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North.cloud ads in ChatGPT

In our capture of logged-out ChatGPT, 50 ads from North.cloud appeared on screen (all text ads), in 12 distinct ad copies across 2 industries and 21 topics. Each one appeared after our follow-up message asking for a sponsored ad.

north.cloudLogged-out ChatGPT, USOct 3⁠–⁠4, 2026

ads shown
50
distinct ad copies
12
industries
2
topics
21

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 North.cloud advertised, not how often ChatGPT shows its ads.

Ad copies

North.cloud 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.

12 ad copies

  • North.cloudSponsored

    Cut Your AWS Costs

    Text ad · shown 12 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “how do i choose between supabase, neon and rds for a new saas with a small team”Managed Databases · Oct 4, 1:38 am ET
    2. “why is our cloudwatch logs bill so high and what does ingestion actually cost per gb”Log Management · Oct 4, 2:57 am ET

    +10 more conversations with this ad copy

  • North.cloudSponsored

    Lower Your GCP Bill

    Text ad · shown 7 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “google cloud storage vs s3 pricing”Cloud Object Storage · Oct 4, 11:22 am ET

    +6 more conversations with this ad copy

  • North.cloudSponsored

    AWS Savings, Automated

    Text ad · shown 6 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “datadog vs new relic cost comparison for a 75 engineer company with 150 hosts”Observability & APM · Oct 4, 5:09 am ET
    2. “how to use a cdn with s3”CDN · Oct 4, 5:20 am ET

    +4 more conversations with this ad copy

  • North.cloudSponsored

    Google Cloud Savings, Automated

    Text ad · shown 4 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “sealed secrets vs external secrets operator”Secrets Management · Oct 3, 10:57 pm ET
    2. “best gpu cloud for a small ai team that needs h100s for a few weeks of training at a time”Cloud Hosting & VPS · Oct 4, 12:23 am ET
    3. “best serverless gpu for image generation apps”GPU Cloud · Oct 4, 11:25 am ET

    +1 more conversation with this ad copy

  • North.cloudSponsored

    Smarter AWS Commitments

    Text ad · shown 4 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “how much does harness cost for continuous delivery across 100 services”CI/CD · Oct 4, 4:52 am ET
    2. “we're a saas with customers in the us and asia and our api feels slow overseas, would a cdn or edge platform help and which one?”CDN · Oct 4, 5:04 am ET

    +2 more conversations with this ad copy

  • North.cloudSponsored

    Cut Your Azure Costs

    Text ad · shown 3 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “how much does azure openai provisioned throughput cost compared to pay as you go for steady traffic”LLM API Platforms · Oct 4, 11:12 am ET

    +2 more conversations with this ad copy

  • North.cloudSponsored

    Stop Overpaying for AWS

    Text ad · shown 3 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “is kubernetes worth it for a team of five running a monolith and two background services”Managed Kubernetes · Oct 4, 2:54 am ET
    2. “our company is evaluating coder, codespaces and gitpod for 300 developers on aws, how should we compare them?”IDEs & Code Editors · Oct 4, 4:52 am ET

    +1 more conversation with this ad copy

  • North.cloudSponsored

    Your GCP Bill Is Too High

    Text ad · shown 3 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “is there a reliable place to rent an h100 for under $2 an hour without long commitments”GPU Cloud · Oct 4, 11:22 am ET

    +2 more conversations with this ad copy

  • North.cloudSponsored

    Stop Overpaying for GCP

    Text ad · shown 3 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “best tool to find unused software licenses”SaaS Management Platforms · Oct 4, 11:22 am ET
    2. “is a finops tool worth it”Cloud Cost Management · Oct 4, 11:22 am ET

    +1 more conversation with this ad copy

  • North.cloudSponsored

    GCP Cost Optimization | North.cloud

    Text ad · shown 3 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “how to right size kubernetes requests and limits”Managed Kubernetes · Oct 4, 4:45 am ET
    2. “best observability platform for a 50 engineer startup whose datadog bill just passed $30k a month”Observability & APM · Oct 4, 5:46 am ET
    3. “we have 1 billion embeddings for a research search engine and need low cost storage with decent latency, what are our options?”Vector Databases · Oct 4, 11:16 am ET
  • North.cloudSponsored

    Take Control of AWS Spend

    Text ad · shown 1 time

    Our export holds no question text for this conversation.

  • North.cloudSponsored

    Azure Savings, Automated

    Text ad · shown 1 time

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “we're an azure only company with heavy entra usage, should we standardize on bicep or terraform for everything?”Infrastructure as Code · Oct 4, 11:17 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