OpenAI Expands ChatGPT Advertising with Product Carousels, Brazil Launch, and New Conversion Tools

OpenAI is rapidly upgrading its ChatGPT advertising suite ahead of the Q4 shopping season, introducing a multi-product carousel format that automatically pulls items from retailer feeds. The company is also expanding its ad footprint to Brazil and Mexico, bringing its pilot to nine countries. To attract performance-focused budgets, OpenAI has launched conversion-optimized cost-per-click bidding, integrated with partners like Triple Whale, and set an August 17, 2026 deadline for advertisers to opt out of a new automatic advanced matching pixel default.

Product carousel ad format

• ▪The product carousel format pulls information directly from an advertiser's product feed, supporting up to one million SKUs per retailer.
• ▪OpenAI has begun testing a multi-product carousel ad format for product feed campaigns that displays multiple items from a single retailer in a single unit.

ChatGPT Ads geographic expansion

• ▪OpenAI will launch ChatGPT Ads in Brazil and Mexico in the week of August 10, 2026, expanding its active ad markets.
• ▪The addition of Brazil and Mexico completes a planned expansion list that already includes the US, Canada, the UK, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand.

Conversion optimization tools

• ▪OpenAI integrated ChatGPT Ads with third-party measurement and data platforms Triple Whale and Hightouch to track and optimize campaign conversions.
• ▪OpenAI introduced conversion-optimized cost-per-click (oCPC) campaigns in beta for product feed campaigns, supporting click-billed campaigns with a positive conversion bid cap.

Automatic advanced matching rollout

• ▪OpenAI announced that automatic advanced matching (AAM) will become the default for existing web pixels on August 17, 2026.
• ▪Advertisers who wish to opt out of automatic advanced matching on their existing pixels must disable the feature manually before August 17, 2026.

Platform algorithm control

• ▪OpenAI's ad system is designed to eventually display products from competing retailers side-by-side in the same carousel unit.
• ▪The OpenAI platform's algorithms, rather than the advertiser, decide whether to display a single product ad or a multi-product carousel.

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