How Do You Run ChatGPT Ads in the UAE? A Step-by-Step Guide

Yes, you can, and since 16 September 2026, not 31 August. A business whose legal entity is based in the UAE can open its own self-serve account in OpenAI's Ads Manager at ads.openai.com, billed in dirhams from a minimum daily budget of AED 65, and OpenAI has named the UAE among nine Middle East markets where ads are rolling out to ChatGPT Free and Go users. Check your category before anything else: financial, health and legal services outside the US are generally prohibited, and individual property listings are banned everywhere. Then work in this order: verify the business, set country, currency and time zone correctly because they cannot be changed later, add billing and your TRN, install the pixel or Conversions API, and build campaigns, ad groups with context hints and ads that pass review. OpenAI has published no performance benchmarks yet, so run it as a measured pilot against your Google and Meta numbers, not as a budget shift.