Every category where a model named Spotify 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	Since September 2026
Audio and podcast advertising	Marketing	2%	9 of 101	10%	10	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Spotify Audience Network 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 Spotify Audience Network 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	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	0	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	2	1	0	3
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	0	0	0	2
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	1	0	1	2

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

Direct3 labelsNone

Paraphrase7 labels3

Comparative6 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative8 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative27 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 5 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.

“Stick to well-known, established platforms such as: Spotify Audience Network (for Spotify-hosted shows)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Audio advertising · negative prompt · first choice

“the most versatile and effective recommendation is the Spotify Audience Network (SAUN)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Audio advertising · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Choose Spotify if you want big reach + self-serve simplicity.” GPT-5.4 mini · Audio advertising · comparative prompt · first choice

“Choose Spotify if you want scale in-app, fast launch, and programmatic buying across music + podcasts.” Muse Glimmer 30B · 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.

“Drawbacks: Platform bias toward Spotify-hosted content; limited third-party podcast inventory access.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Audio advertising · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Spotify Audience Network, over the 27 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Spotify Audience Network was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Acast14 of 273Compare →

AudioGo9 of 276Compare →

AdsWizz9 of 271Not among the top eight

Libsyn Ads8 of 270Compare →

Megaphone8 of 270Not among the top eight

AdvertiseCast7 of 271Not among the top eight

Triton Digital7 of 271Compare →

Podcorn6 of 271Not among the top eight

Audioboom6 of 270Not among the top eight

iHeartMedia5 of 271Not 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 Spotify Audience Network. 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 27 of the 27 answers that named Spotify Audience Network and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

influencermarketinghub.com17

acast.com15

heysid.com12

contentallies.com11

advertiserreview.com10

castfox.net9

guideflow.com9

talks.co7

podderapp.com6

ads.spotify.comYour site5

Ninety-six of the 101 domain citations in answers naming Spotify Audience Network came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

influencermarketinghub.com/best-podcast-advertising-platforms14

heysid.com/resources/best-audio-advertising-platforms-for-b2b12

acast.com/en-gb/news-and-insights/the-best-podcast-advertising-platforms-and-networks-in-211

influencermarketinghub.com/audio-advertising/audio-ad-platforms11

advertiserreview.com/advertising/networks/podcast10

guideflow.com/blog/audio-advertising-platform9

castfox.net/blog/podcast-advertising-platforms-20268

acast.com/en/news-and-insights/best-podcast-advertising-platforms-and-networks7

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

spotify.com ranks first on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Spotify Audience Network takes 2% of first choices and AudioGo takes 34%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “audio advertising platform”

Position for “best audio advertising platform”

Searches for its name, Google: 90 a month (“spotify audience network”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 0 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 473,414,163 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 8,163,454 · 2,764,370 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 1,645,724
Paid Google search: 1 searches its ads show for, about 8 clicks and $49 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

40+ ads · 29 text, 6 video, 5 image · 40 shown in the last 30 days

First shown October 2023, as Spotify USA Inc, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 9 in the year, 31 before. 80 more by other advertisers linking to it.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 9 of 101 in audio advertising

Segment leader

34%

AudioGo

First choices: 3 across its categories
Named in: 27 answers
Its own site cited: in 27 of the answers that named it

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.

What it publishes

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Addresses on spotify.com

3,901

subdomains included

Content

2,758

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

1 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest
News or press	2,307	21	2026-09-25
Podcast or video	432	6	2026-09-29
Conference or event	9	1	2026-09-24
Webinar or virtual event	4	0	2026-05-21
Case study	2	0	2026-01-08
Template or tool	2	undated
Report or ebook	1	undated
Glossary or explainer	1	undated

Most recent

2026-09-29Kickflip flip the language podcast podcast or video
2026-09-25Mtv vmas partnership news or press
2026-09-24Reserved by spotify share cards setlists news or press
2026-09-24Created by women summit conference or event
2026-09-23Nct johnny journey podcast podcast or video
2026-09-23Taste profile shape home feed news or press

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page spotify.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.

Names read as Spotify Audience Network

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

Spotify / Spotify Audience Network 1Spotify Advertising / Spotify Audience Network 1Spotify Audience Network (SAUN) 1

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

where Spotify Audience Network 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 Spotify Audience Network, 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.