How to find which brands run the same creative with Adspy

This Adspy playbook is for brand teams checking resellers, partners and copies. It returns every other brand in the library running the exact same image or video as a brand's newest ads, since when and in how many ads. Everything it reads is included on every plan, within fair use.

Cost: IncludedEverything it reads is included on every plan, within fair use
Where: Claude, Claude Code, Codex or any remote MCP clientThrough Adspy's MCP server
Sources: Meta and Google adsPublic ad libraries, YouTube ads included; Starter reads its own source's ads, and the TikTok source has none
Output: Every holder of the same fileWith first-seen dates, ad counts and look-alikes

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Updated 13 November 2026

The prompt · same creative

Take AG1's five newest video ads. For each one, tell me which other brands in Adspy run the exact same file, since when and in how many ads, then show me look-alike ads from other brands.

Brand

Change the words in the fields and the prompt follows; the steps stay the same. Send it as it is, or ask in your own words.

What does Adspy do, step by step?

Your AI runs 3 steps with Adspy's tools. Each call is listed with its arguments and the most it can cost on the published tariff; free and included calls use no credits.

Pick the ads
Your AI opens the brand's newest video ads.
- search_creatives{ brandKey, format: "video", limit: 5 }Included
Find the same file elsewhere
For each ad, it lists every brand in the library holding the exact same image or video, with its first-seen date and its number of ads.
- find_same_media{ hash }Free
Show the look-alikes
It shows ads from other brands that look and read alike, closest first.
- find_similar_creatives{ hash, limit: 12 }Included

This exampleIncludedeverything it reads is included on every plan, within fair use

What comes back?

Adspy's answer arrives in the chat, with the ads, posts and figures it rests on, so you can open each one.

Each ad's other holders: brand, first seen and number of ads
The other brands running the brand's own file, for you to tell resellers, partners and copies apart
Look-alike ads from other brands, closest first

No sample is shown here: the library snapshot behind the other playbooks' samples cannot show this answer, and a made-up one would mislead.

Good to know before you run it

Same means the same file: an edited or re-encoded version is a different file and shows among the look-alikes instead.
When no other brand holds a file, the answer says so, and the look-alikes carry the comparison.
Adspy shows who runs a file, not why, and alike never means equally effective.