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Find ads with Discovery

Search the ad library, change views, inspect cards, and save useful references.

7 min readUpdated August 27, 2026Open in Tartol

Quick visual guide

Start broad, inspect a promising ad, then save it.

  1. 1

    Choose the view

    Use All Ads for browsing or Product Match when you want results tied to a product.

    Discovery view controls and ad gridPick a view
  2. 2

    Open one result

    Select See Details on an ad to inspect its source, status, landing page, and targeting.

    Discovery ad grid with a See Details buttonSee Details
  3. 3

    Save useful ads

    Choose Save on the ad card. Use its arrow when you need a specific destination.

    Discovery ad card with Save controlSave

Red labels show the exact control to use.

Watch the full walkthrough
Discovery combines search, filters, saved presets, sorting, and multiple browsing views.
Detailed referenceOpen this for definitions, limits, examples, and troubleshooting.

Choose the right browsing view

ViewBest for
GridComparing many ad cards and scanning visual patterns.
FeedReviewing one creative at a time with more context.
SwipeMaking quick save or skip decisions on mobile-style cards.

Open links in ad post text

Tartol recognizes complete HTTP or HTTPS URLs, addresses beginning with www, and bare web domains in ad post text. It displays them in Meta-style blue and opens the selected destination in a new tab without opening the surrounding ad card. The same behavior applies across Discovery grid, feed, and swipe views, Brand Tracker, Saved Ads, shared and detail views, generated-ad cards, and ad previews. These destinations come from the advertiser's original or generated copy, so treat them as external sites. Public API and MCP responses continue to return the original post text as plain data rather than presentation HTML.

How Most Recent mixes brands

In All Ads, Most Recent keeps the newest ads first while preventing one recent Brand Tracker batch from filling the first screen. Discovery rotates advertiser families within the newest start date. If that date contains too few brands, it draws other advertisers from the next recent start dates within a seven-day window and mixes them into the opening results. Related Meta pages that send visitors to the same brand website, such as a main page and a Shop page, count as one brand family. Ads from the same advertiser family keep their own order. Filtering to one advertiser shows that advertiser alone, while Oldest and Longest Running continue to follow their selected ranking directly.

How Product Match uses landing pages

Product Match combines the selected catalog product's identity and product-image profile with products identified on analyzed landing pages. Strong identifiers, exact product-image bytes, and conservative visual similarity between exact product depictions can establish a match; every ad verified to share that landing page can then inherit the product match. A representative sales-video frame or landing-page context image can appear in the preview, but it is explicitly excluded from matching evidence. The optional Visual Match filter is stricter and separately requires a compatible product to be visible in each individual ad creative.

Read signals as evidence, not guarantees

Running days, countries, EU reach/spend ranges, page activity, and creative patterns can help prioritize ads. Ad cards across Discovery, Brand Tracker, Saved Ads, feed views, and shared libraries omit country badges to stay compact. A Countries row appears directly below Platforms in an ad Details sidebar when the provider supplied country-market data; otherwise the row is omitted. It shows the first three countries as small flag-only icons with instant full-name tooltips, plus a compact overflow count when more are available. Countries uses explicit advertiser targeting when Meta supplies it and otherwise falls back to Meta's combined target/reach market signal. Granular country-level delivery breakdowns never replace it. The same definition is used in filters, results, details, exports, API responses, and connected tools. Delivery breakdowns may still support separate European reach and spend metrics for confirmed EU-transparency ads. EU reach and spend stay in the Details sidebar, where Tartol can distinguish reported values from modeled estimates and explain them in context. These signals do not prove profitability. Compare several signals and validate the idea against your own product and market.

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Last updated August 27, 2026