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OpenAI’s advertising business has reportedly reached a $1 billion annualized run rate, according to reports cited by EMARKETER.
Sep 1OpenAI said its ChatGPT Ads business has reached a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate, and expanded Ads Manager to India, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
Sep 1OpenAI said ChatGPT Ads reached a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate less than 200 days after launch.
Sep 1OpenAI’s ad business is now annualizing at $1 billion in revenue less than 200 days after launch.
Sep 1ChatGPT is now on pace to generate more than $1 billion in advertising revenue over the next 12 months, OpenAI said, extrapolating current revenue forward.
Sep 1Instagram is renaming its “AI creator” label to “AI-generated profile” and will reduce reach for creators who fail to disclose AI-generated people on their profiles.
Sep 1Sony Pictures Television unveiled “Live TV on PS5,” over 100 free ad-supported channels reachable through the console, launching first in the U.S. with Canada and Bravia TVs to follow. Publica and PubMatic will handle the connected-TV ad sales.
Sep 1OpenAI is rolling out a new campaign onboarding flow that lets advertisers input a website URL and get an AI-generated ad, targeting suggestions, and bidding setup in under a minute.
Aug 31OpenAI said its advertising business, roughly 200 days old, has reached $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate.
Aug 31Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell filed a multi-billion-dollar suit against Anthropic, calling its use of their catalogs “one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history.”
Aug 31OpenAI plans to stop providing AI models to Cursor, now owned by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, proposing a November 12 shutoff date. Anthropic said it would boost compute to support Claude models in Cursor instead.
Aug 30Ashleighjamz’s viral Instagram series about a lunchbox Oreo feud racked up over 10 million views before its #sunopartner tag surfaced.
Aug 30LTK launched an AI tool this week to structure campaigns and recommend creators, joining holdcos and platforms automating discovery, pricing and measurement across influencer marketing. Agency executives are split on whether standardizing creators as inventory helps or backfires.
Aug 30The Trade Desk’s Zuma release adds UX fixes, faster lift studies and a Koa AI assistant to Kokai, plus the option to route agents through outside tools like Claude rather than forcing everything into its own interface.
Aug 30Nvidia is reportedly closing in on a $13 billion deal for Hugging Face after a $6 billion Poolside acquisition, and Stripe just paid over $7 billion for OpenRouter.
Aug 30The Trade Desk has launched Kokai Zuma, an “evolution” of its Kokai platform featuring a redesigned interface, an upgraded forecasting engine, and a conversational AI assistant called Koa.
Aug 29Axios publisher Nicholas Johnston says SEO is “not the answer anymore” as publishers must learn where they surface in LLM answers.
Aug 28Google is expanding AI Mode with tools to track flight prices across more than 300 airlines and travel sites, and to book hotels directly through conversation.
Aug 27Tubular Labs data shows sports made up just 6% of U.S. YouTube views in 2026, even with the World Cup and Winter Olympics airing, and nearly two-thirds of those sports videos ran under one minute long.
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