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Ads answer 73.6% of shopping questions, logging shows

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A monitoring project logged ChatGPT's ad payload across shopping queries: 54,899 placements from 1,844 advertisers, with 73.6% of questions returning an ad in the answer. Separately, 2,882 UK advertisers ran ChatGPT Ads in July.

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For you, this means ad density in ChatGPT shopping answers is already high, so assume competition inside AI answers rather than white space.

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Ads answer 73.6% of shopping questions, logging shows

A monitoring project logged ChatGPT's ad payload across shopping queries: 54,899 placements from 1,844 advertisers, with 73.6% of questions returning an ad in the answer. Separately, 2,882 UK advertisers ran ChatGPT Ads in July. For you, this means ad density in ChatGPT shopping answers is already high, so assume competition inside AI answers rather than white space.

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