Use Case

Ad Creative & Placement Verification

Verify ad placements, creative rendering, and brand safety across publisher websites with automated screenshots.

Overview

Digital advertising requires verification. Are your ads displaying correctly? Are they appearing on brand-safe sites? Is the creative rendering as designed? Manual checking across hundreds of placements is impossible at scale.

Screenshotly automates ad verification by capturing publisher pages where your ads appear. This provides visual proof of ad placement, rendering quality, and surrounding content. Compliance teams can verify brand safety, and creative teams can confirm rendering.

Set up scheduled captures across your ad network to monitor placements continuously. Detect issues like broken creatives, incorrect sizing, competitor adjacency, and inappropriate content before they impact your brand.

Key Benefits

Visual proof of ad placements

Brand safety monitoring

Creative rendering verification

Automated compliance checks

Results You Can Expect

Visual

placement verification

Automated

brand safety checks

Archived

compliance documentation

How It Works

List publisher URLs where ads are placed

Schedule regular screenshot captures

Verify ad rendering and positioning

Check surrounding content for brand safety

Archive for compliance documentation

Code Example

// Verify ad placement
const verifyAdPlacement = async (publisherUrl, adSelector) => {
  const page = await fetch('https://api.screenshotly.app/screenshot', {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: {
      'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_API_KEY',
      'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({
      url: publisherUrl,
      device: 'desktop',
      format: 'png',
      fullPage: true,
    }),
  });

  // Check if ad is visible and correctly rendered
  await analyzeAdPlacement(page, adSelector);

  return page;
};

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I detect non-rendering or blank ad creatives?

Capture the page and compare the ad slot dimensions against your expected creative size. If the screenshot shows a blank rectangle or a fallback image where your ad should be, the creative failed to render. Automate this by diffing the ad region against a reference image of the expected creative.

How do I detect broken ad creatives?

Compare captured screenshots against expected creative mockups using visual comparison. Significant differences indicate rendering issues that need attention.

How often should I capture ads for compliance?

For regulatory compliance, capture at least daily during active campaigns. High-spend campaigns or those in regulated industries (pharma, finance) benefit from multiple captures per day to document that ad content remained compliant throughout the flight.

Can I capture ads from specific geographic locations?

Yes. Use Screenshotly's geo-targeting proxy options to capture pages as they appear in different regions. This is critical for verifying geo-targeted ad placements and ensuring region-specific creatives render correctly in each market.

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