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How to see a competitor's ads for free

Every large ad platform now publishes the ads running on it. Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn, Microsoft and Pinterest each keep a public library you can search without an account, and the advertiser is never told you looked. The search box above deep-links into all six with the filters set.

The searches that waste the most time are keyword searches on a common brand name. Search the word and you get every advertiser who used it in their copy. Search the advertiser and you get their own ads. Four habits make the difference:

• Start from the competitor's website and follow its own Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn link. That is the Page or company the ads run from.
• Search Google's Transparency Center by domain rather than by name. One domain can hide several advertiser accounts.
• Set the country to the market you compete in. Libraries index ads by where they were shown, so a UK search misses a US launch.
• Filter to active ads first, then note the start date and the number of versions on each one. Those two details carry most of the signal.

What to look for in a competitor's ads

An ad library tells you what is live. Reading it well tells you what is working, because a competitor's budget leaves traces even when the library publishes no spend.

• Run time. An ad still live after 60 or 90 days is the closest public signal of a winner. Nobody keeps paying for a loser.
• Versions. Several cuts of one concept mean they are testing it. Count them, and you know how seriously they test.
• Hooks and angles. The first line or first three seconds tell you which pain, promise or proof they lead with.
• Offers and landing pages. The destination shows the real offer: a discount, a free trial, a quiz, a demo.
• Bursts and silences. Ten launches in a week is a campaign. An account that goes quiet is a budget cut or a strategy change.
• What stopped. The ads a competitor switched off tell you what failed, and you only see them if you looked before they vanished.

Why checking ad libraries by hand stops working

Looking once is easy. Keeping up is where it breaks. Meta removes an ordinary commercial ad from its library the day it stops running, unless it was delivered in the EU or UK, so a competitor's failed test disappears before you knew it existed. No library tells you what changed since your last visit, none of them alert you to a launch, and each one covers a single platform.

So teams screenshot into a shared folder, forget for three weeks, and miss the launch that mattered. That gap is what a competitor ad tracker closes.

Track competitor ads automatically with Rival Ads

Rival Ads watches the competitors you name across all six ad libraries and keeps everything it finds, even after the ad leaves the library. Every sync compares their whole account with the last one, so you see what started, what stopped and what kept running. New launches reach your inbox, Slack or Teams the sync they appear.

Each ad is transcribed and broken down into its hook, angle and audience, the landing page behind it is captured with a dated price history, and an AI strategy read turns the week's changes into what your team should do next. Agencies run the same thing under their own brand for clients.

• Real creatives and word-for-word copy from Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn, Microsoft Ads and Pinterest
• Started, stopped and continued ads, with run time on every card
• Alerts for new launches, for ads that prove themselves and for winners they pull
• Video transcripts, hooks and angles for every ad, searchable across all your competitors
• No ad account to connect and no login to their tools: the competitor never knows