: Similar to Meta — automated bidding with no minimum spend.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Mobile apps · budget prompt · first choice
“Best for Paid UA on a Shoestring ... No strict minimum spend” Grok 4.1 Fast · Mobile apps · budget 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Google App Campaigns, over the 30 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Google App Campaigns was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Meta Advantage+ App Campaigns22 of 304Not in the top three
OneSignal20 of 303Not in the top three
AppsFlyer19 of 305Not in the top three
AppLovin18 of 300Not in the top three
Apple Search Ads17 of 303Not in the top three
Adjust15 of 302Not in the top three
Branch10 of 301Not in the top three
Firebase10 of 301Not in the top three
Liftoff10 of 300Not in the top three
Braze9 of 300Not 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 Google App Campaigns. 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 6 of the 30 answers that named Google App Campaigns and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com5
adlibrary.com4
f6s.com4
gitnux.org4
guideflow.com4
wifitalents.com4
apsteq.com3
dash.app3
indiemedia.club3
insiderone.com3

Thirty-seven of the thirty-seven domain citations in answers naming Google App Campaigns came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Google App Campaigns

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Google App Campaigns; a claim can dispute any of them.
Google App Campaigns (GAC) 2Google Ads / Google App Campaigns 1Google Ads App campaigns 1Google App Campaigns (UAC) 1Google App Campaigns (via Google Ads) 1Meta Ads (Instagram/Facebook) & Google App Campaigns 1

The company

Google Search is the company behind Google App Campaigns.
Website
google.com
Headquarters
United States
Founded
1997

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

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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 Google App Campaigns'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 App Campaigns, 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 google.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.

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