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34% -- ad performance improvement for Full AI design (ad + packaging) vs human baseline (2025)

2025  · NYU Stern and Emory University

Full AI design of both advertising and product packaging drove a 34% total performance improvement compared to the human-designed baseline.

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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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Full AI design (ad + packaging) vs human baseline: 34% ad performance improvement. Source: NYU Stern and Emory University (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/full-ai-design-34-percent-total-improvement
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