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Design.com ads in ChatGPT

In our capture of logged-out ChatGPT, 68 ads from Design.com appeared on screen (all text ads), in 16 distinct ad copies across 7 industries and 25 topics. Each one appeared after our follow-up message asking for a sponsored ad.

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

ads shown
68
distinct ad copies
16
industries
7
topics
25

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 Design.com advertised, not how often ChatGPT shows its ads.

Ad copies

Design.com 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.

16 ad copies

  • Design.comSponsored

    Design.com - #1 AI Design Platform

    Text ad · shown 13 times

    Our export holds no question text for these conversations.

  • Design.comSponsored

    Best AI Image Generator

    Text ad · shown 9 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “luminar neo vs lightroom”Photo Editing · Oct 3, 9:41 pm ET
    2. “leonardo ai vs midjourney”AI Image Generators · Oct 3, 10:15 pm ET
    3. “luminar neo”Photo Editing · Oct 3, 10:15 pm ET
    4. “leonardo ai”AI Image Generators · Oct 3, 10:18 pm ET
    5. “how to fix ai headshot hands and ears”AI Headshot Generators · Oct 4, 12:44 am ET

    +4 more conversations with this ad copy

  • Design.comSponsored

    AI Image Generator

    Text ad · shown 7 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “is ideogram worth paying for if most of my designs are text heavy quote posters”AI Image Generators · Oct 3, 9:24 pm ET
    2. “masterclass vs skillshare for learning to draw”Online Course Platforms · Oct 3, 9:33 pm ET
    3. “stable diffusion”AI Image Generators · Oct 3, 9:42 pm ET
    4. “how to fix pixelated text in canva exports”Graphic Design Tools · Oct 3, 10:25 pm ET
    5. “nom nom”Fresh Pet Food Delivery · Oct 3, 10:53 pm ET

    +2 more conversations with this ad copy

  • Design.comSponsored

    AI Logo Maker

    Text ad · shown 7 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “ideogram plus subscription price”AI Image Generators · Oct 3, 9:39 pm ET
    2. “design.com logo”Logo Design Apps · Oct 3, 11:07 pm ET
    3. “Our startup needs a logo and app icon on a tight budget, which AI logo generator gives the best modern designs?”Logo Makers · Oct 3, 11:31 pm ET

    +4 more conversations with this ad copy

  • Design.comSponsored

    Free Logos

    Text ad · shown 6 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “coreldraw”Graphic Design Tools · Oct 3, 10:12 pm ET
    2. “i'm launching a clothing brand and need a logo that looks great embroidered and printed, which logo design tool would you suggest?”Logo Design Apps · Oct 3, 11:02 pm ET
    3. “is there a truly free logo maker that lets me download a high resolution png and svg without paying”Logo Design Apps · Oct 4, 3:14 am ET

    +3 more conversations with this ad copy

  • Design.comSponsored

    Design.com - #1 AI Branding Platform

    Text ad · shown 5 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “sudowrite”AI Writing Assistants · Oct 3, 10:26 pm ET
    2. “is tella worth it”Screen Recording · Oct 3, 11:06 pm ET

    +3 more conversations with this ad copy

  • Design.comSponsored

    Design.com - AI Logo Generator

    Text ad · shown 4 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “affinity designer vs illustrator”Graphic Design Tools · Oct 3, 9:32 pm ET
    2. “best free vector software for mac”Graphic Design Tools · Oct 3, 9:54 pm ET
    3. “is adobe illustrator worth paying for”Graphic Design Tools · Oct 3, 10:26 pm ET

    +1 more conversation with this ad copy

  • Design.comSponsored

    #1 AI Presentation Maker

    Text ad · shown 4 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “how to fix repetitive phrases in ai drafts”AI Writing Assistants · Oct 3, 10:42 pm ET
    2. “slidesgo premium subscription price”Presentation Makers · Oct 3, 11:04 pm ET

    +2 more conversations with this ad copy

  • Design.comSponsored

    #1 AI Image Generator

    Text ad · shown 3 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “is leonardo ai worth upgrading for a solo game developer making 2d sprites and backgrounds”AI Image Generators · Oct 3, 10:25 pm ET
    2. “warhammer 40k”Tabletop RPGs & Miniatures · Oct 4, 11:14 am ET

    +1 more conversation with this ad copy

  • Design.comSponsored

    Design.com - Best AI Design Platform

    Text ad · shown 2 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “nano banana vs chatgpt images”AI Image Generators · Oct 3, 9:30 pm ET

    +1 more conversation with this ad copy

  • Design.comSponsored

    Design.com - Best AI Image Generator

    Text ad · shown 2 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “best free photo editing software that can actually handle layers and masks like photoshop does”Photo Editing · Oct 3, 9:39 pm ET

    +1 more conversation with this ad copy

  • Design.comSponsored

    Best Presentation Maker

    Text ad · shown 2 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “i'm a grad student and english is my second language, i want an ai tool to polish my writing without changing my ideas, what do you recommend?”AI Writing Assistants · Oct 3, 10:47 pm ET

    +1 more conversation with this ad copy

  • Design.comSponsored

    Design.com - Best AI Logo Generator

    Text ad · shown 1 time

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “what's the cheapest canva alternative that still has brand kits and background remover built in”Graphic Design Tools · Oct 3, 10:40 pm ET
  • Design.comSponsored

    Design.com - #1 AI Logo Generator

    Text ad · shown 1 time

    Our export holds no question text for this conversation.

  • Design.comSponsored

    #1 AI logo generator

    Text ad · shown 1 time

    Our export holds no question text for this conversation.

  • Design.comSponsored

    Design.com - AI Poster Generator

    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