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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
Google's AI Spam Policy: An Audit Checklist for SEO Practitioners
B2B Paid Search with AI Bidding: Case Study Results and Deployment Lessons
How to Choose the Best AI SEO Tools for Your 2026 Stack
How 35,000 Customer Calls Built the Whopper Guarantee
ChatGPT for Marketing Teams: Deployment Case Study and Implementation Playbook
Why chip stock volatility matters for AI marketing tools
An Evidence-Annotated GEO Checklist: Prioritize Tactics by Impact
Google AI Max for Search and Performance Max: How to Run the Power Pack Without Cannibalizing Your ConversionsGoogle AdsPerformance Max, AI Max for Search
How McDonald's Limited Time Menu Marketing Built a $10B Engine
Meta Advantage+ Shopping Campaigns in 2026: What Happened, What Replaced Them, and How to Set Up Advantage+ Sales NowMeta
Netflix Is Becoming Cable — What That Means for AdvertisersNetflix
Persado AI Copy Optimization for B2B Email: A Controlled-Test Analysis of Emotional Language vs. Human Copy
The Predictive Advantage: How Leading Companies Use AI for Real Marketing ROI
Ad Copy Variation Prompt Template for A/B Testing
AI Ad Copy A/B Testing: A Step-by-Step Workflow for Paid Media ManagersMeta Ads, Google AdsRSA, Meta Experiments, Google Campaign Experiments
AI Advertising Companies: A Practical Category Guide for Paid Media TeamsCross-platform
Claude AI SEO Content Brief Prompt Template: An XML-Structured Approach That Actually Works
5 Marketing Tactics from Crew Gaines' Farm Stand
Email Subject Line Prompt Templates for ChatGPT: A Tested Reference Library
Marketing Career Lessons from Marie-France van Heel
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