Who Actually Indexes Taboola, Outbrain and MGID

which vendors name native ad networks on their own sites?

Two vendors out of eleven, not nine or five. Anstrex names specific native ad networks on its own product page, and so does AdPlexity Native. The other eight with fully reachable sites — AdSpy, BigSpy, Minea, Dropispy, Foreplay, AdHeart, PiPiADS and Atria — publish platform lists that stop at Meta, TikTok, Google's ad surfaces or LinkedIn. None of the eight mentions Taboola, Outbrain, Revcontent or MGID anywhere in its stated coverage, its FAQ or its pricing page.

PowerAdSpy is the unknown. Its pricing, feature and FAQ pages all timed out on every attempt made on 2026-08-05, so whether it covers native inventory is unconfirmed rather than absent — a gap in the record, not a finding against the vendor.

how many native networks does each of them claim to cover?

Anstrex states a number: 27+ native ad networks, 15 million native ads and 150,000+ advertisers, with data pulled from 64 countries on its Solo plan. That figure carries no as-of date on the page, so treat it as a claimed count rather than an audited one — same caveat that applies to every raw ad-volume number in this category.

AdPlexity Native gives no equivalent network count. Its homepage claims 100M+ winning ads across all six AdPlexity products combined, not broken out by product, and that figure reads as approximate rather than exact. What AdPlexity publishes instead is a named list — Outbrain, Taboola and MGID for publisher sites, MediaForce, ClickBank and BuyGoods for affiliate networks — a narrower but more specific claim than Anstrex's headline number.

which of them can filter by publisher site such as outbrain or taboola?

AdPlexity Native confirms it, by name. Its own product page states that users can filter by publisher site naming Outbrain, Taboola and MGID directly, stacked on top of separate filters for affiliate network and keyword search across landing pages and ad content.

Anstrex ships an ad-network filter that names the same three publishers — Taboola, Outbrain and Mgid — alongside Revcontent and Yahoo, but its own documentation calls this an 'ad network' filter rather than a 'publisher site' filter specifically. The distinction matters less in practice than in label: both tools let you isolate creative running on a named publisher, even if Anstrex's filter taxonomy groups it differently.

which of them can filter by arbitrage network?

One vendor, and only one. AdPlexity Native filters by arbitrage network, naming Tonic and Sedo specifically, stacked on top of its publisher-site and affiliate-network filters. No other vendor in the eleven researched — including Anstrex, which comes closest on raw native-network count — publishes an arbitrage-network filter anywhere on its site.

That gap matters more than the network-count comparison suggests. Anstrex names more native networks on paper, twenty-seven-plus against AdPlexity's shorter named list, yet raw network count is a weaker signal for an arbitrage buyer than a filter that isolates Tonic or Sedo traffic directly. A tool you can't filter by arbitrage network is not actually built for arbitrage buying, whatever its ad count says.

what does native coverage cost from each vendor?

Anstrex Native runs $79.99 per month per user as a standalone plan, $139.99/month/user bundled with Push, or $219.99/month/user in the Native+Push+Pops 'Ultimate Combo.' AdPlexity Native lists at $249 per month, or $208 per month billed yearly at a stated 20% discount — roughly three times Anstrex's solo price for the narrower, more arbitrage-specific filter set described above.

Neither offers a free trial. Anstrex says so directly in its FAQ, offering a scheduled demo instead, and AdPlexity states plainly that it 'does not offer a free trial,' pointing buyers to a personalized demo call. Anstrex also refuses discount codes, calling its list price 'extremely fair' in its own FAQ language — a claim worth checking against a native ads CPC calculator before you commit to a full year.

which vendors explicitly cover no native inventory?

Nine of eleven, by their own published platform lists. AdSpy calls itself 'the largest searchable database of Facebook and Instagram ads in the world' and names no other network; BigSpy, Minea, Dropispy, Foreplay, AdHeart, PiPiADS and Atria all name Meta, TikTok, Google or LinkedIn surfaces and stop there. PowerAdSpy's coverage remains unverified rather than confirmed absent. The table below lists what each vendor states as its own coverage.

Three of the eight no-native vendors — Minea, Dropispy and PiPiADS — pitch themselves at dropshipping and e-commerce buyers first, which is a different research problem than native arbitrage entirely. If that's your stack, eight ad spy tools built for dropshipping get compared on their own terms elsewhere on this site, and none of the three claims native coverage as a gap it fills.

can you search landing page text on native campaigns?

Only one vendor confirms it for native specifically. AdPlexity Native's own product page states users can search keywords 'on landing pages or within the ad content itself' — an explicit, text-searchable claim tied to native campaigns. AdSpy makes a related but different claim: it says it 'bypasses cloakers' to show the real landing page, but its site never claims that page text is archived or searchable, and that distinction matters.

Anstrex's landing-page tooling works differently. Its Landing Page Ripper lets you rip, edit in a WYSIWYG editor and redeploy any landing page to AWS or your own server — an archive-and-reuse workflow, not a documented full-text search across the native library. The landing-page text-search filter Anstrex does publish is scoped to its InStream (TikTok) product in the source material, not confirmed for Native.

what does a native buyer's minimum viable stack look like?

One spy tool with named native coverage, plus a cost check before you commit. AdPlexity Native at $249/month (or $208/month billed yearly) is the only one confirmed to filter by both publisher site and arbitrage network, and Anstrex Native at $79.99/month/user is the cheaper way to search a claimed 27+ networks by keyword and ad network, without the arbitrage-specific filter.

Vertical matters as much as vendor here. Nutra buyers running native campaigns should check native ads for nutra examples pulled from live Taboola and Outbrain placements before picking a tool, since a coverage claim means little without seeing what actually runs.

The same logic holds geographically. A network list confirmed for the US does not automatically confirm spy tools that actually cover Western nutra offers market by market, so treat platform coverage and geo coverage as two separate questions when you evaluate a tool.

Quick decision checklist

Use this page as a decision aid, not a generic blog post. The practical question is whether the reader needs faster evidence about what is already working in VSL-driven direct response, especially across nutra, supplements, GLP-1, weight loss, blood sugar, and adjacent high-intent health markets.

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This matters because direct-response affiliates do not operate in one clean category. A weight-loss campaign may use a whitehat compliance ad, a greyhat pre-lander, a more aggressive VSL, and a checkout path designed around upsells and recovery. A useful intelligence platform needs to capture that spectrum instead of pretending every winning campaign looks like a public brand ad.

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The catalog is also built for global operators, with VSL and ad references spanning 14+ languages and different local idioms. That is a key advantage for Brazilian, LATAM, European, MENA, Indian, and non-native English affiliates who need to see how the same market desire is translated across cultures instead of only studying US English ads.

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A strong workflow compares multiple examples before acting. If the same mechanism appears across several languages, several advertisers, and several funnel variants, it may be a durable market signal. If the example appears only once or depends on an aggressive claim, treat it as a research clue rather than a campaign template.

• Model structure, not protected creative assets.
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