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[STUDY] LinkedIn Ads Influence More Than Leads

LinkedIn advertising remains expensive by most conventional performance measures. Dreamdata’s latest B2B advertising benchmarks put the average LinkedIn cost per click at €5.98, compared with €1.60 for Meta. LinkedIn’s average CPM reached €34.33, more than three times Meta’s €9.18. Judged by clicks and short-term lead generation alone, the conclusion appears fairly simple. LinkedIn is a […]

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ChatGPT Builds Out Its Ad Platform

OpenAI is rapidly adding the campaign controls, audience tools and creative formats required to turn ChatGPT advertising from a limited experiment into a functioning media platform. Advertisers can now run conversion-optimised campaigns, use daily budgets, apply geographic controls, upload campaigns in bulk and connect customer lists through custom audiences. A refreshed static ad format gives

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Meta Pushes Muse Into Ad Creative

Meta has launched Muse Image, its first image generation model developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs, with plans to bring the technology into Advantage+ creative for advertisers. Muse is initially available through Meta AI and parts of Instagram and WhatsApp. Users can generate images from prompts, combine reference photos and edit them by sketching changes directly

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Google Pushes Ads Into AI Answers

At Google Marketing Live 2026, Google spelled out how ads are being pushed deeper into AI-assisted journeys: answers, product discovery, shopping recommendations and lead conversations. It introduced new Gemini-built ad formats in Search and AI Mode, including Conversational Discovery ads, Highlighted Answers and AI-powered Shopping ads. It also expanded Direct Offers for shoppers and introduced

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Meta Expands Data Use In AI Feeds

For years, marketers have been told to improve the data they send back to Meta because it helps ads work better. Cleaner conversion events. Better server-side tracking. Stronger match quality. More reliable optimisation. All sensible enough, especially after Apple’s iOS 14.5 update weakened parts of Meta’s old tracking model. Now that same business-shared data may

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Meta Opens Ad Tools To ChatGPT & Claude

Meta is expanding its AI advertising strategy beyond its own ecosystem, launching new AI connectors that allow advertisers to manage and analyse Meta campaigns through external AI assistants and agent platforms including ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity. On the surface, the announcement looks like a workflow update. In reality, it signals something much bigger about where

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[STUDY] ChatGPT Ads Favour Context Over Clickbait

Early ChatGPT ad data suggests conversational AI rewards relevance over persuasion. Analysis from Adthena, based on more than 50,000 daily ChatGPT ad placements across 600 advertisers, found that the most common high-visibility ads are short, highly specific and tightly aligned to the user’s original prompt. Top-performing headlines observed in the study averaged around 30 characters,

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ChatGPT Self-Service Ads Launch

OpenAI is taking a major step toward turning ChatGPT ads into a scalable advertising platform, introducing self-serve campaign buying, CPC bidding, and improved measurement capabilities. Until now, ChatGPT advertising has operated as a tightly controlled pilot programme, largely limited to major brands and agency partners. The latest updates signal a shift toward broader adoption, opening

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