ChatGPT ads are becoming a real business - Sensemaker
OpenAI says its ad business reached a $1 billion annualized run rate in under 200 days. The bigger shift is what conversation context is becoming.
Ads in ChatGPT | OpenAI Help Center
Explore general FAQs about ads in ChatGPT, including eligibility, personalization, privacy, and controls.

Ads in ChatGPT | OpenAI Help Center
Explore general FAQs about ads in ChatGPT, including eligibility, personalization, privacy, and controls.

A milestone in expanding access to AI
ChatGPT Ads reaches $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate and expands globally, supporting broader access to AI through free and affordable options.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT ads business hits $1 billion run rate as Europe gets self-serve access
That figure comes from multiplying current monthly ad revenue by 12, so it's a snapshot of where things stand today.

Ads Are Coming to ChatGPT. Here’s How They’ll Work
OpenAI says ads will not influence ChatGPT’s responses, and that it won’t sell user data to advertisers.

How to get ChatGPT to recommend your product | Ethan Smith
🎙️ Graphite's CEO on why ChatGPT is driving more qualified leads than Google, how to optimize for Reddit without spamming, and why early-stage startups can win at AEO when they couldn't at SEO

GPT-5 Set the Stage for Ad Monetization and the SuperApp
How ChatGPT will monetize free users, Router is the Release, AIs will serve Ads, Google's moat eroded?, The shift of purchasing intent queries

OpenAI's ChatGPT ads will allegedly prioritize sponsored content in answers
OpenAI is reportedly mulling a new form of ads on ChatGPT called "sponsored content," which could influence your buying decisions.

Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT
OpenAI plans to test advertising in the U.S. for ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers to expand affordable access to AI worldwide, while protecting privacy, trust, and answer quality.

ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector
OpenAI's ad collector at bzr.openai.com sets a cookie called __obi, scoped to .openai.com. The value is while you are on ChatGPT and tied to your ChatGPT account. __obi is then sent to OpenAI from ordinary websites you visit. Any company that buys ads on ChatGPT installs
Your chatbot is now sponsored
In 1998, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the founders of Google, wrote in a paper that “advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.” Two years later, Google began building a multi-billion-dollar business running ads alongside search.
Do Self-Promotional “Best” Lists Boost ChatGPT Visibility? Study of 26,283 Source URLs
Just last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that more than 800 million people use the platform each week. But what does it take to get mentioned and

ChatGPT Voice can keep talking while it works - Sensemaker
OpenAI’s GPT-Live splits live conversation from slower search, reasoning, and agent work in the background.
Time Magazine has a separate version of its website with ads only AI can see
Brands are already paying to influence what chatbots say about them

On-screen and now IRL: FSU researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up in everyday speech
Within five days of ChatGPT’s release in 2022, the artificial intelligence chatbot gained more than a million users. Today, more than half of all adults
