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Brooke Osmundson

Director of growth marketing

Smith Micro Software

Brooke Osmundson is director of growth marketing at Smith Micro Software and a Search Engine Journal contributor. Her work spans paid search, social and programmatic advertising, with an emphasis on analytics and customer journeys. She writes about campaign strategy, advertising measurement and the decisions marketers face when testing emerging channels.

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Decide what a ChatGPT Ads test is meant to prove

Brooke Osmundson sets out the questions advertisers should answer before allocating budget to ChatGPT Ads. The discussion starts with the channel’s intended role, then considers intent, measurement and the opportunity cost of moving money from existing campaigns. Read it when an exploratory budget is being proposed without a clear decision at the end of the test. It helps frame an experiment around a business question, rather than assuming conversational advertising should immediately behave like established paid search.

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Why early ChatGPT Ads results are hard to benchmark

Brooke Osmundson compares early public accounts of ChatGPT advertising and explains why they do not yet provide a reliable universal benchmark. Advertisers are testing different offers, audiences and measurement setups, while reporting and targeting differ from established search campaigns. Read this before using a quoted CPC or success story in a forecast. The article is most useful for framing a test around your own lead quality and commercial outcomes, and for separating a recommended bid from an observed acquisition cost.

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Improve the signals your advertising automation learns from

Brooke Osmundson argues that increasing automation makes measurement choices more consequential. A campaign can optimise efficiently towards a conversion that does not represent a qualified lead, a profitable order or the outcome the business actually values. Read the article before making a major campaign change. It provides a reason to review CRM feedback, conversion definitions and a baseline of mature results first, so the team can distinguish more reported activity from an improvement in the quality of its acquisition.

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