An ad that keeps running is an ad that keeps paying, and our first-seen/last-seen data on the live index shows just how few native creatives survive long enough to count.
MGID and Revcontent are where smart media buyers diversify after Taboola and Outbrain, and here is how to spy on both properly using real captured longevity, geo, and advertiser data.
The Teads merger killed off Outbrain's per-creative competitive data, so here is how to capture live Outbrain/Teads ads from publisher pages instead: find rivals' creatives, trace each click to its landing page, and read longevity instead of fake spend numbers.
Taboola has no public ad library, so here's how to reconstruct one: filter live captures by network, vertical and geo, rank advertisers by volume and days live, then pull the full creative and the click-to-landing trace.
A data-led comparison of MGID and Revcontent using the real advertiser mix, vertical breakdown, and ad longevity we've captured from each network's live creatives.
Native ads hide in plain sight at the bottom of every article, and here is how to find who is really buying them, read the creative and supply chain behind each placement, and trace the click to the landing page without ever firing a live ad.
"Free native ad spy tool" gets searched far more than it gets answered honestly, so here is what is genuinely free for researching Taboola, Outbrain, MGID and Revcontent ads, and exactly where the limits bite.
A practitioner's guide to spying on competitor ads across native, display and social: what to capture, how to tell real winners from noise, where the legal lines sit, and a weekly workflow that turns scattered screenshots into decisions.
Competitive intelligence in advertising is gathering and analyzing rivals' ads, channels, and spend signals to sharpen your own creative and media strategy.
In advertising, a spy tool, or ad spy, is software that captures competitors' live ads and landing pages so marketers can research winning creatives and offers.
Ad intelligence is the collection and analysis of competitors' live ads, creatives, and landing pages to inform creative and media-buying decisions.
An ad library is a searchable, public database of ads that have run on a platform or network, showing the creative, advertiser, and run details.
