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FEATURE

Search Ads Across Social and Performance Networks

Multi-Platform Coverage aggregates ad creatives from major social and performance networks into a single interface, enabling marketers and strategists to compare platform-specific advertising approaches.

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What This Feature Does

  • •Aggregates ads from social platforms including Meta (Facebook, Instagram), TikTok, X (Twitter), and Pinterest.
  • •Includes ad creatives from performance and video networks like YouTube, Yahoo, Unity Ads, and AdMob.
  • •Provides a unified search and filtering interface for all supported ad networks.
  • •Preserves the context of each platform, allowing for analysis of platform-specific creative physics.

How It Works

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The system collects publicly available ad data from various network APIs and data sources.
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Users select one or more ad networks via the search filters to define the scope of their research.
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Each ad creative is displayed with metadata indicating its original platform and format.
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Filters can be combined to isolate or compare creative approaches between different platforms (e.g., TikTok vs. YouTube).

Who This Feature Is For

✓ Best For

  • Analyzing how advertisers adapt creative strategies for different platforms.
  • Identifying emerging creative trends on a specific network.
  • Researching competitor ad strategies across their entire media mix.
  • Comparing direct response ad formats on gaming networks against brand-focused formats on social feeds.

✕ Not Ideal For

  • Tracking real-time ad performance metrics like click-through rate or cost-per-acquisition.
  • Accessing ads from private or non-supported ad networks.
  • Viewing ads that are not publicly available or are targeted to very specific, restricted audiences.

Practical Use Cases

A media buyer researches TikTok-native UGC ad styles before launching a new campaign on the platform.
A creative strategist compares how a competitor uses narrative on YouTube versus short-form hooks on Instagram Reels.
A game developer analyzes direct response ads on Unity and AdMob to inform user acquisition creative.
A brand manager monitors how competitors are positioning products on Pinterest versus Facebook.

Limits & Boundaries

  • !Ad availability and data richness can vary by platform due to differences in data access.
  • !The ad collection is limited to publicly accessible data provided by the networks.
  • !The depth of historical ad data varies for each integrated network.
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