Advertising on AI search engines is a new frontier for marketers, offering benefits such as improved paid performance, reach across search experiences, and the ability to scale marketing efforts. This guide explores the opportunities and challenges of advertising on AI search engines, including Microsoft Copilot, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity.
AI search engine advertising is the use of pay-per-click (PPC) ads in AI-powered experiences, such as Microsoft’s Copilot or AI Overviews in Google Search. This type of advertising is not the use of artificial intelligence to generate or manage ads.
Why Advertise on AI Search Engines?
Advertising on AI search engines offers several benefits, including:
- Get the first-mover advantage: Becoming one of the earliest companies to advertise on AI answer or search engines gives your organization a competitive edge in the marketplace.
- Improve paid performance: According to Microsoft, ads within AI-powered search experiences perform better, with a 69% higher click-through rate and 76% higher conversion rate than traditional search.
- Reach users across search experiences: With multiple advertising outlets, you can reach users no matter how they search online.
- Scale marketing efforts: Ads in AI engines can support other marketing efforts, such as growing an email list via a downloadable resource.
- Expand revenue streams: Investing in new ad placements can create new revenue streams, such as advertising on Perplexity, a brand-new ad network.
- Offset decreased performance: With search preferences changing, businesses can expect decreased performance, whether in organic traffic or ad conversions. Adapting to this shift, like by advertising on AI answer engines, can offset this change.
Which AI Search Engines Support Advertising?
The following AI search engines or AI-powered experiences support advertising:
- Google AI Overviews
- Microsoft Copilot
- Perplexity
Inside the AI Answer Engines Offering Advertising
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Microsoft Copilot
About: Microsoft Copilot is an AI assistant and is available as a standalone product and throughout Microsoft’s product suite.
Placements: Bottom of answer
Copilot ads have a “Sponsored” label like other Microsoft Advertising ads. When it comes to getting started with advertising on Microsoft Copilot, advertisers’ existing ads can appear in Copilot conversations.
Google AI Overviews
About: Exclusive to Google Search, AI Overviews appear above organic search results and aim to answer the user’s search intent with a written summary (including citations) based on the content within Google’s index.
Placements: Above and below the AI Overview
According to Google, AI Overviews have increased user satisfaction with search results — that satisfaction increased when the AI Overview included ads, with users finding the advertisements helpful.
Perplexity
About: Perplexity is an answer engine. Within its interface, users can ask questions and submit prompts to learn more about a topic, discover brands, research purchases, and more.
Placements: Related Questions, Answer Page, Third-party sites
With Perplexity ads, the company plans to offer businesses across industries, from travel to finance, multiple placement options in its AI-generated answers.
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