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ChatGPT Ads Are Here. The Early Data Says Boring Wins.

ChatGPT ads went live for US users in February 2026, and the first cross-channel benchmarks are out. Early click-through rates land between 0.3% and 1.5%, and CPCs index at roughly five times Meta's. The advertisers getting acceptable returns share one habit: their ads read like answers

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Scaling AI Content Without Sounding Like the Other 74% of the Internet

Ahrefs analyzed 900,000 newly created web pages in April 2025 and found that 74.2% contained AI-generated content. Only 2.5% were pure AI; 71.7% mixed human and machine writing. Since most teams now draft with the same handful of models, scaled content converges on the same statistical

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Your A/B Test Hit 95% Significance. That's the Worst Time to Stop.

An A/B test should run until it reaches the sample size you calculated before launch, not until the dashboard shows a winner. Stopping at the first sign of 95% significance inflates the real false positive rate from 5% to roughly 26%, according to Evan Miller's simulations. Work