OpenAI’s Ambition Meets Marketer Caution
As a journalist who still marks up media plans by hand, I keep returning to one point — Internal revenue goals are huge; eMarketer expects a far more modest U.S. ramp.
I am less interested in keynote poetry than in the levers a brand can actually toggle before Friday’s budget meeting.
- Define the conversion before you scale
- Separate brand safety from performance tests
- Compare incrementality, not vanity CTR
| Signal | Detail |
|---|---|
| Channel | Signal this month |
| ChatGPT Ads | Open access + conversion tools |
| Google Shopping | Budget share rebound |
| Paid social | Clicks up, CPC softer |
Source: Digiday. Numbers and product claims above come from that reporting; interpretation is mine.