Google Ads Transparency Scraper — Bulk Advertiser & Ads Check

Check a whole list of companies against the Google Ads Transparency Center in one run: is each company advertising on Google, roughly how many ads, who actually runs them, when they were last shown, which formats and in which countries. Or export every ad of a competitor — with a monitoring mode that returns only ads first shown since your last run.

No login, no API key, no proxy. Every company check costs one request and takes well under a second.

Two ways to use it

Check companies — paste domains or company names, get one row per company:

Company	Advertising	Ads	Main advertiser	Other advertisers	Last shown
check24.de	✅	400,000–500,000	CHECK24 GmbH	0	today
otto.de	✅	60,000–70,000	Otto GmbH & Co. KGaA	0	today
aldi-sued.de	✅	1,000–2,000	ALDI SÜD Dienstleistungs-SE & Co. oHG	2 (incl. Publicis Media)	today
hornbach.de	✅	2,000–3,000	HORNBACH Baumarkt AG	2	today
frischpack.de	❌	0	–	–	–

Measured 5 October 2026.

Export ads — every ad of a domain, company or advertiser ID, newest first: advertiser, format (text / image / video), first and last time shown, preview image and a direct link to the ad in the Transparency Center. Optionally the countries each ad ran in, with first and last day per country.

Why this one

• Company lists, not one advertiser at a time. Most Transparency scrapers take one advertiser and return its ads. This actor takes 10 or 10,000 companies and answers the question sales and agency teams actually ask: who here is spending money on Google Ads right now?
• It tells you who really runs the ads. A domain search also finds agencies and resellers that link to the domain. On aldi-sued.de the media agency Publicis runs more ads than ALDI itself; on mediamarkt.de a US agency and two marketplace sellers show up. Every row lists all advertisers with their share, picks the company's own advertiser as the main one and says whether that name matches the domain (mainAdvertiserMatchesDomain).
• One company, many advertiser IDs, one row. Lidl advertises under two IDs with the same legal name — they are merged (87 of 100 recent ads).
• Ad counts per country. region_breakdown: ["DE", "AT", "CH"] adds the number of ads per country — mediamarkt.de: Germany 10,000–20,000, Austria 400–500, Switzerland 32.
• Monitoring that means what it says. With only_new_ads a scheduled run returns only ads first shown since the previous run — not merely ads it happened not to deliver before.
• It never dies at its timeout. When time runs short, the run stops cleanly, keeps every record it finished and says so.

Use cases

• Lead qualification for agencies and SaaS — which prospects already pay for Google Ads, and which don't advertise at all
• Competitor monitoring — a daily feed of every new ad a competitor launches
• Market mapping — how actively a whole sector advertises, country by country
• Brand protection — who else runs ads that link to your domain
• Sales intelligence — combine with company data from imprints (see below)
• AI agents — clean, flat records, callable via MCP

Input examples

Check a list of companies, with ad counts for the DACH countries:

{
    "mode": "companies",
    "domains": ["check24.de", "otto.de", "hornbach.de", "frischpack.de"],
    "region_breakdown": ["DE", "AT", "CH"]
}

Check by company name (every word must appear in Google's verified advertiser name):

{ "mode": "companies", "company_names": ["Zalando", "HORNBACH"] }

Export a competitor's newest 500 ads shown in Germany, with countries per ad:

{ "mode": "ads", "domains": ["lidl.de"], "region": "DE", "max_ads": 500, "include_details": true }

Daily monitoring — schedule this and get only new ads:

{ "mode": "ads", "domains": ["competitor.com"], "only_new_ads": true, "max_ads": 200 }

Output

A company check (shortened):

{
    "recordType": "company",
    "input": "aldi-sued.de",
    "domain": "aldi-sued.de",
    "isAdvertising": true,
    "adCountMin": 1000,
    "adCountMax": 2000,
    "adCount": "1,000–2,000",
    "mainAdvertiser": "ALDI SÜD Dienstleistungs-SE & Co. oHG",
    "mainAdvertiserId": "AR17200848072016396289",
    "mainAdvertiserMatchesDomain": true,
    "advertisers": [
        { "name": "Publicis Media GmbH", "advertiserIds": ["AR07559607517198680065"], "adsInSample": 54 },
        { "name": "ALDI SÜD Dienstleistungs-SE & Co. oHG", "advertiserIds": ["AR17200848072016396289", "AR14903555861652701185"], "adsInSample": 44 }
    ],
    "otherAdvertiserCount": 2,
    "lastShown": "2026-10-05T12:16:02Z",
    "activeLast30Days": true,
    "formatsInSample": { "text": 29, "image": 23, "video": 48 },
    "sampleSize": 100,
    "transparencyUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/?region=anywhere&domain=aldi-sued.de"
}

An exported ad:

{
    "recordType": "ad",
    "query": "lidl.de",
    "advertiserName": "Lidl Dienstleistung GmbH & Co. KG",
    "advertiserId": "AR04975787833676529665",
    "creativeId": "CR07411571023981576193",
    "format": "text",
    "firstShown": "2023-04-27T13:28:15Z",
    "lastShown": "2026-10-05T12:36:38Z",
    "previewImageUrl": "https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/archive/simgad/17333875822616234804",
    "adUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR04975787833676529665/creative/CR07411571023981576193?region=anywhere",
    "regions": [{ "country": "DE", "firstShown": "2023-04-27", "lastShown": "2026-10-05" }]
}

Two table views are built in: Companies and Ads.

What does a run cost?

$0.01 per run start, then per result — and the price drops with your Apify plan:

Your Apify plan	Company check	Ad	Countries per ad (option)
Free	$0.004	$0.001	+$0.001
Starter	$0.0035	$0.0009	+$0.0009
Scale	$0.003	$0.0008	+$0.0008
Business & Enterprise	$0.0025	$0.0007	+$0.0007

Checking 1,000 companies costs $4.01 on the Free plan; exporting 1,000 ads $1.01. You pay only for records delivered — a company check that finds no ads still counts as a check, because "not advertising" is the answer.

Honest limits

• Ad counts are ranges, exactly as Google publishes them (e.g. 400,000–500,000). Small advertisers get exact numbers.
• Formats, advertisers and dates in a company check come from the 100 most recently shown ads (sampleSize). The total count covers all ads.
• There is no list of "all advertisers in a country". Google only searches by domain or advertiser, so you bring the company list — or build one with the Imprint & Impressum Scraper, which can find businesses by trade and city.
• Text ads are archived by Google as images. You get the preview image, not the headline as text.
• Company names must match the verified legal name. "Bäckerei Müller" finds nothing if the advertiser is registered as "Müller Backwaren GmbH" — use the domain for small businesses.
• Google only in this version. Meta and LinkedIn block automated access to their libraries; Microsoft's library is planned.

Data source and legal

All data comes from the Google Ads Transparency Center (adstransparency.google.com), where Google publishes every ad it serves and the verified identity of the advertiser — in the EU as required by the Digital Services Act (Art. 39). No login, no paywall and no access control is involved; requests are paced well below what the service handles.

Advertisers are almost always companies. Where a verified advertiser is a private person, only the name and country Google itself displays are returned. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Google.

FAQ

Is there an official Google Ads Transparency API? No public one. This actor reads the same data the Transparency Center website shows and returns it as structured records.

How fast is it? About 2–3 company checks per second. 1,000 companies take roughly 7 minutes; each country in region_breakdown adds one request per advertising company.

Can I find out how much a company spends? Google publishes no spend figures. The number of ads and how recently they ran are the best public proxy — and they separate active advertisers from inactive ones very clearly.

How does monitoring work? The first run with only_new_ads returns the current ads as a baseline and remembers the date. Every later run with the same domain, name or advertiser ID returns only ads first shown since then. The memory lives in a key-value store called google-ads-transparency-monitor in your own Apify account.

Do I need a proxy? No. Measured from Apify's data centres: 50 requests in 25 seconds, all answered. A proxy option is there if that ever changes.

Which countries can I filter by? Any country — the region filter and region_breakdown take two-letter codes (DE, AT, CH, FR, US, …).

Auf Deutsch: Wer schaltet Google-Werbung? Firmenlisten prüfen

Dieser Actor prüft ganze Firmenlisten gegen das Google Ads Transparency Center: Wirbt die Firma bei Google, mit wie vielen Anzeigen ungefähr, wer schaltet sie (die Firma selbst oder eine Agentur), wann zuletzt, in welchen Formaten und in welchen Ländern. Alternativ exportiert er alle Anzeigen eines Wettbewerbers — mit einem Überwachungsmodus, der nur Anzeigen liefert, die seit dem letzten Lauf erstmals geschaltet wurden.

Typische Anwendungsfälle: Lead-Qualifizierung für Agenturen und Software-Anbieter (wer gibt bereits Geld für Google Ads aus?), Wettbewerbsbeobachtung, Marktanalysen nach Ländern, Markenschutz. Ohne Login, ohne API-Schlüssel, ohne Proxy. Die Daten veröffentlicht Google nach dem Digital Services Act.

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