Guides to finding winning products

How to read the Meta Ad Library to find products that are selling. You can do it by hand, no paid tool needed.

• How to tell how long a Facebook ad has been running ›
  Open the ad in the Meta Ad Library, read its start date, and count the days to today. Plus how to read that number correctly.
• How to tell how many stores are running the same video ad ›
  The Meta Ad Library only groups ads within one Page. To count how many stores run the same video, you have to compare videos across Pages.
• How to find winning products in the Facebook Ad Library ›
  Three signals you can read for free in the Meta Ad Library: ads that keep running for a long time, lots of new ads being turned on, and many stores running the same video.
• How to see which Facebook ads a Shopify store is running ›
  Search the store's domain in the Meta Ad Library, collect the ads from every Page the store uses, then check which ads are still running and since when.
• How to see all the ads a Facebook Page is running ›
  Open the Page in the Meta Ad Library to see all of its ads, then check which videos are being pushed and which store the Page links to.
• How to tell when a Facebook ad video was first uploaded ›
  The start date in the Ad Library is the date of the ad, not of the video. Here's how to find the date the video was first uploaded to Facebook.
• How to copy a product from another Shopify store to your store ›
  Get the title, images, variants, price and description of a Shopify product and import them into your store with a CSV file, no paid app needed.

Monthly data: Facebook ads report ›

Original data from the SpyWinAds library: how Facebook video ads get reused ›