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Ads Lighthouse

See who advertises on your brand searches.

Best for: SEM teams, brand managers and agencies watching who advertises on their brand searches

Ad toolsAffiliate marketing
Starting price
from $49/mo
Free plan
No
Free trial
Yes
Best for
Agencies
Checked on
2026-10-12
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Ads Lighthouse helps brand, SEM and affiliate teams see which advertisers appear on selected brand searches. It monitors paid text ads on Google and Bing by keyword, market and device, saving each ad with its observation context. Teams can review advertiser and keyword histories, label advertiser relationships, check brand mentions and affiliate IDs in saved Google ad links, and export filtered data as CSV, Excel or PDF. Google Shopping listings are available on Growth and higher plans. The 7-day trial converts to the selected paid plan unless canceled.

Key features

  • Monitors paid text ads on Google and Bing for your brand terms, across 213 countries on desktop and mobile
  • Saves each ad with its search term, location, device, advertiser and destination domain
  • Ranks advertisers by observed visibility, with flags for affiliate markers, brand mentions, coupon sites and lookalike domains
  • Finds your affiliate IDs in ad destination URLs and tracks cases by status
  • Email, Slack and webhook alerts for new or returning advertisers
  • CSV and Excel exports, an MCP server for AI assistants, and a REST API on Scale and up

What stands out

  • 7-day trial on every plan
  • No per-seat pricing and no overage charges
  • MCP server and exports included on every plan

Trade-offs

  • Checks stop when the monthly allowance runs out
  • Shopping ads start on Growth and the REST API on Scale
  • A saved ad shows one search, place and moment, not the keyword bought or the spend

Pricing

PlanPriceFeesIncludes
Starter
$49 per month
Not stated
  • 1 project, 20 keywords, 2 locations
  • Checked once a day
  • 7,500 scheduled and 100 on-demand checks a month
  • Google and Bing search ads
Growth
$99 per month
Not stated
  • 2 projects, 50 keywords, 5 locations
  • Checked every 6 hours
  • 18,000 scheduled and 200 on-demand checks
  • Shopping product ads
Scale
$299 per month
Not stated
  • 5 projects, 150 keywords, 12 locations
  • Checked every 4 hours
  • 60,000 scheduled and 500 on-demand checks
  • REST API and API keys
Business
$599 per month
Not stated
  • 10 projects, 500 keywords, 25 locations
  • Checked every 2 hours
  • 144,000 scheduled and 1,000 on-demand checks
EnterpriseCustom; allowances agreed with you
  • Up to 100 locations a project
  • Everything on Business

Prices are monthly in US dollars; yearly prices are not listed, and tax is shown at checkout. The 7-day trial starts from Settings, Billing through Stripe Checkout; cancelling before it ends means no charge, otherwise the plan starts at its monthly price, with a reminder email before the first charge. The page does not say whether a card is required up front. Allowances are counted per calendar month in UTC (scheduled checks 7,500, 18,000, 60,000 and 144,000; on-demand checks 100, 200, 500 and 1,000), and deleting keywords or projects does not return checks already used. 'Visibility' means the share of monitored searches where a domain appeared, not Google impression share. It is independent and not affiliated with Google or Microsoft.

Checked 2026-10-12. Source: adslighthouse.com. Prices change; confirm on the vendor's site before you buy.

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