Audio and podcast advertising · RankediHeartMedia
iHeartMedia is an audio and podcast advertising provider that offers ad placement across its owned-and-operated radio stations, its iHeartPodcast Network and digital audio · iheartmedia.com ↗
Why models recommend it
“You want managed service, creative support, and broad reach (willing to trade precision for ease) | iHeartMedia”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Direct question · alternative
“Want podcast + broadcast radio in one buy? → Choose iHeart or SiriusXM Media.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“National/local broadcast + podcast + streaming mix: iHeartMedia managed buy.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Direct question · alternative
“Podcast plus radio: Choose iHeartMedia or SiriusXM Media.”Perplexity Sonar · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Often called out in listener and podcaster complaints for excessive, poorly placed ads”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as iHeartMedia, over the 38 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 7 | View → | |
| 23 | 6 | View → | |
| 16 | 7 | View → | |
| 13 | 4 | View → | |
| 13 | 2 | View → | |
| 13 | 0 | View → | |
| 12 | 3 | View → | |
| 12 | 1 | View → | |
| 9 | 1 | View → | |
| 7 | 3 | View → |
What the models named instead of iHeartMedia →
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 32 of the 38 answers that named iHeartMedia and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Eighty-eight of the 104 domain citations in answers naming iHeartMedia came from a third party's page. Nine 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| News or press | 27 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 24 | undated | |||
| Blog | 1 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page iheartmedia.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. Read October 5, 2026.