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4 hours agoInside AI traffic's 796% growth, and why it converts more ready-to-buy visitors
Generative AI traffic grew 796% from January 2024 to December 2025, indicating its strategic importance for marketers.
As OpenAI seeks more ways to make money, ChatGPT's potential as a shopping assistant is one promising idea: You tell the bot what you're thinking about buying, and it will help you make comparisons, sort prices and answer intricate product questions. With any luck, those answers might even be right. Crucially, the assumption is that many people will prefer to shop online this way rather than use their current methods,
Many brands focus excessively on top-of-funnel strategies like SEO and social reach, potentially neglecting the value of mid and bottom-of-funnel engagements that drive conversions.