You check
Three competitor domains, about a minute, no signup. You see who is advertising on Google, who is advertising on Meta, and how many ads are behind the answer.
For business owners and marketing teams
Some quotes are lost before you ever hear the phone ring, to a competitor who paid to be in front of your buyer first. Enter up to three competitors and in about a minute you see who is running ads on Google and Meta, and who has left the field open.
Free, no signup, and the on-screen result is yours whether or not you ever talk to us.
Example result
An example, not live data. Run your own below.
Instant presence check
Think of the last deal you lost and never found out why. Enter the competitors you lose to, and the check reports what it can confirm on Google and Meta today. The report that follows covers the rest.
You see the actual ads these companies are running, plus the ones you never thought to list, and what all of it means for your budget.
How it works
The instant check is fast because it only answers one question. The report answers the ones that decide where your budget goes.
Three competitor domains, about a minute, no signup. You see who is advertising on Google, who is advertising on Meta, and how many ads are behind the answer.
A blank result is not proof of nothing. Companies advertise under a parent name, a second domain, or a brand that does not match their website. I check that by hand rather than letting an automated answer stand.
Up to five competitors, including ones you did not name, with their real ads and what the pattern says about the market you are buying into. Written by a person, in your inbox within 24 hours.
Who is on the other end of this
Synthesis Insights runs Google, Microsoft, Meta and LinkedIn campaigns for manufacturers and other businesses whose leads talk to a salesperson before they buy, and measures them against closed revenue rather than dashboard conversions. The person who reads your competitors’ ads is the same person who would be in the account. No account managers, no junior buyers running your market through a template.
Straight answers
From Google’s and Meta’s own advertising records, not from our estimate. A yes or no on this page is the platform’s own account of what that company is running, not our guess at it. What we add is the part those records do not give you, which is what any of it means for your budget.
Up to five competitors, including the ones you did not think to list, with the actual ads they are running and what that tells you about who is bidding for your buyers. The table above is a signal. The report is the read on it, written for someone who has to decide where next quarter’s budget goes.
Probably, but blank is the one result we will not let you act on alone. The check matches on the domain and the brand name you gave it. A company advertising under a parent company, a product brand, or a different domain can come back clean and still be spending every day. That specific case is the reason I review every report before it goes out.
It means something different on each platform. On Google it means an ad from that advertiser was shown in the last 30 days. The number beside it is an estimate of how many ads are on record, not a live count and not a spend signal, which is why it carries a tilde. “Advertised before, not now” means ads are on record but none was shown in the last 30 days. Those records reach back about a year and no further, so a company that quit before then reads as not advertising. Meta only shows ads that are live, so on Meta it means the page we matched has ads running right now, and that count is exact.
Within 24 hours, and no. A person researches it, which is exactly why it takes a day instead of a second. An automated version of this document would tell you what you already saw on screen. If I am going to put my name on a read of your market, I have to have actually looked at it.
It is used to send your report and nothing else. If the report is useful and you want to talk about your own advertising, you reply. If it is useful and you do not, that is a completely acceptable outcome and you keep the report.
Three domains, about a minute, no signup. Either you confirm the field is quiet, or you find out who has been in front of your buyers all along. Both are worth knowing before you set next quarter’s budget.
See who is advertisingWhy I built this
The first thing I want to know in any account I take over is who else is bidding. Not because of the number, but because of what it settles. If four competitors are advertising hard, you are buying into a live auction and the plan has to account for that. If nobody is, you are looking at a very different opportunity and a very different budget.
It is not a hard question to answer, and almost nobody has the answer in front of them when they set a budget.
So the check is free and what it finds is yours. Take it, do what you like with it. It will not catch everything, which is the whole reason the report exists. If you want the version with the actual ads in it and a read on what they mean, leave your email and I will write it up.
Andre Rosdahl, Synthesis Insights