ChatGPT ads Singapore: what is live today
Ads in ChatGPT are now available to advertisers in Singapore. OpenAI announced the rollout across Singapore and six other Asian markets on 23 September 2026, and Singapore shows as available in OpenAI's self-serve Ads Manager country list (opens in a new tab), read on 7 November 2026.
- Placement. A single sponsored unit under ChatGPT's reply, marked as sponsored and kept apart from the organic answer.
- Creative. A headline, a description, the brand name and favicon, a destination page, plus a single image or four to six square images (an open beta since 26 October 2026).
- Audience. Free and Go plan users only. Under-18 accounts and Temporary Chats are excluded, as are conversations about personal health, mental health or politics.
- Data. Brands receive aggregated, non-identifying figures, never conversations or personal details.
Who can run ads in ChatGPT from Singapore
OpenAI's ad policies, read on 7 November 2026, keep the early phase to a limited set of consumer categories: goods for the home, travel, entertainment, local services, education and digital products. That fits large consumer brands, retailers and online stores, private colleges and training providers, and B2B companies selling software.
Banks, insurers, wealth managers, clinic groups and law firms are a different case, because the policy bars most financial-services and health-services advertising outside the United States, and legal-services advertising there entirely. For them we build visibility in AI answers through GEO and AI search rather than paid placements.
Buying routes, objectives and the auction
Brands can work with OpenAI's Ads Solutions sales team, with its agency or technology partners, or in the self-serve Ads Manager, which is still a beta. Self-serve requires the advertising and billed legal entity to be based in an available country.
| Objective | How OpenAI bills it |
|---|---|
| Views | Per thousand impressions (CPM) |
| Clicks | Per click (CPC) |
| Conversions | Per valid click or per impression served (oCPM), never per conversion |
In each auction the final winning bid sets the price, and no rate card is published. New self-serve accounts may start out restricted to their home country.
How our ChatGPT advertising service runs
- Eligibility review. Your product, claims and landing pages are checked against OpenAI's policy before any budget is committed.
- Account and tracking. A dedicated Ads Manager account for your brand, the OpenAI Pixel, the Conversions API and campaign macros in landing-page URLs.
- Crawl access. Landing pages opened to OAI-AdsBot and OAI-SearchBot, which OpenAI requires.
- Creative. Headlines, descriptions and square images written for the way people phrase their questions.
- Reporting. ChatGPT figures on a 7-, 14- or 30-day click window, read alongside Google Ads in Singapore and Meta.
OpenAI states it has no cross-advertiser benchmarks yet, so we agree targets with you once live data exists. The sectors this suits are covered on our ecommerce marketing in Singapore page.