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Your weekly creative research

Keep up with competitors. Bring better ideas to your next brief.

Follow up to 25 advertisers, review newly observed ads, and collect useful creative examples in shareable boards. Pro is $19/month.

Try an example research sessionSee Pro · $19/month

The fictional example needs no account. Free includes up to 50 saved ads and boards once saving is available. Tracking is included in Pro.

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Small-space launch references

Example board

SMALL SPACE. ROOM TO THINK.

Fictional creative · Longtrove example
Fieldnote Desks

A corner of your own. A desk for the space you have.

Creative brief

Test a desk-setup opening. Show the change before explaining features. Use these references for framing, not performance claims.

Example research · fictional advertisers

From a competitor check to a useful brief

A focused research session for the accounts you manage.

1 · REVIEW

See what was observed

Follow advertisers you care about. Review dated changes and see where a check is missing. The example shows how related executions fit together.

2 · INSPECT

Keep the useful evidence

Read captured copy and variants, look for repeated openings and offer wording, and select examples worth taking into a brief.

3 · MAKE A BRIEF

Add your creative direction

Keep observations separate from your hypothesis. Organize references in boards with a plain-text brief and share a read-only link.

Try all three steps in the fictional example →

“Make mornings yours.” Three executions, one opening.

In our fictional example, three Brightside Coffee ads repeat an opening. One uses readable variant copy. You can inspect each execution and use the pattern to shape your own test idea.

OBSERVED EVIDENCE

Three distinct captured ads · Meta Ad Library · United States · example check September 12, 2026. An older Meta start is shown separately from when the ad was first observed.

YOUR NEXT QUESTION

Could a similar opening introduce three different benefits for your product? That is a hypothesis to test. Repetition alone does not establish performance.

Longtrove records bounded commercial-ad views, with their source, date and country. These observations cannot establish spend, conversions or profitability. How the evidence works →

MORNING, MADE SIMPLE

Fictional creative · Longtrove example
Brightside CoffeeCapture complete · 2 of 2 creatives

Make mornings yours. Coffee ready when you are.

Reported start · Jun 14, 2026
First saved · Aug 2, 2026
Last seen active · Sep 6, 2026

Destination · brightsidecoffee.example/morning
Source · Meta Ad Library

morning ritualcoffee subscriptionproduct framing

Private note · Lead with the slower-morning mood. Try this framing for the next launch.

Example saved ad. Fictional advertiser and copy.

A saved ad keeps more than a link

Longtrove keeps the available creative and text, plus the reported start date and destination when captured, alongside your own private note and tags.

  • · Search across copy, advertisers, and your private notes
  • · Filter by advertiser, image or video, active or inactive, tag, or unfiled
  • · Save a view of your filters and reuse it later
  • · Download an individual image or video when it was retained

Boards turn references into direction

Group ads around a client or a question, add a short brief, and share a read-only link. Recipients see the ads and the brief, never your private notes.

Group ads around a client, an offer, a format, or a question. Add a short brief that says what to notice. Share a read-only link with a copywriter, editor, or client; they see the ads and the brief, never your private notes or the rest of your account.

Replace or turn off a link at any time. One ad can sit on many boards without being saved twice.

Summer launch references

84 ads · shared link on

Read-only view

Brief · Look at how each of these opens with the problem before showing the product. We want three hooks in that shape for the July drop, one filmed outdoors.

MORNING, MADE SIMPLE

Fictional creative · Longtrove example

ROOM TO THINK

Fictional creative · Longtrove example

Example board as a link recipient sees it.

Pro

Come back to what changed, not a dashboard

Follow up to 25 advertisers. Each day Longtrove checks their Ad Library results and records what it saw. What's new lists the changes across everyone you follow, each one tied to the ad itself so you can look, save, and move on.

A daily or weekly email tells you when there's something worth a look, and says so plainly when a check was delayed. How tracking works and what it can't tell you.

What's new

Example · United States

Ferncroft Coffee started 3 new ads (Meta start date Sep 5)

Observed Sep 8 · US

Look

Halden Skin has 2 ads newly in the most-viewed results

Observed Sep 8 · US

Look

Oakline Desks has 1 ad newly observed by Longtrove

Observed Sep 7 · first seen, not necessarily new

Look

Brightside Coffee check delayed; last successful check Sep 5

Changes unknown for Sep 6–7

Details

Example. Fictional advertisers.

Evidence from the top-100 and most-recent-100 results, US

Free to start. One paid plan.

One personal workspace. Upgrade when you want to follow advertisers or export research. Boards can be shared through read-only links.

Free

$0

  • Up to 50 saved ads at a time
  • Save from Meta Ad Library once the extension is published
  • Search, filters, private notes, and tags
  • Boards, plain-text briefs, and read-only share links
  • Up to 20 saved views
  • File selected ads or all matching ads into a board
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Pro

$19 per month, or $190 a year

  • Everything in Free
  • Unlimited saved ads
  • Follow up to 25 advertisers, checked daily
  • What's new across followed advertisers
  • Daily or weekly email digest
  • CSV exports of Library, boards, and tracking research
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Up to 50 saved ads, boards, sharing

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Unlimited saves, tracking, exports

$19

/mo · $190/yr

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