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  "company": "Meta and OpenAI",
  "headline": "ChatGPT ads show promise but high costs mean holiday budgets stay with Google and Meta.",
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  "source_name": "Modern Retail",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Email & DM Funnel}\n◆ GRAPHITE · Emerging ad platform adoption pattern · Meta and OpenAI\n\nChatGPT ads show promise but high costs mean holiday budgets stay with Google and Meta.\n\nThe brand that tests new platforms in the off-season gets the best rates and the warmest algorithm because nobody else is bidding. By the time the market wakes up, you're already profitable on it. The play is to be an early tester, but only in the months when the platform is desperate for volume.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/meta-and-openai-2026-10-10t00-6\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/meta-and-openai-2026-10-10t00-6\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/meta-and-openai-2026-10-10t00-6",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Email & DM Funnel}\n◆ GRAPHITE · Emerging ad platform adoption pattern · Meta and OpenAI\n\nChatGPT ads show promise but high costs mean holiday budgets stay with Google and Meta.\n\nThe brand that tests new platforms in the off-season gets the best rates and the warmest algorithm because nobody else is bidding. By the time the market wakes up, you're already profitable on it. The play is to be an early tester, but only in the months when the platform is desperate for volume.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/meta-and-openai-2026-10-10t00-6\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/meta-and-openai-2026-10-10t00-6\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/meta-and-openai-2026-10-10t00-6",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Email & DM Funnel}\n◆ GRAPHITE · Emerging ad platform adoption pattern · Meta and OpenAI\n\nChatGPT ads show promise but high costs mean holiday budgets stay with Google and Meta.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/meta-and-openai-2026-10-10t00-6",
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      "title": "ChatGPT ads show promise but high costs mean holiday budgets stay with Google and Meta.",
      "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 testing OpenAI's ChatGPT ads, but weak early sales and high costs mean most holiday budgets are not shifting away from Google or Meta, per Modern Retail. The pattern reflects broader hesitation about new ad platforms until conversion economics prove out.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): do not wait for the platform to lower its costs. You lower your costs by testing small ($500/week) in an off-season (January) when the algorithm is hungry for data. By the time everyone else wants to test (Q3), you already have conversion benchmarks and you're bidding on the platform's coldest inventory at the best rates. The play: allocate $2,000 to ChatGPT ads in January, measure CAC vs. Google, and if it's within 20%, go to 30% budget allocation in July.\nWhat that means for you: The brand that tests new platforms in the off-season gets the best rates and the warmest algorithm because nobody else is bidding. By the time the market wakes up, you're already profitable on it. The play is to be an early tester, but only in the months when the platform is desperate for volume.\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/.)\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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