Every category where a model named Meta Audience Network 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
Native and content advertising	Marketing	2%	7 of 72	0%	6	under 10 labels · led by StackAdapt at 23%
Mobile apps	Marketing	0%	120 of 136	40%	5	under 10 labels · led by Meta Advantage+ App Campaigns at 15%
Ecommerce marketing	Marketing	0%	120 of 154	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by HubSpot Marketing Hub at 36%
Programmatic and display advertising	Marketing	0%	78 of 96	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by StackAdapt at 61%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Meta Audience Network 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 Meta Audience Network across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	0	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	0	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	1	1
Mistral Small	0	0	1	1	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	0	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	1	2
Kimi K2	0	1	0	1	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	2	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative8 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained10 labels1

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative10 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative29 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 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.

“Meta Audience Network is an excellent starting point for budget-conscious companies.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Native ads · budget prompt · first choice

“Meta’s native in-feed ads are highly optimized... efficient at finding your target audience even on a tiny daily budget” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Native ads · budget prompt · alternative

“suggests starting with Meta Audience Network and using Madgicx for optimization for under $2,000/month” Llama 4 Maverick · Mobile apps · budget prompt · alternative

“Best for Small Brands Already on Meta: Meta Audience Network” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Native ads · 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.

“Why to be cautious: ... Audience Network ... has documented fraud issues. ... Risk level: Medium-high” Mistral Small · Mobile apps · negative prompt · hard negative

“Many experienced advertisers exclude Audience Network entirely for conversion campaigns” Kimi K2 · Mobile apps · negative prompt · hard negative

“Why be cautious: You are forced to trust their internal measurement tools.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Programmatic · negative prompt · soft negative

“Meta Audience Network flagged as "Wild West."” Grok 4.1 Fast · Ecommerce marketing · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Meta Audience Network, over the 29 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Meta Audience Network was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Taboola19 of 292Not in the top three

MGID17 of 298Not in the top three

Teads14 of 290Not in the top three

Revcontent11 of 291Not in the top three

Nativo8 of 290Not in the top three

Realize8 of 290Not in the top three

TripleLift7 of 290Not in the top three

AppsFlyer6 of 292Not in the top three

Adjust6 of 290Not in the top three

StackAdapt5 of 292Not 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 Meta Audience Network. 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 3 of the 29 answers that named Meta Audience Network and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

realize.com3

7searchppc.com2

aidigital.com2

madgicx.com2

voluum.com2

2pointagency.com1

adsjumbo.com1

attrock.com1

guideflow.com1

mobidea.com1

Sixteen of the sixteen domain citations in answers naming Meta Audience Network came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

realize.com/marketing-hub/native-advertising-platform3

7searchppc.com/blog/native-advertising-platforms2

aidigital.com/blog/native-advertising-platforms2

madgicx.com/blog/ad-tech-platform-for-native-advertising2

voluum.com/blog/best-ad-networks2

2pointagency.com/glossary/native-advertising-platforms-list-top-choices-for-effective-mark1

adsjumbo.com/blog/10-best-native-advertising-platforms1

attrock.com/blog/best-native-advertising-platforms1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Meta Audience Network

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Meta Audience Network; a claim can dispute any of them.

Facebook/Meta Audience Network 1Meta (Facebook & Instagram Sponsored Posts) 1

The company

Meta Platforms is the company behind Meta Audience Network.

Website: meta.com
Headquarters: Menlo Park, United States
Founded: 2004
Employees: about 58,604 (2020)
Ownership: Public, META on Nasdaq

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 · LinkedIn · Crunchbase

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