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1 category · Named, not ranked

Pandora

15Judge labels

0First choices

5Negative labels

8 / 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

7 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Pandora was named 7 times in Audio advertising, where AudioGo led with 34%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business61 of 83

under the label threshold

Mid-market30 of 101

under the label threshold

Enterprise73 of 94

under the label threshold

In audio advertising · 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 Pandora 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
Audio and podcast advertising	Marketing	0%	30 of 101	29%	7	under 10 labels · led by AudioGo at 34%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Pandora 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 Pandora 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	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	0	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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative3 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative7 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative15 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 1 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.

“Pandora is the cheapest CPM of the big three, $10–18 self-serve, but the minimum spend is also ~$250.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Audio advertising · budget prompt · alternative

“It is particularly strong among older demographics and car commuters.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Audio advertising · comparative prompt · alternative

“both major platforms (like Spotify Ads, Pandora, Amazon Music)” MiniMax M2.5 · Audio advertising · scale 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.

“Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music, and similar major platforms are not "avoid" platforms by default; they are widely used, but they still have limitations” Perplexity Sonar · Audio advertising · negative prompt · soft negative

“not a consumer-facing giant like Spotify or Pandora directly” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Audio advertising · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Pandora, over the 15 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Pandora was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Spotify Ad Studio7 of 151Not among the top eight

AudioGo6 of 154Not among the top eight

iHeartMedia5 of 151Not among the top eight

SiriusXM5 of 150Not among the top eight

Acast4 of 151Not among the top eight

Spotify Ads Manager3 of 153Not among the top eight

Spotify Ads3 of 151Not among the top eight

AdsWizz3 of 150Not among the top eight

Amazon Music3 of 150Not among the top eight

Libsyn Ads3 of 150Not 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 Pandora. 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 14 of the 15 answers that named Pandora and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

acast.com8

audiogo.com7

influencermarketinghub.com7

guideflow.com6

heysid.com6

advertiserreview.com5

ads.spotify.com4

aicostadvisory.com4

gartner.com4

iab.com4

No domain is on file for Pandora, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

influencermarketinghub.com/audio-advertising/audio-ad-platforms7

guideflow.com/blog/audio-advertising-platform6

heysid.com/resources/best-audio-advertising-platforms-for-b2b6

acast.com/en-gb/news-and-insights/the-best-podcast-advertising-platforms-and-networks-in-25

advertiserreview.com/advertising/networks/podcast5

aicostadvisory.com/c/audio-advertising/guide4

gartner.com/reviews/market/podcast-advertising-platforms4

indiemedia.club/tools/best-audio-advertising-software4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Pandora

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

Pandora / iHeartRadio 1iHeartRadio / Pandora (via AdsWizz) 1

Follow Pandora

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

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

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

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

where Pandora 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 Pandora, 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.