SEE THE ADS. UNDERSTAND THE STRATEGY.

Decode your
competitors’
strategy.

CreativeRadar analyses real ad sightings of your brand and your competitors. Our AI identifies messages, priorities and changes, showing you where new opportunities lie for your marketing.

For marketing and media decision-makers.

CREATIVE INTELLIGENCEExample analysis
YOUR COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE

What the ads reveal.

Weekly analysis
Your brandCompetitor ACompetitor B
Observed ad activityMon — Sun
Messaging patternsContext
Competitor APrice & offers
Your brandQuality & service
AI INSIGHT

Price advantages dominate Competitor A’s messaging.

Next step: sharpen what sets your brand apart.
SightingInsightDecision
COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCECREATIVE ASSURANCEBRAND SAFETYEU DATA COMPLIANCEEXPLORE

Thousands of ad sightings. Every day. Worldwide.

A selection of brands whose advertising we monitor:
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01 / YOUR DAY IN MARKETING

Better decisions
start with
better questions.

Which answers are missing from your next campaign meeting?

  1. Are your ads displayed correctly?
  2. Are your ads appearing in reputable environments?
  3. What messages and offers are your competitors advertising?
  4. Where are their ads being shown?
  5. What strategy is behind their advertising?

CreativeRadar documents real ad sightings, detects display errors and problematic placements, and analyses your competitors’ advertising.

02 / COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS

See the strategy
behind the ads.

Compare your brand’s advertising with the competition. CreativeRadar brings sightings together, interprets patterns and turns them into actionable recommendations.

01

See what is actually running.

Compare observed ads, messages and placements for your brand and your competitors.

02

Understand what is changing.

Identify recurring themes, new priorities and differences in the messaging we observe.

03

Decide what to do next.

Use AI recommendations to sharpen your messaging, focus your creative briefs and evaluate new advertising environments.

Explore the analysis in a demo
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COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS

Brands compared

Last week
Your brand
Sample ad from your brand
Quality & outdoor experienceDisplay
Competitor A
Sample ad from a competitor
Price & offersDisplay
02SPOT THE PATTERNS

Same market. Different message.

While Competitor A emphasises price, your brand leads with quality and outdoor experience.

Price
Quality
Topic environments
88Credibility index
74Scroll-depth index
Travel & outdoor
Finance
News
Illustrative data and ads shown as examples, created with AI.
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YOUR WEEK. THE ESSENTIALS.

Competitive
Intelligence Report

Example report
01

The essentials first.

The key changes across your brand and the competition, in a concise summary.

02

The story behind them.

Recurring messages, new priorities and the sightings behind them.

03

Your next step.

Actionable recommendations for creative and media planning.

OBSERVE → UNDERSTAND → ACTCR / 01

03 / REPORTS & SUMMARIES

Your overview.
Delivered as a
report.

Receive your weekly AI report with a concise summary, the most important changes and actionable recommendations.

Arrive at your next campaign meeting prepared, without having to review every sighting yourself.

Less research.
More time for better decisions.

05 / CREATIVE ASSURANCE & BRAND SAFETY

Your campaign is live.
Stay in control.

Identify display errors and problematic advertising environments through documented sightings. Give your team the evidence to respond.

When ads break,
you know immediately.

Missing logos, cut-off text or display errors: as soon as CreativeRadar detects an issue, you receive an immediate notification. The documented sighting shows your team what to check and fix.

CREATIVE QUALITY CHECKExample view
Sample ad with a clipped logo and a typo
DISPLAY ERROR

Logo cut off & typo

The brand logo extends beyond the visible ad area, and a typo has slipped in ("drausen" instead of the correct "draußen").

Website
publisher.example
Format
300 × 250
Evidence
Sighting documented
Error detected. Alert sent.A notification with the supporting evidence.

BRAND SAFETY

Your brand belongs
in a reputable environment.

CreativeRadar checks whether your campaigns appear on disreputable websites. If such a placement is detected, you receive a notification.

Use the documented sighting to review the placement with your team or agency and initiate the necessary changes.

REVIEW THE PLACEMENTExample view
Example of a questionable ad placement with brand safety alert
01Brand safety violation detected02Evidence captured03You are notified
Review the evidence with your team or agency.

06 / YOUR BUSINESS CASE

More from your budget.
More time for your team.

Estimate the annual value of reduced budget waste, better insights and time saved.

Your assumptions

Example values — adjust the sliders for your team.

Annual budget of the campaigns you monitor.

Share of budget, not share of sightings.

From competitive insights, at equal performance.

Total team effort per month.

Average internal or agency rate.

Adjust avoidable shares

How much of the affected budget can you really save? Consider the severity of the errors and the time needed to detect and fix them.

How much of your current workload would disappear? Allow for the checks and coordination that remain.

Avoided: 100 % of affected budget · Time saved: 100 %. Assumes full recovery and time savings.

THREE LEVERS. YOUR POTENTIAL.
Estimated total annual potential€73,400

Budget potential + the value of time saved.

Avoided budget losses

€30,000

Additional media value

€19,400

Value of time saved

240 hours per year

€24,000
Monthly equivalent€6,117

Annual values include time saved as freed capacity. Cash savings are not guaranteed.

Discuss your potential

Example assumptions — not measured CreativeRadar results.

Inputs & calculation explained

Faulty placements: Estimate the affected share of budget, for example due to display errors or problematic advertising environments. The share of flagged sightings alone is not sufficient.

Team effort: Add up research, screenshots, competitive analysis, reports and coordination across everyone involved. Use an hourly rate weighted by working hours.

Budget losses: Annual budget × affected budget share × share you can actually avoid.

Media value: (Annual budget − avoided budget losses) × additional budget efficiency. Error correction is deducted first and must not be counted again in the efficiency assumption. The percentage means less budget for the same performance, not an uplift in revenue or conversions.

Time value: Team hours per month × 12 × share of time actually saved × hourly rate. Freed capacity only becomes a financial saving when staffing or agency expenditure falls.

Total potential: The sum of the three annual contributions. The monthly value is one twelfth of that total. The calculation assumes a full year with constant inputs. Additional brand protection through Brand Safety is not assigned a blanket euro value. The actual impact depends on the actions you take.

07 / CUSTOMER VOICES

CreativeRadar in
our customers’ day-to-day work.

Jörn Peter Rieberer in front of a brick wall
Jörn Peter RiebererManaging Director, smoox

WHAT WE BELIEVE

Marketing you
can verify.

There is only one truth in online marketing. The one you can see with your own eyes.

08 / QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

What to know
before
you start.

Still have a question?
Let’s discuss it in the demo.

Book a demo
Which brands and channels can I monitor?+

You define the brands, competitors and environments that matter to you. This also includes analysing ads in AI search. In the demo, we discuss the coverage available for your markets and questions.

How current and representative is the data?+

Every documented sighting has a timestamp. The weekly AI report analyses the captured sightings and compares your brand with the competition. Its conclusions relate to that dataset; they do not cover every ad served across the entire market.

Do I need to keep checking the dashboard?+

Receive the key insights in a report with a summary and recommendations. As soon as CreativeRadar detects an ad error, you are notified immediately. You also receive an alert if your campaign is spotted on a disreputable website.

What do you need to get started?+

We discuss your goals and agree on the brands, campaigns and environments you want to monitor. Then we define the right scope and next steps for your team.

What data does CreativeRadar capture?+

We document ad sightings and their context, such as the website, time, region and ad format. For details on data processing, see our privacy policy and data processing agreement.

What does CreativeRadar cost?+

Together, we define the monitoring and analysis scope you need. You then receive a proposal for your use case. In the demo, we discuss which analyses are relevant to your goals.

YOUR NEXT STEP

See what your
marketing has
been missing.

In a personal demo, we show you a competitive report with a summary and recommendations. You also see how CreativeRadar alerts you to ad errors and disreputable advertising environments.

Together, we discuss how it can work for your brand.

Book a demo