Adligator Academy
Short, focused guides that turn Adligator into your unfair advantage. From your first search to running Trackers on your top competitors — every screen explained.
Getting started
Orient yourself in Adligator and run your first competitor search.
Your first search in 60 seconds
The exact 4-click path to pull a competitor’s ads — plus the three signals you read on every card.
The five tabs of Adligator, in plain English
A 4-minute map of the app — what each tab is for, and which one you should be in for the job you actually have.
Reading a creative card, signal by signal
Eight bits of information sit on a single Adligator card. This is the order you should read them in.
The Adligator glossary
A scannable A-to-Z of every term you'll see in the app, the filter panel, or the Analytics dashboard.
How to…
Task-driven recipes — open one when you have a specific job to do.
Spy on any brand’s Facebook ads in 4 clicks
The Adligator workflow that replaces an hour in Meta Ad Library with one search and one filter.
Filter Facebook ads by country, the right way
GEO + To: the two-filter combo that strips a global grid down to country-specific winners in one search.
Find a brand's long-running winners
The single most useful sort change in Adligator — plus the Days active filter combo that strips the grid down to proven winners only.
Find Facebook ads by creative format
Use the Display format filter to surface only video, carousel, DCO, or image ads — the format you're actually about to brief.
Build a swipe file the right way
A 4-step Collections workflow that turns one-off ad finds into a reusable reference library your design team will actually open.
Compare two competitors side-by-side
Two Trackers, two Analytics tabs, one read. The fastest way to see the strategic difference between two brands.
Finding the right keywords to search
The keyword is not the topic. Search "meet singles" not "Dating"; "Plinko" not "iGaming". A method, a ChatGPT prompt, and a per-vertical cheat sheet.
Feature deep dives
One page per hero feature, with the exact screens and use cases.
Trackers — competitor surveillance on autopilot
Save a search once. Adligator re-runs it, shows only the new ads, and unlocks the Analytics dashboard for that brand.
The Analytics dashboard — the hero feature of Adligator
A single screen that converts a brand's ad library into launch cadence, copy patterns, format mix, and country distribution.
Collections — saved ads, organized, shareable
The folder system underneath every bookmarked ad. Save once, browse later, share by link, never lose to Meta cleanup.
The Pages tab — advertisers, not ads
Every Facebook page Adligator has indexed, with lifetime ad counts. The shortest path from "I think this brand advertises" to "here is what they actually run".
Every Adligator filter, explained
A complete reference for the 13 filters in the filter panel — Campaign, Source, and Properties groups, with the use case for each.