Ad Budget Signals — do these domains run ads? $3.20/1,000 domains

Paste a list of company domains (from your CRM, a lead list, or another scraper) and get back one flat row per domain answering the question every seller and marketer asks: does this company spend money on advertising?

Checked against two public sources over plain HTTP — the Google Ads Transparency Center and the LinkedIn Ad Library. No API keys, no login, no browser, no proxies. A company that runs ads has a marketing budget; a company with a marketing budget can buy what you sell.

$3.20 per 1,000 domains checked + $0.001 per start. "No ads found" is a real answer and is charged; a domain where both sources fail to respond is never charged.

Who uses this

• Sales & SDR teams — prioritize leads that already spend on ads: they have budget and buy tools. Sort your CRM by budgetSignalScore.
• Marketing agencies — prospects already buying ads are the easiest upsell ("we'll make your existing spend work harder"). Filter for advertises = true.
• AI sales agents — one call, flat schema, predictable cost: qualify a lead list without any human clicking through two ad libraries per company.
• Investors & analysts — quick read on which companies in a space are in growth mode.

What you get per domain

Field	Example	Notes
domain	hubspot.com	cleaned input
advertises	true	any ads found on any network
networks	google,linkedin	where
budgetSignalScore	85	0–100, formula below
googleAdCount (+Capped)	60	creatives found (scan-capped)
googleAdvertiserName / googleAdvertiserId	HubSpot, Inc.	resolved verified advertiser
googleTextAds / googleImageAds / googleVideoAds		format mix
googleFirstSeen / googleLastSeen	ISO dates	ad activity window
googleDaysSinceLastAd	2	freshness
linkedinAdCount	24	ads from matching advertisers
linkedinMatchedAdvertisers	HubSpot	who's actually advertising
googleLibraryUrl / linkedinLibraryUrl		one-click verification links
signalChanged	true	monitor mode: activity changed since last run
errors, checkedAt		transparency

Every field is always present (nullable, never missing). Rows import straight into Sheets, HubSpot or Salesforce.

The score (transparent, no magic)

budgetSignalScore 0–100: +35 Google ads active in the last 30 days, +15 active in the last 7 days, +20 LinkedIn ads present, +10 both networks, +10 ≥10 Google creatives, +5 ≥50 creatives, +5 video ads present (video = bigger production budget).

Input

{
  "domains": ["hubspot.com", "temu.com", "smallshop.example"],
  "networks": ["google", "linkedin"],
  "onlyChanges": false
}

• domains — your list; URLs are cleaned automatically.
• region — optionally restrict Google results to one country (US, DE, ID…).
• maxAdsScanned — scan depth per network (affects count precision, not price).
• linkedinNameMatch — only count LinkedIn ads whose advertiser matches the domain's brand (default on).
• onlyChanges — monitor mode, see below.

Monitor mode — re-qualify your pipeline for cents

Set "onlyChanges": true and schedule the run. The Actor remembers each domain's signal fingerprint; on later runs, unchanged domains are skipped and never charged. You only pay when a lead starts advertising, stops, or scales — exactly the moments a seller wants to know about.

How to schedule this Actor (recommended)

1. Open the Actor → Try for free, paste your domain list.
2. Save as a task → Schedules → weekly (0 7 * * 1) with "onlyChanges": true.
3. Add an integration (Google Sheets, Slack, HubSpot webhook) — new-signal rows land where your pipeline lives.

Re-checking 1,000 CRM domains weekly costs at most $3.20, and usually far less in monitor mode.

For AI agents & MCP

Built to be called by AI agents via the Apify MCP server or API:

• Minimal input that just works: {"domains": ["<domain>"]}.
• Predictable cost: exactly $0.0032 × domains + $0.001 per run.
• Stable flat schema; domain is the join key back to your CRM.

The full lead-qualification chain

1. Qualify budget — this Actor: who's spending?
2. Contact Details Scraper — pull emails, phones and socials from the qualified domains.
3. Bulk Email Verifier — verify before outreach.

Want the actual creatives, not just the signal? Google Ads Transparency Scraper ($0.64/1k ads) and Brand Ads Spy — Google + LinkedIn ($1.20/1k ads) return every ad row.

Fair use & data source

Only public data from the Google Ads Transparency Center and the public LinkedIn Ad Library (both published for transparency purposes). Reasonable rate limits. No login, no personal data.