Better Stack ads in ChatGPT
In our capture of logged-out ChatGPT, 17 ads from Better Stack appeared on screen (all text ads), in 10 distinct ad copies across 3 industries and 12 topics. Each one appeared after our follow-up message asking for a sponsored ad.
- ads shown
- 17
- distinct ad copies
- 10
- industries
- 3
- topics
- 12
Logged-out ChatGPT from US connections, Oct 3–4, 2026. Each ad came after our follow-up message asking for a sponsored ad, so the counts show where Better Stack advertised, not how often ChatGPT shows its ads.
Better Stack ad copies, most shown first
Each distinct ad copy in our capture, most shown first: the headline of a text ad, or the product and price of a shopping ad. Under each, up to five questions asked in conversations where it appeared, as we asked them; in every one, the ad appeared after our follow-up message asking for a sponsored ad.
10 ad copies
- Better Stack, Inc.Sponsored
OpenTelemetry-native Tracing
Text ad · shown 5 times
Questions it appeared after
- “how much does logrocket cost for a saas with 100,000 monthly sessions”Error Tracking · Oct 4, 3:06 am ET
+4 more conversations with this ad copy
- Better Stack, Inc.Sponsored
Respond to Incidents Faster
Text ad · shown 3 times
Questions it appeared after
- “knowbe4 training reminders not sending fix”Security Awareness Training · Oct 3, 10:52 pm ET
- “zenduty vs pagerduty pricing”Incident Management & On-Call · Oct 3, 11:30 pm ET
+1 more conversation with this ad copy
- Better Stack, Inc.Sponsored
Modern Log Management
Text ad · shown 2 times
Our export holds no question text for these conversations.
- Better Stack, Inc.Sponsored
eBPF-powered Tracing
Text ad · shown 1 time
Questions it appeared after
- “is glitchtip good enough”Error Tracking · Oct 3, 11:23 pm ET
- Better Stack, Inc.Sponsored
Sentry at 1/6th the Price
Text ad · shown 1 time
Questions it appeared after
- “is sentry business plan worth it”Error Tracking · Oct 3, 11:23 pm ET
- Better Stack, Inc.Sponsored
Distributed Tracing (APM)
Text ad · shown 1 time
Our export holds no question text for this conversation.
- Better Stack, Inc.Sponsored
Free Uptime Monitoring
Text ad · shown 1 time
Questions it appeared after
- “my xfinity internet drops every night around 9pm, how do i figure out if it's the modem or the line”Cable Internet · Oct 4, 12:08 am ET
- Better Stack, Inc.Sponsored
Log More, Pay Less
Text ad · shown 1 time
Questions it appeared after
- “how much do aiops tools like bigpanda cost for a large enterprise”Incident Management & On-Call · Oct 4, 3:03 am ET
- Better Stack, Inc.Sponsored
Never Miss Downtime
Text ad · shown 1 time
Our export holds no question text for this conversation.
- Better Stack, Inc.Sponsored
OpenTelemetry-native Logs
Text ad · shown 1 time
Our export holds no question text for this conversation.
Where Better Stack ads appeared
The industries and topics of the conversations where its ads appeared, by ads shown. Topics are our own labels for the questions we wrote.
Industries
Topics
Brands in the same topics
Other advertisers whose ads appeared in conversations on the topics where Better Stack’s did, ranked by how much those topics overlap. Each tile opens its page.
18 brands
How this data was captured
What we ran, what counts as a shown ad, and what these numbers cannot tell you.
We used logged-out ChatGPT from US internet connections and started a new conversation for every question. Message 1 was the question. If no ad appeared, message 2 was the follow-up “Sponsored ad”, and if there was still none, message 3, “Show me a sponsored ad.”, was a last try. A conversation that ended without an ad, or failed, was run once more in a fresh browser, and we keep one record per question, the last one: 123,613 recorded conversations from Oct 3, 2026, 21:22 to Oct 4, 2026, 11:26 ET, with no captures from 05:53 to 11:12 ET on Oct 4. Our export does not record which message each ad followed; in our own checks of more than 2,000 conversations (Oct 4 and Oct 12) no ad appeared after message 1 alone, so read every ad here as shown after a message asking for a sponsored ad. These counts show which ads appeared in conversations on each topic; they are not a measure of how often ChatGPT shows ads on its own.
Only ads drawn on screen count as shown. In our capture no answer showed more than one ad on screen; a second ad that arrived in the page data but never appeared is not counted. Industries, sub-niches and question types are our own labels for the questions we wrote. Independent; not affiliated with OpenAI. Full methodWhy this is not an ad rateWhat the ads looked like
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