ChatGPT Ads are live. Create, manage, and measure your campaigns from one dashboard - turn the Google Ads you already run into ChatGPT Ads drafts, preview every ad before it ships, and catch the issues that quietly stop ads from serving.
Manage every campaign from one place
AI Ads is a full ChatGPT Ads manager, not a prep tool. Connect your OpenAI Advertiser API key and your campaigns, ad groups, and ads sync into four tabs you can actually work in. Toggle a campaign active or paused, bulk-activate or archive, and drill into any campaign for its own performance. Everything you change writes straight back to ChatGPT Ads.
Launch a campaign in three steps
Create a campaign without leaving AI-Advisors. A three-step wizard walks you through the objective (reach or clicks), target locations, and budget, then your ad group and ads - the same fields ChatGPT Ads expects, with inline validation so nothing bounces. New campaigns start paused, so there are no surprise charges while you set up.
Preview every ad before it ships
See how your ad will read inside a ChatGPT answer as you type. The live sponsored-card preview shows your brand, headline, body, and image as you wrote them, and a creative checklist flags anything off - a headline that runs long, a missing call to action, no image - before you submit it for review.
An advisor that tells you what to fix
The Ads Advisor watches your account for the things that quietly cost you - an ad that got rejected and stopped serving, a campaign with no ads to show, an ad group running a single creative with nothing to test against - and tells you exactly what to do next. It never touches your budgets or bids; those decisions stay yours.
Bring the Google Ads you already run
Already running Google Ads? Paste up to 30 keywords and 20 headlines from a campaign and AI-Advisors turns them into a ChatGPT Ads draft you review before it launches, with context hints, headline rewrites, and a convertibility score. To pull live Search campaigns straight from your Google Ads account, use the free Google Ads to ChatGPT Ads converter, which creates them paused in your own ChatGPT Ads account. Your existing paid-search investment becomes the starting point for AI, not a sunk cost.
See paid and organic AI in one view
Your ChatGPT Ads clicks land in AI Analytics beside the organic AI referrals and bot crawls you already track. The same view splits AI traffic into paid and organic and breaks it down by assistant, then carries the paid side through to spend, click capture, cost per conversion, and the conversions the tracking snippet recorded. You see what your ad spend did to your whole AI presence, not just what happened inside the ad platform.
Works with your other AI-Advisors modules
Frequently Asked Questions
What are ChatGPT Ads?
ChatGPT Ads are sponsored placements that appear below AI-generated responses in ChatGPT. They launched on February 9, 2026 as a managed service at $60 CPM with a $200,000 minimum. On April 10, 2026 OpenAI launched a self-serve Ads Manager; the pilot minimum dropped to $50,000 on April 13, and the account minimum was removed on May 5, 2026 when the Ads Manager opened to all US advertisers. OpenAI publishes no CPM rate, and reported CPMs have ranged from about $25 (April 2026) to above $65 (September 2026); CPC bidding is now live, and OpenAI recommends starting a CPC campaign with a maximum bid of $3-$5 USD per click.
How much do ChatGPT Ads cost?
OpenAI publishes no CPM rate; ChatGPT Ads are priced in a relevance-weighted, second-price auction. Reported CPMs have ranged from about $25 (April 2026) to above $65 (September 2026): in April, Criteo's Commerce Media channel reportedly priced at $25-$35 and Jellyfish reported averages around $45 while the $60 base rate held; in September, advertisers reported $64.34 and above $65 (Search Engine Journal). CPC bidding is also live: OpenAI recommends starting a CPC campaign with a maximum bid of $3-$5 USD per click, which is a starting bid rather than what clicks cost. Search Engine Journal's September 2026 roundup cited advertiser-reported CPCs of $4.41, $9.29 and $9.89. There has been no account minimum since May 5, 2026 (was $50,000 from April 13 to May 5; was $200,000 at launch); OpenAI documents a per-campaign minimum daily budget that varies by billing currency, $25/day in the US (October 2026).
Can I run ChatGPT Ads through AI-Advisors?
Yes - that is the core of the AI Ads module. Connect your OpenAI Advertiser API key and you can create, manage, and measure ChatGPT Ads campaigns directly in AI-Advisors: build campaigns, ad groups, and ads, preview every creative, toggle campaigns active or paused, and convert the Google Ads you already run. Changes sync to your OpenAI Ads account, so AI-Advisors is where you run the program and OpenAI is where the ads serve. You still need an OpenAI Ads account; AI-Advisors connects to it.
Why use AI-Advisors for paid ChatGPT Ads vs just OpenAI's own dashboard?
You can run your whole ChatGPT Ads program from AI-Advisors - create and manage campaigns, preview creative, and catch rejected or non-delivering ads - while OpenAI's dashboard only manages the ads. On top of that, AI-Advisors measures what your spend did to your organic visibility everywhere else: after each launch we benchmark your citation share across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity and show the 7-day lift next to the spend that drove it. Site readiness checks, conversion attribution, and a unified weekly briefing come along for free.
How do ChatGPT Ads differ from Google Ads?
ChatGPT Ads target conversational intent (the actual question someone is asking ChatGPT) where Google Ads target search keywords. They're different layers of the funnel and they're often complementary, which is why AI-Advisors converts the Google Ads campaigns you already run into ChatGPT Ads drafts. Your existing PPC investment becomes the seed for your AI strategy, not a sunk cost.
How does the Google Ads to ChatGPT Ads converter work?
There are two ways in. The free Google Ads to ChatGPT Ads converter previews up to 10 keywords without signing in; sign in with Google and connect Google Ads, and it reads your live Search campaigns and converts them into ChatGPT Ads drafts, created paused in your own ChatGPT Ads account. Inside AI-Advisors, on Growth and above, the AI Ads converter works from up to 30 keywords and 20 headlines you paste in and returns context hints, headline rewrites, negative-concept candidates, and a convertibility score, saved as campaigns you can launch. Either way, AI-Advisors only reads Google Ads and never changes anything there.
Will my Google Ads account data leak to other AI-Advisors customers?
No. The Google Ads OAuth token is stored encrypted, scoped to your organization, and only accessible to authorized members of your account. AI-Advisors only ever reads your Google Ads data: it never creates campaigns, changes bids, or modifies anything in your Google Ads account.
What is ChatGPT Ads readiness?
ChatGPT Ads readiness is whether AI ad crawlers can actually reach and read the pages your ads point to - because an ad that sends a paid click to a page AI cannot render wastes the click. The Ads Advisor checks this for you and, when something is off, links you straight to the AEO fix. It is one of the things the Advisor watches, alongside rejected ads and untested ad groups.
Should I wait for ChatGPT Ads to mature or start now?
Start now. Since May 5, 2026, ChatGPT Ads has been open to all US advertisers with no account minimum (OpenAI sets a per-campaign minimum daily budget that varies by billing currency, US $25/day, October 2026). Brands that build AI visibility and run early campaigns have targeting data, creative learnings, and platform relationships that late entrants can't replicate. CPC bidding is live, conversion-optimized campaigns are selectable in the Ads Manager, and OpenAI now documents third-party measurement-partner integrations. Early participation compounds as measurement matures.