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15% -- ad performance improvement for AI-created ads with AI-designed packaging vs AI-created ads with human packaging (2025)

2025  · NYU Stern and Emory University

When AI also designs product packaging, ads achieve an additional 15% performance improvement compared to AI-created ads with human packaging.

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NYU Stern and Emory University Primary Tier B
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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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AI-created ads with AI-designed packaging vs AI-created ads with human packaging: 15% ad performance improvement. Source: NYU Stern and Emory University (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-packaging-additional-15-percent-improvement
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