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50,000+brands searchableRealYouTube view countsNoad account needed

Spy on any brand's
YouTube ads

Type a competitor and see every video ad they're running, with real view counts, views per day, and whether it's still live.

Updated daily. Free trial, no credit card required.

Every YouTube ad from HEXCLAD, Dr. Squatch, Ridge, AG1, monday.com, Peloton & any other brand you search

32,000+
ads tracked, updated daily
100+
brands indexed
50,000+
brands searchable
Real
YouTube view counts
THE PROBLEM

You're guessing which ads work.
That guess is expensive.

One failed YouTube creative burns $5K to $20K. Google's Ad Library hides most video ads, so you launch blind.

✕

Competitor ads are hidden

Google's Ad Library won't surface most YouTube video ads. You can't see what's running in your category.

✕

No performance data anywhere

Nothing tells you if an ad is a winner pulling millions of views or a dud that got killed.

✕

You model the wrong ads

Without view counts you copy creatives that already flopped, wasting weeks and budget.

Brand Search

The only tool that shows real YouTube view counts

Scan any brand on demand: first ads in about 10 seconds, ranked live by views per day. Recent ads land in a couple of minutes and the full history finishes in the background, with an email when it's done. Every ad carries real view counts, days live, and active or stopped status.

Pathfinder ad detail for a Shopify YouTube ad: 62.9M real views, 96.4K views per day, 652 days on air, 24 ad instances, a view history chart, and the headlines the brand tried
Discover

The best YouTube ads running right now

Discover ranks by views per day, not total spend. A small brand whose ad is compounding outranks a giant coasting on reach.

✓Ranked by velocity, not by who spent the most
✓Capped per brand, so no one advertiser owns the page
✓Filter by category, format, length, and active status
✓Proven filter: ads that ran 28+ days and sit in their brand's top quartile of views per day
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Pathfinder's Discover feed ranking live YouTube ads from Kalshi, OLIPOP, Nike, Character AI, Gruns, Shopify, and Claude by views per day, with Proven badges on the ads that cleared their brand's bar
A Pathfinder Swipe File of 25 saved YouTube ads from Envato, Gruns, HEXCLAD, Claude, Nike, Magic Spoon, and Shopify, each carrying its views per day, total views, and days on air
Swipe file

Build your playbook as you browse

Save any ad with one click, metrics attached. Brief your editor with creatives that provably ran, not screenshots you liked.

✓One click to save from any search or the Discover feed
✓Views and lifespan travel with the ad
✓Share your swipe file with a public link, real metrics attached
View pricing
Tracker and alerts

Never miss a competitor launch

Follow the brands you care about and get an email the day we first see new creative, before the campaign scales.

✓Track any brand you have searched
✓Daily alert email the day we first see new creative
✓Alerts flag test batches, like 3 new ads that are part of a 12-ad launch
View pricing
The Pathfinder Tracker following Framer, WisprFlow, ohSnap, Envato, and Gruns Nutrition, with a 3 new alert on Framer expanded to show the three ads it just launched
Creative Testing

Reverse-engineer
their testing strategy

Anyone can look at a competitor's ads. Pathfinder shows the experiment behind them: winners, kills, live tests, and the cadence they launch on.

Pathfinder's Creative Testing view for HEXCLAD: 766 ads plotted as winners, kills, or live tests on one scatter chart, with a 20-ads-per-launch cadence every 7 days, losers cut in 11 days, and winners running 52 days
HEXCLAD's YouTube testing history, read straight out of Pathfinder. No ad account access required.
22%
of their ads survive
last 90 days of launches
20
ads per launch
a new batch every 7 days
52d
average winner
how long survivors run
11d
average kill time
how fast losers get cut

Every ad on one chart

The scatter plots each ad by launch date and lifespan: winners, kills, and live tests at a glance. Takeaway badges compress it into batch size, cadence, and kill discipline.

See what wins by element

Win rates by format, length, and headline hook. A win means 28+ days live and top-quartile views per day for that brand.

Catch tests while they're live

The Testing now module reads daily view history on every live batch and flags early leaders before the market notices.

Already scanned

Their whole library
is already waiting

Every brand here is scanned and ready to open, with real view counts straight from YouTube. Anything missing, you can scan yourself in minutes.

Dr. Squatch
931 ads · 77 live
Canva
883 ads · 288 live
HEXCLAD
642 ads · 39 live
Shopify
531 ads · 281 live
BetterHelp
476 ads · 174 live
Gruns
418 ads · 33 live
Ridge
360 ads · 91 live
AG1
206 ads · 64 live
Manscaped
205 ads · 7 live
monday.com
180 ads · 118 live
Perplexity
207 ads · 4 live
Warby Parker
72 ads · 35 live
Who it's for

Built for teams that ship ads

Media buyers

Stop scrolling YouTube by hand. See every competitor's ads and real performance in one place.

Founders

Learn what's actually working in your category before you spend a dollar on creative.

Agencies

Walk into every pitch with competitive intel your prospect has never seen.

Pricing

Two plans. Everything.

One failed creative costs $5K to $20K. Pathfinder is $3.30/day.

Every account starts with a 7-day free trial. No credit card.

Pro
$82 /mo

billed annually ($990/yr)

For individual media buyers and creators

  • ✓Full ad libraries, real view countsEvery brand's full ad library, real view counts
  • ✓Landing pages behind every adLanding pages: the funnel behind every ad (Pro only)
  • ✓Headlines and CTAs for every adHeadlines and CTAs with run evidence
  • ✓View history charts, Creative Testing and format mix
  • ✓25 scans per day25 on-demand scans per day
  • ✓Track 10 brands with alertsTrack 10 brands with daily email alerts
  • ✓Unlimited swipe file saves
Team
$249 /mo

billed annually ($2,990/yr)

For high-volume research

  • ✓Everything in Pro
  • ✓100 scans per day
  • ✓Track 50 brands
  • ✓CSV export

Founding pricing. Locks in for as long as you stay subscribed.

FAQ

Questions

Stop guessing.
Start modeling winners.

See what's actually working in YouTube ads, for any brand, updated daily.

7 days of full access. No credit card.

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Find the best YouTube ads instantly. See what's working. Get creative inspiration with real view counts.

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