Google Ads are not going anywhere. Eventually, AI Search results on Google and likely other properties will have ads.
Google recently reported $56.57 billion in revenue from ads on Search and YouTube. You obviously can't expect ads to disappear from its search business.
Right now, Google has two AI features.
The first is AI Overviews, which appears at the top of the search results with answers scraped from publishers that Google does not want to pay.
The second and more powerful feature is AI Mode, which offers a ChatGPT-like personalized experience.
Google has already confirmed it plans to integrate services like Gmail and Drive into Google AI Mode to create a new personalized experience where AI knows everything about you.
That might sound scary, but it's clearly the direction Google is taking.
Google says AI Search will have ads
In a podcast, Google's Robby Stein argued that the Google Ads business is not going anywhere, but it will evolve to support the new landscape.
Robby Stein says Google does not see them [ads] going away, but the experience could change.
"...you could take a picture of your shoes and say, 'Hey, these are my shoes. What are other cool shoes like this?' And we could answer that now or help provide you context with that. Or you could ask about this really cool restaurant question. It can be five sentences about all your allergies, issues with this. I have this big group. I want to make sure it's got light. What can I book in advance? And you can put that into Google now too," Robby argues while explaining where ads could fit into the AI experience.
"I think that's an opportunity for the future to be even more helpful for you, particularly in an advertising context. And so we started some experiments on ads within AI Mode and within Google AI experiences," he added.
At this point, it looks like Google wants you to use AI Mode for personal questions, and based on those questions, it could show personalized ads.
Google is already testing ads in AI Search in a limited form, and we'll likely learn more about its plans next year.
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Comments
progan01 - 1 month ago
How soon can we expect mandatory purchase 'requests' from Google advertisers? You can't expect Google to function without compulsion, now can you?
DQ52 - 1 month ago
Imagine AI generated Ads, on the spot, based on your preferences that Google knows from strip mining your data. Here is product X, and it's virtues are explained to you by your favorite movie star and you prefer brunettes so she has black hair and she is petting YOUR dog, because Google ganked that from your pics on your phone. The internet will become so fake and toxic I hope everyone just goes outside because the internet was a net negative.
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