Ecommerce Ad Scan

A private research tool, run by MG in Helsinki, Finland, that checks how many people in the European Union search for a product before any money is spent selling it.

What it does

Ecommerce Ad Scan is a command-line program that runs on its operator's own computer. For a short list of product phrases, it asks the Google Ads API's Keyword Planner for monthly search volumes in EU countries and languages, and compares them against fixed pass and fail rules written down before the run.

It reads planning data only. It does not create, change or pause campaigns, ads, budgets or billing, and it does not read data about any other person.

Who uses it

Only its operator, signing in with the operator's own Google account and Google Ads account. It is not offered to the public and has no other users.

Google data

How the tool accesses, uses, stores and shares Google user data is set out in the privacy policy.