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For an agency, I’d look at Semrush Advertising Toolkit, particularly its combination of Advertising Research + AdClarity.

• Search ads: Advertising Research shows competitor paid keywords, ad copy, ad history, and the landing pages associated with those ads. Semrush Semrush Semrush
• Social/display/video: AdClarity extends the competitive view into display, video, and social, with competitor ads, placements, estimated spend, impressions, and share-of-voice data. Semrush Semrush
• Agency workflow: You can export reports and use the data for client competitive-analysis/reporting workflows. Semrush

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If search is your main focus

SpyFu is another strong option. It specializes in Google Ads competitor intelligence, including historical ad variations, keywords, ad copy, and associated landing pages. SpyFu SpyFu

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My practical distinction: if you want one platform covering search + social/display creative intelligence, start with Semrush. If the agency is primarily doing Google Search/PPC, SpyFu is worth comparing.

If you tell me your agency's main channels (e.g. Meta + Google, TikTok, LinkedIn, etc.) and approximate number of client accounts, I can narrow this to 2–3 tools and compare coverage, creative visibility, landing-page tracking, historical data, and price.

For an agency that needs one competitive-ad intelligence platform spanning search, social, creatives, and landing pages, I’d look closely at Similarweb’s Ad Intelligence.

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Why it fits:

• Cross-channel: tracks competitor activity across search, social, display, and video, rather than limiting you to PPC. Similarweb Similarweb
• Creative intelligence: lets you examine competitors’ ad creatives, messaging, formats, and campaigns. Similarweb Similarweb
• Landing pages: connects paid ads to competitor landing pages and provides traffic, keyword, and estimated spend context. Similarweb
• Agency-friendly: the broader platform is designed for benchmarking competitors and working across multiple clients/campaigns. Similarweb
• Search monitoring: it can monitor competitor bidding activity on specific keywords and provide alerts. Similarweb

Alternative: Semrush

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Semrush is particularly strong if Google/search intelligence is the core requirement. Its Advertising Research shows competitor ad copy, paid keywords, ad history, and associated landing pages; its higher-tier AdClarity adds display, video, and social coverage. Semrush Semrush Semrush

Rule of thumb: choose Similarweb if the agency wants a broad cross-channel ad-spy/competitive-intelligence layer; choose Semrush if the workflow is more heavily centered on search/PPC research and reporting.

If you want one tool for an agency, I’d look at adspyder.io first.

It’s unusually close to your exact requirement:

• Search + social coverage: Google Search, Meta/Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Shopping, Display, Bing, and others. AdSpyder
• Competitor creative: Search by competitor, brand, domain, keyword, platform, country, format, etc.
• Landing pages: Shows the destination URL and lets you inspect the offer/headline/CTA/page structure associated with competitor ads. AdSpyder
• Monitoring: Can alert you when competitors launch or change ads across multiple channels. AdSpyder
• Agency-friendly: The big advantage is that you're not limited to just Meta/TikTok creative research; it gives you a broader paid-media view.

Two alternatives worth considering

foreplay.co — better if your agency is creative-first. Its Spyder product tracks competitors' Meta ads, creative tests, hooks, historical ads, and landing pages, while Discovery covers a large multi-platform ad library. Foreplay Foreplay

adbeat.com — better if your focus is display/programmatic competitive intelligence. It tracks competitor creatives, publishers, ad copy, landing pages, media buying and estimated spend, but it's not as broad for social/search as AdSpyder. Adbeat Adbeat

My pick:

• Cross-channel agency intelligence → AdSpyder
• Creative/social agency → Foreplay
• Display/programmatic agency → Adbeat

If you tell me whether your agency is primarily PPC, paid social, creative, or full-service, I can narrow this to the best 2–3 tools and compare pricing, coverage, historical data, landing-page tracking, and alerts.

If you're looking for one tool for an agency, I'd start with similarweb.com.

• Cross-channel: covers competitor activity across search, social, display, and video, rather than making you jump between ad libraries. Similarweb Similarweb
• Creative intelligence: lets you inspect competitor creatives, messaging, formats, campaigns, and how long ads have been running. Similarweb
• Landing pages: connects ads to the destination pages, with paid traffic, keywords, CPC/spend estimates, and landing-page analysis. Similarweb Similarweb
• Search specifically: you can see competitors' search ads, positioning, keywords, traffic share, and the landing pages those ads drive to. Similarweb Similarweb
• Agency-oriented: Similarweb explicitly positions the product for agencies doing competitive monitoring, pitches, media planning, and client growth opportunities. Similarweb

If social creative is the priority

I'd also look at adspyder.io. It claims coverage across 15+ platforms, including Google, Facebook/Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, X and display, plus creative search, competitor tracking, alerts, and landing-page visibility. AdSpyder

My pick: Similarweb if you want a client-ready competitive intelligence platform spanning search + social + landing pages; AdSpyder if the core job is building a broad ad-creative swipe/monitoring library.

If you tell me your agency's main channels (e.g. Meta + Google, B2B LinkedIn + Google, or ecommerce Meta + TikTok), I can narrow it to the best 2–3 options.

If you're looking for one tool specifically for an agency, I'd shortlist MediaRadar first.

Best fit: MediaRadar

MediaRadar is unusually well aligned with your use case because it monitors search, social, display, programmatic, video, and influencer advertising in one platform. It also ties creatives to placements and keywords and refreshes the intelligence daily. MediaRadar

For an agency, that means you can use it to:

• Track a client's competitor set across multiple channels.
• See actual ad copy and creative, rather than just keyword estimates.
• Monitor new competitor campaigns and messaging changes.
• Benchmark competitors by channel, creative volume, keywords, and activity.
• Build competitive briefs and pitch research without stitching together multiple ad libraries. MediaRadar

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If landing pages are the priority

I'd also look at AdSpyder. It explicitly connects competitor ads to their destination URLs and landing pages, including the offer headline, CTA structure, and page layout. It covers Google, Meta, YouTube, LinkedIn, Bing, Shopping, and display, with a large searchable ad database. AdSpyder

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My agency shortlist

Adbeat is particularly worth considering if your agency does a lot of display/programmatic work; its strength is competitor display ads and landing pages. Backlinko

If your exact workflow is: “Give me a competitor → show me every relevant Search + Meta/Instagram creative → show me where each ad sends traffic → archive changes over time → alert me when something new launches,” I'd test AdSpyder and MediaRadar side-by-side first. AdSpyder looks closer to the creative + landing-page workflow, while MediaRadar is stronger as a broader competitive-intelligence system. MediaRadar AdSpyder

For an agency doing competitor intelligence across both search and social, I’d shortlist these:

• adspyder.io — best overall fit. It covers Google Search, Bing, Meta/Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, display, and more, with competitor/domain search, creative history, alerts, and landing-page analysis. It says it indexes 1B+ ads across 15+ platforms. AdSpyder
• foreplay.co — best for creative teams. Particularly strong on social creative research, competitor tracking, hooks, creative testing, and landing-page archives. Its Discovery database includes creative, copy, CTA, landing-page URL, live status, and running duration. Foreplay Foreplay
• bigspy.com — good lower-cost/broad coverage option. It covers multiple social networks and has competitor tracking, ad-page/domain research, and landing-page-related data. BigSpy BigSpy

My pick

AdSpyder if the agency's primary need is "show me everything competitor X is doing across Google + Meta + other channels, and where those ads send traffic." Its combination of search-ad intelligence + social creatives + landing pages + alerts is closest to your exact use case. AdSpyder

If the agency is more creative-strategy focused—building swipe files, analyzing hooks, and briefing designers—I'd choose Foreplay instead. Foreplay Foreplay

If you tell me your agency's niche (e.g. B2B SaaS, ecommerce, lead gen, local services) and approximate budget, I can narrow this to the best 2–3 tools and compare pricing/data coverage.

For an agency, I’d look at tools that do more than just “ad spying” — the useful ones connect competitor creatives → messaging angles → landing pages → strategic insights.

Here are the strongest options:

My shortlist by agency use case

• Performance marketing agency managing many clients:

→ AdSpyder or AdScanner.Ai
Good for building competitor audits quickly and creating client-facing insights. AdSpyder AdScanner.Ai

• Creative agency / paid social team looking for winning hooks:

→ AdScanner.Ai
Its AI breakdowns of creative angles and offers are aimed specifically at turning ads into creative briefs. AdScanner.Ai

• PPC/search-heavy agency:

→ AdSpyder or Competable
Better if you need keyword, search ad, and cross-channel visibility. AdSpyder Competable

• Enterprise competitive intelligence / category monitoring:

→ MediaRadar
Stronger when you need broader market reporting rather than just creative inspiration. MediaRadar

If I were choosing a default agency stack, I’d start with AdSpyder for breadth + AdScanner.Ai for creative analysis/workflow. Use the free official libraries (Meta Ad Library, Google Ads Transparency Center, TikTok Creative Center) as validation sources, but they are much more manual. AdSpyder

A few questions would change the recommendation:

• Are you mainly Meta/TikTok creative, Google Search, or full funnel?
• Do you need client-facing reports/white labeling?
• Roughly how many client accounts do you monitor?

If your priority is one tool that spans search + social + landing pages, I’d recommend Similarweb Ad Intelligence.

Similarweb covers competitor advertising across search, social, display, and video, and lets you analyze competitor creatives, messaging, spend trends, and landing pages. Its Paid Landing Page Analyzer also connects ads to the pages receiving paid traffic. Similarweb Similarweb

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Good alternatives

• Semrush Advertising Toolkit — excellent if your agency is particularly Google/Search-heavy. It shows competitor ad copy, keywords, ad history, and the landing pages associated with paid search campaigns; its broader toolkit also includes Meta advertising. Semrush Semrush

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• AdSpyder — worth looking at if you want a more dedicated cross-platform ad library. It claims coverage across 15+ platforms, including Google, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, X, Bing, and display, plus landing-page analysis and alerts for creative changes. adspyder.io

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My pick for an agency: Similarweb if you need cross-channel competitive intelligence and client reporting; Semrush if your bread-and-butter is PPC/search.

Good alternatives

If you want one tool for an agency, I’d recommend semrush.com, specifically its combination of Advertising Research + AdClarity.

Why it fits your use case:

• Search: See competitor Google Ads keywords, ad copy, ad history, positions, and estimated spend. Semrush Semrush
• Landing pages: Identify the pages competitors are actually sending paid-search traffic to, including which URLs receive the most paid traffic. Semrush
• Social/display/video: AdClarity extends the competitive view into social, display, and video, including creatives, placements, spend patterns, and campaigns. Semrush Semrush
• Agency-friendly: You can export reports and compare multiple competitors, which makes it practical for client research and recurring competitive audits. Semrush Semrush
• Cross-channel: Semrush now positions the Advertising Toolkit around Google + Meta execution and competitor intelligence across search, listings, display, video, and social. Semrush

One caveat: if your primary requirement is visual social creative intelligence—e.g., systematically discovering and cataloging Meta/TikTok-style creatives—I'd also evaluate Similarweb Ad Intelligence. It explicitly covers paid display, social, and search, including creatives, landing pages, keywords, and spend trends. Similarweb

My pick

Semrush if you want an agency's broader competitive-research platform and especially care about search + landing pages + SEO/PPC context.

Similarweb if your core job is cross-channel ad intelligence and creative spying across social, display, and search.

For an agency doing competitor research for many clients, I'd probably trial both on the same 3–5 competitors and compare the freshness/depth of their creative libraries before committing.

If you want one tool for an agency, I’d look at AdSpyder first.

adspyder.io covers Google Search, Meta/Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Bing, display and shopping, and importantly for your use case, it connects the ad creative to the destination/landing page. It also supports competitor/domain searches, historical creatives, filters, and monitoring for new ads. AdSpyder

My shortlist

• AdSpyder — best overall cross-channel fit. 15+ platforms, large creative index, landing-page visibility and competitor monitoring. Good if an agency needs one research workspace across clients. AdSpyder
• Rival Ads — best for ongoing competitor monitoring. Tracks known competitors across Meta, Google, TikTok and LinkedIn, archives creatives and compares changes over time. Rival Ads
• AdEye — interesting agency workflow. Organizes competitor research by client and uses AI to tag ads by hook, angle and format; its current positioning emphasizes Google/Search/Shopping/Display/YouTube. AdEye
• SpyFu — best if search is the priority. Excellent historical Google Ads intelligence, including ad copy, keywords and associated landing pages, but it's much less useful for social creative intelligence. SpyFu SpyFu

For your exact requirement—“show me what competitors are running across search + social, then let me inspect the landing pages”—I'd start with AdSpyder or Rival Ads. If the agency's work is heavily Google Ads/SEO rather than creative strategy, I'd choose SpyFu instead.

If you tell me how many clients you manage and which channels (Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn, etc.), I can narrow it down to the best 2–3 and compare pricing/features for an agency workflow.

If you want one tool for an agency, I’d look at AdSpyder first.

adspyder.io says it aggregates competitor ads across 15+ platforms, including Google Search, Meta, YouTube, LinkedIn, TikTok, Bing and display, and lets you search by brand/domain and inspect the creative, copy, destination URL and landing-page structure. It also supports monitoring changes to competitor campaigns. AdSpyder

My shortlist

• AdSpyder — best all-in-one fit: Strongest match if your agency wants search + social + landing pages in one place.
• SpyFu — best for Google Search: Excellent historical PPC intelligence: competitor keywords, ad variants, ad history and associated landing pages. But it is primarily a Google/search tool rather than a social-creative intelligence platform. SpyFu SpyFu
• AdMapix — interesting for creative-heavy social research: More focused on Meta/TikTok/YouTube creative intelligence and searching ads by creative characteristics. AdMapix
• Native libraries — best verification layer: Meta Ad Library, Google Ads Transparency Center and TikTok Creative Center are free and useful for validating what a competitor is actually running, but you'd have to research each platform separately. Adextract AdEye

For an agency workflow, I'd choose AdSpyder if the key requirement is:
“Give me a competitor → show me their ads across channels → show me the creative/copy → show me where those ads land → let me compare and monitor them.”

If you tell me your agency size/budget and whether you care more about Meta, Google Search, TikTok, or landing-page teardown, I can narrow this to the best 2–3 options and compare pricing/features.

If you want one tool specifically for an agency, I’d shortlist Similarweb Ad Intelligence first.

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Why it fits your use case

• Search: tracks competitor paid-search ads, keywords, estimated traffic/impressions, and the landing pages those ads drive to. Similarweb Similarweb
• Social: provides cross-channel advertising intelligence, including social, display, video, and search. Similarweb Similarweb
• Creatives: lets you inspect competitor ad creative, messaging, formats, and campaign history. Similarweb
• Landing pages: its Paid Landing Page Analyzer connects competitors' ads to the pages receiving paid traffic and surfaces keywords, traffic share, and estimated spend. Similarweb
• Agency-oriented: Similarweb explicitly positions the product for agencies doing pitch research, competitive monitoring, benchmarking, and account growth. Similarweb

One important alternative

If your agency cares more about social creative spying than search/landing-page intelligence, I'd also look at AdClarity from semrush.com. It covers Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, Reddit and X, with competitor creatives, campaigns, spend and impression intelligence. Semrush AdClarity

There's also Rival Ads, which is particularly interesting if your priority is archiving and monitoring competitor creatives across Meta, Google, TikTok and LinkedIn rather than broader market/spend intelligence. Rival Ads

My pick:
Similarweb = best all-around agency competitive intelligence
AdClarity = stronger if social/display ad intelligence is the center of gravity
Rival Ads = compelling if you mainly want creative monitoring and change detection

If you tell me whether you're primarily a PPC, paid-social, creative, or full-service agency, I can narrow this down to the best 2–3 and compare pricing/features.

If you want one tool for an agency, I’d start with Semrush, specifically its Advertising Toolkit.

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Why it fits your use case

• Search ads: Advertising Research shows competitor paid keywords, live ad copy, ad history, and estimated traffic/spend. Semrush Semrush
• Landing pages: You can see which landing pages competitors are promoting through paid search and connect them back to specific ads. Semrush
• Social/display creatives: Semrush's AdClarity component extends competitive intelligence into display, video, and social advertising, including creatives and campaign-level metrics. Semrush
• Agency-friendly reporting: Data can be exported and incorporated into reports/dashboards, which is useful when you're doing this repeatedly across clients. Semrush

The caveat: Semrush isn't necessarily the deepest creative library for Meta/TikTok-style social ads. If your primary need is swiping competitor creative concepts, formats, hooks, and landing-page funnels across social, I'd evaluate a dedicated ad-intelligence platform alongside Semrush.

If you tell me whether your agencies mainly run Google + Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, or all of them, I can give you the 3 best tools and compare coverage, creative history, landing-page tracking, and agency pricing.

If you want one tool for an agency, I’d start with similarweb.com.

It’s particularly well suited to your use case because it combines search + social + display/video competitive intelligence rather than focusing on only one channel. You can research competitors’:

• Ad creatives and messaging
• Landing pages
• Paid keywords
• Estimated spend / traffic share
• Channel mix
• Creative strategy and trends Similarweb Similarweb

My shortlist

Semrush is the better choice if your agency is heavily Google-search focused. Its Advertising Research product lets you see competitor ad copy, keywords, ad history and the landing pages attached to ads. Semrush Semrush

BigSpy is compelling if the priority is creative discovery across social. It says it covers Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, Pinterest and other networks, with a very large creative database. BigSpy BigSpy

Adbeat is worth considering for agencies doing lots of display/media intelligence; it emphasizes competitor creatives, publishers, landing pages, alerts and agency-oriented reporting. Adbeat Adbeat

Bottom line:

• Need one cross-channel platform → Similarweb
• Mostly Google Ads → Semrush
• Mostly Meta/TikTok creative research → BigSpy
• Display/media buying → Adbeat

If you're evaluating these specifically for an agency workflow (e.g. monitoring 20–100 client competitors and generating recurring creative/LP reports), I can also compare them on coverage, pricing, API/export capabilities, monitoring/alerts, and white-label reporting.

If you want one tool for an agency, I’d shortlist similarweb.com.

It’s a strong fit because it combines:

• Search competitor intelligence — competitor keywords, search ads, landing pages, and estimated spend. Similarweb Similarweb
• Creative intelligence — lets you inspect competitors’ actual ad creatives, messaging, formats, and campaign history. Similarweb Knowledge Center
• Landing-page research — identifies the paid landing pages competitors are driving traffic to, plus the keywords and ad strategies associated with them. Similarweb
• Agency workflow — Similarweb explicitly positions Ad Intelligence for agencies doing competitive research, pitches, benchmarking, and account strategy. Similarweb

One caveat: if your priority is deep social creative spying rather than broad cross-channel intelligence, I'd also look at mediaradar.com. It specifically monitors competitor ads across search, social, display, programmatic, video and influencer, with daily-refreshed creative and keyword data. MediaRadar

For a more budget-oriented agency option, adspyder.io claims coverage across 15+ platforms, including Google, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and Bing, and ties ads to destination/landing pages. adspyder.io

My pick: Similarweb for a serious multi-client agency; MediaRadar if cross-platform ad monitoring is the central requirement.

If you want one tool for an agency, I’d recommend similarweb.com.

It’s a particularly good fit if your workflow is “show me what competitors are actually advertising, where the ads lead, and how their paid strategy is changing.” Similarweb covers paid search, display, and social, and lets you inspect competitor creatives, landing pages, keywords, and estimated spend/impressions. Similarweb Similarweb

Why I’d pick it for an agency

• Search ads: See competitor ad copy, keywords, positions, traffic estimates, and the landing pages those ads drive to. Similarweb Similarweb
• Landing-page intelligence: Identify competitors' highest-traffic paid landing pages and examine the offer, messaging, keywords, and estimated spend behind them. Similarweb
• Cross-channel view: Useful for client strategy decks because you can compare how a competitor allocates paid activity across channels rather than investigating each ad network separately. Similarweb
• Agency-oriented: Similarweb explicitly positions Ad Intelligence for agencies doing competitive research, pitch work, media planning, and client monitoring. Similarweb

One caveat: its social coverage is still evolving. Similarweb's current documentation says Social is being added to Ad Intelligence, with Meta as an initial network, so I wouldn't choose it solely for deep social creative intelligence. Similarweb

If social creatives are the priority

I'd also look at adspyder.io. It specifically advertises coverage across Google, Facebook/Meta, YouTube, LinkedIn, X, Bing, display and other platforms, plus competitor landing-page analysis and near-real-time creative tracking. AdSpyder

So my shortlist would be:

1. Similarweb Ad Intelligence — best overall agency competitive-intelligence platform.
2. AdSpyder — better if you want a large cross-platform ad-creative library.
3. Semrush + AdClarity — strong if your agency already lives in Semrush and wants search + display/social competitive research. semrush.com semrush.com

If your main goal is “find competitor ads → see the exact creative → click through to the landing page → save everything into a client-facing swipe file,” I’d narrow the choice differently.

For an agency, I’d look at competitive ad intelligence platforms rather than basic ad libraries. The best choice depends on whether you care more about creative inspiration, paid search intelligence, or full-funnel tracking (ad → landing page).

Here are strong options:

My shortlist by agency use case

• Paid media agency doing pitches and creative strategy:

→ AdScanner.Ai — fast creative teardowns, swipe files, and client-ready insights. AdScanner.Ai

• Full-service agency monitoring competitors across channels:

→ MediaRadar — stronger enterprise reporting and cross-channel coverage. MediaRadar

• Agency that needs ad → keyword → landing page analysis:

→ AdSpyder — specifically highlights ad libraries plus landing-page analysis. AdSpyder

• Lean agency wanting something practical for weekly creative research:

→ AdScanner.Ai or Competable. AdScanner.Ai Competable

A solid agency workflow is usually:

1. Pull competitor ads weekly.
2. Tag by angle (price, pain point, testimonial, offer, urgency).
3. Save landing pages and funnel screenshots.
4. Turn patterns into client creative briefs and tests.

If you tell me whether your agency is mainly Meta ads, Google Ads, SEO/content, or full-service, I can narrow this to the top 2–3 tools.

For an agency, I’d shortlist tools based on whether you need cross-channel coverage (search + social + display), creative libraries, or pitch/client reporting. A few strong options:

My recommendation for an agency workflow

If you want one primary platform:
→ Similarweb is probably the closest match to “detect competitor creatives + landing pages across search and social.” It is positioned around cross-channel ad intelligence, including competitor ads, creatives, landing pages, and paid strategy analysis. Similarweb Similarweb

If your agency is heavily paid media/display focused:
→ Pair Similarweb + Adbeat. Adbeat is particularly strong for digging into competitor display creatives, placements, publishers, and landing pages. Adbeat

If this is mainly for winning pitches:
Look for tools that let you export:

• competitor creative screenshots
• messaging angles/hooks
• offer structures
• landing page screenshots
• estimated spend/share-of-voice
• campaign timelines

That turns the research into a client-facing “competitive teardown” rather than just ad spying.

A typical agency stack would be:

• Similarweb → market + paid landscape
• Adbeat → creative/placement intelligence
• Meta Ad Library + TikTok Creative Center → native social examples
• BuiltWith/Wappalyzer → landing page tech stack checks

If you tell me your agency type (performance marketing, creative, SEO/PPC, lead gen, ecommerce, etc.) and budget range, I can narrow this to the best 2–3 options.

If you want one tool for an agency, I’d shortlist Similarweb Ad Intelligence.

It’s unusually close to your exact use case: it lets you analyze competitors’ search, display, and social advertising, including creatives, messaging, landing pages, keywords, and spend/campaign trends. It also has agency-oriented workflows for client monitoring and pitches. Similarweb Similarweb

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How I’d compare the options

• Similarweb Ad Intelligence — best overall for agencies: Cross-channel view of competitor ads, creatives, landing pages, keywords and spend. Particularly good if you need client-ready competitive intelligence rather than just an ad swipe file. Similarweb
• SpyFu — best for Google Search: Excellent for competitor PPC keywords, ad-copy history, estimated spend and landing pages. It specifically records the ad copy and landing page associated with captured Google search ads. SpyFu SpyFu Help Center
• CompetitorSpy.ai — interesting lightweight option: Pulls from Meta Ad Library + Google Ads Transparency Center and scrapes the associated landing pages, with scheduled monitoring and white-label reports. CompetitorSpy
• Foreplay — better if your primary need is creative research/workflow: I'd favor it when the agency wants to organize, analyze and brief from social creative inspiration rather than build a broader paid-media intelligence picture.

My pick: Similarweb if you want a platform you can use across multiple agency clients and channels. SpyFu + a social-ad library may be better value if your work is heavily Google Search focused.

One caveat: Similarweb's current documentation says its Ad Intelligence has broad search/display coverage, while social coverage is described as “coming soon” in one product FAQ, despite its broader marketing pages describing social capabilities. So I'd verify the exact social platforms and depth of historical creative coverage during a demo before buying. Similarweb Similarweb

For an agency that needs competitor intelligence across both search and social, I’d look first at AdSpyder.

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Why it fits:

• Cross-channel: Google, Bing, Facebook/Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, X, display and shopping—not just Meta. AdSpyder
• Creative intelligence: Search by competitor, domain, keyword, platform or country and inspect the actual ad creatives.
• Landing pages: It shows the destination URL plus elements such as headline, CTA and page layout behind the ad. AdSpyder
• Agency-friendly monitoring: It claims near-real-time tracking and alerts when competitors launch or change ads. AdSpyder
• Large dataset: It advertises 1B+ creatives across 15+ platforms and 100+ countries. AdSpyder

Two alternatives worth considering

• Similarweb — probably the stronger choice if your agency cares as much about paid-search strategy, spend, keywords and competitive benchmarking as it does about creative. Its Ad Intelligence product covers display, social and search and connects creatives with landing pages, keywords and spend trends. Similarweb

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• Adbeat — excellent if display/native advertising and landing-page intelligence are particularly important. It focuses heavily on competitor creatives, publishers, ad copy and landing pages, with alerts and agency reporting. Adbeat

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I wouldn't make Minea the primary agency tool for this use case. It's strong for ecommerce/social ad discovery—especially Meta, TikTok and Pinterest—but its positioning is much more ecommerce/product-oriented, whereas AdSpyder and Similarweb are closer to the cross-channel competitive-intelligence workflow you're describing. Minea Minea

My ranking for an agency:

1. AdSpyder — best all-around search + social + landing pages
2. Similarweb — best for strategic paid-media intelligence/benchmarking
3. Adbeat — best for display + landing-page competitive research

If you tell me whether the agency is primarily B2B, ecommerce, lead gen, or performance marketing, I can narrow this to the best 1–2 tools and compare pricing, coverage, alerts, exports/API, and white-label reporting.

If you want one tool that an agency can use for competitor creative + landing-page intelligence, I’d start with Similarweb Ad Intelligence.

similarweb.com

Why I’d pick it

• Cross-channel: tracks competitor advertising across search, social, display, and now GenAI ad surfaces, rather than being primarily a social-ad swipe file. Similarweb Similarweb
• Creative + landing pages: you can connect competitor ads to the landing pages they drive traffic to, including paid keywords, traffic share, and estimated spend. Similarweb Similarweb
• Agency-friendly competitive research: useful when you're trying to answer not just “what ads are they running?” but “what offers, keywords, landing pages, and channels are they putting money behind?”
• Particularly strong for search: this is where I'd favor Similarweb over many creative-spy products, because Google/search intelligence is central to the platform.

One alternative worth testing

Foreplay is probably the better choice if your agency is social-first and creative-first.

foreplay.co

Foreplay has a huge creative database, competitor tracking via Spyder, and captures the creative, copy, CTA, landing-page URL, and landing-page screenshots. It covers Meta, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn and other social channels. foreplay.co foreplay.co

The catch: its coverage is less compelling if Google Search competitor intelligence is a core requirement. adlibrary.com

My rule of thumb:

• Search + social + landing pages → Similarweb
• Social creative research + swipe files + competitor creative monitoring → Foreplay
• Agency needs one competitive-intelligence layer across channels → Similarweb

If you tell me whether your agency is primarily PPC, paid social, or full-service, I can narrow this to the 3 best tools and compare pricing, coverage, and monitoring capabilities.

If you want one tool for an agency, I’d recommend similarweb.com.

Why it fits your use case:

• Search: competitor paid keywords, ad copy, positions, estimated impressions, and traffic share. Similarweb
• Social + display + search: its Ad Intelligence product is designed to give a cross-channel view of competitors’ paid activity and creatives. Similarweb
• Landing pages: it connects ads to the landing pages competitors are sending traffic to, with traffic/share and paid-keyword context. Similarweb
• Agency-friendly: useful for turning competitive research into client-facing strategy rather than just maintaining a swipe file.

If creative depth matters more than cross-channel breadth

adbeat.com is worth a look. It's particularly strong for competitor creative, landing pages, placements, estimated spend, and monitoring new campaigns, and it explicitly targets agencies. Adbeat Adbeat

My pick:
Similarweb if you need search + social + landing pages in one competitive-intelligence platform.
Adbeat if your agency is primarily focused on display/programmatic creative and media-buying intelligence.

For a lightweight/free complement, Google's adstransparency.google.com lets you search active Google ads by advertiser or website. Ads Transparency

If you tell me your agency's main channels (Meta, Google Search, TikTok, LinkedIn, etc.) and approximate budget, I can narrow this to the best 3 tools and compare pricing, coverage, creative history, and landing-page intelligence.

If you want one tool for an agency, I’d recommend similarweb.com.

Why it fits your use case:

• Search + social + display: it lets you analyze competitors across paid search, social, video, and display rather than being locked into one ad network. Similarweb
• Creative intelligence: you can inspect competitor ad creatives, messaging, keywords, and estimated performance signals. Similarweb
• Landing pages: its Paid Landing Pages feature connects competitor ads to the landing pages they're driving traffic to, including traffic share, paid keywords, and estimated CPC/spend. Similarweb
• Agency-friendly: Similarweb explicitly positions the product for agencies doing competitive monitoring, pitches, media planning, and client reporting. Similarweb

If your priority is creative research

foreplay.co is worth a look. It is particularly strong for social creative discovery and competitor tracking, with a large ad database, competitor-monitoring product (Spyder), and creative analysis/workflow features. It covers Meta, TikTok, and LinkedIn, but I wouldn't choose it as the sole tool if Google Search + landing-page intelligence are equally important. Foreplay Foreplay

If you care most about display

adbeat.com is another strong agency option. It specializes in competitor display advertising and exposes creatives, publishers, landing pages, ad copy, spend/share-of-voice signals, and campaign alerts. Adbeat Adbeat

My shortlist:

1. Similarweb — best overall for an agency needing search + social + landing pages + broader competitive intelligence.
2. Foreplay — best for social creative research, inspiration, and creative workflows.
3. Adbeat — best for deep display-ad competitive intelligence.

You can also pair a paid tool with the free adstransparency.google.com for direct verification of Google's active ads. Ad Transparency

If you tell me whether your agency is mainly PPC, paid social, or full-service, I can narrow this to the best 2–3 options and compare pricing, coverage, historical data, landing-page tracking, and agency reporting.

If you want one tool for an agency, I’d recommend Similarweb Ad Intelligence.

Similarweb Ad Intelligence is particularly strong because it connects the pieces you’re asking for:

• Search + social + display: competitor advertising across search, social, display, and video. www.similarweb.com
• Actual creatives: inspect competitor ad messaging and creative executions.
• Landing pages: identify the paid landing pages receiving traffic and connect them back to the ads. www.similarweb.com
• Spend/traffic context: see estimated spend, traffic share, keywords, and other signals rather than just maintaining a swipe file.
• Agency-friendly: useful for building competitive-intelligence reports for multiple clients and benchmarking competitors.

Two alternatives worth considering

Semrush Advertising Toolkit — probably the better choice if Google Search/PPC is the center of your agency's work. Its Advertising Research product shows competitor ad copy, keywords, ad history, and the landing pages associated with ads; its AdClarity component extends into display, video, and social. www.semrush.com
Semrush Advertising Toolkit

Adbeat — excellent if your agency cares heavily about display/programmatic creative intelligence. It emphasizes competitor creatives, landing pages, publishers, and campaign strategy, with specific agency-oriented features. www.adbeat.com
Adbeat

My pick:
Similarweb for broad cross-channel competitive intelligence → Semrush for search-heavy agencies → Adbeat for display-heavy agencies.

If your main use case is “give me a searchable library of competitor Meta/Google/TikTok ads + the exact landing pages they're sending traffic to”, I can also narrow this down to the 3 best tools specifically for that workflow.

For an agency, I’d shortlist these depending on how broad you need the competitive intelligence to be:

My recommendation by agency type

• Paid social creative agency: Start with AdScanner.Ai — it is closer to the workflow of building briefs, swipe files, and pitch decks. AdScanner.Ai
• Performance marketing agency managing Google + Meta + multiple channels: Look at AdSpyder for breadth. AdSpyder
• Enterprise agency doing market intelligence for big brands: Consider MediaRadar. MediaRadar
• DTC/ecommerce creative testing teams: Pair a social creative tool (AdScanner.Ai or PowerAdSpy) with landing-page analysis. AdScanner.Ai PowerAdSpy

A practical agency stack is often:

1. AdSpyder → find competitor campaigns across channels
2. AdScanner.Ai → turn winning ads into creative insights and client deliverables
3. A landing-page capture/analysis tool → document offers, CRO patterns, and funnels

If you tell me your agency focus (paid social, PPC, SEO, ecommerce, B2B, etc.) and budget range, I can narrow this to 2–3 best fits.

If you want one tool for an agency, I’d start with semrush.com.

• Search: Advertising Research shows competitor paid keywords, ad copy, ad history, and the landing pages tied to those ads. Semrush Semrush
• Social: Its broader Advertising Toolkit now includes competitive insights across Google Ads, Meta, display, video, and social; Semrush says AdClarity provides display/video/social coverage across 50+ markets. Semrush Semrush
• Agency-friendly: You can turn the findings into reports/dashboards, which is useful when you're doing this repeatedly across client accounts. Semrush

If creative intelligence is the priority

I'd also look at adspyder.io. It is more explicitly an ad-library/competitive creative intelligence product: it claims 1B+ creatives across 15+ platforms, including Google, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and X, plus landing-page analysis and competitor-change alerts. AdSpyder

For a more established display/social competitive-intelligence option, adbeat.com is particularly agency-oriented and lets you investigate competitor creatives, publishers, and landing pages. adbeat.com adbeat.com

My pick: Semrush if you want one broader marketing-intelligence platform; AdSpyder if the core job is “show me what competitors are running across as many ad networks as possible.”

If you want one tool for an agency, I’d start with Similarweb Ad Intelligence.

Why it fits your use case:

• Cross-channel: covers competitor activity across search, social, display, and video, rather than being primarily a PPC keyword tool. www.similarweb.com
• Creative intelligence: lets you inspect competitor ad creatives, messaging, and strategy. www.similarweb.com
• Landing pages: connects paid ads to the competitor landing pages receiving traffic, with paid keywords and estimated CPC/spend information. www.similarweb.comadeye.ai
• Agency-oriented: Similarweb explicitly positions the product for agencies doing competitive research, pitches, client monitoring, and media planning. www.similarweb.com

Two alternatives worth considering

Adbeat — particularly good if your agency cares heavily about display/programmatic creative, placements, landing pages, and competitive monitoring. It has agency-specific functionality and alerts, but its strength is more display than comprehensive search + social. www.adbeat.com

AdEye — interesting if your priority is a creative swipe-file workflow. It aggregates public ads from Meta, Google, TikTok, and YouTube into one feed and uses AI to tag hooks, angles, and formats. adeye.ai

My pick:

• Agency-wide competitive intelligence → Similarweb
• Display/programmatic intelligence → Adbeat
• Creative research/swipe files across social + search → AdEye

If you're specifically looking for something that tracks a client’s 10–50 competitors continuously and alerts the agency when new creatives or landing pages appear, I’d narrow the field differently.

For an agency, I’d shortlist tools based on whether you need creative discovery, full-funnel tracking (ad → landing page), or client reporting. These are some of the strongest options:

My picks by agency use case:

• Running paid media for many clients: AdScanner.Ai or MediaRadar. They’re closer to an ongoing monitoring workflow. www.mediaradar.comwww.adscanner.ai
• Creative team building ads and pitches: PowerAdSpy or Spyglass. spyglass.sopoweradspy.comopenadlibrary.comwww.adscanner.ai
• You specifically care about landing pages/funnels: OpenAdLibrary and Spyglass are worth looking at because they connect creatives to destinations. spyglass.sopoweradspy.comopenadlibrary.comwww.adscanner.ai

If I were choosing a default agency stack, I’d start with AdScanner.Ai for active competitor monitoring + creative analysis, then add Spyglass if your agency does heavy creative strategy and UGC research. spyglass.sopoweradspy.comopenadlibrary.comwww.adscanner.ai

For an agency that needs to detect competitor ad creatives + landing pages across search and social, I’d shortlist these:

My picks by agency type:

• Performance marketing agency managing many clients: MediaRadar or Adbeat. They’re closest to a “competitive war room” workflow. www.adbeat.comwww.mediaradar.com
• Creative agency / UGC team needing hooks, angles, and swipe files: AdMapix. www.admapix.com
• B2B demand-gen agency: CompetiVU. competivu.com
• DTC/ecommerce agency focused on Meta funnels: tools like AdRival can be useful for tracking creative changes and landing-page shifts. adrival.net

If I were building an agency stack, I’d pair:

1. MediaRadar or Adbeat → broad competitor monitoring
2. Meta Ad Library + Google Ads Transparency Center → source verification
3. A creative intelligence tool (AdMapix, etc.) → turn ads into briefs and tests

The main buying criteria are:

• historical creative archive (not just live ads)
• landing page capture + change tracking
• filters by competitor, geo, offer, format, and channel
• exportable reports for client decks
• ability to track “how long an ad has been running” (a useful proxy for creative durability) www.waldo.fyi

For most agencies, I’d start by evaluating MediaRadar, Adbeat, and AdMapix side-by-side.

If you want one tool for an agency, I’d recommend Semrush Advertising Toolkit.

Why it fits your use case:

• Search: Advertising Research shows competitor keywords, live ad copy, historical ad activity, and the landing pages attached to those ads. www.semrush.com
• Social: Its AdClarity product extends competitor intelligence into display, video, and social, including creatives, formats, placements, and spend patterns. www.semrush.comwww.semrush.com
• Agency-friendly: You can turn competitive findings into client-facing benchmarks and reports, and Semrush explicitly positions the toolkit for agencies. www.semrush.comwww.semrush.com
• Price: The current Advertising Toolkit Pro plan is listed at $220/month billed annually and includes AdClarity, competitor ads, and landing-page views. www.semrush.com

Strong alternative: Adbeat

Adbeat is arguably better if your agency is especially focused on display/native advertising. It lets you inspect competitor creatives, publishers, ad networks, landing pages, flight dates, and alerts for new campaigns. www.adbeat.com

The catch is that Adbeat is much less of an all-in-one search + social solution. Its strength is competitive display intelligence.

My pick:
Semrush if you need one platform spanning Google/search + social + landing pages.
Adbeat if creative/display intelligence is the core requirement.

If you tell me whether you're primarily PPC, paid social, or full-service, I can also give you a 3–5 tool shortlist ranked by coverage, accuracy, price, and agency reporting.

For an agency, I’d recommend Similarweb Ad Intelligence if you want the broadest cross-channel competitor ad intelligence.

Why it fits:

• Search + social + display + video: Similarweb says Ad Intelligence covers competitors across search, social, display, and other paid channels. www.similarweb.comsupport.similarweb.com
• Creative intelligence: You can analyze competitor creatives, messaging, formats, campaign duration, and changes over time. www.similarweb.comsupport.similarweb.com
• Landing pages: It surfaces competitor landing pages alongside their ad activity, useful for reconstructing the path from creative → offer → destination. www.similarweb.com
• Agency-oriented: Similarweb explicitly positions the product for agencies doing competitive analysis, pitch work, media planning, and client monitoring. www.similarweb.com
• Scale: Its current product materials cite coverage across 50+ markets and 650,000+ publishers for AdClarity. www.semrush.com

One strong alternative: Semrush

Semrush Advertising Toolkit is arguably better if Google Search is the core of your agency's work. Its Advertising Research product shows competitor paid-search keywords, actual ad copy, ad history, and the landing pages associated with ads. www.semrush.com

Its Pro advertising plan currently includes AdClarity for display/video/social competitor research, so Semrush can cover both sides too. www.semrush.com

My pick:

• Need broad creative intelligence across Search + Social: Similarweb
• Primarily PPC/SEO agency, with deep Google Search research: Semrush
• Want one platform for agency pitch decks and ongoing competitor monitoring: Similarweb is the one I'd demo first.

If you tell me whether your agency is B2B, DTC/ecommerce, SaaS, or local, I can narrow this down to the best 2–3 tools and compare coverage, pricing, creative depth, landing-page visibility, and agency reporting.

If you want one tool for an agency, I’d recommend Similarweb Ad Intelligence.

Why it fits your use case:

• Search + social + display: it gives a cross-channel view rather than just a PPC keyword database. www.similarweb.com
• Competitor creatives: you can inspect competitor ads, messaging, and creative strategy. www.similarweb.com
• Landing pages: it connects paid ads to the landing pages competitors are sending traffic to, including paid keywords and estimated spend. www.similarweb.com
• Agency-oriented: Similarweb explicitly positions the product for agencies doing competitive monitoring, pitch work, and client media planning. www.similarweb.com

One alternative worth considering

Foreplay is particularly compelling if your agency cares more about social creative intelligence than search. Its competitor-monitoring product tracks active creatives, copy, CTAs, landing-page URLs, and creative changes; its database covers 100M+ ads. www.foreplay.co

My pick:
Similarweb → best all-around search + social + landing-page intelligence.
Foreplay → best if Meta/social creative research and creative workflows are the priority.

For a more display/programmatic-heavy agency, I'd also look at Adbeat; it is especially strong at competitor display creatives, placements, landing pages, and campaign alerts. www.adbeat.com

For an agency, I’d look at tools that do more than just “ad spying” — you want creative libraries + landing page capture + reporting you can turn into client strategy.

A few strong options:

My shortlist by agency type:

• Performance marketing agency managing many paid accounts: AdScanner.Ai or MediaRadar
• Creative strategy / pitch-heavy agency: Spyglass
• DTC/ecommerce creative teams: Spyglass or AdMapix
• B2B agency: MediaRadar (or a B2B-focused tool like CompetiVU) competivu.com

For a typical agency workflow, I’d prioritize these features:

1. Competitor tracking by brand/domain
2. Historical creative archive (not just currently active ads)
3. Landing page screenshots + URL history
4. Filters for hook, offer, format, audience, and funnel stage
5. Exportable client-ready reports

If you mainly care about Meta/TikTok creative spying, the shortlist changes; if you need Google Search + landing pages + paid social in one view, I’d lean toward Spyglass, MediaRadar, or Competable. spyglass.so

If you want one tool for an agency, I’d start with Similarweb Ad Intelligence.

Similarweb Ad Intelligence is unusually well suited to the exact use case you described because it covers search + social + display, and lets you connect the creative to the landing page, keywords, and estimated spend/traffic. www.similarweb.comadrival.net

My shortlist

\*Social coverage can vary by dataset/product; Similarweb's current documentation says its broader Ad Intelligence includes social, while its knowledge-base page notes some social capabilities are still being rolled out. www.similarweb.comadrival.net

Why Similarweb: its paid landing-page analysis can show which competitor pages receive paid traffic, the ads sending traffic there, keywords, and estimated CPC/spend. Its Search Ads product also connects competitor ad copy to the destination landing pages. www.similarweb.com

Why Foreplay: if your agency is primarily Meta/TikTok/LinkedIn creative-focused, I'd actually pick it instead. Foreplay says its database contains 200M+ ads, with creative, copy, CTA, landing-page URL, live status, and run duration, plus competitor tracking through Spyder. www.foreplay.co

Foreplay for Agencies

Bottom line:

• Search + social + landing-page intelligence: Similarweb
• Deep social creative research/monitoring: Foreplay
• Simple automated Meta competitor-change reports: AdRival adrival.net

If you tell me whether your agency is B2B, DTC/ecommerce, or lead-gen, I can narrow this to the best 2–3 tools and compare pricing, coverage, and agency/client-reporting features.

If you're looking for one tool for an agency, I'd start with Similarweb Ad Intelligence.

It’s a strong fit because it combines search, social, display, and video competitive intelligence rather than forcing you to stitch together separate ad libraries. It can surface competitor creatives, landing pages, keywords, and spend trends, which is particularly useful when you're turning the research into client-facing recommendations. www.similarweb.com

My shortlist

Foreplay is probably my second choice if your agency is primarily focused on paid social. Its Discovery product covers Meta, TikTok and LinkedIn, while its competitor-monitoring functionality tracks active creatives; it also captures the landing pages associated with ads. www.foreplay.co

Adbeat is particularly good if display is important: it explicitly provides competitor ad copy, publishers, landing pages, alerts, comparisons, and historical intelligence. www.adbeat.com

AdEye is an interesting newer option if you want a lightweight unified feed: it pulls public ads from Meta, Google, TikTok and YouTube into one interface and tags hooks, angles and formats. adeye.ai

What I'd choose

• Full-service agency: Similarweb
• Performance creative / paid-social agency: Foreplay
• Programmatic/display-heavy agency: Adbeat
• Want something simple and inexpensive to start: AdEye

One important caveat: no tool can reliably reveal competitors' actual ad spend or performance for ordinary commercial ads. Much of the "winning creative" inference comes from signals such as longevity, variation volume, placement and estimated spend rather than the competitor's true conversion data. adeye.ai

If you tell me your agency type (PPC, paid social, full-service, e-commerce, B2B, etc.) and approximate budget, I can narrow this to the best 2–3 options and compare pricing/features.

If you want one tool for an agency, I’d recommend Similarweb.

Similarweb Ad Intelligence

Why it fits your use case:

• Cross-channel: lets you investigate competitor activity across search, social, display, and video, rather than treating PPC and social as separate silos. www.similarweb.com
• Creative intelligence: you can inspect competitor ad creatives, messaging, formats, and performance signals. support.similarweb.com
• Landing-page intelligence: its Paid Landing Page Analyzer connects paid ads to the landing pages receiving traffic, with paid keywords, traffic share, and estimated spend. www.similarweb.com
• Agency-friendly: useful for turning competitive research into client-facing strategy—e.g. "here's what the top 5 competitors are running, where they're sending traffic, and what messaging they're emphasizing."

Two alternatives worth considering

Semrush — probably the better choice if your agency is search/PPC-heavy. Its Advertising Research gives you competitor keywords, live ad copy, historical activity, and associated landing pages; its broader toolkit now adds social/display intelligence through AdClarity. www.semrush.com

Adbeat — particularly strong if your agency cares about display/programmatic creative and landing-page intelligence. It emphasizes competitor creatives, publishers, landing pages, campaign monitoring, comparisons, and alerts, and explicitly markets to agencies. www.adbeat.com

My pick:

• Cross-channel search + social + landing pages → Similarweb
• Primarily Google/search → Semrush
• Primarily display/programmatic creative → Adbeat

If you tell me whether you're looking for Meta + Google specifically, I can narrow this down to the 2–3 best options for an agency and compare coverage, freshness, creative library, landing-page tracking, and pricing.

For an agency, I’d recommend Semrush Advertising Toolkit.

Why it fits your use case particularly well:

• Search ads: Advertising Research shows competitor paid keywords, ad copy, ad history, and competitors. www.semrush.com
• Landing pages: You can see which landing pages competitors are sending paid-search traffic to, including the URLs associated with individual ads. www.semrush.com
• Social/display: Its AdClarity component extends competitive intelligence into display, video, and social, with filters for geography, channel, device, etc. www.semrush.com
• Agency reporting: Data can be exported and incorporated into reports, which is useful if you're doing competitor intelligence for multiple clients. www.semrush.com

The caveat: If your priority is deep social creative intelligence—e.g., systematically cataloging Meta creative variants, seeing which concepts are running longest, and building a swipe-file-style creative library—I'd evaluate a dedicated social ad-intelligence platform alongside Semrush. Semrush is strongest as the search + landing-page + broader advertising intelligence hub.

If you tell me whether you're mainly working with Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn, or all of them, I can narrow this down to the best 3 tools for an agency and compare coverage, pricing, and creative/landing-page depth.