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CarsDirect Main ads in ChatGPT

In our capture of logged-out ChatGPT, 11 ads from CarsDirect Main appeared on screen (all text ads), in 4 distinct ad copies across 2 industries and 5 topics. Each one appeared after our follow-up message asking for a sponsored ad.

carsdirect.comLogged-out ChatGPT, USOct 3⁠–⁠4, 2026

ads shown
11
distinct ad copies
4
industries
2
topics
5

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 CarsDirect Main advertised, not how often ChatGPT shows its ads.

Ad copies

CarsDirect Main 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.

4 ad copies

  • CarsDirect MainSponsored

    See If You Qualify to Lease a Car Today

    Text ad · shown 5 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “is leasing worth it if i drive 18k miles a year”Car Leasing · Oct 4, 3:25 am ET
    2. “leasing vs buying used”Car Leasing · Oct 4, 3:26 am ET

    +3 more conversations with this ad copy

  • CarsDirect MainSponsored

    Get Into a New Lease With Little Down

    Text ad · shown 2 times

    Our export holds no question text for these conversations.

  • CarsDirect MainSponsored

    Low Payment Car Leases - Shop Online Today

    Text ad · shown 2 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “best auto loan for a nurse who wants to buy a new suv with a 72 month term”Auto Loans & Refinancing · Oct 4, 3:05 am ET

    +1 more conversation with this ad copy

  • CarsDirect MainSponsored

    Lease a Car Even With Imperfect Credit

    Text ad · shown 2 times

    Our export holds no question text for these conversations.

Where it showed

Where CarsDirect Main 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

Same topics

Brands in the same topics

Other advertisers whose ads appeared in conversations on the topics where CarsDirect Main’s did, ranked by how much those topics overlap. Each tile opens its page.

18 brands

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Method

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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