Native ads compliance has three layers — FTC rules, network policies, and vertical-specific traps. This checklist audits all three across the ad unit, the pre-lander and the landing page.
Watching the ads your competitors run in public is legal, and regulators are forcing platforms to make those ads even easier to see; the legal line is copying the creative, not researching it.
Ad transparency means anyone can see which ads are running, who paid for them, and where they appear, and here is how the libraries work, the laws that built them, and the native blind spot none of them fill.
