Check ads from the places they're bought for, not from the office.
Ad systems choose what to serve from where the viewer appears to be. Google says location is typically based on the IP address; TikTok targets down to cities and ZIP codes on a variety of signals; Microsoft serves only when location and language targeting both match. A check from your office shows your office's ads.
Known datacenter IPs are treated as a class of their own: Google's Display & Video 360 counts data-center traffic — ad traffic from server IPs linked to invalid activity, usually on lists kept by industry bodies — as general invalid traffic and filters it. A check run from a cloud server may not see what a person at home sees.
Platforms publish part of the picture. Google's Ads Transparency Center searches an advertiser's ads by serving region and date, Meta's Ad Library lists active ads across its apps, LinkedIn's Ad Library filters by country and TikTok's Top Ads by region. None of them shows the live placement on a site, or how the page after the click looks in that market — that's what a local residential IP is for.
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| Criterion | Choose | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Product | Rotating residential proxy, billed by traffic | Home-broadband IPs, the kind of visitor ads are bought for |
| Line | Budget (preselected) or Premium | Budget costs less per GB; Premium adds the optional ISP picker |
| How many proxies | One per market or city you check | Every proxy draws on the same traffic of its line |
| Country and city | Each market the campaign buys, down to the city | Match the campaign's location targeting |
| Protocol | HTTP (preselected) | Works in browsers, proxy extensions and scripts; SOCKS5 is one click away |
| IP changes | Exit mode: Choose region / sticky IP | One exit holds while a page and its redirects load; generate again for a fresh IP |
The button below opens Rotating Residential Proxies with Use case: Ad verification — Budget line, HTTP, United States suggested. Every setting can be changed before you pay.
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| Criterion | Rotating residential | Static ISP | Datacenter |
|---|---|---|---|
| What you get | Home IPs in the country, state or city you pick, sticky per session | One dedicated home-broadband IP for your whole term | Fast fixed server IPs |
| Price | Budget from US$1.50/GB, Premium from US$5.00/GB; US$1.35 and US$4.50/GB at 100 GB | Per IP, monthly — live price at checkout | Per IP — the lowest cost per IP |
| Best for ad verification | Placements, creatives and landing pages from every market you buy | One long-running profile that must stay in one country | Uptime checks of your own pages; known datacenter IPs are filtered as invalid ad traffic |
Prices in US dollars; 1 PTC = US$1. Top up your wallet, buy GB for the line you use, then generate proxies — buying traffic and generating are separate steps.
Click Configure ad verification proxies below. The console opens Rotating Residential Proxies with Use case: Ad verification — Budget line, HTTP, United States suggested.
Under Line keep Budget, or switch to Premium if you want to pick the ISP. Open Add traffic, pick a package or enter Custom GB, and click Buy selected package. Purchases start at 1 GB.
In Connection settings leave Exit mode on Choose region / sticky IP. Choose Region, then State and City if the campaign targets a city. Click Review cost and generate: Proxy302 checks that the new proxy really exits in that country before handing it over. Repeat for each market.
Look the advertiser up in Google's Ads Transparency Center, the Meta Ad Library, LinkedIn's Ad Library or TikTok's Top Ads with the market selected, and list the ads and landing pages you expect to find there.
Load the placement in a browser profile that uses that market's proxy — or run the script below — and save a full-page screenshot with the time and exit IP. Open click-through URLs directly instead of clicking the ads, and load each page once per market.
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from datetime import datetime, timezone
from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright
PAGE = "https://example.com/page-with-your-ad"
# One proxy per market, copied from My assets in the Proxy302 console
MARKETS = {
"us-chicago": {"server": "http://HOST:PORT", "username": "USERNAME", "password": "PASSWORD"},
"de-berlin": {"server": "http://HOST:PORT", "username": "USERNAME", "password": "PASSWORD"},
}
with sync_playwright() as p:
for name, proxy in MARKETS.items():
browser = p.chromium.launch(proxy=proxy) # a fresh browser per market: no shared cookies
page = browser.new_page(viewport={"width": 1366, "height": 900})
page.goto("https://api.ipify.org")
exit_ip = page.inner_text("body").strip()
page.goto(PAGE, wait_until="load")
page.wait_for_timeout(5000) # give ad slots time to fill
stamp = datetime.now(timezone.utc).strftime("%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ")
page.screenshot(path=f"{name}-{stamp}.png", full_page=True)
print(name, exit_ip, page.url)
browser.close()
Playwright for Python. Each market gets its own proxy from My assets and its own browser; the script records the exit IP, the final URL and a timestamped full-page screenshot. Load once per market — every reload can serve the ad again.
Check Do the screenshots show different exit IPs? Does the site serve ads by IP or by a signed-in profile?
Fix Use a separate browser or profile per market — the script launches a fresh browser each time — and stay signed out.
Check Is the campaign live for this market, device and time? Did you reload the page many times on one exit?
Fix Confirm delivery in the ad platform, generate a fresh proxy and load once; an empty slot on one view doesn't prove the campaign is off.
Check Have you loaded many pages in a short time on one exit?
Fix Space the loads out and generate a fresh proxy for the next batch.
Check Is supply short for that country on this line right now?
Fix Try again, or switch Line between Premium and Budget and generate again; each line uses its own traffic. The proxy is only delivered once the exit country matches.
A proxy that lets you load ads and their pages from IPs in the countries and cities a campaign targets, so you see the placement, creative and landing page a local viewer gets.
Ad systems that follow the industry's invalid-traffic guidelines treat known data-center IPs as likely non-human — Google's Display & Video 360, for one, classes such traffic as general invalid traffic and filters it. Residential IPs come from home connections, like the audience you pay for.
The libraries show which ads run; a local IP shows where and how they appear on sites and what the click-through page does in that market. Use both.
Yes. Choose Region, State and City in Connection settings and generate one proxy per city. The city list depends on the country and the line.
A page that loads an ad can serve it like any other view. Keep checks small: load each placement once per market and never click ads to test them.
See Google search ads, competitors and landing pages from the city you target. Rotating residential IPs with country, state and city choice, HTTP and SOCKS5.
View options and pricingOpen the Meta Ad Library and your landing pages from the countries you target. Rotating residential IPs with country, state and city choice, HTTP and SOCKS5.
View options and pricingPlaywright proxy setup with username and password: static datacenter IPs for tests and CI, rotating residential from US$1.50/GB when a site blocks servers.
View options and pricingTest your website from different countries: language, currency, prices, forms and redirects as local visitors see them. Residential IPs with country, state and city choice, HTTP and SOCKS5.
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Google lists several location signals; the IP address is the typical one. No revision date is shown on the page.
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Reviewed the residential configuration page (line, exit mode, region, state, city, ISP, protocol, traffic purchase and the exit-country check) and the package prices published on /pricing. No purchase was made.
Countries, cities, ISPs and prices depend on the line and current supply; the checkout shows the live quote.
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