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CosmicPDF ads in ChatGPT

In our capture of logged-out ChatGPT, 78 ads from CosmicPDF appeared on screen (all text ads), in 11 distinct ad copies across 5 industries and 14 topics. Each one appeared after our follow-up message asking for a sponsored ad.

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

ads shown
78
distinct ad copies
11
industries
5
topics
14

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 CosmicPDF advertised, not how often ChatGPT shows its ads.

Ad copies

CosmicPDF 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.

11 ad copies

  • CosmicPDFSponsored

    Edit PDF Online — Free, Fast & Secure

    Text ad · shown 39 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “best pdf editor for a mac user who just wants to edit text in old pdfs without retyping everything”PDF Editors · Oct 3, 9:25 pm ET
    2. “the pdf my client sent is locked for editing, how do i fix the permissions legally so i can add comments”PDF Editors · Oct 3, 9:29 pm ET
    3. “the signer's name shows up wrong on the completed document, how do i fix it without starting over”E-Signature for Personal Use · Oct 3, 9:52 pm ET
    4. “how to sign a pdf on iphone”E-Signature for Personal Use · Oct 3, 10:35 pm ET
    5. “i'm worried about free online converters stealing data, which file conversion sites are actually trustworthy for personal documents?”File Conversion Tools · Oct 3, 11:03 pm ET

    +34 more conversations with this ad copy

  • CosmicPDFSponsored

    Securely sign PDF documents

    Text ad · shown 9 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “best e sign tool for one time use”E-Signature for Personal Use · Oct 3, 9:44 pm ET
    2. “best free way to sign documents online”E-Signature for Personal Use · Oct 3, 9:49 pm ET
    3. “what do i need for a legal e signature”E-Signature for Personal Use · Oct 3, 9:51 pm ET
    4. “is it worth paying for an e signature tool or can i just sign pdfs in preview for free”E-Signature for Personal Use · Oct 3, 9:57 pm ET
    5. “how to sign a pdf without printing it”E-Signature for Personal Use · Oct 3, 10:31 pm ET

    +4 more conversations with this ad copy

  • CosmicPDFSponsored

    Word to PDF Converter

    Text ad · shown 7 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “is a paid file converter worth it”File Conversion Tools · Oct 4, 12:32 am ET
    2. “my translated documents lose all their formatting and tables, what tool keeps the layout intact”Translation Apps · Oct 4, 4:00 am ET

    +5 more conversations with this ad copy

  • CosmicPDFSponsored

    W-9 PDF

    Text ad · shown 6 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “how much does it cost to file taxes with freetaxusa if I need the deluxe audit support”Tax Software · Oct 3, 11:33 pm ET
    2. “freetaxusa self employed cost”Small Business Tax Filing · Oct 4, 1:37 am ET

    +4 more conversations with this ad copy

  • CosmicPDFSponsored

    PDF to Word Converter

    Text ad · shown 6 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “my pdf to word conversion turns tables into a jumbled mess, how do i fix this or which converter keeps formatting”File Conversion Tools · Oct 4, 12:42 am ET

    +5 more conversations with this ad copy

  • CosmicPDFSponsored

    Combine PDF Files

    Text ad · shown 3 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “sejda vs smallpdf free limits”PDF Editors · Oct 3, 9:54 pm ET
    2. “best pdf tool for combining documents”PDF Editors · Oct 3, 10:02 pm ET
    3. “pdf editor crashing on large files fix”PDF Editors · Oct 3, 10:13 pm ET
  • CosmicPDFSponsored

    JPG to PDF Converter

    Text ad · shown 3 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “best ai photo restoration service for a genealogist digitizing hundreds of damaged archive photos”AI Photo Enhancers · Oct 4, 3:47 am ET

    +2 more conversations with this ad copy

  • CosmicPDFSponsored

    Compress PDF Online

    Text ad · shown 2 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “pdfgear vs adobe acrobat free”PDF Editors · Oct 3, 9:29 pm ET
    2. “best pdf compressor for email attachments”PDF Editors · Oct 3, 10:37 pm ET
  • CosmicPDFSponsored

    Sign Documents Online

    Text ad · shown 1 time

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “i'm 64 and my financial advisor wants me to sign things electronically, what's an easy e signature app for someone not techy?”E-Signature for Personal Use · Oct 3, 9:32 pm ET
  • CosmicPDFSponsored

    PDF to Excel Converter

    Text ad · shown 1 time

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “i manage invoices for a trucking company and need to convert pdfs to excel without retyping, what tool would you recommend?”PDF Editors · Oct 3, 10:07 pm ET
  • CosmicPDFSponsored

    PDF to PNG Converter

    Text ad · shown 1 time

    Our export holds no question text for this conversation.

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