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The first public daily tracker for ads inside AI answers. Plus: who loses when you win in AI search.
The Writesonic Newsletter Edition 03 · 25 June 2026 AI answers have ads now.
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Hey BTC, Big one this edition. ChatGPT started putting sponsored ads inside its answers a few weeks ago. We’ve been tracking every day since, and we’ve made all of it public, accessible to everyone. Also inside: new research on what actually happens when you win an AI citation (spoiler: someone specific loses it), a customer story from a UK agency running AI measurement across 60+ accounts, and two webinars coming up worth blocking time for. |
The AI Ads Index. The first public daily tracker for ChatGPT ads.Every morning, we scan ~488K AI answers across ChatGPT. The index tracks which answers carry a sponsored ad, which brands are buying visibility, which industries are moving first, and which markets are live. 90 days of daily history. Nearly 1,800 advertisers tracked. Updated every morning. Completely open.
Now in product That’s the market view. Inside Writesonic, you get your view. A new Ads module tracks sponsored placements on the prompts you already monitor. See who’s advertising in your category. Compare your ad visibility against competitors. Every creative, every advertiser, every placement.
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Who loses when you win an AI citation?AI answers have a fixed number of seats. We tracked 10.7 million answer transitions across every major AI engine. 90% of the time a brand enters an answer, another gets pushed out. The slot count is conserved. Winning isn’t about being good in the abstract. It’s about taking a specific competitor’s seat. The headline number: 90% of the time a brand enters an AI answer, another gets pushed out. And over a quarter of those swaps are a brand displacing its own alias or parent company. AI can’t hold brand identity still. Your true competitor in AI answers isn’t always who you benchmark against in SEO. The full study names them. |
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Writesonic x Search Engine Journal 5 Lessons From Running AI Agents Across Every Search Engine. What we learned from tracking AI search behavior at scale, shared with the SEJ audience. |
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Writesonic x SOZO How a 25-year UK agency built AI search measurement into 60+ client accounts. Live with Christian Goodrich, Head of SEO & AI Search at SOZO. Save your spot → |
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+30% Gemini visibility within 30 days of launch, and +65% organic revenue in the months that followed.SOZO is a 25-year UK B Corp agency working with ambitious SMEs looking to grow. AI search visibility was the missing piece: something no tool had given them a clear view of. Six months into using Writesonic, they ran a Magento-to-Shopify migration across thousands of SKUs and saw +30% Google Gemini visibility within 30 days of launch, and +10% across all AI platforms in the same period. Six months on, the commercial results have followed: attributed organic revenue up 65% year on year, rising to +96% once homepage and brand traffic are stripped out, and a 26x return on their search investment.
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On-demand Sam x Ross Simmonds: the recording is up What content earns AI citations right now. Where Reddit fits in. What most teams should stop doing. 60 minutes, no filler. Watch the recording → |
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CITED Playbook 7 channels. 2B+ AI conversations. The full playbook for citations. Get it free → |
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That’s edition three. AI ads are here, and they’re moving fast. If your dashboard doesn’t show them yet, the index will. Excited to keep digging into this one. See you in two weeks. Sam PS: Know someone running ads or tracking AI search? Forward this. They can subscribe on our blog. |
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