Ads Lighthouse — Brand Search Ad Monitoring
Monitors Google and Bing brand searches to save advertiser evidence, alerts, affiliate signals, and paid-search reports.
About Ads Lighthouse — Brand Search Ad Monitoring
Ads Lighthouse is a brand search ad monitoring platform for SEM teams, brand managers, affiliate managers, and agencies that need to see who appears on brand searches.
The homepage says it catches competitors, affiliates, and lookalike domains on brand searches across selected markets and devices. Every saved ad keeps the search term, engine, location, device, time, advertiser domain, copy, and destination context together.
The product covers Google and Bing search ads, with Google Shopping monitoring available on Growth plans and above. Teams can run scheduled checks, start on-demand checks, filter advertiser results, export tables, and receive alerts when something changes.
The pricing page lists monthly plans based on projects, keywords, locations, check volume, and monitoring frequency. The API page says the REST API is available on Scale plans and above, while the MCP server is included in every plan.
Features
- Monitor selected Google and Bing brand searches by location and device.
- Review saved ad copy, destination URLs and advertiser history.
- Alerts can trigger for new advertisers, returning advertisers, brand mentions, and detected affiliate IDs
- Growth adds Google Shopping monitoring and supports checks as often as every 6 hours
- API endpoints cover projects, keywords, observations, advertisers, affiliate findings, alert events, and usage
Use cases
- Review third-party ads and brand mentions on selected searches with their context.
- Compare affiliate IDs in ad destinations with your program rules.
- Compare advertisers observed across selected markets and devices.
- Track paid-search visibility by advertiser domain, keyword, location, and device
- Export filtered evidence tables to CSV or Excel for team review
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Frequently asked questions
What does an observed ad prove?
It shows that an ad appeared in a monitored search. It does not establish the advertiser’s purchased keyword, spend or a policy violation.
How often can searches run?
Frequency depends on the plan, from daily to as often as every two hours. On-demand checks are also available.
Can I compare locations and devices?
Yes. Select supported locations and desktop or mobile devices for your checks, then compare the saved observations in context.
Are screenshots included in reports?
No. The features page says PDF reports do not include search result screenshots
What happens when a monthly allowance is used?
New checks stop, with no automatic overage charges, and saved observations remain available
What we verified
- - Public API?
- Yes, REST API with API keys is listed for Scale plans and above
- - Self-hostable?
- Not stated
- - Free tier without a credit card?
- Not stated
- - Pricing model?
- Monthly plans by coverage limits, with no per-seat pricing and no overage charges
- - Price?
- Starter $49/month, Growth $99/month, Scale $299/month, Business $599/month, Enterprise custom
- - Data region / hosting location?
- Not stated; security page says processing locations are available in the customer agreement and provider schedule
- - Named integrations?
- Slack, webhooks, email alerts, Google Ads, Search Console, CSV export, Excel export, REST API, MCP server
Could not be verified
- The site does not state a public free plan, self-hosting, exact hosting region, SOC 2 or ISO certification, guaranteed recovery time, screenshot evidence availability, or automated trademark complaint filing.
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