# Search & saved views

> **Title:** Search & saved views — Rival Ads Docs
> **Description:** Search everything Rival Ads has read from your competitors' ads - copy, video transcripts, on-screen text and creative intelligence - and save filter sets as named views.
> **Canonical URL:** https://www.rivalads.io/docs/search
> **Note:** This is the markdown twin of https://www.rivalads.io/docs/search. Append `.md` to any Rival Ads page URL to get markdown.

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Every ad Rival Ads tracks is read once and kept: the ad copy, the words spoken in a video (transcript), the text baked into the creative (on-screen text) and the creative-intelligence read (hook, angle, persona, CTA, visual style). Search runs over all of it at once, so questions like "which competitors mention free shipping" or "who runs founder-to-camera ads" have direct answers.

## Why it matters

Most ad libraries only match the written caption - but on video-first channels the message lives in the spoken words and the text baked into the creative, which a caption search never sees. Rival Ads transcribes and reads every ad once at collection time, so search covers what an ad actually says, not just what was typed into it:

- **Claims monitoring** - "which competitors say `"clinically proven"`" finds the phrase even when it is only spoken in a video.
- **Offer intelligence** - `free shipping -sale` shows who leads with shipping without discounting, across a whole project side by side.
- **Creative angles** - `founder` surfaces founder-to-camera ads via the intel read, even when no caption mentions a founder.

Because search runs over what has already been collected and read, results are instant and cover your full history.

## Where you can search

- **Search page** (sidebar > Search) - one box across every monitor in a project, grouped by competitor. Each result shows which part of the ad matched (copy, hook, transcript, on-screen text or intel) with the matching words highlighted, and clicking a result opens that monitor's board already filtered to your search.
- **Monitor board** - the search box next to the board filters narrows the board, and every filter count updates to match.
- **Library** - search your saved ads and Inspiration snapshots; ZIP downloads follow the search, so the bundle holds exactly what the filtered page shows.
- **Inspiration** - the pool's search box uses the same syntax over participating workspaces' shared ads.

## Search syntax

- `free shipping` - ads containing both words, in any field, in any order.
- `"free shipping"` - ads containing that exact phrase.
- `-sale` - excludes ads that mention "sale" anywhere, including in a transcript.
- The last word you are typing matches as a prefix, so `ship` already finds "shipping".

Transcripts and on-screen text are kept verbatim in the ad's own language, and search matches them as written - a Czech ad is found by its Czech words, not by a translation.

## Saved views

Any combination of filters and search terms can be saved as a named view from the **Views** button in the toolbar. Saved views are shared with your whole workspace, and applying one restores the exact filter set. Because filters live in the page URL, any filtered view is also shareable as a plain link.

Search looks through what has already been collected and read. A brand-new ad's copy is searchable as soon as it is collected; its transcript, on-screen text and intel join the moment the creative-intelligence read completes, usually within minutes.