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Can you open a ChatGPT Ads account?
Type your country. 63 markets can open a self-serve account today. Being eligible gets you to the application, not past it: your category still has to clear ad policy.
Type a country to see whether a self-serve Ads Manager account can be opened from there today.
Reference
Every eligible market
Self-serve access as of 19 October 2026.
- North America3
- South America1
- Europe32
- Middle East11
- North Africa4
- Asia-Pacific12
North America3
- Canada
- Mexico
- United States
South America1
- Brazil
Europe32
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
Middle East11
- Bahrain
- Iraq
- Jordan
- Kuwait
- Lebanon
- Oman
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- United Arab Emirates
- Israel
- Turkey
North Africa4
- Algeria
- Egypt
- Morocco
- Tunisia
Asia-Pacific12
- Australia
- India
- Japan
- South Korea
- New Zealand
- Indonesia
- Malaysia
- Philippines
- Singapore
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- Vietnam
Questions this raises
Eligible is not the same as approved
The country list is the first gate, not the only one. These are the four things people get wrong after they check.
Can I target a country I cannot buy from?
Yes. Targeting reach is wider than advertiser eligibility. OpenAI serves ads in markets where it has not opened self-serve accounts, so a business in an ineligible country can still be reached. It just cannot hold the account that buys the ads.
Can an agency open the account for me?
No. The account carries your own legal entity, so no agency can lend you its eligibility. Companies outside the list generally advertise through a group company registered in an approved market.
Does being eligible mean I will be approved?
No. Eligibility gets you to the application. Approval also depends on your category clearing OpenAI’s ad policy, and restricted categories are refused regardless of where you are registered.
How often does the list change?
Often. It went from 4 countries to 52 on 31 August 2026, in a single announcement, and to 63 by 23 September. Lists written before then are out of date.