# Changelog of Google Ads Transparency Scraper - Ad Creatives & Advertisers (`sian.agency/google-ads-transparency-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/sian.agency/google-ads-transparency-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/sian.agency/google-ads-transparency-scraper.md

## Changelog

All notable changes to Google Ads Transparency Scraper will be documented in this file.

### \[2026-09-04]

#### 🎉 Google Ads Transparency Scraper - Launch!

- **Every Ad Creative, One Run** - pull the complete Google ads library for any advertiser, with image, text and video creatives, first and last shown dates, and days shown
- **Brand Names, Not IDs** - type "Nike" instead of hunting an advertiser ID, and the biggest matching advertiser is the one you get
- **213 Countries** - the same brand runs different creatives per market, and competitor ad research across countries is one field change
- **Per-Country Reach on Request** - one flag adds every creative variation, the full country list with flight dates, impression ranges and the ad category
- **Advertiser Search & Verified Identity** - find every verified advertiser bidding on a brand name, with ad counts, registered country and legal entity

#### 💎 User Benefits

- PPC teams and agencies get competitor ad creatives as structured rows, not screenshots taken one ad at a time
- 100 ads per request keeps a large advertiser to a handful of calls, so a full ad-intelligence pull finishes in about a minute
- Format and recency filters run before billing, so narrowing a search makes it cheaper rather than just shorter
- No Google account, no API key and no cookie, because the Ads Transparency Center is public and this reads it directly
- Failed lookups are never charged, and the FREE tier returns 25 ads with every field unlocked

#### 🎯 Use Cases

- A PPC manager diffing weekly runs to catch the exact day a rival launched a new creative
- A performance marketer studying which video ads have run for 800 days before writing new ad copy
- A brand-protection lead finding every verified advertiser bidding on their trademark, with its registered country
- An agency sizing a prospect's ad footprint and creative freshness before a pitch
- A market-entry team comparing what incumbents run in Germany against what they run at home