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An operator is the business entity inferred from shared fingerprints — AdSense pub-ID, footer entity, GTM container — that connect a cluster of landing pages.

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Operators

Native-ad creatives clustered by shared business-entity fingerprints. One operator often runs many domains and shows up on many networks at once.

Operators

987

Domains tracked

1470

across all operators

Ads attributed

17242

with at least one operator signal

Live leaders

12

operators with ads seen this week

Largest by ad portfolio

Operators with the most creatives currently in the index.

Largest by domain portfolio

Operators with the most distinct landing-page hosts.

Most active this week

Operators with the most ads still being observed in the past 7 days.

About the operator graph

An operator is the business entity behind a set of landing pages. We cluster ads when they share a deterministic fingerprint — the same AdSense pub-ID, the same legal entity in the footer, the same Google Tag Manager container, or the same WordPress theme with matching configuration.

All fingerprints are sourced from public HTML — pub-IDs in page source, footer copyright text, and tag-manager loader scripts. We never index private signals.

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Operator graph — frequently asked

What is an operator in the context of native-ad affiliate marketing?

An operator is the business entity behind a cluster of landing pages, inferred from shared deterministic fingerprints — the same AdSense publisher ID, the same legal entity in the footer, the same Google Tag Manager container, or the same WordPress theme with matching configuration. One operator often runs many domains across many networks.

How is the operator graph built?

All fingerprints are sourced from public HTML — AdSense pub-IDs in page source, footer copyright text, and tag-manager loader scripts. Private signals are never used, and offers that do not share a deterministic fingerprint with at least one other offer are left out of the graph rather than guessed.

How is an operator different from a company or an advertiser?

A company is the legal registration, an advertiser is the account that bought the media on the network, and an operator is the inferred entity that ties together a cluster of landing pages. Often the three resolve to the same group, but the operator graph captures the cluster even when the company and the advertiser fields are missing or noisy.

Is the operator graph the same as a known-fraudsters list?

No. The operator graph is a clustering tool — it surfaces who is running which domains across which networks. It is editorial intelligence, not a blocklist. Some operators run premium offers and some run aggressive offers; the graph itself does not judge.