Ads intelligence
Competitor ad monitoring because ad spend is strategy you can read.
Outmano watches the Google Ads your competitors run: every keyword they bid on and the exact copy they pay to show. When they start, stop, or change the message, you hear about it that week.
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Their ads changed last month. Your pitch didn't.
Incognito searches aren't a strategy.
Googling your category in a private window shows you one ad, in one place, on one day. It misses the other forty keywords they're quietly bidding on.
Ad copy is the tell.
Nobody pays per click to test a message they don't believe in. When a rival's ads pivot from 'easy to use' to 'enterprise-ready', the website usually follows weeks later.
Spend starts and stops silently.
A competitor launching their first campaign, or a funded rival suddenly going dark, is a strategy signal. Unless someone checks every week, you find out from your rising cost per click.
How it works
From URL to insight in three steps.
Add a competitor. We check for spend.
Outmano first checks whether a rival runs Google Ads at all, then pulls the full picture for the ones that do. Nothing to configure either way.
Every keyword and creative, captured weekly.
For each advertiser we capture the keywords they bid on, the search volume behind them, and the exact ad title and description they run. Each snapshot is diffed against the last.
You get the move, not the spreadsheet.
New keywords, dropped keywords, a copy rewrite, a campaign starting or going dark: each lands as an alert and in your Monday digest with the details behind it.
What you get
Built to do the actual work, not just alert you.
- The keywords they pay for
- Up to 100 paid keywords per competitor, with search volume, refreshed weekly. You see where their budget points, not just where their SEO happens to rank.
- The ad copy they run
- Every creative is captured verbatim: the headline and description they pay to put in front of your buyers. It's the sharpest read on their positioning, because it costs them money to say it.
- Start, stop & rewrite alerts
- A rival launching their first campaign, going dark after months of spend, or rewriting the copy on a keyword you both chase gets flagged the week it happens.
- Paid and organic, side by side
- Ads live next to each competitor's SEO tracking, so you can tell a genuine push into your market from a patch over weak organic rankings.
Data vs. intelligence
What an ads alert actually looks like
Instead of a hunch from one incognito search, Outmano's Monday email reads: "Acme started bidding on three comparison keywords this week and rewrote their headline from 'Simple tooling for teams' to 'Enterprise-ready platform'. Reads like an upmarket push aimed at the terms you both chase." You see the campaign the week it starts, not the quarter it works.
Incognito checks vs. an ads library vs. Outmano
| Manual | Ads library | Outmano | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sees an ad they're running | |||
| Lists the keywords they bid on | – | – | |
| Tracks copy rewrites over time | – | – | |
| Alerts when spend starts or stops | – | – | |
| Sits next to SEO, pricing & hiring intel | – | – |
Questions? Answers.
Google Ads today: the paid keywords a competitor bids on in search and the ad creatives they run there. It's where B2B budgets concentrate, and it's the channel your buyers see while actively comparing options.
Weekly for every advertiser you track. Each snapshot is diffed against the previous one, so changes surface as events, not as a pile of rows to compare by hand.
Then there's nothing to wade through. Outmano keeps checking, and the week they launch their first campaign you get the alert. A rival that stops advertising gets flagged too.
Because copy changes carry intent. Ad messaging gets rewritten when positioning shifts, and it usually happens before the website changes. A headline pivot on a shared keyword is your earliest warning.
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