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Redswitches ads in ChatGPT

In our capture of logged-out ChatGPT, 33 ads from Redswitches appeared on screen (all text ads), in 5 distinct ad copies across 5 industries and 14 topics. Each one appeared after our follow-up message asking for a sponsored ad.

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

ads shown
33
distinct ad copies
5
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 Redswitches advertised, not how often ChatGPT shows its ads.

Ad copies

Redswitches 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.

5 ad copies

  • RedswitchesSponsored

    10-25 Gbps+ High Bandwidth Dedicated Servers

    Text ad · shown 19 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “we run a large ecommerce site and want to correlate waf, cdn and application logs to catch fraud and attacks, which siem handles that volume affordably?”SIEM · Oct 3, 10:44 pm ET
    2. “how much does veeam data platform cost for 50 vms and offsite copies to wasabi”Backup & Disaster Recovery · Oct 3, 11:02 pm ET
    3. “akamai vs imperva for enterprise waf”Web Application Firewall · Oct 3, 11:17 pm ET
    4. “best managed waf for companies without security staff”Web Application Firewall · Oct 3, 11:21 pm ET
    5. “best cdn setup for a company that wants to avoid aws egress fees on large file downloads”CDN · Oct 4, 3:24 am ET

    +14 more conversations with this ad copy

  • RedswitchesSponsored

    Enterprise Dedicated Servers, Live in 10 Minutes

    Text ad · shown 7 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “azure api management premium vs standard v2 cost for a company needing vnet integration”API Management · Oct 4, 12:39 am ET
    2. “crunchy bridge vs neon vs supabase for a team that wants plain postgres without vendor lock in”Managed Databases · Oct 4, 4:21 am ET

    +5 more conversations with this ad copy

  • RedswitchesSponsored

    GPU Dedicated Servers for AI, ML & Rendering

    Text ad · shown 4 times

    Our export holds no question text for these conversations.

  • RedswitchesSponsored

    Latest-Gen AMD EPYC & Intel Xeon Dedicated Servers

    Text ad · shown 2 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “nakivo vs veeam for vmware”Backup & Disaster Recovery · Oct 3, 11:28 pm ET

    +1 more conversation with this ad copy

  • RedswitchesSponsored

    Dedicated vs Cloud: More Power, No Surprises

    Text ad · shown 1 time

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “teleport enterprise pricing per seat”Privileged Access Management · Oct 3, 9:28 pm 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