AdSpy

AdSpy is an advertising intelligence tool that provides a searchable database of social media adverts, primarily from Facebook and Instagram. It is aimed at marketers, media buyers and ecommerce operators who want to understand what competitors and other advertisers are running, which creative approaches appear to be working and where new opportunities may lie. The problem it addresses is the difficulty of researching paid social campaigns at scale: native ad libraries offer limited filtering and little indication of engagement, making systematic competitive analysis slow. AdSpy’s approach is to collect a very large archive of adverts along with associated metadata and engagement signals, then expose it through detailed search and filtering so that users can analyse trends, find inspiration and monitor specific advertisers or niches over time without manually scrolling through feeds or relying on anecdotal observation. Its archive-based approach also allows users to review historical campaigns rather than only adverts that are currently live.

Users can search by keyword, advertiser, domain, landing page URL, affiliate network, call to action, language, country, demographics and ad type, and can sort results by likes, comments, shares and dates seen. Each ad record shows the creative, copy, comments and landing page, which helps with understanding funnels and offers. The tool is particularly associated with affiliate marketing and dropshipping research, where identifying winning products and offers quickly can be commercially valuable, but it is also used by agencies for creative benchmarking and client pitches. Saved searches and favourites allow ongoing monitoring of competitors and markets. AdSpy is delivered as a web application and is best suited to experienced performance marketers who are comfortable interpreting engagement data, as the interface prioritises search power over guided insight or storytelling. Pricing is not published in this listing, and the listing does not specify whether a free trial or free version is available.