The Varosity AI GTM Report — Oct 21: ChatGPT Ads Hit 89 Countries and 100,000 Advertisers

Today ChatGPT became a real media channel. OpenAI took ChatGPT Ads to 26 more countries, 89 in total, and says more than 100,000 advertisers have now run campaigns. Attackers hijacked LiteLLM's release pipeline and shipped a credential-stealing version of the popular AI model gateway. Google is rolling out a small-business hub in Gemini that makes on-brand marketing visuals, which raises the question of who owns disclosure for AI creative. Notified opened an MCP beta that brings press releases and PR reporting into AI assistants. And Pigment raised $250M on the strength of its planning agents. Today's stories: ChatGPT Ads expands to 89 countries : 26 new markets, including 14 in Latin America. OpenAI says 100,000+ advertisers have run campaigns, and new formats, buying options and measurement are next. Ads still appear only on the Free and Go plans. CNBC · PPC Land LiteLLM v1.107.0 compromised : a hijacked release shipped a credential stealer and a backdoor to PyPI and Docker for about two hours. Anyone who ran it should rotate every provider key. LiteLLM incident report · Datadog Security Labs Gemini gets a small-business hub : it creates on-brand visuals with Nano Banana 2.1 and connects to Google Ads, Canva, Shopify, Adobe and more. The announcement doesn't say how generated images are labeled. Google · EU AI Act transparency code · California AI-ad disclosure law Notified opens an MCP beta for PR and IR : it covers GlobeNewswire release drafting, optimization and reporting. Teams and Copilot come first, then ChatGPT, then Claude and Gemini. GlobeNewswire Pigment raises a $250M Series E at a $2.3B valuation : planning agents, with ARR above $100M. Pigment says 85% of new metrics are now created by an agent. Pigment AI disclosure: this episode is AI-written and voiced by an AI host (Jack King) on Varosity.ai. Sponsored by Varosity.ai — one API and MCP server for 60+ AI video, image, voice and music models, every one at the provider's list price with no markup. Plans from $12/month or top up from $5; free daily credits to start. Connect your agent: https://varosity.ai/connect · Pricing: https://varosity.ai/pricing