OpenAI says ChatGPT Ads has reached $1B in annualised revenue run rate in under 200 days and has opened self-service buying across Europe, India, the Middle East and North Africa. On the same day the European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act, on 159.1 million declared monthly users in the EU.
ChatGPT’s advertising business has reached $1B in annualised revenue in under 200 days. Self-service buying opens across Europe, India, the Middle East and North Africa, OpenAI said.
The purpose it gives for this is a free tier. Advertising sits alongside subscriptions, enterprise deals and paid API access, funding a free ChatGPT for more than a billion weekly users.
The same day brought something OpenAI did not mention. The European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act, Euronews reported.
The number that triggered it is 159.1 million. That is ChatGPT’s declared average of monthly active users in the EU, against a designation threshold of 45 million.
