Rival Ads documentation

Rival Ads watches the public ads run by named competitors on Meta, Google, TikTok and LinkedIn. It keeps the creative and copy together, shows what started or stopped, and turns those changes into useful competitive intelligence.

Use this knowledge base to set up your first competitor, understand every customer-facing feature, or find the exact steps for a task. When a step names a control in bold, it matches the label in the English interface.

Start here

• Quick start — go from a new account to your first competitor and first results.
• Add a competitor — a field-by-field guide to Track a competitor.
• Supported channels — what to enter for Meta, Google, TikTok and LinkedIn.
• Frequently asked questions — short answers about access, alerts, billing, reporting and data.

Understand the product

• Monitors & projects explains how a competitor, channel, location and client project fit together.
• Ad activity & data covers Started, Stopped and Continued, plus Gallery, Board and Table.
• Creative intelligence explains hooks, angles, personas, transcripts and on-screen text.
• Strategy reads & reporting covers scheduled reads, report history, PDFs and public report links.
• Library explains the shared swipe file, folders and downloadable creative packs.
• Alerts & weekly digest explains what is emailed, when, and who receives it.

Run a workspace or client service

• Team, roles & access — invite teammates and keep each client scoped to the right work.
• Workspace & profile settings — names, passwords, language, timezone and workspace switching.
• Languages & translated content — personal and client language choices, inheritance, and when reports are prepared again.
• Whitelabel & custom domains — apply your brand to client-facing surfaces.
• Billing & plans — current limits, refresh schedules, trial, invoices and AppSumo plans.

Common workflows

• Manage client access
• Share a report
• Build a swipe file
• Connect LinkedIn
• Troubleshoot a sync

A useful first scenario

An agency creates one project per client, adds each competitor to that project, and grants the client Whole project access. The strategist reviews Ad activity, saves strong examples to a client folder in Library, then shares the latest read using Download PDF report or Public report link. The client sees only their project and receives only the alerts and digest entries they are allowed to see.

If a term is unfamiliar, use the glossary. For account-specific help, contact support.