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DataBank Holdings ads in ChatGPT

In our capture of logged-out ChatGPT, 11 ads from DataBank Holdings appeared on screen (all text ads), in 2 distinct ad copies across 2 industries and 10 topics. Each one appeared after our follow-up message asking for a sponsored ad.

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

ads shown
11
distinct ad copies
2
industries
2
topics
10

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 DataBank Holdings advertised, not how often ChatGPT shows its ads.

Ad copies

DataBank Holdings 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.

2 ad copies

  • DataBank HoldingsSponsored

    DataBank - Colocation, Cloud, Managed Services

    Text ad · shown 7 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “how much does ddos protection cost for a saas company that's been attacked before”Web Application Firewall · Oct 4, 2:01 am ET

    +6 more conversations with this ad copy

  • DataBank HoldingsSponsored

    DataBank Data Centers - Hybrid Infrastructure

    Text ad · shown 4 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “pci compliance software”Compliance Automation · Oct 3, 9:46 pm ET
    2. “we're a defense contractor working on cmmc and need privileged account controls for 40 servers, what's practical for a small it team?”Privileged Access Management · Oct 3, 9:52 pm ET
    3. “I manage IT for a 200 person manufacturer and leadership wants the erp back within two hours after any disaster, what dr solution fits?”Backup & Disaster Recovery · Oct 3, 11:28 pm ET
    4. “how do we run a disaster recovery test without disrupting production systems”Backup & Disaster Recovery · Oct 4, 2:38 am ET
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