Google Ads Transparency, Bing Ads Library – Advertiser Check
Pricing
from $0.70 / 1,000 ads
Which companies advertise on Google and Microsoft Bing: domains or company names in, one row per company out from the Google Ads Transparency Center and Microsoft Ad Library – advertising yes/no, ad counts, advertiser accounts, active in last 30 days. Also exports competitor ads, or only new ones.
After the platform test of 18 October 2026: a company name is also confirmed
when the ads pointing to the suggested domain come from a verified advertiser
that carries the name but was not among Google's suggestions (douglas.de,
viessmann.de and trumpf.com had stayed name_only). An advertiser without the
name is still never proof.
A change report that is aborted – by you, or by Apify at the run's maximum cost – keeps the state of every company it checked and charged; the other companies keep their saved state, and the next run compares with that instead of starting a new baseline.
README and field text say which country's domain a name is confirmed on: with
region set, that country's domain is tried first.
Two opt-in options for company checks; without them every run behaves and looks exactly as in 0.3.
list_id): give a company list a stable ID and run it on
a schedule. The first run saves every company as the starting point
(changeStatus: baseline); later runs of the same list and region return
only companies that changed: started or stopped advertising on Google or
Microsoft (an ad shown in the last 30 days), or a new advertiser account.
Unchanged companies are charged like any check and left out of the dataset;
their evidence is in the record UNCHANGED. Companies that could not be
checked are not_compared and keep their saved state. State: key-value
store google-ads-transparency-monitor, one record per list and region.
A restarted run (server move) neither checks nor charges a company twice.
At most 2,000 companies per run and list.resolve_names): a company name is first resolved to a
domain that Google confirms — a verified advertiser whose name matches runs
the ads pointing to it — and then checked as that domain, so Microsoft
accounts are proven by landing pages. matchedOn (domain,
confirmed_domain, name_only) and domainResolution say how each company
was matched; an unconfirmed domain is never used.Robustness (night check 15 October 2026, no change to columns or prices):
unavailable; an advertiser list that cannot be read is never reported as
"not advertising". One search that fails unexpectedly gets its query row
and goes to REMAINING; the export goes on.http(s) (otherwise
empty).platforms: ["google"]).Input and messages for AI agents (15 October 2026, no change to columns, prices or run status):
maxAds, Domains) are read as the schema's
fields; fields this actor does not have are named in the status message.invalid_input (not charged) instead of a
charged "not advertising".invalid_input row instead of a silent
"0 ads exported".googleAdCountMax is
empty and googleAdCount reads "10,000+" (before: "10,000–100").REMAINING
does not charge the finished ones again, and no longer tell to run the same
input again for companies Microsoft rejected (HTTP 400).constraints.txt).status and reason, per
platform googleStatus / microsoftStatus, …MatchedOn, …Coverage,
evidence (googleSampleAd, microsoftSourceUrl), schemaVersion. Only
checked_advertising and checked_not_advertising are charged.isAdvertising is never "false" without a check: when a platform
refuses or fails, it stays empty and the row is partial or unavailable.duplicateOf) and for unusable lines
(invalid_input: no DNS record, IP address, unknown ending, profile pages,
sites on shared website builders). One bad line no longer stops the run.unavailable,
not charged, and listed under REMAINING. RUN_STATS records the refusals.unavailable. "No ads" on either platform is only reported
after a known advertiser was found in the same library.bücher.de) work.googleMainAdvertiserAdsInSample); umlaut domains match their advertisers
(mueller.de → Müller).query row with its status, not "0 ads";
ad-details is charged only when details came back; monitoring no longer
loses ads at max_ads or after a refusal.only_new_ads) on both platforms.platforms (default: both). Microsoft advertiser IDs are accepted
in advertiser_ids.googleAdCount,
microsoftAdCount, …) with a summary across platforms (isAdvertising,
advertisingOn, activeLast30Days). Ads have platform and adId.REMAINING in its key-value store.