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19% -- click through rate lift for AI-created ads vs human-designed ads (2025)
AI-created ads drove 19% higher click-through rates compared to campaigns featuring human-designed ads.
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19%
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2025
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B
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75
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60
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20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
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NYU Stern and Emory University
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https://www.adora-ai.com/news/nyu-research-unconstrained-ai-ads-outperform-human-creative ↗
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The AI Creative Revolution: NYU Research Proves Unconstrained AI Ads Outperform Human Creative
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The AI Creative Revolution: NYU Research Proves Unconstrained AI Ads Outperform Human Creative
Groundbreaking research from NYU Stern and Emory has quantified what many performance marketers have suspected: generative AI creates more effective ad creative than humans. The study fo…
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NYU Stern and Emory University
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Field experiment across 105,999 ad impressions comparing human-designed, AI-modified, and AI-created ads
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AI-created ads vs human-designed ads: 19% click through rate lift. Source: NYU Stern and Emory University (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-created-ads-19-percent-higher-ctr
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