YouTube Ad Creative & Advertiser Tracker

YouTube Ad Creative & Advertiser Tracker produces advertiser and search lists: who is advertising, what they run, and who ranks in search results. Columns include ad id, advertiser id, advertiser name, advertiser country code, country code, queried regions. Contact and quality columns: websites.

A list of active advertisers is a strong signal of budget; it is not a local directory.

$0.99per 1,000 results, plus a start fee and platform usage
33columns in the output
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2026-11last updated on the Store
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The columns you get

From the published output schema, checked 2026-11-13.
ColumnWhat it holds
Ad id
adId		 Google creative ID (CR...)
Advertiser id
advertiserId		 Google advertiser ID (AR...)
Advertiser name
advertiserName		 Advertiser display name from Google
Advertiser country code
advertiserCountryCode		 Advertiser headquarters country from SearchSuggestions (not the queried region)
Country code
countryCode		 Queried region(s) used for the ad request, e.g. US or anywhere
Queried regions
queriedRegions		 List of ISO-2 queried regions
Served regions
servedRegions		 Countries where Google reports the creative was served (requires detail enrichment)
Format
format		 Ad format: TEXT / IMAGE / VIDEO (Google codes 1/2/3)
Media type
mediaType		 text / image / video
Image link
imageUrl		 Ad thumbnail / archived screenshot URL
Image width
imageWidth		 Media width in pixels
Image height
imageHeight		 Media height in pixels
Preview link
previewUrl		 Creative preview bundle URL (content.js)
Video id
videoId		 YouTube video ID resolved from the creative preview (omitted when not exposed)
Video link
videoUrl		 Direct googlevideo media URL when exposed by the creative
Video page link
videoPageUrl		 YouTube watch URL for videoId
Landing link
landingUrl		 Advertiser click URL decoded from the creative overlay when present
Video thumbnail link
videoThumbnailUrl		 ytimg.com thumbnail found in the creative preview
Video duration seconds
videoDurationSeconds		 Video duration in seconds parsed from the preview
Video id source
videoIdSource		 Where the video ID came from, e.g. preview:ytimg or detail-preview:youtube
First shown
firstShown		 First shown timestamp (ISO 8601)
Last shown
lastShown		 Last shown timestamp (ISO 8601)
Days shown
daysShown		 Inclusive days between firstShown and lastShown
Last shown age days
lastShownAgeDays		 Days since lastShown relative to the scrape date
Ad count
adCount		 Advertiser total ad count reported on the creative
Ad count min
adCountMin		 Lower bound of Google's advertiser ad-count range
Ad count max
adCountMax		 Upper bound of Google's advertiser ad-count range
Search term
searchTerm		 Keyword or domain that discovered this ad
Domain
domain		 Landing domain used for discovery
Discovery method
discoveryMethod		 advertiser-id / advertiser-name / domain-input / domain-query / keyword-advertiser / keyword-domain
Ads collected
adsCollected		 Ads collected for this advertiser
Pages fetched
pagesFetched		 SearchCreatives pages fetched
Is new
isNew		 Monitor mode: ad was not seen in an earlier run

What it costs

  • 100 rows in one run$0.20
  • 1,000 rows in one run$1.09
  • 10,000 rows in one run$10.00

Free-plan prices: $0.99 per 1,000 results plus a $0.10 start fee (1 GB run) per run, plus Apify platform usage at $0.20 per compute unit. The Free plan includes $5 a month (Apify pricing).

What you fill in

  • Advertisers
    Advertiser names, AR-IDs, Transparency Center URLs, or landing domains to scrape YouTube ads for (e.g. 'Nike, Inc.', 'AR16735076323512287233', 'nike.com'). Nam…
  • Search terms
    Keywords or domains used to discover advertisers and domains, then scrape their YouTube ads (e.g. 'electric car', 'nike.com'). Keyword searches also use domain…
  • Countries
    ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 queried regions sent to the Transparency Center as the ad filter (e.g. US, GB). This is the region the ads were served in, not the advertise…
  • Date from
  • Date to
    Keep ads whose observed flight overlaps this window (inclusive). Works together with dateFrom and is no longer compared only against firstShown.
  • Format
    Server-side creative format filter. TEXT, IMAGE and VIDEO map to Google's verified format codes 1, 2 and 3.
  • Include video details
    Fetch GetCreativeById for every creative to enrich last-shown dates, served regions and preview assets. Video IDs are resolved from previews even when this is …
  • Resolve video ids
    Extract videoId, watch URL, thumbnail and duration from creative previews (ytimg/youtube URLs). Missing IDs are omitted, never fabricated. Turn off to save pre…
  • Max advertisers per term
    Maximum advertiser matches (and domain suggestions) to scrape per keyword (when searchTerms is used).
  • Max ads per advertiser
    Cursor-pagination cap per advertiser or domain, applied before the global maxItems cap.

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Questions

What does YouTube Ad Creative & Advertiser Tracker cost?

$0.99 per 1,000 results on the Apify Store (Free plan), plus a start fee per GB of run memory and Apify platform usage: one run of 1,000 rows costs about $1.09 before platform usage. The Free plan includes $5 a month.

Do I need to code to use it?

No. You fill in a form on the Apify Store page, start the run and download the results as CSV, Excel or JSON. You need a free Apify account.

Is it a good fit for a business list?

A list of active advertisers is a strong signal of budget; it is not a local directory.

Store data checked 2026-11-13Columns from the published schema