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32% -- click through rate decrease for Ads with AI involvement disclosed to consumers (2025)

2025  · NYU Stern and Emory University

When consumers knew AI was involved in creating ads, click-through rates dropped by 32% in some cases.

  • drop observed in some cases
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Ads with AI involvement disclosed to consumers
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NYU Stern and Emory University Primary Tier B
https://www.adora-ai.com/news/nyu-research-unconstrained-ai-ads-outperform-human-creative ↗
Confidence: 53/100 Vintage: 2025 Channel: Deep Crawl
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The AI Creative Revolution: NYU Research Proves Unconstrained AI Ads Outperform Human Creative
Thought Leadership 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 · Original study ↗

Field experiment across 105,999 impressions; drop observed in some cases

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Industrymarketing RoleAll marketers Channelpaid_ads
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Ads with AI involvement disclosed to consumers: 32% click through rate decrease. Source: NYU Stern and Emory University (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-disclosure-32-percent-ctr-drop
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