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Competitor Tracking

What they are running, and why it works.

Add a competitor by URL and the platform scans them immediately, then tracks their ads, offers, landing pages and share-of-voice movement across the channels you choose.

Already a customer? Open Competitor Tracking in your workspace

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Working areas covered by Competitor Tracking
Continuous
Market and demand movement watched between reviews
Traceable
Every competitor tracking figure links back to its source
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  • React to aggressive competitor campaign moves in days, not quarters.
  • Find unique messaging angles nobody in your category is currently using.
  • Brief creative production teams using real-time market search context.

Paste a URL, get a profile

Adding a competitor starts a scan straight away: the site is read, positioning, offers and audience are drafted for you, and their ads are run through the same tagging engine as your own.

  • Automatic first scan and profile fill from the URL
  • Multi-select monitoring per channel: ads, offers, pages, search
  • Hook, offer and angle extraction
  • New and retired ads tracked over time
  • Comparison against your own library

Movement that matters

Alerts when a competitor changes strategy, enters a category, or ramps activity in your peak windows.

  • Strategy change alerts
  • Share of voice movement
  • Feeds straight into the decision queue

The shift

What changes once Competitor Tracking is running

Same team, same accounts. The difference is that the decision is already measured before anyone opens a spreadsheet.

Before

  • Growth decisions are made channel by channel, after the opportunity has moved.
  • The team has to assemble the context behind competitor tracking by hand.
  • Important changes are found late, after time or budget has already been lost.

With Hookology

  • Market movement, forecast impact and budget choices are evaluated together.
  • React to aggressive competitor campaign moves in days, not quarters.
  • Find unique messaging angles nobody in your category is currently using.
  • Brief creative production teams using real-time market search context.
Watching a competitor is easy. Working out why their ad is beating yours is the useful part.
How Competitor Tracking is designed to work

Inside the product

What Competitor Tracking looks like on live accounts

This walkthrough uses our Northwind Apparel demo account so you can see the screen fully populated. On your workspace the same view is built from your connected platforms, so the first session already reflects your own numbers.

  • React to aggressive competitor campaign moves in days, not quarters.
  • Find unique messaging angles nobody in your category is currently using.
  • Brief creative production teams using real-time market search context.
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Competitive / Competitor Tracking

Competitor Tracking

Northwind Apparel

Competitor Tracking

Northwind Apparel - last 28 days

Revenue (28d)

£612,480

+12.6% vs prior

Blended ROAS

3.94x

Profit adjusted

Tracked items

38

Reviewed this week

Open actions

96

Owned by the team

Competitor TrackingSpendROASStatus
Automatic first scan and profile fill from the URL£38,7204.12xOn track
Multi-select monitoring per channel: ads, offers, pages, search£94,3102.81xActioned
Hook, offer and angle extraction£212,9403.94xWatch
New and retired ads tracked over time£184,5003.32xApproved
Comparison against your own library£612,4803.05xImproving

Recent activity

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TodayReact to aggressive competitor campaign moves in days, not quarters.£612,480
Thu 05Find unique messaging angles nobody in your category is currently using.£61,240
Wed 04Brief creative production teams using real-time market search context.£38,720

Google Ads

44%

Meta

37%

Pinterest

11%

TikTok

8%

How confidence works

Three evidence tiers, so nothing is stuck in 'needs data'

Every Competitor Tracking finding is labelled with how much evidence sits behind it. As data accumulates it moves up a tier and the recommendation tightens, so thin signals are never presented with the same weight as proven ones.

Tier 1 - Confirmed

Enough of your own history behind the finding

Read straight from your spend, market and demand data, with enough volume behind it that Competitor Tracking states the position rather than hedging it.

High confidence100%

Tier 2 - Emerging

Live signal, volume still building

The movement is real but young, so it is surfaced as directional and flagged for a second look before budget or roadmap time is committed to it.

Medium confidence62%

Tier 3 - Modelled

Too little data to measure directly

Estimated from the patterns your own account has already proven, and always labelled as modelled so it is never mistaken for a measured result.

Directional34%

Every finding ends on one of four verdicts

Act now

When

Confirmed evidence and material money attached

What happens

It moves to the top of the queue with an owner and the expected impact stated.

Plan it

When

Worth doing, but needs a slot rather than a scramble

What happens

It is sized and scheduled into the next cycle instead of jumping the queue.

Watch

When

Signal forming, evidence still thin

What happens

Tracked daily and escalated automatically the moment it firms up.

No action

When

Noise, or impact too small to be worth an hour

What happens

Closed out with the reason recorded, so it does not resurface every week.

In practice

How Competitor Tracking works week to week

From connecting your accounts to the review call, here is the shape of it, plus the questions teams ask us most before they start.

  1. Step 1

    We connect your accounts

    Your spend, market and demand data are wired up during onboarding, so Competitor Tracking works from your own numbers on day one rather than a sample workspace.

  2. Step 2

    Paste a URL, get a profile

    Adding a competitor starts a scan straight away: the site is read, positioning, offers and audience are drafted for you, and their ads are run through the same tagging engine as your own.

  3. Step 3

    Movement that matters

    Alerts when a competitor changes strategy, enters a category, or ramps activity in your peak windows.

  4. Step 4

    We review it with you

    We maintain your competitor set and review the landscape with you each quarter. Nothing sits in a dashboard waiting to be discovered.

Common questions

Most workspaces are live within a few days of the discovery call. Once your platforms are connected we backfill history, so the first session already shows trends rather than an empty screen.

Competitor Tracking reads your spend, market and demand data directly. Nothing is estimated from benchmarks, and every figure can be traced back to the platform it came from.

Automatic first scan and profile fill from the URL, Multi-select monitoring per channel: ads, offers, pages, search, Hook, offer and angle extraction, New and retired ads tracked over time, and more.

We maintain your competitor set and review the landscape with you each quarter.

Why teams use it

  • React to aggressive competitor campaign moves in days, not quarters.
  • Find unique messaging angles nobody in your category is currently using.
  • Brief creative production teams using real-time market search context.

How we set this up with you

We maintain your competitor set and review the landscape with you each quarter.

Our onboarding process

Works alongside

See Competitor Tracking running on your own data

We build the workspace around your accounts and walk you through it together. No self-serve setup, no trial to configure on your own.

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