USE CASE:
Seeing which ads a competitor is running right now
The job here is seeing which ads a competitor is running right now, and every real option for ad activity is below, ours and everyone else's. Mamba Labs writes Apify actors for this kind of work, and Meta Ad Library Monitor is the one aimed at ad activity.
Where this starts
Ad spend is the clearest statement a company makes about its own positioning. What they are testing, which audience they think they have, what offer they lead with. It is all public and almost nobody looks, because looking means clicking through an interface built for compliance rather than research.
Traditional Search Tools
- The Meta Ad Library itself. The source everything else reads. Complete for the platforms it covers, and hard to watch weekly across a set of brands.
- AdSpy, Foreplay or a creative library. Built for media buyers, with search and tagging on top of the same public data. Subscription priced, and worth it if creative research is your job.
- Being on their retargeting list. Visit the site, wait two days, watch your own feed. Free and unreasonably effective.
- Search the ad library. Meta publishes every active ad and it is free to search by page. Fifteen minutes per competitor and you see the creative, which no summary of it replaces.
Mamba Labs Apify Actors
These are the actors we built for this job. If yours is not covered here, search from the bar at the top of the page or contact us here and tell us what you need.
- Meta Ad Library Monitor7 preconfigured tasks on this page's job.
Preconfigured tasks
A task is one of these actors with the inputs already filled in for a specific version of this job. Open one, swap in your own list, and run it without setting anything up from scratch.
- Build a Creative Swipe File From a Brand List
- Find Which Brands in a List Are Advertising
- Meta Ad Library Search for Belgian Advertisers
- Meta Ad Library Search for EU Advertisers
- Monitor Competitor Ad Creative on Facebook
- Search Political and Issue Ads by Advertiser
- Weekly Facebook Ad Monitoring for a Brand List