AI Advertising Intelligence

See who is buying ads inside AI answers

ChatGPT now serves sponsored placements inside its answers, and Google is putting ads in AI Overviews and AI Mode. LLM Pulse captures every placement that lands on your tracked prompts, so you know which brands are paying to sit next to your category.

Features

Paid placements, tracked like everything else

Sponsored results are now part of the answer your customers read. LLM Pulse detects them on the prompts you already track, tells you who bought them, and shows how the paid space is growing.

Every Sponsored Placement, Captured

Ads are read from the same answers we already track for you. We store the headline, the description, the advertiser domain and the position, and keep them separate from organic mentions.

See Who Is Buying Your Category

An advertiser leaderboard ranks every domain running ads on your prompts, with the number of ads, how many prompts they cover, and their average and best position.

Your Ads vs Everyone Else's

Placements are matched to your brand and to your tracked competitors, so you can see what share of the sponsored space belongs to you.

Know Where Ads Sit

Sponsored results usually take the first slot in the answer. Track the position distribution of every advertiser, including yours.

Watch the Rollout Week by Week

Ad volume, advertiser count and your own share are charted weekly, so you can see ads expanding into new prompts and new countries as it happens.

Export the Evidence

The advertiser table and the answers that carried ads export to CSV or XLSX, ready for your reporting or your media agency.

Ads by AI platform

Ads arrived on one platform first and the rest are moving at their own pace. Here is where each one stands.

ChatGPT Ads

Live and tracked. Sponsored placements inside ChatGPT answers, with the advertiser, the creative and the position on every prompt you monitor.

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Google AI Mode and AI Overviews

Google places ads inside AI Overviews and AI Mode. We track both surfaces and flag sponsored placements as they reach the answers we collect.

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Perplexity

Perplexity retired its sponsored answers in February 2026. We keep watching its answers in case ads come back.

Learn more](/content/ai-models/perplexity/index.html)

How AI Paid Ads Tracking Works

Sponsored placements are detected on the prompts you already track, with no extra setup.

1. Track Your Prompts
   Add the prompts that matter to your category. We run them against the AI platforms every week and keep the full answer.

2. Detect the Sponsored Placements
   When an answer carries ads, we pull out the headline, description, link and position, resolve the real advertiser domain behind the click tracker, and keep them apart from organic mentions.

3. See Who Is Buying
   The advertiser leaderboard, the ad gallery and the breakdown charts show who advertises on your prompts, how often, and where they sit in the answer.

4. Act On It
   Decide whether to bid, to push harder on organic answers, or to brief your media agency. Export the evidence and track how the paid space moves week by week.

Who needs AI Paid Ads Tracking

Who uses paid ads tracking, and what they do with it

PPC & Paid Media Teams

A new channel with no keyword planner. Use real placement data to decide whether to bid, and to show clients who is already there.

SEO & AEO Teams

Understand how much of the answer is now paid, and which of your prompts are contested by advertisers rather than by content.

Brand Teams

Know when competitors buy placements on prompts about your brand, and keep a record of it.

Agencies

Report on organic and paid AI visibility in the same dashboard, and bring the paid picture to clients before they ask for it.

"After noticing rising visits from various LLMs in GA4, we needed visibility into those black boxes: which models were mentioning us, in which answers, and how that was changing over time. LLM Pulse gave us the clarity to understand our brand's evolution across AI models and to shape new strategies to boost our exposure."

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about tracking paid advertisements in AI answers.

Which AI platforms show ads today?
ChatGPT is the platform serving ads at scale today. Sponsored placements appear inside the answer, labelled Sponsored, with a headline, a short description and a link to the advertiser. Google also places ads inside AI Overviews and AI Mode. Perplexity retired its sponsored answers in February 2026.

How does LLM Pulse detect sponsored placements?
We already run your prompts against the AI platforms every week and capture the full answer. When the answer carries sponsored placements, we store them separately from organic mentions, resolve the advertiser domain, and record the position. Nothing extra to install.

Can I compare my ads against my competitors' ads?
Yes. Every placement is matched against your project domain and your tracked competitors, so the dashboard shows your ads, their ads, and the long tail of advertisers buying your prompts.

Do I see ads for every country?
Ads follow the platform rollout rather than your account. Today they show up mostly on US prompts. As platforms open ads to more countries, the placements appear in your dashboard with no change on your side.

Do I need an advertising budget to use this?
No. LLM Pulse reports on paid placements, it does not buy them. Think of it as competitive ad monitoring for AI answers, in the same way you would monitor competitor ads in search results.

Why start tracking AI ads now?
Because the baseline only exists if you start collecting it. Accounts tracking today can already show how many advertisers entered their category, at what position, and how fast the paid space grew.