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Type the brand name as it appears on its Facebook Page, or paste a Meta Ad Library URL. The tool reads the q= search parameter or the view_all_page_id from the URL, so a link copied from the library works as is.
Fetch the report
Press Fetch ads. The lookup searches the shared library for that brand and aggregates every captured ad that was active at capture time. One brand is free per browser; an account unlocks more.
Read the summary cards
The header shows the active ad count. Below it, the media mix bar splits video against image, the CTA card lists the top five buttons with their share, and the landing page card lists up to eight destinations with the number of ads pointing at each.
Scan the creative grid
Up to 24 active ads are shown with their creative and the first lines of primary text. Group them by concept, note which concept has the most variations, and open the top landing page before you write a brief.
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Ads marked active at the time they were captured into the library.
Two thirds video is a strong hint that demonstrations and testimonials are carrying the account.
Mostly direct to purchase, with a smaller education layer.
Nineteen ads on one product page marks the hero SKU; eleven on a quiz marks the cold traffic funnel.
Roughly three concepts: before and after, dermatologist talking head, and a bundle offer.
Nineteen ads pointing at one product page is the brand telling you which SKU pays for the media. Your first test is not a better serum ad; it is your own hero product, in the format that dominates their mix, landing on a page built the way theirs is.
| Signal | Where it appears | What it usually means |
|---|---|---|
| Landing page concentration | Top landing pages card, ad count per URL | The page with the most ads is where the profitable spend goes; that is the hero product or funnel |
| Quiz, advertorial or listicle URL | Top landing pages card | The brand runs a pre-sell step for cold traffic; expect longer copy and education angles in the grid |
| Video share of the mix | Media mix bar | Above roughly two thirds video suggests demos, UGC or testimonials are the winning formats; image heavy accounts lean on offers and price |
| CTA split | Top CTAs card | Shop Now dominant means ecommerce direct response; Learn More or Sign Up dominant means lead gen, quiz or app funnels |
| Number of variations per concept | Creative grid, grouped by eye | Many near identical ads on one concept mean the concept is proven and copy or hook is still being iterated |
| Active count vs what you see in the Ad Library | Header count compared with a live check | A big gap means the library capture is stale for this brand; treat the report as a sample, not a census |
| Ad longevity | Not in this report; check the running dates in the Meta Ad Library | Ads live for months are paying for themselves; new ads may be tests that fail next week |
A reading order for the report. Start with the landing pages, because spend follows conversion, then work back to formats and copy.
Messaging: see how one pain point becomes half a dozen headline variations, which tells you the pain point is proven and the wording is not. Audience: spot the personas baked into every ad, from the person in the video to the objection the first line answers. Funnel: follow each ad to its landing page, whether a product page, a quiz, an advertorial or a video sales letter, because where the ads land tells you what the brand has found converts.
The Meta Ad Library shows you all of this for free, one ad at a time. What it does not do is add it up. A brand running sixty ads is sixty cards to click through, each with its own destination link, and nobody does that more than once. This report does the counting: how many ads are active, what share is video, which CTA buttons the brand relies on, and which URLs receive the most ads. The last one is the most useful number in competitive research, because an advertiser does not point nineteen ads at a page that does not convert.
Start with the landing pages, not the creatives. Open the top URL and note the page type: a product page means the offer is strong enough to sell cold; a quiz or advertorial means the brand needs a pre-sell step and its ads are written to start a conversation rather than close one. Then look at the media mix. An account that is two thirds video has already learned that demonstration or testimonial formats beat static for its product, which saves you a month of finding that out yourself. Finally read the creative grid by concept. Group the 24 ads into the three or four ideas behind them and count the variations per idea. The idea with the most variations is the one the brand is scaling.
What the report deliberately does not tell you is how long each ad has run. That number lives in the Meta Ad Library under each ad, and it is the strongest single signal of profitability: brands do not keep paying for ads that lose money for three months. Once you have the two or three concepts that matter, confirm their running dates there before you brief anything. The guide to seeing competitor ads walks through the library's filters, and the Ad Library explainer covers what it does and does not disclose about targeting and spend.
Coverage comes from the shared library, which grows as media buyers capture ads with the Chrome extension. Each capture records the brand, media, copy, CTA, landing URL and whether the ad was active at the time. That means the report is a snapshot of what has been captured, not a live query against Meta, and the active count can lag the real one for a brand nobody has looked at recently. Well covered brands in DTC ecommerce tend to be complete; a brand that returns “not in the library yet” simply has not been captured. If you need the brand's competitors as well as the brand, the AI ad search finds ads by description across every brand in the library.
The output of competitive research should be a brief, not a swipe file. Take the dominant format from the media mix, the funnel type from the landing pages, and the top two concepts from the grid, then write your own versions with your product, your customers and your proof. Put three to five hooks on the winning concept into one ad set so budget flows on real performance; the creative testing guide covers the structure. Then track the brand over time inside Volume Creatives, where new ads land in your library as they are captured and the AI groups them by concept, so the next check takes minutes rather than a rebuild of this one.
It shows every ad for that brand in the shared Volume Creatives library that was marked active when it was captured, which can be fewer than the brand is running today. Coverage comes from media buyers capturing ads with the Chrome extension, so well known DTC brands are usually complete and smaller or newer advertisers may be missing. For a live count, open the brand in the Meta Ad Library directly.
Four things: the number of active ads captured, the media mix between video and image, the top five CTA buttons with the percentage of ads using each, and the top eight landing pages with an ad count per URL. Under the summary you get a grid of up to 24 active ads with the creative and primary text. Carousel ads are counted in the totals but are not drawn as a separate bar in the mix.
Nobody has captured that brand yet. The library grows as users of the Chrome extension save ads, so it is deepest in DTC ecommerce, supplements, apparel and app niches and thinner in B2B and local services. Check the spelling against the brand's Facebook Page name, or paste the Ad Library URL for the page, which avoids name mismatches.
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Not in this report. The library stores a start date at capture, but the running dates shown in the Meta Ad Library are the reliable source, and an ad's age is the single strongest signal that it is profitable. Use this tool to find the concepts and landing pages, then confirm longevity in the library for the two or three ads you care about.
Looking at ads is what the Meta Ad Library exists for; Meta publishes every active ad for transparency, and studying them is normal competitive research. What you may not do is reuse a brand's creative, copy, product photos or trademarks in your own ads. Use the report to learn angles, formats and funnel structure, then produce your own assets.
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