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Top ChatGPT advertisers: the 50 biggest, ranked

Mastercard leads the top ChatGPT advertisers at 3,490 placements, with the top 50 brands holding 44% of all ads as of August 2026.

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As of August 2026, Mastercard is the top ChatGPT advertiser with 3,490 placements, a 3.04% share of every tracked ad appearance. The top 50 advertisers span B2B SaaS, fintech, and security brands like Monday.com, Cloudflare, ZoomInfo, and Salesforce, drawn from a population of 5,486 advertisers actively buying placements on the platform.

The top 50 advertisers hold 44% of all ChatGPT ad placements, despite making up less than 1% of the 5,486 advertisers actively buying ads on the platform.

44%
share held by top 50
5,486
advertisers on ChatGPT
114,828
placements captured
17,052
distinct ads
615
ad-bearing niches

The top 50 ChatGPT advertisers, ranked

RankAdvertiserPlacementsShare
1Mastercard34903.04%
2Monday.com30172.63%
3Cloudflare26332.29%
4ZoomInfo Technologies Inc26222.28%
5BestMoney22861.99%
6Capterra19321.68%
7Salesforce18221.59%
8HiBob16301.42%
9Aikido Security15601.36%
10AirOps14101.23%
11Crowdstrike12721.11%
12SAP12621.10%
13Angi12281.07%
14Carta10960.95%
15Planhat10770.94%
16RingCentral10650.93%
17Robinhood10140.88%
18Sago9450.82%
19Attio9060.79%
20Prismatic8980.78%
21Unknown8110.71%
22Fidelity Investments8090.70%
23Outset8080.70%
24Answering Service Care, LLC7840.68%
25Coframe, Inc.7650.67%
26OneTrust7350.64%
27Datadog6920.60%
28Drata Inc.6900.60%
29Optimizely6700.58%
30Pebl6570.57%
31HoneyBook Inc6230.54%
32SurveySparrow6140.53%
33Workday5890.51%
34ADP5740.50%
35Intuit Quickbooks5240.46%
36Call Tracking Metrics LLC5200.45%
37Evertune Inc.5180.45%
38Checkr, Inc.4980.43%
39wolfSSL Inc.4920.43%
40Rocket Mortgage4910.43%
41UiPath Inc4850.42%
42SuperGRC, Corp4830.42%
43Oxylabs4750.41%
44Cast AI4740.41%
45LegalZoom4620.40%
46Intuit Enterprise Suite4600.40%
47On-Site Storage Solutions4590.40%
48One Cloud Media4450.39%
49Toptal4410.38%
50Teleport4400.38%

What the top of the leaderboard reveals

Top 15 ChatGPT advertisers by placements
3,490placements
3,017placements
2,633placements
2,286placements
1,932placements
1,822placements
1,630placements
1,560placements
1,410placements
1,272placements
1,262placements
1,228placements
1,096placements
1,077placements
Placements captured across all 5,486 advertisers tracked, August 2026

The top of the ChatGPT advertiser list is dominated by B2B SaaS, fintech, and security brands. Mastercard, Monday.com, Cloudflare, ZoomInfo Technologies Inc, and Salesforce hold the first tier, with security vendors like Aikido Security and Crowdstrike, HR platforms like HiBob and ADP, and fintech players like Robinhood and Fidelity Investments just behind. The leaderboard is overwhelmingly vendor-led, not consumer-led: ChatGPT ads are bought by teams with considered, high-ACV sales cycles, not impulse-buy retail brands.

Below the top 20, placements fall off quickly. Position 50, Teleport, holds 440 placements, roughly an eighth of Mastercard's count, and positions 40 through 50 cluster tightly between 440 and 491. Even within the top 50, distribution is steeply skewed: the top 5 advertisers alone account for 12.2% of all ChatGPT placements, while every brand from position 21 downward holds under 1%. The 5,436 advertisers outside the top 50 collectively hold the remaining 56% of volume, a long tail with plenty of room for the next tier of buyers to climb.

Where these advertisers cluster by niche

Top ChatGPT ad niches by ad volume
2,802
  • Enterprise & Fintech20%
  • SaaS & Productivity19%
  • Email Marketing & CRM12%
  • Real Estate11%
  • Cloud & DevOps11%
  • Others27%
Ads by niche, top 8 shown, August 2026. Tail rolled into Others.

Enterprise & Fintech is the single largest ChatGPT ad niche with 2,802 ads, ahead of SaaS & Productivity at 2,610 and Email Marketing & CRM at 1,636. The top 8 niches account for the bulk of ChatGPT ad volume across the 615 active categories we track. Travel & Hospitality (209) and Automotive & Mobility (230) sit far down the list, evidence that consumer-leaning verticals have not yet found a clear prompt fit on ChatGPT. The pattern mirrors the advertiser list: when ChatGPT queries lean toward work and money, the brands buying visibility are the ones selling tools to workers and money managers.

The top 50 is a placement leaderboard, not a spend leaderboard. Brands that show up more often across more prompts may simply have more creatives or broader campaign coverage. CPG and retail brands are nearly absent, not because they are uninterested, but because ChatGPT queries are still mostly work- and money-oriented. For the full picture across every niche, see our library, the advertiser directory, and the intelligence hub.

Less than 1% of ChatGPT advertisers hold nearly half of all ad placements. The long tail is real, but the head is sharp.

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