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Why marketers are burning money on $47 ChatGPT ads
Wren Calloway·The Daily
Marketers are whining about a $47 CPM on ChatGPT ads, but the price isn't the problem. The real joke is that OpenAI's policies make B2B buyers structurally unreachable, and you're buying banner space instead of optimizing for the model's actual answers.
Marketers are currently crying over a $47 CPM on ChatGPT ads, but they are entirely missing the joke. The market rate is $25 to $60, so the price isn't the problem; the product itself is structurally designed to fail for B2B campaigns. OpenAI's own policy clearly dictates that ads sit below the response, completely isolated from the model's actual answer by a separate system. You cannot buy your way into the AI's recommendation at any price, because the stated "answer independence" principle strictly forbids it. If you think you are influencing the chatbot's output, you are being played.
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