Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 67 → 54 of 69
Microsoft · 2 categories · RankedMicrosoft Invest
28Judge labels
0First choices
8Negative labels
12 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10-05.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
0% in Programmatic for enterprise buyers
Rank 32 of 92 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 22% of its 9 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business55 of 71
0%4 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market32 of 92
0%9 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise32 of 64
0%13 labels
criticized challenger
In programmatic · 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 Microsoft Invest 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Programmatic and display advertising | Marketing | 0% | 32 of 92 | 22% | 9 | under 10 labels · led by StackAdapt at 48% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Video advertising | Marketing | 0% | 71 of 114 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by StackAdapt at 32% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Microsoft Invest held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Programmatic · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 90 → 45 of 86
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 95 → 29 of 60
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Programmatic | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 90 → 32 of 92 |
| Video ads | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 71 of 114, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Microsoft Invest across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Microsoft Invest across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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
Direct5 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative18 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative4 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative28 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.
“Strong in CTV & Premium Video” Kimi K2 · Programmatic · comparative 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.
“Microsoft is shutting down its Invest DSP on February 28, 2026” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Programmatic · negative prompt · hard negative
“not the clearest "best default" for mid-market B2B from these results” Perplexity Sonar · Programmatic · direct prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Microsoft Invest, over the 28 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Microsoft Invest was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Microsoft Invest, over the 28 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Microsoft Invest was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 Microsoft Invest. 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 26 of the 28 answers that named Microsoft Invest and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
improvado.io18
admanage.ai14
aidigital.com14
syntermedia.ai14
demandbase.com12
madgicx.com12
propellant.media12
smartyads.com10
guacdigital.com8
heysid.com7
121 of the 121 domain citations in answers naming Microsoft Invest came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Microsoft Invest stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where Microsoft Invest stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 480 a month (“microsoft invest”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 1,955 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on Microsoft's site (microsoft.com), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 32 of 92 in programmatic
Segment leader
48%
StackAdapt
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 28 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 26 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 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.
Names read as Microsoft Invest
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Microsoft Invest; a claim can dispute any of them.
Xandr (Microsoft) 3Xandr 2Xandr (formerly AppNexus) 1Xandr (now Microsoft Advertising) 1Xandr / Microsoft Invest 1Xandr / Microsoft Monetize 1Xandr/Adform 1
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The company
Microsoft is the company behind Microsoft Invest.ShowHide
The company
Microsoft is the company behind Microsoft Invest.
ShowHideOn record
Wikidata- Website
- microsoft.com
- Headquarters
- Vancouver, Canada
- Founded
- 1975
- Employees
- about 228,000 (2024)
- Ownership
- Public, 4338 on Hong Kong Stock Exchange
- Also from Microsoft
- Azure Synapse, Bing Webmaster Tools, Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Accessibility Insights, Microsoft Ads, Microsoft Advertising, Microsoft Advertising Editor and 49 more
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
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- For
- financial services
- Customers named
- UBSAlly FinancialS&P GlobalJohn HancockAK BANKNORTHERN TRUSTAkbankHSBC
- Not stated on the pages read
- Positioning, price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
What Microsoft Invest's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: microsoft.com/bg-bg/ai/financial-services, microsoft.com/sr-latn-rs/ai/financial-services, microsoft.com/bg-bg/ai/government/public-finance, microsoft.com/bg-bg/ai/financial-services/banking, microsoft.com/bg-bg/ai/financial-services/insurance. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 Microsoft Invest'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 Microsoft Invest, 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 Microsoft Invest by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Microsoft Invest 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 Microsoft Invest, 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.