Tag: effectiveness

  • Etsy’s 36% Sales Boost: Insights from Google’s Holiday Guide

    Etsy’s 36% Sales Boost: Insights from Google’s Holiday Guide

    Etsy’s gross merchandise sales rose 36% across the 2025 holiday season, partly credited to Google’s AI Max, and it is the headline case study in the guide Google sent retailers on August 21. Independent measurement of AI Max points the other way, and Google’s own footnotes do not always match the claims.

  • AI in Advertising: Consumer Reactions and Emotional Engagement

    AI in Advertising: Consumer Reactions and Emotional Engagement

    System1’s deep dive into generative AI advertising reveals something pundits love to debate but consumers don’t appear to care about: whether or not AI made the ad. In testing 18 AI-generated spots across three countries and 2,700 viewers, ads created with machine help actually outperformed traditional ones on emotional engagement, scoring 3.4 Stars against a…