Every category where a model named Podbean 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%	22 of 101	0%	5	under 10 labels · led by AudioGo at 34%

Movement

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

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	1	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	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

Direct2 labels1

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative8 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative6 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative17 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.

“For better alternatives, consider platforms like Podbean or Libsyn Ads, which tend to offer more favorable terms for creators.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Audio advertising · negative prompt · first choice

“the two most accessible self-serve tools, with low minimums and fast launch” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Audio advertising · comparative prompt · alternative

“Best for multi-show ad placement and monetizing established shows” Mistral Small · Audio advertising · comparative prompt · alternative

“For niche targeting: Anchor or Podbean” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Audio advertising · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Podbean, over the 17 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Podbean was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

AudioGo13 of 175Not among the top eight

Spotify Ads Manager11 of 176Not among the top eight

Acast9 of 172Not among the top eight

Anchor4 of 171Not among the top eight

AdsWizz3 of 170Not among the top eight

Audioboom3 of 170Not among the top eight

Buzzsprout Ads3 of 170Not among the top eight

Libsyn Ads3 of 170Not among the top eight

Megaphone3 of 170Not among the top eight

RedCircle3 of 170Not 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 Podbean. 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 16 of the 17 answers that named Podbean and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

influencermarketinghub.com15

acast.com13

guideflow.com10

talks.co10

podderapp.com7

castfox.net6

contentallies.com6

linkedin.com6

heysid.com5

millionpodcasts.com5

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

Pages cited

influencermarketinghub.com/audio-advertising/audio-ad-platforms12

influencermarketinghub.com/best-podcast-advertising-platforms11

acast.com/en-gb/news-and-insights/the-best-podcast-advertising-platforms-and-networks-in-210

guideflow.com/blog/audio-advertising-platform10

talks.co/p/podcast-advertising-platforms10

podderapp.com/post/best-podcast-advertising-platforms7

castfox.net/blog/podcast-advertising-platforms-20266

acast.com/en/news-and-insights/best-podcast-advertising-platforms-and-networks5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Podbean stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 18,100 a month (“podbean”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 201 a month
Its own site: No site of its own on file, so no site figures

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 22 of 101 in audio advertising

Segment leader

34%

AudioGo

First choices: 1 across its categories
Named in: 17 answers
Its own site cited: No site on file to match

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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.

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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 Podbean'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 Podbean, 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 Podbean by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Podbean 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 Podbean, 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.