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.

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Case filePlatformCampaign typeSpend rangeMetricClaimed vs. actualVerdictLast reviewed
Anthropic Claude: AI Feature Update for Marketers — Model Capabilities and Practical Use Cases (Q2 2026)Anthropic Claude
How to Set Up ChatGPT Referral Traffic Tracking in GA4
How Fallout 5's marketing strategy converts TV viewers into buyersCross-platform
The Feed-to-Creative Pipeline: How AI Product Enrichment Powers Dynamic AdsMeta, Google, TikTokDynamic Product Ads, Performance Max
Google Ads Performance Max AI Features: 2024 Changelog for MarketersGoogle Ads
How Lioness Season 3 Fuels Paramount+ Acquisition and Retention
Why Some Megan Rapinoe Deals Worked and Others Backfired
Meta AI Advertising in 2026: What Advantage+ Automation Actually Does and Where to Keep Humans in ControlMeta AdsAdvantage+
Programmatic Display AI Targeting in 2026: Contextual vs. Behavioral Decision GuideProgrammatic DSPs (platform-agnostic)Programmatic Display
Salesforce Einstein AI Marketing Features: 2024 ChangelogSalesforce
How to Set Up TikTok Symphony AI Avatar AdsTikTok
YouTube TV's 2025 Channel Additions Expand Ad Targeting OptionsYouTube TV
Best AI Advertising Campaigns: 5 Bottlenecks That Separate Results from HypeCross-platform
Beyond the publish date: What AI systems actually check when evaluating whether your content is 'fresh enough' to cite
AI in Digital Advertising: Where It Works, Where It Doesn't — The 2026 Benchmark-Driven PlaybookMeta, Google, TikTokPerformance Max, Advantage+
AI in Digital Marketing 2026: Adoption Benchmarks, ROI by Use Case, and What Actually Works
AI Mode vs. AI Overviews: Why Your SEO Strategy Needs Separate Tracks
AI for Sales and Marketing: Where the Returns Actually Are in 2026
How to Measure AI Search Traffic in GA4: Setup Guide & Limitations
The AI-Targeted Advertising Trap: Why 70% of Marketers Have Already Had an AI Incident (and What to Do About It)Cross-platformAI targeting
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