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8 Sept
6 Months Into ChatGPT Ads, Advertisers Still Don’t Know What ‘Good’ Looks Like via @sejournal, @brookeosmundson

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16 Apr
ChatGPT Often Retrieves But Rarely Cites Reddit Pages, Data Shows via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

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29 Sept
ChatGPT Ad CTR Topped 1% In 4 Markets, Not In The U.S.: Report via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

<p>A report using Similarweb panel data breaks down ChatGPT ad click-through rates by market and tracks how often the top ChatGPT advertisers changed.</p> <p>The post <a

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7 Apr
ChatGPT traffic analysis: Insights from 17 months of clickstream data

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28 May
How To See If Competitors Are Advertising In Your Customers’ ChatGPT Answers via @sejournal, @trendos_com

<p>Learn the manual process to track who is advertising in ChatGPT answers. Understand your competitors' strategies in real-time.</p> <p>The post <a

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14 Aug
ChatGPT Already Knows Who It’ll Recommend Before It Searches via @sejournal, @suganthan

<p>ChatGPT names brands in its own search queries before it fetches anything. Being in that query is worth 33 times more.</p> <p>The post <a

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