People love stealing other peoples ads on facebook. Did you ever wonder, how can this be made even easier then using the Ad Board? MadPPC.com has come up with a great script to do this called FBSpy. Some of it’s features include:
- Multi-Account Capabilities – You have the freedom to set up and get ads from as many different Facebook accounts as you deem fit. Oh it’ll even tag up the ad with important information you had set for that user, like age, tags, sex, and sexual orientation.
- Easy to use – If you have a US or Canadian IP, just setup a profile. Then when setting it up change where the profile is from, you should be able to get ads from all over the place.
- Multiple Search Features – Find out what ads are targeted by age, sex, sexual orientation (Likes in the above image). Also search by keywords found in the title and adcopy.
- Tags – Tag each ad with important keywords to not only describe the ad in general but make searching a breeze.
MadPPC is a great guy who does some sick coding. If you are looking for a tool to spy on your Facebook competition, I suggest dropping the small amount of money to buy FBSpy.
This is NOT a paid post, nor am I making ANY commissions if you buy his product!
PLEASE NOTE: I DO NOT ENDORSE STEALING ADS. SPYING IS ONE THING. GATHERING INFO ABOUT NICHES IS ONE THING. STEALING ADS & LANDING PAGES WORD FOR WORD ARE ANOTHER. USE YOUR BRAIN!
Been using it for a couple months now – pretty sweet.
wow this tool is gold. i was planning on coding my own later in the week but for 35 bucks i’m buying it now.
I don’t know how I feel about all these “spy” kits…most of them turn out to be bunk ya know what I mean?
@affiliatechick – All it does is scrape ads from multiple profiles you set up, so theres really no extraordinary claims. It’s just a good tool for market research. 🙂
Can’t get FBSpy anymore.. any other software that will do this or know where I can get FB Spy?
FB has now made the page tough to scrape. It’s all AJAX based. You’d have to make a FF extension to get around this problem, and that’s no easy thing to do. Anyway, since they changed the home profile page in December, the “More Ads” link went away. However, the new URL for it is this:
http://www.facebook.com/ads/adboard/
Also, the ads there are catered to those things a given user profile has liked, or from keywords in their feed, or that a friend of yours liked. So, you would have to create profiles that like things in certain niches, and mentioned hot keywords in certain niches, in order to get the right kind of ad mix on their FB Ad Board.
But think about that — it’s pretty much futile to scrape this because not only would it be an extraordinary expense to have someone build this, it would yield only limited results, and the results would require that you constantly update the profile with fake feed posts with juicy keywords and for each profile to like certain ads in order to establish a certain niche. To make this worth your time, you’d have to create like 60 profiles.