now, like i mentioned a few minutes ago, if you're look doing issues on election, housing, employment or credit, the restrictive categories, the special categories- you'll be able to see aspect on those, um, but you're not going to be able to see ad spent on just your average everyday local business ad. i'm in the us, obviously i'm going to choose us, and then i go here and select a category. so the very first thing that i do is select my country. you can only do that kind of stuff if you're looking at politikal ads, housing ads, credit repair ads, that kind of stuff. is who who their target is, uh, demographic information, how much they're spending on the ad, etc. the only thing that it's not going to show you is who they're targeting. it's a really good way to spy on your competitors, copy their offers and even their ad structure. so it's a really good way to gauge what creatives are working. it's going to show you all the active ads from advertisers that are currently running ads across facebook's platforms. that's usually the time frame: 24 hours before they can show up in the meta library. ads that are running um right after 24 hours will probably show up here. the meta library is a place where facebook pretty much archives and and puts together all the active ads. you can just simply uh type in the google search facebook ads library and click on the link that takes you here, or, if you know the direct url, which is facebookcom slash ads slash library, it'll bring you to the same spot that you're looking at here now. since facebook's changed all of its tools business names to meta, this is now the maida library, and in order to get here, you can do it two ways.

now let's jump right into the facebook meta library, formerly the facebook ads library.

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