Research

What the public ad libraries actually cover

Every ad intelligence product, including this one, is built on the same public sources. These pages document what each source covers, what it withholds, and where a number stops being an observation.

• Method

  What every platform ad library actually covers

  A source-by-source coverage map for competitor ad monitoring: which platforms publish a usable library, what geography each one covers, and what none of them publish.

• Ad libraries

  The Facebook Ad Library tells you what is running, not what ran

  How to search Meta's Ad Library properly, the three limits that decide what you can conclude from it, and what to do about the one that matters most.

• Ad libraries

  What the Meta Ad Library API actually returns

  The official API is a political-ads endpoint outside the EU. What you get, what you need to get it, and the honest options when the ads you care about are commercial.

• Ad libraries

  The Google Ads Transparency Center, read properly

  What Google's ad transparency library covers, how to search one advertiser across Search, Display and YouTube, and the two limits that decide what you can conclude.

• Ad libraries

  The LinkedIn Ad Library is a year of B2B ads, with no way to automate it

  Where the LinkedIn Ad Library is, what a year of retention gets you, why there is no API, and how to monitor a B2B competitor without one.

• Ad libraries

  TikTok has two ad libraries, and you probably want the other one

  TikTok's Commercial Content Library covers European delivery and answers compliance questions. The Creative Center is the inspiration tool most people are looking for. What each actually contains.