EP27: ChatGPT Just Opened Its Cheapest Ad Channel Ever - At $7.60 A Day. Here's The 4-Step Playbook

On August 27, 2026 OpenAI started showing ads on ChatGPT Free and Go tiers in India - the cheapest entry point the AI answer surface has ever had: a minimum daily budget of seven dollars and sixty cents, versus the sixty dollar CPM the U.S. program launched at in February. Six days earlier, ChatGPT Ads went live in 31 European markets, the largest expansion to date. Marcus and Jules break down what it means for small business owners: their customers are already asking AI "what should I buy," and that answer is about to get a paid shelf underneath it. The 4-step free playbook: audit the ten questions your customers already ask you, answer all ten on your own website in plain language, get found in chat with a complete Google Business profile plus schema, and run a seven dollar sixty pilot budget line next to your Google and Meta numbers for thirty days. Includes the 2010 app-store gold rush parallel - the small businesses that listed in year one got found for free for a decade; the ones that waited paid for the same attention forever after. Strategy packages at https://ai.advalorem.io/strategies/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=ai_guy&utm_campaign=ep27_chatgpt_ads_india. The AI Guy is part of the AdValorem podcast network. Voices and content are AI-generated.