Channel Mix Strategy
Zero-Click Search and What It Costs Paid Media Budgets
Only 36% of Google searches now send traffic anywhere on the open web.
Marcus Jelínek
· 13 min read
Only 36% of Google searches now send traffic anywhere on the open web.
Conversational AI ads need their own weighting model, not search's outdated math.
Paid social costs soar while returns collapse as user growth flatlines.
AI collapses the journey from awareness to purchase into a single conversation.
Conversational targeting reads intent from prompts, not keywords, rewarding precision over reach.
Marketers shift budgets to AI chat as search efficiency declines.
Bayesian priors and proxy variables let MMM measure AI channels before spend history accumulates.