Benchmarks

Real, sourced case files from paid-search and paid-social campaigns actually run: platform, spend range, timeframe, the metric that mattered (ROAS, CPA, or CTR), the verdict, and honest post-mortems on what failed, not only wins. This is the flagship section and the site's only defensible moat; nothing here is aggregated industry data or a platform's claimed lift figure, and every record carries a last-reviewed date because AI ad defaults change fast enough to make older figures misleading. Tactics in Bidding and failures documented in Creative link back to specific records here as their evidence base.

Google AdsMeta AdsTikTok AdsPerformance MaxAdvantage+AI Max for SearchROASCPAwinlossmixed resultecommerceB2Blocal service
Operator metric shown first; any third-party figure carried in a record’s body is industry context, not our own result.
Case filePlatformCampaign typeSpend rangeMetricClaimed vs. actualVerdictLast reviewed
AI for Marketing Campaigns: What the 2026 ROI Data Actually ShowsCross-platform
How Cooper Flagg's $5M patch card builds a marketing value chain
How Quince Uses Celebrity Stylists as Influencer Marketing Proxies
Salesforce Einstein vs HubSpot Predictive Scoring: Which AI Lead Scoring Tool Fits Your B2B Team?
The AI Ad Perception Gap: What Marketers Get Wrong About Consumer TrustCross-platform
Why 74% of AI Marketing Projects Fail to Show ROI (and What the 26% Do Differently)
How to Choose an AI-Powered Programmatic Platform: DSP Comparison for 2026Multi-DSP comparison (The Trade Desk, Google DV360, Amazon DSP, StackAdapt, Quantcast, Adobe, Yahoo)Programmatic display, CTV, retail media, open web
How Amazon Advertisers Should Adapt to the Alexa for Shopping EraAmazon AdsSponsored Brands
Why AI Content Needs Human Authority to Pass Google's E-E-A-T Gate
Magnum's AI Precision Campaign for National Ice Cream Day
Meta Advantage+ Creative Controls: A Decision Framework for Balancing Automation and Brand SafetyMeta
Cross-Platform ML Changelog: Google Ads, Meta, and HubSpot 2025–2026Google Ads, Meta Ads Manager, HubSpot
Why AI-Based Marketing Stalls at 6% Adoption — and the Data-First Roadmap to Fix It
The AI Creative Advertising Playbook: How to Build Governed Workflows That Actually Deliver PerformanceCross-platformPerformance Max
AI Dynamic Email Personalization: Campaign Results Across Four Documented Cases
From Reactive to Predictive: A Marketing Analytics Maturity Framework for AI-Driven Teams
The AI for Sales and Marketing ROI Reality Check: What the Data Actually Says About Adoption, Performance Gaps, and Where the Real Value Is
How AI World Cup Predictions Became a 39-Day Content Engine
What 10 Brands Actually Achieved With AI Marketing in 2026 — Sourced Results
The Five-Year Playbook Behind Burger King's Whopper Guarantee
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