🧠 Brand Spy

Brand Spy is a powerful tool that allows you to track and analyze competitors' advertising strategies effortlessly. Whether you're looking to monitor a brand’s ad trends, identify winning creatives, or discover top-performing hooks and landing pages, this feature provides deep insights to help you stay ahead.

Accessing Brand Spy

To start tracking brands, you can:

Option 1: From the Brand Spy Section

1. Navigate to ‘Brand Spy’ from the left sidebar in GetHookd.ai.
2. Click "Spy New Brand" to open the spying modal.
3. Choose one of two ways to start spying:

• Manually enter a brand’s Meta Ads Library URL.

• Explore Pre-Spied Brands – Browse 16,000+ brands already tracked and add them instantly.

Option 2: Directly From the Ad's Card

• While browsing ads in Explore, click on the three-dots menu on each ad card
• Click "Spy Brand" under any ad card.
• This will automatically start tracking the brand and save it to your Brand Spy dashboard.

Understanding the Brand Spy Dashboard

The dashboard gives you a detailed breakdown of a brand’s advertising strategy, including:

• Ad Formats Breakdown – Tracks ad format distribution (images, videos, carousels).
• Trends Graph – See how the brand’s ad activity compares over the past 4 months.
• Top Performing Ads – Only the Active Top-performers, with previews and quick save to your Swipe File.
• Most Used Hooks – Identify the most-used ad hooks in top creatives.
• Most Used Landing Pages – See the most used landing pages and traffic distribution.

Managing Followed Brands

When you first spy on a brand, it is active for the current billing cycle but set to be disabled for the next cycle by default.

• If you leave it disabled, you will still have full access to the brand during the current cycle. Once the new billing cycle starts, the brand will become inactive.
• If you enable it for the next cycle, 8 credits will be deducted at the start of that billing cycle, and the brand will remain active.
• If a brand is disabled, you can re-enable it at any time — once enabled, it will stay ON by default in future cycles until you manually switch it off.

Moving Brands into Different Folders

You can organize tracked brands by moving them into different folders.

1. Navigate to the folder where you initially saved your Brand Spy
2. Locate the Brand Spy within the folder tree
3. Click on the three-dots menu on the right
4. Click on "Edit" button
5. A modal will appear, allowing you to switch the folder.
6. Select the folder you'd like and click "Save.

Search Option

• Quickly find your spied brands with typing in their names.

• Regularly review your tracked brands so you’re only following the most relevant competitors.
• Use folders to keep campaigns, niches, or competitor groups organized.
• Plan deactivations ahead of your billing cycle to maximize available slots.

Updated on: 21/08/2025