--- title: "The secret weapon for YouTube ads. Swipe what already works for your competitors." description: "Every day, brands in your niche test new hooks and scale winners. AdSee shows you all of it — including unlisted ads — so you find the next winning angle first." url: "https://demo1.adsee.ai/" --- # The secret weapon for YouTube ads. Swipe what already works for your competitors. Every day, brands in your niche test new hooks and scale winners. AdSee shows you all of it — including unlisted ads — so you find the next winning angle first. ## By the numbers - **16M+** — Video ads indexed - **5M+** — Unlisted ads - **150K+** — New ads daily ## Tracking YouTube ads from brands like - **ChatGPT** — est. spend $23.1M – $578M, 218 ads, 11.6B views - **Adobe** — est. spend $9.3M – $232M, 1,208 ads, 4.6B views - **Intuit** — est. spend $11.5M – $191M, 140 ads, 3.8B views - **Uber** — est. spend $6.3M – $158M, 840 ads, 3.2B views - **Disney+** — est. spend $5.7M – $143M, 1,596 ads, 2.9B views - **Liberty Mutual** — est. spend $54.0M – $135M, 26 ads, 2.7B views - **Canva** — est. spend $4.4M – $109M, 272 ads, 2.2B views - **Samsung** — est. spend $4.2M – $104M, 1,536 ads, 2.1B views - **Netflix** — est. spend $4.0M – $99.9M, 2,439 ads, 2.0B views - **Hilton** — est. spend $3.7M – $93.7M, 123 ads, 1.9B views - **Mint Mobile** — est. spend $8.7M – $86.6M, 202 ads, 1.7B views - **Coca-Cola** — est. spend $3.3M – $82.5M, 85 ads, 1.6B views - **Etsy** — est. spend $2.9M – $71.9M, 514 ads, 1.4B views ## Most YouTube campaigns don't fail for lack of ideas. They fail on guesswork. Every creative test costs budget. AdSee lets you learn from the tests your competitors already ran. | # | Before | After AdSee | |---|---|---| | 1 | **Locked to one ad account** — The Transparency Center only searches the account running the ad, but brands run through multiple agencies and unrelated channels. | **Every ad from a brand or niche** — Find all of a brand's ads no matter who runs them, or search an entire niche at once. | | 2 | **Winners get deleted** — Brands pull their best ads after a campaign so no one can copy them. | **Nothing disappears** — AdSee keeps a copy of every ad it indexes, even after it's removed from YouTube. | | 3 | **Budgets are a guess** — No spend data, no way to size up a competitor's investment. | **Spend range for every ad** — See an estimated budget for each creative at a glance. | | 4 | **Watching and listening to every ad** — To know what an ad says, someone has to sit through it. | **Every ad already decoded** — Speech, visuals and on-screen text are indexed — search what's said and shown. | | 5 | **No view data** — No view counts, no way to tell what's growing. | **Views and trends** — See view counts and how each ad gains momentum. | | 6 | **Half the funnel** — You see the creative, but not where it sends traffic. | **The full funnel** — Every ad linked to the landing page it drives to. | **Paying to learn** — Every guess becomes a test, and every test burns budget. Watch how it works: A quick walkthrough of how to research competitor YouTube ads with AdSee — semantic search across 16M+ indexed videos, complete with spend estimates, landing pages, and full ad transcripts. Video: [How AdSee works: researching competitor YouTube ads](https://res.cloudinary.com/dcrfv8eia/video/upload/AdSee_Promo_v1_final_ilfmak.mp4) (55 seconds). ## The smartest YouTube ad search engine - **Search text on screen.** Find every ad showing a specific price, promo code or offer on screen. - **Search what happens on screen.** Describe a scene and find the footage. No tags or keywords needed. - **Search what's said.** Find every ad using a specific hook, claim or guarantee in the voiceover. - **Find similar ads.** Found a winner? Surface every ad like it, matched on what's said, what's shown, or both. - **AI relevance filter.** Every result is checked by AI against your query, so even niche searches show only ads that actually match. ## Save the winners. Get the why. Keep every ad worth studying in one place, organize your research by competitor, and let AI tell you what's working and why. ### Save it today. Analyze it in one click. - **Swipes — Save any ad for later.** One click from search and it's in your Swipes, ready whenever you need it. - **Folders & boards — Organize research by competitor.** Create a folder for each research task and a board for each competitor, then add the ads that need a closer look. - **One-click report — Analyze a whole board in one click.** AdSee's AI breaks down the hooks, angles and offers across every ad on the board and delivers a ready competitor report. ## Name a competitor. Get their YouTube ad strategy in 24 hours. Tell us who you're up against. Our AI analyzes their YouTube ads and we send you a report on the hooks, angles and offers they're betting on. No signup, no credit card. 1. **Tell us who and where** — Competitor name, market and website if you have it. 2. **AI analyzes their ads** — Hooks, angles, offers and formats across their latest YouTube ads. 3. **Get your report in 24 hours** — Straight to your inbox. What's inside: Top hooks and opening lines · Core angles and messaging · Offers and CTAs · Formats and creative patterns. ## If YouTube ads drive your sales, AdSee is for you. Whether you grow your own brand or your clients', AdSee shows you what's working on YouTube in your market. ### Media buyers Know what's scaling before you spend a dollar. - Spot the competitor ads getting the most spend right now. - Find proven hooks and offers before your next test. - Pull similar ads to refresh a creative that's fatiguing. [Start free](https://demo1.adsee.ai/login) ### Agencies Win pitches and onboard clients with real data. - Walk into a pitch with the prospect's competitor ads already analyzed. - Turn a board into a client-ready competitor report. - Keep a separate folder of research for every client. [Get a free competitor report](https://demo1.adsee.ai/#free-report) ### DTC & e-commerce brands See the angles and offers your category is betting on. - Track which offers, discounts and bundles competitors push. - Study the whole funnel: ad plus landing page. - Catch seasonal campaigns as soon as they launch. [Browse DTC ads](https://demo1.adsee.ai/ad-examples/youtube/dtc) ### Mobile apps & gaming Find the creatives driving installs in your genre. - Search gameplay moments and scenes, not just titles. - See which countries each creative runs in before you localize. - Spot new hooks early and refresh creative before fatigue hits. [Browse mobile & gaming ads](https://demo1.adsee.ai/ad-examples/youtube/gaming-apps) ## Winning YouTube ads in your vertical Pick an industry and start with the creatives already running — transcripts, visuals and ad copy included. - [DTC](https://demo1.adsee.ai/ad-examples/youtube/dtc) — Direct-to-consumer brands launching products and unboxing experiences. - [Retail & e-commerce](https://demo1.adsee.ai/ad-examples/youtube/retail-ecommerce) — Online stores, marketplaces, and seasonal retail promotions. - [Automotive](https://demo1.adsee.ai/ad-examples/youtube/automotive) — Car brands, dealerships, and new vehicle launches. - [Entertainment & media](https://demo1.adsee.ai/ad-examples/youtube/entertainment-media) — Streaming services, studios, music releases, and live events. - [B2B services](https://demo1.adsee.ai/ad-examples/youtube/b2b-services) — Agencies, consulting, and business services aimed at decision-makers. - [Education](https://demo1.adsee.ai/ad-examples/youtube/education) — EdTech, online courses, universities, and certification programs. - [Fintech](https://demo1.adsee.ai/ad-examples/youtube/fintech) — Banking, investing, payments, and crypto creatives. - [Local services](https://demo1.adsee.ai/ad-examples/youtube/local-services) — Home services, contractors, and locally-targeted offers. - [Travel & hospitality](https://demo1.adsee.ai/ad-examples/youtube/travel-hospitality) — Airlines, hotels, booking platforms, and destination marketing. - [Gaming & apps](https://demo1.adsee.ai/ad-examples/youtube/gaming-apps) — Mobile games, app installs, and gaming hardware launches. - [SaaS](https://demo1.adsee.ai/ad-examples/youtube/saas) — Software product demos, free trials, and category creators. - [Healthcare](https://demo1.adsee.ai/ad-examples/youtube/healthcare) — Pharma, telehealth, wellness brands, and health insurance. ## Simple plans. Tokens for the AI work. Search is unlimited on every plan. Tokens cover AI-heavy work — scene and voice search, similar-ad matching and one-click reports. ### Starter — $87/mo, or $780/yr ($65/mo billed yearly) For solo buyers researching a few competitors. AI tokens: 20 tokens (per month · AI search & reports). - 16M+ ads, including 5M unlisted - Unlimited transcript & copy search - Spend estimates & landing pages - Last 90 days of ads ### Pro — $149/mo, or $1,340/yr ($112/mo billed yearly) For teams running paid video every week. AI tokens: 200 tokens (per month · 10× Starter). Everything in Starter, plus: - Placement data — where each ad ran - Find similar ads by voice or visuals - Spend trends & ad lifecycle - Full ads history - Priority AI processing ### Custom — Custom pricing For agencies and enterprise teams. AI tokens: Special offer (volume tokens, tailored to your team). Everything in Pro, plus: - API access - Custom cohort exports - Multiple seats & SSO - Dedicated account manager - Custom SLA - Onboarding & team training Tokens reset monthly on all plans. Need more? Top up anytime or talk to sales. ## Frequently asked questions ## What is AdSee? AdSee is a YouTube ad intelligence platform with 16M+ video ads, including 5M+ unlisted ads that never appear on any public brand channel. It's built for media buyers, creative strategists, and copywriters researching competitor YouTube advertising. Unlike ad libraries that only index titles and tags, AdSee transcribes every ad and generates AI descriptions of what happens on screen — so the creative itself becomes searchable. ## How many YouTube ads does AdSee have? AdSee indexes 16M+ YouTube video ads, of which 5M+ are unlisted. 3M+ are fully AI-analyzed with transcripts and visual descriptions. The database grows by roughly 150K ads per day. ## Why does AdSee have fewer ads than some other tools? Because AdSee only indexes what's currently relevant. Our database covers YouTube ads from 2025 onward — we're a newer platform, and we built the pipeline for the way YouTube advertising works now. Older tools carry archives going back to 2022, but a creative that stopped running three years ago tells you very little about what's converting today. AdSee adds 150K+ new ads every day, so coverage of active campaigns keeps deepening — including 5M+ unlisted ads most tools never index at all. ## What are unlisted YouTube ads, and why do they matter? Unlisted ads are video ads uploaded privately and served through paid placements — they never appear on the advertiser's public channel or in YouTube search. Most competitor ad spend goes to creatives you can't find by browsing their channel. AdSee holds 5M+ of them. ## Can I search YouTube ads by what's spoken in them? Yes. AdSee transcribes every ad in full, so you can search the exact words spoken — a specific hook, claim, price point, or guarantee — and get every competitor using it. ## Can I search ads by what's shown on screen? Yes. AdSee generates an AI description of every ad's visuals, so a plain-language query like "dog playing on a beach" returns the ads containing that footage. No keywords or tags required. ## Can I see where a YouTube ad was shown? Yes. AdSee shows which countries each ad ran in, and you can filter search results by market — useful for finding what a competitor is testing in your region versus scaling globally. ## Can I see the landing page behind an ad? Yes. Where an ad drives to a landing page, AdSee links the two — so you can evaluate the creative and the funnel together instead of judging the video in isolation. ## How does AdSee estimate ad spend? We estimate the media spend behind each ad from its view count and the countries it ran in, using country-level cost-per-view benchmarks. Estimates are always shown as a range (like $220K–$560K), never a single number — YouTube pricing is auction-based, so a range is the honest answer. Our methodology page explains the full approach. ## Can I find more ads like one I've already found? Yes. From any ad, AdSee surfaces similar ads matched on spoken content, visuals, or both, with filters for industry, language, duration, and country to narrow the set. ## Who is AdSee for? AdSee is used by YouTube media buyers, performance marketers, creative strategists, direct response copywriters, and agencies running paid video. Anyone who needs to know what competitors are saying and showing before writing the next script or brief. ## Which languages do you support? All of them — and you don't need to match the ad's language to find it. AdSee uses semantic (meaning-based) search: type your query in English and it will surface relevant ads in Spanish, Portuguese, German, or any other language, because the search understands what the ad is about, not just the words it uses. You can still filter by language to focus on a specific market. ## Which countries and markets do you cover? AdSee tracks where each YouTube ad was shown and lets you filter by country. Coverage is deepest in North America (US, Canada), Europe (UK, Germany, France, Spain and more), Australia, and Latin America (Mexico, Brazil, Argentina), with new markets added as the database grows. ## Why do some ads have no country data? This mostly affects unlisted videos — ads that are hidden from public discovery on YouTube and exist only as ad placements. Determining where these ads were shown takes additional processing, so country data for them may appear with a delay or be temporarily unavailable. We're actively expanding this coverage. ## How often is the database updated? AdSee adds 150K+ new YouTube ads every day, with AI processing running continuously — so newly launched competitor creatives typically appear within a day. ## What can I access for free? Right now — everything. AdSee AI is completely free until October 1, 2026: full search across the entire database by transcript, visuals, on-screen text, and ad copy, all filters, and spend estimates. Just create a free account. Curated collections of top ads by industry stay open even without signing up.