Synack ads in ChatGPT
In our capture of logged-out ChatGPT, 47 ads from Synack appeared on screen (all text ads), in 10 distinct ad copies across 2 industries and 14 topics. Each one appeared after our follow-up message asking for a sponsored ad.
- ads shown
- 47
- distinct ad copies
- 10
- industries
- 2
- 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 Synack advertised, not how often ChatGPT shows its ads.
Synack 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.
10 ad copies
- SynackSponsored
Start Your Free Sara AI Pentest
Text ad · shown 16 times
Questions it appeared after
- “best open source waf”Web Application Firewall · Oct 4, 3:01 am ET
- “fortify vs checkmarx for a company that needs on-prem sast for compliance reasons”Application Security Testing · Oct 4, 3:15 am ET
- “how to detect exposed secrets in cloud storage”Cloud Security Posture · Oct 4, 3:24 am ET
- “best penetration testing firm for small business”Penetration Testing Services · Oct 4, 3:29 am ET
+12 more conversations with this ad copy
- SynackSponsored
Enterprise Pentesting in Days
Text ad · shown 13 times
Questions it appeared after
- “is hoxhunt worth the money”Security Awareness Training · Oct 3, 10:39 pm ET
- “is continuous vulnerability scanning worth it or are quarterly scans enough for a 100 person company”Vulnerability Scanning · Oct 3, 11:00 pm ET
+11 more conversations with this ad copy
- SynackSponsored
Build vs. Buy AI Pentesting
Text ad · shown 5 times
Questions it appeared after
- “our company uses bitbucket and jenkins, which appsec tools integrate well with that stack since most demos assume github?”Application Security Testing · Oct 4, 3:06 am ET
- “how should a company manage ide licenses and plugins for security and compliance reviews”IDEs & Code Editors · Oct 4, 3:19 am ET
+3 more conversations with this ad copy
- SynackSponsored
Ready to Test Your Attack Surface?
Text ad · shown 5 times
Our export holds no question text for these conversations.
- SynackSponsored
Best PTaaS Vendors for Enterprise
Text ad · shown 2 times
Our export holds no question text for these conversations.
- SynackSponsored
Continuous Testing vs. Annual Pentests
Text ad · shown 2 times
Our export holds no question text for these conversations.
- SynackSponsored
How to Evaluate a Pentest Vendor
Text ad · shown 1 time
Our export holds no question text for this conversation.
- SynackSponsored
The Hidden Cost of AI Pentesting
Text ad · shown 1 time
Our export holds no question text for this conversation.
- SynackSponsored
How Does PTaaS Really Work?
Text ad · shown 1 time
Our export holds no question text for this conversation.
- SynackSponsored
AI Pentesting: What Should You Compare?
Text ad · shown 1 time
Our export holds no question text for this conversation.
Where Synack ads appeared
The industries and topics of the conversations where its ads appeared, by ads shown. Topics are our own labels for the questions we wrote.
Industries
Topics
and 2 more topics, 2 ads in all
Brands in the same topics
Other advertisers whose ads appeared in conversations on the topics where Synack’s did, ranked by how much those topics overlap. Each tile opens its page.
18 brands
Ironclad586 ads shown12 shared topics
Elastic103 ads shown10 shared topics
GetApp871 ads shown11 shared topics
Netwrix148 ads shown10 shared topics
ReliaQuest159 ads shown10 shared topics
Amplify Security40 ads shown5 shared topics
CircleCI215 ads shown5 shared topics
IONIX29 ads shown5 shared topics
IOmergent35 ads shown8 shared topics
Contabo315 ads shown8 shared topics
AlgoSec43 ads shown6 shared topics
SecurityPal AI33 ads shown7 shared topics
Jotform3,005 ads shown10 shared topics
Miles IT229 ads shown8 shared topics
ManageEngine134 ads shown6 shared topics
ClickCease67 ads shown5 shared topics
Codacy14 ads shown4 shared topicsHow 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
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