Shopify becomes OpenAI’s first e-commerce partner with ChatGPT Ads integration

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    "title": "Shopify becomes OpenAI’s first e-commerce partner with ChatGPT Ads integration",
    "author": "Trevor Nichols",
    "excerpt": "Some Shopify merchants can now directly advertise in the world’s most popular AI chatbot. The news: US AI giant OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Ads inside Canadian e-commerce giant Shopify’s App Store. The free-to-install integration allows Shopify merchants to sync their storefronts to ChatGPT, set ad campaigns within a budget, and feature their products in marked ads inside the chatbot. At the moment, ChatGPT Ads is only available for Shopify merchants in the United States. According to OpenAI, the app will be available in international markets where ChatGPT Ads are available starting September 23. BetaKit has reached out to OpenAI to confirm if this includes Canada. From the source: ChatGPT leads the AI assistant market, and became the fastest mobile app to reach one billion monthly active users this past May, according to a June report from analytics firm Sensor Tower. While the report also says ChatGPT’s market share dipped below 50 percent for the first time earlier this year, it’s still a massive market for Shopify merchants to advertise to. The context: Shopify is OpenAI’s first commerce partner, according to Shopify president Harley Finkelstein . Outside of advertising, Shopify has been working on allowing merchants to sell their products across popular AI chatbots since last year , and much of its product updates since then have been focused on bolstering the platform’s...",
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