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1 category · Named, not ranked

Dacast

10Judge labels

2First choices

0Negative labels

6 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

5 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Dacast was named 5 times in Streaming, where Confluent Cloud led with 32%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business18 of 88

under the label threshold

Mid-market8 of 78

under the label threshold

Enterprise30 of 47

under the label threshold

In streaming · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Dacast 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
Streaming platforms	Data platform	4%	8 of 78	0%	5	under 10 labels · led by Confluent Cloud at 32%

Movement

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

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

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

Direct6 labels2

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative2 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative2 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative10 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 4 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.

“Dacast - Best for mid-market businesses needing live and on-demand streaming without enterprise-level pricing.” Llama 4 Maverick · Streaming · direct prompt · first choice

“Best for mid-market businesses needing live and on-demand streaming at a reasonable cost” Mistral Small · Streaming · direct prompt · first choice

“Best for mid-market businesses needing live + on-demand streaming without enterprise pricing” MiniMax M2.5 · Streaming · direct prompt · alternative

“strong transparent mid-market choice for live + VOD streaming” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Streaming · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Dacast, over the 10 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Dacast was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Redpanda6 of 103Not in the top three

Apache Kafka5 of 101Not in the top three

Apache Pulsar5 of 100Not in the top three

Bizzabo4 of 101Not in the top three

Confluent Cloud4 of 101Not in the top three

Aiven for Apache Kafka4 of 100Not in the top three

Vimeo4 of 100Not in the top three

Amazon MSK3 of 100Not in the top three

Goldcast3 of 100Not in the top three

YouTube2 of 101Not 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 Dacast. 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 9 of the 10 answers that named Dacast and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

dacast.comYour site6

cotocus.com5

owebest.com5

marketful.com4

enterprisetube.com3

guideflow.com3

peoplemanagingpeople.com3

rajeshkumar.xyz3

sequel.io3

automq.com2

Thirty-one of the thirty-seven domain citations in answers naming Dacast came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

owebest.com/blog/enterprise-streaming-platforms5

cotocus.com/blog/top-10-event-streaming-platforms-features-pros-cons-comparison4

dacast.com/blog/10-best-live-streaming-platforms-for-pros4

marketful.com/best-virtual-event-platforms4

enterprisetube.com/blog/best-live-streaming-platforms3

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-virtual-event-platform3

rajeshkumar.xyz/blog/event-streaming-platforms3

sequel.io/event-livestreaming-services3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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