10+ years · 3x UK Search Awards

ChatGPT Ads Agency — Early Access

Where conversations become conversions

ChatGPT now sells sponsored placements inside its answers — a card that appears the moment someone is reasoning through a decision. It reaches a buyer at peak intent, before they ever open Google. The format is new and the auction is still thin. I help considered-purchase brands get in early, correctly, and measured.

Quick answer: ChatGPT Ads are live in a self-serve beta (CPC ~$3–5, no minimum spend). Advertiser access is expanding market by market — I run pilots where it's live and put regional brands on early-access footing so they launch on day one.

Early-mover advantage
10+ years in paid search
Senior-led, honest scope

A new era of ads

For twenty years, paid advertising followed the same shape: a person types a query, or scrolls a feed, and an ad tries to interrupt them. ChatGPT breaks that shape. People don't search it — they think out loud in it. They describe a problem in full sentences and ask the model to help them decide.

That's the most valuable moment in the entire buying journey, and until 2026 no one could buy space in it. Now you can. A sponsored card can appear at the bottom of the answer, matched to the meaning of the conversation — never changing the answer itself, but reaching the person exactly when they're weighing a choice.

This service is for brands that want to be there first. Not with hype, but with the boring things that make a new channel work: correct account setup, a real strategy for how the model reads intent, creative built for the format, landing pages that match, and tracking that proves it. That's the difference between experimenting and actually learning a channel before everyone else does.

Why ChatGPT Ads

Three reasons this format is different from anything you're running now.

Peak intent capture

When someone asks ChatGPT about a problem, they aren't browsing — they're evaluating a decision, out loud, in full sentences. A sponsored card appears exactly at that moment, while the person is still forming their choice. No other channel reaches a buyer mid-thought like this.

Contextual matching, not keywords

ChatGPT matches ads to the full meaning of the conversation, not to a keyword you bid on. You describe the questions, needs, and situations your buyer brings to the chat, and the model places you where that context actually shows up. Message-to-market fit wins here, not keyword lists.

Early-mover advantage

The self-serve beta opened in 2026 and the auction is still thin. Recommended CPC bids sit at $3–5 and pilot CPMs have been falling. The brands that learn this format now build the account history and creative learnings competitors won't have when the window closes.

What's included

End to end — from account access to measured conversions.

Advertiser account & access

Setup inside OpenAI's Ads Manager beta — billing, budgets, bidding, and pacing configured correctly from day one.

Context-hint strategy

The ChatGPT equivalent of keyword research: I map the questions, needs, and situations your buyer brings to the chat into intent and theme guidance at the ad-group level.

Chat-card creative

Titles, body copy, imagery, and favicon built for the card format and the moment it interrupts — written to fit a decision in progress, not a passive scroll.

Landing pages for AI traffic

Pages built for a visitor who arrived mid-decision from a reasoning engine — matched to the conversation that sent them, not a generic homepage.

OAIQ pixel & measurement

OpenAI's pixel and server-side Conversions API set up with deduplication, so you see real conversions and cost per action instead of guesswork.

Product feed & retail catalogs

For eCommerce: catalog upload so cards generate from your product feed at scale, instead of building each one by hand.

Testing & optimization

CPC vs CPM objectives, bid levels, and context hints tested against your real conversion data — the same discipline I bring to a Google Ads account.

ChatGPT Ads vs Google vs Meta

Not a replacement for your other channels — a different moment in the buying journey.

ChatGPT AdsGoogle SearchMeta
Where the user isMid-conversation, evaluating a decision out loudActively searching with a query in mindScrolling a feed, interrupted by an ad
How you're matchedFull meaning of the conversation (context)Keywords and search intentInterests, behaviors, lookalikes
Competition right nowThin — early beta, few advertisersMature and saturated in most nichesMature and saturated
Creative unitSponsored chat card below the answerText ad, Shopping, PMax assetsImage / video in feed and stories
Best forConsidered purchases, high-intent momentsCapturing existing demandCreating demand, retargeting

Who this is for

ChatGPT Ads reward intent and message quality — some businesses are a natural fit.

  • Considered-purchase brands where buyers research before deciding (B2B, SaaS, premium eCommerce, services)
  • Advertisers in markets where the format is live (US, UK, and other early-access regions)
  • Brands that already run Google or Meta and want a genuine first-mover channel
  • Teams that value being early to a format over waiting for a proven playbook

ChatGPT Ads work best as one channel in a coherent strategy. I run it alongside Google Ads management and remarketing so intent captured in one place is followed up in another.

Not for you if...

  • You need guaranteed volume today — beta inventory and reach are still limited
  • You have no verified conversion tracking — without it, a new channel is invisible
  • You want a channel that runs itself with no testing budget for a young format

If a proven, high-volume channel is what you need right now, start with Google Ads management and add ChatGPT Ads as the format matures.

Frequently asked questions

Are ChatGPT Ads actually live in 2026?
Yes. OpenAI moved from a partner-led pilot to a self-serve Ads Manager beta during 2026, and removed the earlier five- and six-figure minimum spend commitments. Ads appear as clearly labeled sponsored cards below ChatGPT responses and don't influence the answer itself. Advertiser access is still expanding market by market, which is exactly why this is an early-access engagement.
Can I run ChatGPT Ads from Serbia / the region?
Advertiser access during the beta is primarily US-focused, and ads currently reach users in markets like the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. If your customers are there, we can run pilots now. If you're targeting the regional market, I put you on an early-access footing — account, tracking, context-hint strategy, and creative ready — so you launch on day one when it opens here, instead of starting from zero.
How is targeting different from Google Ads?
There are no keywords to bid on. You give the platform broad intent and theme guidance — descriptions of the questions and situations your buyer brings to the chat — and it matches you on the full meaning of the conversation. It rewards understanding your customer over building keyword lists, which is where a senior strategist matters more, not less.
What does it cost to advertise?
OpenAI offers CPC and CPM buying. For CPC, the recommended starting max bid is around $3–5 per click, and pilot CPMs have been trending down as inventory grows. The earlier $50,000+ minimum is gone for the self-serve beta, so you can start with a real test budget rather than an enterprise commitment.
How do you measure results?
OpenAI provides the OAIQ pixel (a first-party cookie with a 30-day window) plus a server-side Conversions API with event deduplication. I set both up so conversions and cost per action are measured properly — the same tracking discipline I apply to every Google Ads account, applied to a channel most people are running blind.
Why work with you specifically on this?
Because the winning skill here isn't platform button-clicking, it's understanding buyer intent and writing to it — which is what I've done in paid search for 10+ years. I bring that judgment to a format where the playbook is still being written, and I'm honest about what's proven versus what we're testing together.

Get in before the window closes

The advertisers who learn ChatGPT Ads now will own the cheap, uncrowded auction. Let's see if your business fits — and get you on the early-access list.