Essays, product updates, and deep dives on ad intelligence, scrapers, and competitive research.
This is where we'll share what we're learning about building better ad intelligence workflows.
A walkthrough of Google's free Ads Transparency Center, using ChatGPT as the example: how to find any company's Google and YouTube ads, and the one setting that shows how often each ad actually ran.
How to find a brand's ads in Meta's free Ad Library, including the stopped ones Meta keeps. And how to spot the ads the brand is pushing hardest. We use Hume Health as the example.
How to use LinkedIn's free Ad Library to see a competitor's ads and which of them were shown the most, with HubSpot as the example (September 2026).
How to find competitor ads across Meta, Google, TikTok and LinkedIn using free ad libraries, then analyze the creatives, copy, and display ads at scale.
The best ad spy tools for tracking competitors' ads across Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and more - with a comparison table, pricing, free options, and API access.
A practical framework for backing into what a company is likely spending on LinkedIn ads using public signals and proxies.