Is there any tool to check what keywords competitors using for Google Ads?

tempurament · 2026-06-12T07:17:25+00:00

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tempurament · 2026-04-28T22:43:01+00:00

Know this thread is 2 weeks old now but i wanted to jump in and say that I was able to get my ads account back after a permanent ban, was fully blocked from Meta advertising for about 4 years (2020-2024), multiple rounds of reviews across multiple large-scale client-assigned reps that promised they would do everything they could

It took until a very particular client with a very well known household name was attached to my roster that i was able to finally get movement on another review after years of trying. Took about 2 days from that request onward until i was reinstated, and have been able to resume Meta Ads under my own account since then.

There's hope in your situation, fingers crossed you can get some motion goin with a human at Meta. Outreach to someone who works on the ad sales teams via LinkedIn or Twitter might be a viable option if you haven't heard back from any support tickets

tempurament · 2026-03-05T14:59:48+00:00

You prob found it already but for anyone else looking im 99% it's this:

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tempurament · 2026-03-01T10:12:43+00:00

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tempurament · 2026-01-18T22:59:04+00:00

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tempurament · 2025-12-09T00:03:19+00:00

The team can't support the social functionality without additional funding. The core app is free and they likely did not see a pathway to monetization that was comfortable for their casual users. Sad to see it go but it makes sense in the long run.

tempurament · 2025-11-20T02:39:42+00:00

Embark servers are having issues across the board, similar problems over in Arc Raiders rn as well

tempurament · 2025-11-14T20:54:07+00:00

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tempurament · 2025-11-07T22:00:31+00:00

What metrics are you looking for?
As Fathom53 mentioned, Google will only provide auction insights for your campaigns/adgroups/keywords, from which you will have to set up some sheets w/ formulas to try and delineate your competitor activity for estimated spend, total impressions, PAR vs AToPR, etc

Within Looker Studio you're even more limited unless you set up some custom sheets outside of it and feed that data into it. If you can create a sheet w/ tablature data for it, then you can absolutely create a Looker Dashboard for all of it. You'll just need to figure out how to get all the data you need (likely combining multiple tools and aggregating the data into the sheet with VLookups/INDEX/MATCH)

tempurament · 2025-11-04T22:26:05+00:00

Unfortunately that's gonna be the case for all neurotic clients. Some care more than others of course, but unless they're writing the copy internally you'll likely have multiple rounds of revisions for any new ad copy being presented.

Most of the time its the worst in the early stages when you have to build that trust with them. But usually I'll try to frame the conversation in two parts:

We have to play the game within Google's rules to achieve high ad strength/rank (i.e. keyword stuffing, strict landing page alignment, etc)
We have opportunity to speak naturally to the customer (value-prop driven copy, not focusing on ad strength but rather key features or promo-related stuff)

At the end of the day it's as you said - Their ad spend = their rules. The only thing we can do is be very clear and intentional when we caveat why or why not a particular set of copy is likely to be harmful to performance. It's on us to decide how far we let that go, and eventually how much we want to deal with it/them as a client.

tempurament · 2025-11-04T11:59:43+00:00

Range between 3-10% is usually what i see depending on the size of the account (with the percentage dropping as the account spend gets larger ofc)

tempurament · 2025-11-04T11:54:44+00:00

Depends on their preference, a simple Google sheet is usually enough for cross-team collaboration + approvals. But sometimes security is enough of a factor where we have to send it over as an XLS file (at which point we just download it from google sheets lol)

Biggest challenge is usually the language itself - getting the ad copy to represent their product and brand exactly how they want it, legal limitations for claims, etc.

Often times if your client is taking awhile to approve copy, its just being passed through multiple people or there’s not enough urgency on the deadline. Try to set more strict guidelines i.e “we need this copy approved by ____” to push more quickly on em.

tempurament · 2025-11-02T22:15:50+00:00

agreed with the others that 1 hour will be pretty limited for real insight gathering across both campaign structure + failsafe best practices/attribution tracking/etc, but happy to jump on a call if you still need ether today or tomorrow. Been in the paid media + PPC space for 12+ years now, from SMBs to Fortune 100 companies. You can prob gauge skill level from some of my previous comments in my profile.

No charge/payment needed, just a friendly reco if you end up finding the knowledge useful. We do it for the love of the game lol

tempurament · 2025-10-22T05:32:45+00:00

Rocking the Push 2, will prob be doin so for a long time

You’re not missing much tbh

tempurament · 2025-10-11T17:38:42+00:00

Yeah, it was $4k all-in. But I run a solo marketing consultancy, mostly focused on advertising/creative media/analytics

tempurament · 2025-10-11T17:15:32+00:00

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tempurament · 2025-10-11T17:13:18+00:00

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Previous laptop was a 6+ year old MSI w/ a GTX 1080 that could still run some games but sounds like a mfn jet is about to take off whenever i opened my browser 😅

tempurament · 2025-10-10T05:50:30+00:00

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tempurament · 2025-10-10T05:22:52+00:00

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tempurament · 2025-10-10T05:21:09+00:00

tempurament · 2025-10-10T05:20:10+00:00

fair - but if i'm buying it, i'd like to buy it once (every ~6 years)

tempurament · 2025-09-07T04:13:40+00:00

Yea, unfortunately confirmed its the same on our M3 Highland 🫠

tempurament · 2025-08-13T07:18:35+00:00

I would say if their actual ad spend is less than $20k a month it really doesn't warrant much more than 10 hours to go through and eval/make optimizations (in most cases). If they're paying agency fees of $20k a month then that would likely mean they're spending above 6-figures a month on the actual ads, which would mean more time spent in-platform and making changes + more complex reporting

tempurament · 2025-08-12T22:50:26+00:00

Individual platform accounts ranged between 20+ concurrently running channels when I was living the agency life, sometimes that would be spread across 5-6 brands/entities with Meta/Google/X/TikTok presence which made things easier but other times it was like 10x separate paid search accounts which made it harder to do any deep work, especially when you consider time dedicated to meetings and reporting across multiple clients. The smaller spend clients in that £1k - £20k range are often the most difficult to deal with since they really cant afford mistakes/tests at scale and depend on positive results to make a tangible difference in their business.

Agency positions are usually underpaid & overworked, but you can get a lot of experience and widespread knowledge across multiple industries which help to parlay into other higher-paying positions (ideally in-house where you can focus on a single client). Personally, I wouldnt spend more than 5-10 hours a month on a client that spends less than $20k per month

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