Every category where a model named SproutVideo 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
Video marketing and hosting	Marketing	0%	7 of 56	9%	22	accepted challenger
Video advertising	Marketing	0%	94 of 121	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by StackAdapt at 24%

Movement

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

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	1	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	3	1	1	5
Mistral Small	1	1	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1	0	2
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	3	0	0	3
Kimi K2	2	1	0	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	0	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

Direct5 labelsNone

Paraphrase8 labelsNone

Comparative12 labelsNone

Budget-constrained11 labelsNone

Scale-constrained8 labels1

Negative13 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative57 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 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.

“dedicated marketing hosts like Wistia, Gumlet, Vimeo Pro, or SproutVideo for website embeds with analytics, CTAs, DRM” Grok 4.1 Fast · Video hosting · negative prompt · alternative

“Often recommended for teams wanting Wistia-like features (security, branding) without the steep "success tax"” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Video hosting · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Secure/private video for internal or gated audiences | SproutVideo | Granular access controls” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Video hosting · comparative prompt · alternative

“Choose SproutVideo if you want similar marketing capabilities at roughly half the cost” Kimi K2 · Video hosting · direct 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.

“Lack Wistia's marketing-specific tools (e.g., no deep heatmaps/forms).” Grok 4.1 Fast · Video hosting · direct prompt · soft negative

“useful for business features, but costs can add up” GPT-5.4 mini · Video hosting · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as SproutVideo, over the 57 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SproutVideo was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Wistia55 of 5732Not in the top three

Vimeo53 of 578Not in the top three

Vidyard45 of 575Not in the top three

YouTube42 of 579Not in the top three

Gumlet30 of 576Not in the top three

Brightcove22 of 570Not in the top three

Bunny Stream11 of 570Not in the top three

SmartVideo10 of 572Not in the top three

Dailymotion9 of 570Not in the top three

Google Drive9 of 570Not 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 SproutVideo. 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 7 of the 57 answers that named SproutVideo and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

moonb.io6

swarmify.com6

gumlet.com5

apollotechnical.com4

knowlify.com4

dacast.com3

fast.io3

guideflow.com3

ignite.video3

sproutvideo.comYour site3

Thirty-seven of the forty domain citations in answers naming SproutVideo came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

moonb.io/blog/top-video-hosting-platforms6

swarmify.com/blog/best-video-hosting-platforms6

apollotechnical.com/video-hosting-platforms-for-businesses-compared4

knowlify.com/articles/best-video-hosting-platforms4

fast.io/resources/video-hosting-platforms3

guideflow.com/blog/video-hosting-platform3

gumlet.com/learn/top-business-video-hosting-platforms3

gumlet.com/learn/video-hosting-platforms-marketing-teams3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at sproutvideo.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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