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Programmatic and display advertising for enterprise buyers

Asked as “programmatic advertising platform”, and as “demand-side platform for display ads”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 46 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing · first-choice share
43%
Clear leader
43The Trade Desk17Demandbase Advertising09StackAdapt30others

43% of first choices, clear leader.

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By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.

The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01The Trade Desk43%7%54endorsed leader
02Demandbase Advertising17%0%17accepted challenger
03StackAdapt9%12%32accepted challenger
04Adobe Advertising7%16%19accepted challenger
05Amazon DSP7%27%33criticized challenger
06Google Display & Video 360 Lab in the set4%24%46accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.

Google Display & Video 360 is made by Google, whose model Gemini 3.5 Flash is in the set. On the four share prompts that model made it the first choice zero times of 4; the other eleven models two times of 44. Lab treatment is defined on the method page; the row is marked, not excluded.

Head to headHead-to-head pages are published for mid-market buyers, so these open on mid-market figures, not enterprise.
All ten head-to-head pages: the top five products, each against each

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

Criticized challengerCriticized default
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0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative60%
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01The Trade Desk43%
02Demandbase Advertising17%
03StackAdapt9%
04Adobe Advertising7%
05Amazon DSP7%
06Google Display & Video 3604%

What they warned about

Five of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Perplexity Sonar, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash, Kimi K2 and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Google Display & Video 360
24%
11 of 46 labels negative · 8 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“a U.S. federal court found Google illegally monopolized the publisher ad server and ad exchange markets... The platform can be opaque about fees and can favor its own supply.” DeepSeek V4 Flash, negative prompt
Amazon DSP
27%
9 of 33 labels negative · 7 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“Named in Adalytics' 2024 MFA report and cited by U.S. senators for ads running on problematic sites. Amazon controls both demand and supply sides.” DeepSeek V4 Flash, negative prompt
Microsoft Invest
71%
5 of 7 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“Xandr/Microsoft Invest is being sunset (February 2026 completion)” DeepSeek V4 Flash, comparative prompt
MediaMath
50%
4 of 8 labels negative · 4 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“Generally not recommended for large enterprises in 2024-2026” MiniMax M2.5, negative prompt

What they cite

Four of the twelve models returned a source list in this edition: four return the pages they cited.

Sites the answers cite

20 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 4 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 286 links across 140 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page. The other 8 models searched through a gateway that returned no source list on this edition.

vendor site · Improvado11 answers · 22 citations · 3 models
9 answers · 10 citations · 3 models
vendor site · Directive Consulting8 answers · 9 citations · 3 models
vendor site · 6sense7 answers · 9 citations · 3 models
7 answers · 9 citations · 2 models
vendor site · Epom7 answers · 7 citations · 3 models
vendor site · Vibe.co6 answers · 7 citations · 3 models
vendor site · AdManage6 answers · 6 citations · 2 models
5 answers · 5 citations · 1 model
vendor site · Demandbase4 answers · 6 citations · 2 models
vendor site · Basis4 answers · 5 citations · 3 models
vendor site · Reddit4 answers · 5 citations · 1 model

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

Search against answers

Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “best programmatic advertising platform”, “programmatic advertising platform”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Company and productsShareOwn site citedName searches, GoogleAI search demand, est.Organic visitsPaid search a month, est.Google ads, last 30 daysBest Google position
The Trade Desk thetradedesk.com43%35127,1001,14068,569$8,11318
Demandbase Advertising demandbase.com17%6242,53134
StackAdapt stackadapt.com9%3938,10016726,512$18,665393
Adobe parent site
Adobe Advertising 7%
7%811,220,000117,563
Amazon DSP amazon.com7%13922,2001,4981,681,997,879$106,1251155
Google parent site
Google Display & Video 360 4%, Google Marketing Platform 0%
4%169
6sense 6sense.com
6sense 4%, 6sense Revenue AI 0%
4%61849,500316108,788$1,209120
Basis basis.com2%5827,10018,0599,941$14115
DV3602%4,400192
AdSovereign2%

Google's top ten for the two searches hold 15 sites; 4 of them are among the sites the models cited here (directiveconsulting.com, improvado.io, reddit.com, vibe.co). The first result for “best programmatic advertising platform” is mediajel.com.

How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
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ModelDirect“What is the best programmatic advertising platform for an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which demand-side platform for display ads would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade programmatic advertising platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best programmatic advertising platform for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating a programmatic advertising platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which programmatic advertising platforms should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5The Trade Desk
Four alternativesDV360, Demandbase Advertising, Google Marketing Platform, LinkedIn Campaign Manager
The Trade DeskHeld
Four alternativesAdobe Advertising, Amazon DSP, Criteo, DV360
Google Display & Video 360, The Trade Desk
Two alternativesAdobe Advertising, StackAdapt
against: Amazon DSP
Adobe Advertisingno first choiceagainst: Amazon Advertising, Meta Ads, TikTok Ads, X
GPT-5.4 miniThe Trade Desk
Two alternativesAmazon DSP, Google Display & Video 360
Google Display & Video 360Changed
Two alternativesStackAdapt, The Trade Desk
Google Display & Video 360
Four alternativesAdform DSP, Adobe Advertising, Amazon DSP, The Trade Desk
against: Microsoft Invest
The Trade Desk
One alternativeGoogle Display & Video 360
no first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashDemandbase Advertising
Three alternatives6sense Revenue AI, Google Display & Video 360, The Trade Desk
6sense, Demandbase AdvertisingChanged
Three alternativesGoogle Display & Video 360, StackAdapt, The Trade Desk
The Trade Desk
Four alternativesAdobe Advertising, Amazon DSP, Google Display & Video 360, Yahoo DSP
against: Xandr Invest DSP
AdSovereign, Basis
Three alternativesAdLib, Epom DSP, Simpli.fi
against: Google Display & Video 360, The Trade Desk
no first choicenothing named
Perplexity SonarThe Trade Desk
Four alternatives6sense, Adobe Advertising, Demandbase Advertising, Google Display & Video 360
Demandbase Advertising, The Trade DeskChanged
One alternativeStackAdapt
The Trade Desk
Five alternativesAdform DSP, Adobe Advertising, Amazon DSP, Google Display & Video 360, StackAdapt
StackAdapt
Two alternativesDV360, The Trade Desk
no first choiceagainst: Amazon DSP, Basis, Simpli.fi, StackAdapt, The Trade Desk
Grok 4.20The Trade Desk
Five alternatives6sense, Demandbase Advertising, Google Display & Video 360, LinkedIn Campaign Manager, StackAdapt
The Trade DeskHeld
One alternativeGoogle Display & Video 360
no first choiceGoogle Display & Video 360
Two alternativesAmazon DSP, The Trade Desk
against: StackAdapt
DV360, The Trade Deskagainst: Acuity, Admixer, Amazon DSP, Connatix, Equativ, FreeWheel, Google Ad Exchange (AdX) / DV360 / Google Ad Manager, House of Pubs, Index Exchange, LoopMe, Magnite, Microsoft Xandr, Nexxen, OpenX, Opera Ads, PulsePoint, SmartyAds, Unity Technologies, cadent.tv
Mistral SmallThe Trade Desk
Four alternativesAmazon DSP, Google Display & Video 360, LinkedIn Campaign Manager, StackAdapt
The Trade DeskHeld
One alternativeLinkedIn Campaign Manager
against: Amazon DSP, Google Display & Video 360, Magnite, PubMatic
Google Display & Video 360, The Trade Desk
Two alternativesAdobe Advertising, Amazon DSP
against: Microsoft Invest
Amazon DSP
Two alternativesGoogle Display & Video 360, The Trade Desk
no first choiceagainst: AdTheorent, Amazon DSP, Google Display & Video 360, Roku OneView
DeepSeek V4 FlashThe Trade Desk
Three alternatives6sense, Demandbase Advertising, Google Display & Video 360
The Trade DeskHeld
Three alternatives6sense, Demandbase Advertising, Google Display & Video 360
against: StackAdapt
Google Display & Video 360, The Trade Desk
Three alternativesAdobe Advertising, Amazon DSP, StackAdapt
against: MediaMath, Microsoft Invest
Adobe Advertising
One alternativeBasis
against: Google Display & Video 360, The Trade Desk
no first choiceagainst: 33Across, AdTheorent, Amazon DSP, Colossus, Criteo, DoubleVerify, Epsilon Conversant, Google Display & Video 360, GumGum, Index Exchange, Integral Ad Science, Magnite, Microsoft Xandr, Nexxen, Ogury, OpenWeb, OpenX, PubMatic, Roku OneView, Sharethrough, Smart AdServer, Sonobi, Sovrn, Teads, TripleLift, Zeta Global
Llama 4 Maverickno first choiceDemandbase Advertising, StackAdaptChangedThe Trade Desk
Four alternativesAdobe Advertising, Amazon DSP, Google Display & Video 360, StackAdapt
no first choiceno first choiceagainst: Adobe Advertising, Google Display & Video 360
Qwen 3.7 FlashDemandbase Advertising, Terminus
Three alternativesCriteo, Google Display & Video 360, LinkedIn Audience Solutions
The Trade DeskChanged
One alternativeGoogle Display & Video 360
The Trade Desk
Three alternativesAdobe Advertising, Amazon DSP, Google Display & Video 360
StackAdapt
Two alternativesAmazon DSP, Google Display & Video 360
no first choiceagainst: 33Across, AdTheorent, Adobe Advertising, Amazon DSP, Amobee, Appier, Cognitiv, Colossus, Criteo, DeepIntent, Epsilon Conversant, Google Ad Manager, Google Display & Video 360, GumGum, InMobi, Index Exchange, Magnite, Microsoft Xandr, Nexxen, Ogury, OpenWeb, OpenX, PubMatic, PulsePoint, Quantcast, RTB House, Roku OneView, Sharethrough, Simpli.fi, Smart AdServer, Sonobi, Sovrn, StackAdapt, Teads, TripleLift, Yahoo DSP, Zeta Global, molocoads
Kimi K26sense, Demandbase Advertising, The Trade Desk
Two alternativesGoogle Display & Video 360, StackAdapt
Demandbase Advertising, The Trade DeskChangedagainst: Google Display & Video 360The Trade Desk
Four alternativesAdform DSP, Amazon DSP, Basis, Google Display & Video 360
against: MediaMath, Microsoft Invest
Adobe Advertising
Two alternativesStackAdapt, The Trade Desk
no first choiceagainst: Amazon Advertising, Cox Media Group, Google Display & Video 360, Google/Alphabet, Meta Ads, The Trade Desk
GLM 4.7 FlashXThe Trade Desk
Four alternatives6sense, Google Display & Video 360, LinkedIn Campaign Manager, StackAdapt
against: Amazon DSP
The Trade DeskHeld
One alternativeGoogle Display & Video 360
Google Display & Video 360, The Trade Desk
Four alternativesAdobe Advertising, Amazon DSP, MediaMath, StackAdapt
Amazon DSP
Two alternativesGoogle Display & Video 360, The Trade Desk
no first choiceagainst: Amazon DSP, Google Display & Video 360, MediaMath, Microsoft Invest
MiniMax M2.5The Trade Desk
Two alternativesAmazon DSP, Google Display & Video 360
Demandbase AdvertisingChanged
Two alternativesStackAdapt, The Trade Desk
The Trade Desk
Three alternativesAmazon DSP, Google Display & Video 360, StackAdapt
against: Adobe Advertising
Amazon DSP, StackAdapt
Two alternativesDV360, The Trade Desk
The Trade Desk
Three alternativesAdobe Advertising, Google Marketing Platform, Microsoft Advertising
against: Google Display & Video 360, MediaMath
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency.
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 02:42no05 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 02:43yes35 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 00:50yes2024 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 02:46yes204 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-14 23:25yes08 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 00:54yes08 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-14 22:59yes041 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 02:22yes02 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-14 23:45no028 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 01:36yes032 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 00:51yes0104 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 00:33yes018 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 01:37no05 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 00:32yes34 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-14 23:20yes824 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 00:05yes208 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-15 01:30yes07 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 04:20no04 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-15 00:25yes013 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-14 23:44yes01 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 01:50no051 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 01:17yes042 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-14 23:31yes019 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 02:15yes023 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-14 23:00yes1410 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 03:34yes48 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 02:46yes1926 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 01:51yes2011 s
ComparativeGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-15 04:16yes07 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-14 23:09yes08 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-15 04:54yes065 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-14 23:34yes02 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-14 23:16yes041 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 01:28yes053 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 02:15yes046 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 01:29yes034 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 00:35yes1810 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 03:46yes46 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 02:59yes2137 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-14 23:06yes206 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-15 03:22yes06 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 01:43yes06 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-15 04:40yes043 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 00:47yes02 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 00:20yes042 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 01:10yes060 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 03:33yes015 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-14 23:26yes015 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 02:56yes1712 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 03:01no08 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 03:02no019 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 02:17yes2010 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-15 03:24yes010 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 02:07no07 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-15 03:28yes033 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 04:13yes02 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 04:08yes048 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 03:14yes047 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 00:10yes045 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 04:12yes023 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 04:40yes1411 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 04:22yes49 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 04:33yes1729 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 03:15yes208 s
Negative framingGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-15 02:20yes09 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 02:01yes013 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-15 04:31yes023 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 04:13yes02 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-14 23:10yes063 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-14 23:20yes042 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 04:37yes076 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-14 23:39yes036 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

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Category-scoped readings
Adform read as Adform DSP
Adobe Advertising Cloud DSP read as Adobe Advertising
Demandbase read as Demandbase Advertising
Demandbase One read as Demandbase Advertising
Demandbase One (Demandbase DSP) read as Demandbase Advertising
Epom read as Epom DSP
Google (DV360 / Google Ad Manager / AdX) read as Google Display & Video 360
Google Marketing Platform's Display & Video 360 (DV360) read as Google Display & Video 360
Meta read as Meta Ads
TikTok read as TikTok Ads
Unresolved, counted raw
AdSovereign
Admixer
Advantage Software
Appier
Basis DSP
Cognitiv
Connatix
DeepIntent
DeepSee.io
Google Ad Exchange (AdX) / DV360 / Google Ad Manager
GroupM
House of Pubs
Jounce Media
LinkedIn Audience Solutions
Opera Ads
Unity Technologies
Viant DSP
Walmart DSP
Xandr Invest DSP
Xaxis
Zion Network
cadent.tv
molocoads
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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