Taboola Study Reveals 76% of Advertisers Benefit from Agentic AI, 86% Willing to Shift Budgets to the Open Web

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Taboola (Nasdaq: TBLA), a global leader in delivering performance at scale for advertisers, today announced new research highlighting growing advertiser adoption of AI-powered solutions and increasing interest in applying these capabilities beyond walled gardens.

While agentic AI has driven strong performance gains in search and social, marketers are increasingly focused on unlocking incremental growth beyond those channels—especially in environments that can offer similar AI-powered automation. The new study, titled, The Agentic Advantage in Performance Marketing: Securing Incremental Growth Beyond Search and Socialexplores how advertisers are approaching performance in an increasingly AI-driven landscape.

Key insights from the research include:

  • Agentic AI is delivering performance advertising wins, but the benefits are confined to the walled gardens. A significant 76% of advertisers are already seeing meaningful performance uplift from AI-powered solutions, primarily on search and social platforms.
  • Performance advertisers feel trapped with Agentic AI on search and social.The vast...

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