ChatGPT Ads Expands to Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and Taiwan
OpenAI expanded ChatGPT Ads to seven new markets — Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and Taiwan — following earlier Asia-Pacific rollouts in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, and India.
Details
- Scale so far: ChatGPT Ads reached a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate in under 200 days as of late August, and the platform now operates in over 60 countries with tens of thousands of active advertisers
- Who sees ads: only Free and Go plan users; paid subscriptions remain ad-free
- Privacy stance: ads are always clearly labeled and separate from ChatGPT’s answers, user conversations stay private from advertisers, no customer data is sold, and users can control ad personalization preferences
- Access paths: OpenAI’s own Ads Manager, agency partners including dentsu, Havas Media, Omnicom, Publicis, and WPP, or direct outreach to the OpenAI Ads Solutions team
What happened next
The expansion into seven Southeast Asian markets plus Taiwan continues ChatGPT Ads’ rapid geographic scaling since its $1 billion run-rate milestone, following the Sponsored Agents pilot and HubSpot/Shopify integrations announced earlier in September.