Recipe

See what an advertiser runs and what people search for

How do I see which ads a competitor is running and whether interest in their product is going up or down?

Why the obvious route disappoints

Ad libraries show creatives but no demand signal, and trend tools show demand but no spend. Read both and you can tell a campaign apart from a category that is simply growing.

The three steps

1

Google Ads Transparency Scraper

Every ad an advertiser runs, per country, with the creative, the format and when it first and last ran.

$1.40 per 1,000 · Ad listed
2

Google Trends Scraper (reliable, batch)

Interest over time for the terms they advertise on, plus the queries that rise with them.

$3.00 per 1,000 · Search term delivered
3

Google Autocomplete Keywords Scraper: A to Z expansion

What people actually type around those terms, from A to Z and in question form.

$0.35 per 1,000 · Suggestion listed

What a run costs

One advertiser with fifty terms costs under $1.00.