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Paid Media

Advertising where you pay for visibility, including potential future AI advertising.

DEFINITION

What is Paid Media?

Paid media encompasses advertising where you pay for visibility—search ads, social ads, display, and emerging AI advertising opportunities. While most AI visibility is currently organic, paid options are emerging on platforms like Perplexity. Understanding paid media's relationship to AI visibility helps plan comprehensive marketing strategy.

IN PRACTICE

We help brands integrate AI visibility with paid media for comprehensive marketing strategy.

WHY IT MATTERS

Paid media and AI visibility are complementary. Strong organic AI visibility makes paid efforts more effective, and paid can amplify organic visibility.

EXAMPLES
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Search ads capturing AI-researched queries

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Emerging AI platform advertising

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Paid content amplifying organic visibility

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Should I do paid media or AI visibility?

Both work together. Organic AI visibility builds foundation; paid can amplify and capture additional traffic.

Are there AI platform ads?

Emerging. Perplexity has advertising products in development. This space is evolving rapidly.

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