USE CASE:
Ad activity for fashion brands
Here is how ad activity for fashion brands actually gets done, what it costs each way, and where each way stops working. Mamba Labs builds the Apify actors named here, so Meta Ad Library Monitor is something you run yourself against your own list of fashion brands.
What is actually going wrong
Fashion brands and ad activity: one at a time is fine, and a list of them is not. Start from this: fashion brands run on seasons, so the same brand looks like two different companies six months apart, and ad activity follows. On fashion brands, ad activity rarely catches this: a scan taken between seasons reads as a collapse when it is a calendar. Meta Ad Library Monitor carries 1 ready made setup for ad activity on fashion brands.
Traditional Search Tools
- The brand's own lookbook and stockist page, for fashion brands. Free, and it names the retail relationships nothing else exposes.
- 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 Monitor1 preconfigured task 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.