Audio and podcast advertising · RankedAcast
Acast is a podcast advertising platform that connects advertisers with podcast audiences across a network of shows · acast.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
AudioGo is first at 54%.
AudioGo is first at 29%. 1 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
StackAdapt is first at 32%.
Why models recommend it
“Acast is widely considered the strongest platform for advertisers who want their audio ads to appear across almost every podcast listener's device”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Comparative question · first choice
“Acast — Offers AI transcript analysis, pre-bid verification, and episode-level contextual controls across 140,000+ shows.”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Negative question · first choice
“For most advertisers, Acast is the strongest overall podcast advertising platform in 2026”Muse Glimmer 30B · Comparative question · first choice
“Acast is the best podcast ad platform due to its advanced targeting and scale”Mistral Small · Paraphrase question · first choice
What gives them pause
“managed/host-read campaigns jump to $10k–$15k with mixed ROI reports... can feel overpriced for smaller advertisers”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
“can sometimes lead to brand safety concerns if not properly managed”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
“Slightly higher barrier than AudioGo or Spotify”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Acast, over the 124 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 91 | 23 | Compare → | |
| 66 | 34 | Compare → | |
| 41 | 13 | Compare → | |
| 33 | 0 | View → | |
| 27 | 4 | Compare → | |
| 27 | 2 | View → | |
| 24 | 0 | View → | |
| 23 | 1 | View → | |
| 23 | 0 | View → | |
| 19 | 2 | View → |
What the models named instead of Acast →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 109 of the 124 answers that named Acast and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
292 of the 417 domain citations in answers naming Acast came from a third party's page. Thirty-three were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Podcast or video | 851 | 6 | 2026-09-21 | Video ads | |
| Blog | 255 | 41 | 2026-10-02 | ||
| News or press | 196 | undated | |||
| Case study | 105 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 10 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 5 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 2 | 1 | 2026-09-18 |
Most recent
- 2026-10-0216073037 enabling your show for video blog
- 2026-09-216522125 create an account for acast s ad platform blog
- 2026-09-217061300 podcast advertising glossary podcast or video
- 2026-09-217238912 beginner s guide to podcast advertising podcast or video
- 2026-09-217912911 how to install acast s attribution pixels blog
- 2026-09-218027374 targeted ads blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page acast.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 October 5, 2026.