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ChatGPT advertising

Your buyers ask ChatGPT who to hire. Make sure your name comes up.

ChatGPT now carries ads in Belgium and across Europe. That gives you two ways to show up when a buyer asks about your category: the sponsored slot under the answer, which you can buy, and the companies named inside the answer, which you cannot. We run both, because the one you can buy works far better once the other is already true.

Ads live in Belgium since August 2026Sponsored slot and organic answerMeasured per prompt, per month
The Stigo platform: visitors from AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot, per week and per month, with the enquiries they produced
The problem

The shortlist is made before anyone visits your site.

A growing share of buyers ask an assistant first and visit a website second, if at all. What gets said in that conversation decides who gets the call.

You are not in the answer

A buyer asks ChatGPT which company to choose for a job in your region. It names two or three others, with reasons. Nothing in your analytics records that this happened, and it happens every day, on questions with real money behind them.

The new channel is open, and it is empty

Ads in ChatGPT went live in Belgium at the end of August 2026. Most companies have not set up an account, let alone a campaign. That window, where the questions in your category have few or no advertisers, does not stay open long. It did not on Google either.

Buying the slot without the basis wastes the budget

An ad under an answer that praises your competitors has to argue against the answer above it. If your site is unreadable to OpenAI's crawlers and your company facts are inconsistent across the web, the ad is doing the work of the whole programme on its own.

The definition

What ChatGPT advertising actually means

ChatGPT advertising, in one paragraphChatGPT advertising is paying OpenAI to show a sponsored unit under a ChatGPT answer when the conversation matches what you sell. The unit is labelled as sponsored, kept visually apart from the answer, and shown to people on the Free and Go plans. Being mentioned by ChatGPT is a different thing: it means the model names your company inside the answer itself, and according to OpenAI that part cannot be bought, because ads do not influence the answers. A company that wants to be chosen through ChatGPT needs both, run as one programme: the ad for reach on the questions that matter, and the organic mention for the trust that makes the ad worth clicking.
  • An ad in ChatGPT sits under the answer. A mention sits inside it. Only the first one is for sale.
  • Ads in ChatGPT are matched to the conversation, not to a profile. In Belgium, personalised ads are not available for now, so the question decides who sees you.
  • An ad under an answer that recommends two of your competitors is a hard sell. An ad under an answer that already names you is a confirmation.
  • The useful metric is not impressions alone, it is how often you appear, paid or organic, when a buyer asks your category a real question.

These are the sentences buyers type into Google and into an AI assistant before they ever contact anyone. Whole questions, with a decision attached to the answer.

how do I get my company mentioned by ChatGPTcan you advertise on ChatGPT in Belgiumhow much do ChatGPT ads costdo ChatGPT ads influence the answerswhy does ChatGPT recommend my competitor and not mewhich agency can run ChatGPT ads for us
The work

What the work covers

One programme with two halves: the paid placement you can start this month, and the organic mention that makes every euro in it work harder.

Live in ChatGPT within weeks

We set up and verify your Ads Manager account and launch the first campaigns.

Seen on the questions that sell

Campaigns built around the questions your buyers actually ask, in Dutch and English.

Clicks that turn into leads

Short ad copy and a landing page that picks up where the conversation stopped.

Every lead traced to its campaign

ChatGPT pixel and Conversions API, so you know what each euro brought in.

Named in the answer itself

We make your site readable and quotable for ChatGPT, so it recommends you without an ad.

Your progress in one report

Every month: ad results, how often ChatGPT names you, and which competitors it names.

Step by step

How a ChatGPT programme runs

The paid side can run within weeks of the account being approved. The organic mention takes three to six months to hold, because it depends on readable pages and consistent facts accumulating across the web.

01

Baseline

We ask ChatGPT the questions your buyers ask and record what comes back: who gets named, which pages get cited, and whether any sponsored units already appear on those questions. That is the starting point for both halves.

02

Technical access

We check that OpenAI's crawlers can fetch and read your pages: robots.txt, firewall and CDN rules, rendering, speed. Most blocks are accidental, and an engine cannot name a company it cannot read.

03

Account and eligibility

Your advertiser account in Ads Manager, verified, with billing in an eligible country and the policy checks for your category cleared before a campaign is built on it. Not every category is accepted, and it is better to know that in week one.

04

Prompt map

The questions behind the purchase, ranked by buying intent rather than volume, in Dutch and English. They become the structure of the campaigns and the list of answer pages to build.

05

Campaigns live

Ad copy, landing pages and tracking in place, campaigns started on a budget sized to learn rather than to impress. The first weeks are for finding which questions bring buyers, not for scaling.

06

Answer pages

One question per page, answered in the first hundred words, with proof and dates underneath. The same pages serve as landing pages for the ads and as the passages ChatGPT can quote organically.

07

Entity consistency

Your company name, address, services and reviews made identical everywhere a model reads them: your site, profiles, directories, press and partner pages. Consistent facts are what gives a model the confidence to name you.

08

Review and shift

Each month, ad results next to mention rates per prompt. Budget moves to the questions that bring leads, and to the ones where you are already named organically the ad can often step back.

The difference

The sponsored slot next to the organic mention

They are not alternatives. One is reach you can switch on, the other is trust you have to earn, and they reinforce each other.

What a ChatGPT ad gives you

  • A labelled unit under the answer
  • Bought per impression or per click
  • Live within weeks
  • Stops when the budget stops
  • Shown to Free and Go users only
  • Measured in clicks and conversions

What an organic mention gives you

  • Your name inside the answer itself
  • Earned, cannot be bought
  • Takes months to hold
  • Keeps working without media spend
  • Shown to every user, on every plan
  • Measured in how often you are named
Ready when you are

Find out what ChatGPT says about you. Before your buyers do.

Book your free call and we will ask ChatGPT your own category questions while you watch: who gets named, who gets cited, and whether anyone is already advertising on them. You leave with a plan for both halves, the ad and the mention, in the order that makes sense for your budget.

  • Your real buyer questions, asked live in ChatGPT
  • A clear view on whether ChatGPT ads fit your category
  • Answer within one business day, Europe or US time zone

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Questions, answered

ChatGPT advertising, explained

Can you advertise on ChatGPT in Belgium?+
Yes. OpenAI started showing ads in ChatGPT in the United States in early 2026 and extended them to Belgium and a large part of Europe at the end of August 2026. Advertisers buy through OpenAI's Ads Manager, which is still in beta, or through OpenAI's sales team and partners. The advertiser has to be based in an eligible country and the category has to pass OpenAI's ad policies, so check eligibility before planning a campaign around it.
Can I pay to be mentioned in ChatGPT's answer?+
No. According to OpenAI, ads do not influence the answers ChatGPT gives. A paid ad appears as a separate, labelled unit under the answer. Being named inside the answer itself is earned: the model has to be able to read your pages, understand who you are from consistent facts, and find a passage worth quoting. That is Generative Engine Optimization, and it is the half of the work that keeps paying off without a media budget.
How do I get my company mentioned by ChatGPT?+
Three things have to be true. ChatGPT has to be able to fetch your pages, which means not blocking OAI-SearchBot, GPTBot or ChatGPT-User in robots.txt or at your firewall. It has to understand who you are, which is what structured data and consistent company details across the web are for. And it has to find a short, self-contained answer to the buyer's question on your site, under a heading that asks that question. Most companies fail on the first or the third.
Who sees ChatGPT ads?+
Adult users on the Free plan and on the low-cost Go subscription. Users on Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and Edu do not see ads. OpenAI also keeps ads away from sensitive topics such as health, mental health and politics, and does not show them to users under 18. In Belgium, ads are matched to the conversation, language and approximate location rather than to a personal profile, because personalised ads are not available there for now.
What do ChatGPT ads cost?+
You can bid per thousand impressions, per click, or with conversion-optimised CPC, where the system bids toward a conversion you track with the ChatGPT pixel or the Conversions API. Prices are set in the auction and are still moving as more advertisers join, so we do not quote a fixed price per click. We start campaigns on a budget sized to learn which questions bring buyers, then scale what works.
Is it worth advertising in ChatGPT if we are not mentioned organically?+
It can be, but it is the expensive way round. An ad under an answer that recommends two competitors has to argue against the answer above it. That is why we always start with a baseline of what ChatGPT says about your category today, and fix crawler access and company facts in parallel with the first campaigns. The ad gives you reach now; the mention makes that reach convert.
How do you measure results in ChatGPT?+
On the paid side, with the ChatGPT pixel or the Conversions API next to your existing tracking, so each lead is tied to the campaign that brought it. OpenAI shares only aggregated data such as impressions and clicks, so the conversion tracking on your side matters. On the organic side, by re-running a fixed set of buyer prompts in ChatGPT every month and recording how often you are named and which competitors appear beside you. On top of that, our own platform has an integration that tracks how many visitors reach your website from ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and other AI assistants, so you can see that traffic in the Stigo platform from day one.
Do you also run ads on Google, Meta and LinkedIn?+
Yes, and for most companies ChatGPT is an addition to those channels, not a replacement. Google still carries most of the search volume with buying intent, and Meta and LinkedIn reach people before they start searching. We plan ChatGPT into the same budget and the same reporting, so you can see what each channel actually adds.