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Competitor tracking — the core of PrivAdSpy

Spy on your competitors’ Facebook ads — as they happen.

Your smartest competitors announce their strategy every day — in their ads. Save any Facebook page to your private watchlist and PrivAdSpy decodes it in real time: what they test, what they scale, which creatives survive, and how fast they move.

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PrivAdSpy Pages — real-time analytics on a tracked Facebook page
Why it matters

Every winning move is public. Almost nobody watches.

Since Meta made every active ad public in the Ad Library, competitor ad strategy stopped being a secret. When a store finds a winning product, it scales its ad count. When a creative works, it stays live for weeks. When an angle dies, its ads disappear. All of it is visible — if you’re watching.

The problem is that watching manually doesn’t scale. Checking ten competitors in the official Ad Library every morning takes an hour and gives you no history: you can’t see what changed, what’s new, or what’s been running for 90 days straight.

PrivAdSpy turns that manual chore into a dashboard. Save a page once and you’re one click away from its whole ad strategy, updated in real time — for as long as you track it.

To track a competitor’s Facebook ads, save their page in an ad intelligence tool like PrivAdSpy: you’ll see every active ad, new launches as they happen, how long each creative has been running (longevity is the strongest proxy for profitability), and whether a product is being tested or scaled.

How it works

Competitor intelligence in three steps

1

Find & save their page

Search any brand, store or advertiser and add its page to your watchlist. Tag it by niche, client or market — your lists stay private.

2

Let the radar decode them

Active ads, new tests vs scaling products, creative longevity, media mix, launch frequency, hooks and ad copy — computed for you, live.

3

Act on the signals

An ad running 30+ days is converting. A sudden burst of launches means a winner. Move on the insight before the rest of the market sees it.

The core — best feature

X-ray any business with Pages

The Pages module is a living dossier on every advertiser you track — their tests, their winners, their playbook.

  • Tests vs scaling — spot new products the day they’re tried, see which get budget
  • Creative longevity — ads that keep running are ads that keep converting
  • Launch rhythm & media mix — how often they ship, image vs video vs carousel
  • Hooks & copy — the exact words selling their products right now
PrivAdSpy Pages — real-time analytics on a tracked Facebook page
Real time

Never miss a launch

PrivAdSpy reads Meta’s Ad Library live. The moment a tracked competitor publishes a new ad, it’s in your dashboard.

  • See every ad the second it goes live — not days later
  • Filter their ads by media type, platform and date
  • Follow the trail: from their ad to their store to their product
PrivAdSpy Ads Search — every live Meta ad with advanced filters
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Is it legal to spy on competitors’ Facebook ads?

Yes. Every active ad on Facebook and Instagram is public information, published by Meta in its Ad Library for transparency. PrivAdSpy reads that same public data — it just organizes and analyzes it for you.

Can competitors see that I’m watching them?

No. Tracking is completely invisible and your watchlists are private. Unlike shared adspy tools, your saved pages are never shown to other users.

How fresh is the data?

Real-time. PrivAdSpy is built on Meta’s Advertising Library and shows ads as they run — new launches from tracked pages appear as they go live.

How many competitors can I track?

Saving pages is unlimited on every plan. Credits are only used for data-intensive analytics actions.

Which platforms are covered?

Every ad running on Meta placements — Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and the Audience Network — worldwide.

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