01/10/2026
🤖 AI is changing media faster than marketers can measure it.
A new IAB study shows that advertisers are already adapting to AI-driven discovery but measurement is struggling to keep up.
📊 76% of marketers are prioritizing content optimization for AI-generated answers.
📊 45% say comparing AI-driven and traditional customer journeys is a major measurement challenge.
📊 35% struggle to get consistent data on brand visibility and citations in AI tools.
📊 86% are changing, or expect to change, how they measure media performance because of AI and agents.
The shift is clear: AI is becoming part of the customer journey, but marketers still need better visibility into what happens along the way.
The question is no longer just “Are we visible in AI?” It’s “Can we track what that visibility means for performance?”
That’s where AI visibility and performance measurement need to come together.