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Learn Rival in minutes — from your first competitor scrape to weekly Three Moves.

Add your first competitor

Start spying in under two minutes — domain in, six platforms out.

  1. Sign up and open your Rival workspace.
  2. Enter a competitor domain (e.g. rival-brand.com).
  3. Rival discovers their Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Snapchat presence.
  4. Wait for the first scrape — usually a few minutes.
  5. Open the Ad Library tab to browse every live ad.

Read the Strategy Map

Turn a wall of ads into a platform × funnel map you can present.

  1. Open a tracked competitor from your sidebar.
  2. Click Strategy Map in the competitor dashboard.
  3. Scan TOF / MOF / BOF cells for FLAGSHIP, TESTING, STABLE, or DECLINING tags.
  4. Read the AI strategy summary at the top for plain-English takeaways.
  5. Share the map in your weekly marketing sync.

Act on Three Moves

Your Monday playbook — three tactical recommendations, not a 40-page deck.

  1. Open Three Moves from the competitor dashboard or your weekly email.
  2. Each move links to the ads that triggered the recommendation.
  3. Prioritize by impact — copy this angle, shift budget, refresh creative.
  4. Brief your team with one-click links to source ads.
  5. Revisit next week — Rival refreshes after each scrape cycle.

Set up the Monday Digest

Get competitor changes in your inbox every Monday morning.

  1. Go to Settings → Notifications.
  2. Enable Monday Digest for your workspace.
  3. Choose which competitors to include.
  4. Digest sends after the weekly scrape — launches, kills, and platform shifts.
  5. Click through to verify any move in the live Ad Library.
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