# Changelog of Google Ads Transparency Scraper & Alerts | $1.50/1K (`layerwiselabs/google-ads-transparency-monitor`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/layerwiselabs/google-ads-transparency-monitor/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/layerwiselabs/google-ads-transparency-monitor.md

## Changelog

### 1.0, update of 2026-10-23

- Monitor runs started at the same moment (for example by two schedules) now hand over to a single run, so every new ad is delivered and alerted once.
- An ad whose details or preview Google's servers fail to deliver now comes free of charge.
- The run's status message now says when an alert could not be delivered and why, and when the spending limit was reached.
- If Google's server for ad previews stops delivering for a while, the run ends cleanly, and monitors pick up the remaining new ads in the next run.
- When Google's list of ads breaks off partway, the run's status message says so.
- Text ads whose screenshot is not available are read from their HTML preview.
- Monitoring spots new ads faster and more reliably, also in monitors that use *Shown in the last days*.
- E-mail alerts now confirm that they were sent, with a clear hint if the address needs to be the one of your Apify account.
- If Google stops answering for a while, the run ends cleanly after retries from several IPs, so no time or credit is spent waiting. Monitors pick up exactly where they stopped.
- Text ads with sitelinks and ratings now come with a precise headline and description.
- More YouTube links, titles and channels for video ads, more images for Demand Gen ads, and clean texts for local Maps ads.

### 1.0 (published 2026-10-22)

- First version: ads by domain, advertiser name, advertiser ID or Transparency Center URL; filters for region, platform, format and dates.
- Text ads read with OCR into headline, description and display URL; product titles and images of image ads; YouTube link, title and channel of video ads.
- Regions, platforms, impressions and topic per ad.
- Monitoring with "Only new ads" and alerts to Slack, Discord, a webhook or e-mail.
- Requests blocked by Google move to residential Apify Proxy automatically.