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  "headline": "Brands test ChatGPT ads but expect low holiday budget shift; high cost, weak early sales",
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  "source_name": "Modern Retail",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ PAPER · New advertising platform adoption signal · ChatGPT ads (emerging platform test)\n\nBrands test ChatGPT ads but expect low holiday budget shift; high cost, weak early sales.\n\ndo not allocate holiday budget to ChatGPT ads yet. If you want to test, carve out 1–2% of your total ad spend (not more) and run a small cohort test for 2–3 weeks. Measure cost-per-acquisition against your Google/Meta benchmarks. If CPA is within 20% of your best channel, scale by 10% for the next 2 weeks. Most operators will find the channel is not ready for heavy spend. The move is to watch for ChatGPT to release a native shopping checkout feature (similar to TikTok Shop) — that is when the platform could become a real player.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/chatgpt-ads-emerging-platform-test-2026-10-12t06-7\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/chatgpt-ads-emerging-platform-test-2026-10-12t06-7\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/chatgpt-ads-emerging-platform-test-2026-10-12t06-7",
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      "title": "Brands test ChatGPT ads but expect low holiday budget shift; high cost, weak early sales",
      "body": "✍️ YOUR NOTE — write 2–3 lines to ONE person so they feel: \"this is about me… I could actually do this… I could make money from this.\" Energize them, make it yours. (This is the part that gets the opens.)\n[ your take… ]\n———\nHere is a real one you can run this week 👇\nBrands are beginning to test OpenAI's ChatGPT ads but analysts report that high costs and weak initial sales mean most expect little holiday budget will shift from Google or Meta, per Modern Retail.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): do not allocate holiday budget to ChatGPT ads yet. If you want to test, carve out 1–2% of your total ad spend (not more) and run a small cohort test for 2–3 weeks. Measure cost-per-acquisition against your Google/Meta benchmarks. If CPA is within 20% of your best channel, scale by 10% for the next 2 weeks. Most operators will find the channel is not ready for heavy spend. The move is to watch for ChatGPT to release a native shopping checkout feature (similar to TikTok Shop) — that is when the platform could become a real player.\nWhat that means for you: do not allocate holiday budget to ChatGPT ads yet. If you want to test, carve out 1–2% of your total ad spend (not more) and run a small cohort test for 2–3 weeks. Measure cost-per-acquisition against your Google/Meta benchmarks. If CPA is within 20% of your best channel, scale by 10% for the next 2 weeks. Most operators will find the channel is not ready for heavy spend. The move is to watch for ChatGPT to release a native shopping checkout feature (similar to TikTok Shop) — that is when the platform could become a real player.\nIf you make, sell, or gift anything with your name on it — this is yours to run. You can do this.\n(Real, not theory — Modern Retail: https://www.modernretail.co/marketing/why-chatgpt-ads-wont-likely-impact-holiday-sales-in-a-major-way-this-year/?utm_campaign=modernretaildis&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=general-rss.)\n———\nOr — want it built FOR you? Your logo, your products, your own private room, priced and ready, in about five minutes. That's literally what we do →\nhttps://www.pops4.com/vip?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=stash",
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