Competitor Ad Monitor

Description

See every ad your competitors are running — before they out-spend you

Your competitors are testing offers, hooks, and creative right now, out in the open. The problem isn’t access, it’s time. Digging through Meta Ads Library, Google Ads Transparency Center, TikTok Ads Library, and LinkedIn Ad Library one advertiser at a time is a half-day job you’ll never actually repeat.

Competitor Ad Monitor is an installable Claude skill that does the whole sweep for you. Give it one website URL and it identifies the real competitors, pulls the ads they’re running across all four public ad libraries, and hands back a clean intelligence brief: the hooks, the offers, the creative angles they keep doubling down on, and the ones they quietly killed.

What it does

• Starts from a single URL. Drop in any competitor or your own site as the benchmark.
• Finds the right competitors automatically. Classifies the business as local, regional, or national, then scopes competitor discovery to match — no wasting time on brands that don’t actually compete with you.
• Pulls ads from all four libraries. Meta, Google, TikTok, and LinkedIn — the same public transparency tools the platforms built for exactly this.
• Surfaces the proven winners. It flags the longest-running creatives — the ads still live after months are the ones actually converting.
• Reads the market, not just the ads. Which angles are crowded, which are unclaimed, and where you can differentiate.

The real value is the repeat cadence

A one-time pull is useful. Running it on a cadence is where the edge lives. Every run compares against the last one, so you see:

• New — concepts that just appeared (a competitor testing something fresh)
• Still running — concepts live across multiple runs (the longer they persist, the better they’re working)
• Disappeared — concepts that got killed (it didn’t work — learn from their spend, not yours)
• Scaling signals — when a competitor’s active ad count jumps run over run

Kick it off in about 30 seconds each morning and the day-over-day diff builds itself.

What you get in your brief

• A scannable, per-competitor breakdown: active ad concepts, longest-running creative, and notable offers on each platform
• Hooks, offers, and positioning summarized in plain language
• Screenshots of representative creatives
• A market-wide read on crowded vs. unclaimed angles
• An optional branded Word report — ready to file or hand to a client

Who it’s for

• Marketing agencies running paid social or search for clients who want competitive intel as a deliverable
• Business owners who want to know what the shop down the street — or the national brand in their category — is actually advertising
• Freelancers and consultants who need to walk into a pitch already knowing the competitive landscape
• In-house marketers tired of manually checking ad libraries one advertiser at a time

What you need to run it

• A Claude account with skills enabled (Cowork or Claude Code)
• The Claude in Chrome extension connected — the skill drives your browser to read the public ad libraries

That’s it. No API keys, no paid ad-spy subscriptions, no monthly software fees.

How it works

1. Install the skill (instructions included in your download)
2. Give Claude a website URL and confirm whether it’s local, regional, or national
3. Claude finds the top competitors and confirms the list with you before pulling
4. It works through Meta, Google, TikTok, and LinkedIn, capturing ads and screenshots
5. You get a full brief — and a diff against your last run every time after the first

Honest note on coverage

These are public ad libraries, so coverage reflects reality. National DTC and SaaS brands are ad-rich on all four platforms. Local storefronts often run little or no paid social and may not appear on TikTok or LinkedIn at all. The skill reports “no ads found” truthfully rather than inventing anything — because bad intel is worse than none.

What’s included in your download

• The Competitor Ad Monitor skill file, ready to install
• Setup and install instructions
• Platform reference guide for how each ad library is searched
• Free updates to the skill

This is standard competitive research using public, platform-provided transparency tools — not gray-area scraping.