Campaign Setup
Supply Path Evaluation for AI Chat Inventory
Buyers need new rules to evaluate where ads appear inside AI conversations, not just next to them.
Svetlana Mircescu
Senior Contributor · · 13 min read
Buyers need new rules to evaluate where ads appear inside AI conversations, not just next to them.
Test AI ad placements across unpredictable contexts, not fixed pages.
Conversational ads need bid logic built for dialogue, not search queries.
Advertisers need new DSP configurations to reach consumers in AI chatbots instead of web pages.
Write hints as sentences to beat vague keywords in unfamiliar auctions.
Conversational AI inventory breaks the structural assumptions that make traditional deal IDs work.
Conversational AI hides the buyer intent signals that traditional attribution cannot measure.