ad verification proxies
you cannot audit a campaign from the office. what you need is the page exactly as it renders for someone in the target market, on the network they actually use.
why this needs proxies
ad delivery is decided by geography and network. an advertiser checking placement from a corporate connection sees a different page than the audience does, and datacenter addresses are frequently excluded from ad serving altogether, so the page you audit is not the page that ran.
which proxies to use
residential from $1.30
country, state, city and asn targeting, so you can check delivery in the exact market a campaign bought.
mobile from $1.00
real 4g and 5g carrier ips, for verifying mobile placements and creatives as a phone on that carrier receives them.
what it costs
estimate: about 3 mb per check, because verification usually renders the full page including creatives and trackers. screenshotting pushes this higher.
| page checks | bandwidth | residential | mobile |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | 3 gb | $5.85 | $4.20 |
| 10,000 | 29 gb | $56.55 | $40.60 |
| 50,000 | 146 gb | $233.60 | $175.20 |
volume rates are applied automatically, so the larger rows already reflect the cheaper tier.
how to set it up
sessionrotating, with country or city targeting per check
accountone random 16-digit number. no email, no name, no kyc.
paymentcrypto only: monero, bitcoin, litecoin and ethereum.
faq
- why not just use a vpn to check ads?
- a vpn gives you one exit in a country, which is a single vantage point that ad networks often recognise as a vpn. verification needs many ordinary-looking addresses across the markets you bought, which is what a residential or mobile pool provides.
- can i check ads on mobile carriers specifically?
- yes. mobile proxies exit through real carrier networks, so a placement bought against mobile inventory can be checked on the kind of connection it targeted. asn targeting narrows it further.
- does city-level targeting matter for ad checks?
- for locally bought campaigns it is the whole point: delivery frequently differs between cities in the same country. residential supports country, state, city and asn targeting.