ChatGPT Ads reaches $1B

OpenAI says its ChatGPT advertising business has reached a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate in under 200 days, a startling monetization milestone for a product family better known for subscription and API revenue. The company is also expanding self-service ad buying globally, suggesting it wants ChatGPT to become a performance-marketing channel rather than a limited brand experiment. The key industry question is whether ads inside AI answers can scale without degrading trust. If OpenAI proves that intent-rich conversational surfaces convert, it could pressure Google, Meta and Amazon to defend ad budgets that have historically followed search, social and commerce behavior.

Sources from the briefing

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