There has been no shortage of opinions about what ChatGPT is going to do to advertising. Search is dead. AI is the new search. Brands need to figure out ChatGPT immediately. If you aren't there now, you're already behind. You get the idea. The problem is that there has been a lot more conversation about what ChatGPT could become than data showing what advertising on ChatGPT actually looks like today. We have now run ChatGPT Ads across a number of clients...

Digital marketers have gotten used to a world of dashboards, attribution windows, and conversion reports that make it feel like every dollar has a neat explanation attached to it. Then you start investing in channels like display, video, CTV, audio, influencer partnerships, sponsorships, upper-funnel social, or broader awareness campaigns, and suddenly things become uncomfortable. The neat lines disappear. The reality is that less-trackable channels require a different mind

Programmatic advertising has been around for decades, but many marketers may still think of it as wasteful spending on brand awareness. That perception is outdated. Today, programmatic is a flexible, full-funnel channel that extends beyond what most social and search platforms can do on their own. If you’re not testing programmatic, you could be leaving results on the table.

Every marketing program eventually reaches a point where optimization alone stops producing meaningful gains. Audiences become saturated. Marginal returns begin to decline. Performance plateaus. Testing is how businesses break through that ceiling. It allows organizations to explore new audiences, new channels, new messaging strategies, and new acquisition approaches. In many cases, the next phase of growth comes not from improving what already exists, but from discovering