Track a competitor's Google ads and export them to a spreadsheet

Pulls a competitor's live Google ads by domain and saves them into ready-to-use spreadsheet files.

How the work actually flows

It branches. Any that apply are taken.

Pattern: Multi-Choice (6)

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A stepAn outside serviceA personAny that applyResultPayoff
Build size
Standard

A mid-size build with several tools working together.

Business functions
SEO & Search OptimizationResearch & Market Intelligence
Connects
SerpApi

The problem it solves

You want to know what ads your competitors are running, but manually digging through Google's ad transparency tools for every brand takes forever. By the time you compile anything useful, the ads may already have changed.

Who it fits

Marketing analysts and digital marketers researching competitor advertising.

How it works

  1. You provide a competitor's domain and target region
  2. The system pulls their current ad creatives from Google's ad transparency data
  3. Results are filtered to match the exact domain
  4. Ads are sorted by type and exported into separate spreadsheet files
What you get

Competitor ad strategies laid out for you

It pulls a competitor's live ads and organizes them into a spreadsheet so you can study what they're running.

What you get

Separate spreadsheet files listing a competitor's text, image, and video ad creatives.

What you need

A SerpApi account with an API key.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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