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Index Vendors › LinkedIn Campaign Manager · September 2026 Edition
LinkedIn · 8 categories · Ranked

LinkedIn Campaign Manager

165Judge labels
37First choices
15Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
8Categories
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
15% in Video ads for mid-market buyers
Rank 3 of 121 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
7 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 8% of its 12 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In video ads · 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 LinkedIn Campaign Manager 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
Video advertisingMarketing15%3 of 1218%12accepted challenger
Search and social advertising platformsMarketing9%3 of 1375%21accepted challenger
Native and content advertisingMarketing2%10 of 720%4under 10 labels · led by StackAdapt at 23%
Programmatic and display advertisingMarketing0%13 of 960%10accepted challenger
Account-based marketing platformsMarketing0%22 of 760%4under 10 labels · led by AdRoll ABM at 56%
Ecommerce marketingMarketing0%38 of 1540%2under 10 labels · led by HubSpot Marketing Hub at 36%
Data management platformsGTM data and infrastructure0%117 of 1830%1under 10 labels · led by Segment at 18%
Social media managementMarketing0%36 of 590%1under 10 labels · led by Sprout Social at 37%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for LinkedIn Campaign Manager 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 LinkedIn Campaign Manager across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501506
GPT-5.4 mini12014
Gemini 3.5 Flash12003
Perplexity Sonar03104
Grok 4.1 Fast21104
Mistral Small12205
DeepSeek V4 Flash13206
Llama 4 Maverick00303
Qwen 3.7 Flash20417
Kimi K221104
GLM 4.7 FlashX22004
MiniMax M2.512205

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
Direct67 labels25
Paraphrase39 labels11
Comparative24 labelsNone
Budget-constrained6 labelsNone
Scale-constrained7 labels1
Negative22 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative165 labels in all, every segment counted; 37 of the 37 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 B2B Lead Gen & Brand (LinkedIn Campaign Manager): ... LinkedIn remains the highest-quality network for B2B demographic targeting” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Paid ads · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“If your target audience is highly niche and requires exact title targeting, start with LinkedIn Video Ads.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Video ads · direct prompt · first choice
“I'd recommend LinkedIn Campaign Manager as the top choice for content recommendation and native ads.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Native ads · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“LinkedIn Ads (primary) + YouTube Ads (awareness) + StackAdapt (programmatic scale)” Kimi K2 · Video ads · direct 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.

“Usually not best for a limited budget because it tends to be expensive, but useful for B2B.” GPT-5.4 mini · Video ads · budget prompt · soft negative
“~19.9% | 🟠 High” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Paid ads · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as LinkedIn Campaign Manager, over the 163 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and LinkedIn Campaign Manager was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Demandbase49 of 1632Not in the top three
The Trade Desk48 of 16312Not in the top three
Meta Ads41 of 16310Not in the top three
6sense32 of 1632Not in the top three
TikTok Ads27 of 1633Not in the top three
AdRoll ABM24 of 1635Not 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 LinkedIn Campaign Manager. 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 33 of the 163 answers that named LinkedIn Campaign Manager and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

fueler.io10
improvado.io10
pipeline.zoominfo.com9
clicksgeek.com8
g2.com8
stackmatix.com7
support.google.com7
vibe.co7
business.quora.com6
cometly.com6

Seventy-eight of the seventy-eight domain citations in answers naming LinkedIn Campaign Manager came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as LinkedIn Campaign Manager

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as LinkedIn Campaign Manager; a claim can dispute any of them.
LinkedIn Ads 23LinkedIn 3LinkedIn Marketing Solutions 1LinkedIn ads 1

The company

LinkedIn is the company behind LinkedIn Campaign Manager.
Website
linkedin.com
Headquarters
Sunnyvale, United States
Founded
2002

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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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 linkedin.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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