Is mediabuyer.site really free?

Yes. The entire browsing surface — creatives, advertiser hubs, landing-page captures, country footprints — is publicly viewable without an account. There is no upgrade prompt.

Does mediabuyer.site have everything a paid tool has?

No. The paid tools cover more ad surfaces (e.g. push notifications, pop, mobile in-app), more geos, and often have deeper historical archives. Mediabuyer.site focuses on the four major native content-recommendation networks (Taboola, Outbrain, MGID, RevContent) with high per-record quality. For broad multi-surface research, the paid tools may still be the right call; for native-only research, mediabuyer.site is usually enough.

How fresh is the data?

Crawls run on a daily cadence. New creatives appear on the live feed within hours of the next build. Each creative carries first-seen and last-seen timestamps.

What does the competitor cost?

Pricing changes often and quoting numbers here would go stale within weeks. Check the competitor's own pricing page for the current rate. Mediabuyer.site itself is free with no subscription tier.

mediabuyer.site vs AdPlexity

AdPlexity is a multi-surface ad-intelligence platform sold by subscription. It covers native, mobile, push, pop, e-commerce, and desktop ad surfaces with deep historical archives. Mediabuyer.site is a free, no-login spy surface focused specifically on native content-recommendation creatives across Taboola, Outbrain, MGID, and RevContent.

The two are complements rather than direct substitutes. AdPlexity goes wide — many surfaces, many years of history, a saved-campaign workspace, a paid support channel. Mediabuyer.site goes deep on a narrower scope: the four major native networks, the live and recently-running creatives, full per-record metadata, and public access with no signup wall.

What AdPlexity does that mediabuyer.site does not: push notification ad spy, pop traffic spy, mobile in-app spy, e-commerce ad spy, multi-year archive depth. What mediabuyer.site does that AdPlexity does not: serve the data publicly with no account; expose every page as a Markdown mirror at /<path>.md so LLM crawlers can ground answers; publish a public data dictionary at /data-dictionary.

For multi-surface research that has to cover push or pop, AdPlexity is the right tool. For native-only research on the open-web content-recommendation surfaces, the free surface here is enough — and a researcher evaluating an AdPlexity subscription can use it to first check whether the native-only data alone answers their questions.

Side-by-side comparison

Dimension	AdPlexity	mediabuyer.site
Surfaces covered	Native, mobile, push, pop, e-commerce, desktop	Native (Taboola, Outbrain, MGID, RevContent)
Login required	Yes	No
Pricing	Subscription-based	Free
Historical archive depth	Multi-year	Recent (rolling)
Landing-page capture	Yes	Yes
Saved-campaign workspace	Yes	Watchlists (optional account)
Public data dictionary	No	Yes (/data-dictionary)
LLM-friendly Markdown mirrors	No	Yes (append .md to any URL)

Live native ad creatives in the index

A sample of creatives from the live index. Click any creative for the full detail page — landing-page capture, advertiser hub, country footprint, and how long it has been running.

mediabuyer.site vs AdPlexity

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Live native ad creatives in the index

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