Ad verification

Proxies for ad verification: what a user in a city sees

An advertiser pays for impressions in specific cities on specific devices, and you cannot check that from the office: the platform shows you the ads of your own city. Resi Prime gives a home IP in the right city, ISP and device type, so you see the ad, the link and the landing page the way your buyer does.

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city-level geo
device type: Windows, Android, iOS, Mac
links and redirects as a user sees them

A laptop and a smartphone with ad banners in front of a map with city pins — Ad verification

What ad verification needs and what the plans give

An agency answers for every impression. The check has to come from the same place and the same device type as the audience.

What the task needsWhat the plans give

Impressions in the city the campaign targets

Resi Prime: country, region and city in the connection string

Mobile and desktop audiences apart

Device type in the login: os-android, os-ios, os-windows or os-mac

Where the link really leads

A home IP in the right city, so the whole redirect chain runs as it does for a user

Country checks with no city tie

Resi Core: a home IP in any of 200+ countries for less than Prime

Residential proxies

Work out traffic for your checks

Checking an ad with a click to the landing page takes megabytes, not gigabytes. Start with 1 GB; the price per GB drops with the order size.

Residential proxy price per 1 GB by order size
Order size	Resi Core	Resi Prime
1 GB+	$0.85	$2.29
10 GB+save 9%	$0.79	$2.09
50 GB+	$0.72	$1.95
100 GB+	$0.65	$1.75
500 GB+	$0.57	$1.55
1000 GB+	$0.49	$1.39

Prices are in US dollars per 1 GB. You buy whole gigabytes, starting with a single one.

Pool

30M+ home IPs in 220 countries
Geo down to the city, plus ISP, ASN and device type
A session lasting 3 minutes to 24 hours, or a new IP on every request
SOCKS5 with UDP and up to 5,000 lines at once

How many GB

Total: $20.90
Per 1 GB: $2.09
Tier: 10–49 GB

You save 9% ($2.00) against the 1 GB+ price

Add 40 GB and every gigabyte drops to $1.95

Buy this amount

You can use the gigabytes for 3 months from the purchase date; whatever is left after that is written off.

About residential

Three steps to a client report

Build the check list

The city, the device type and the page or query where the ad should run. One line per check.

Create Resi Prime strings

A separate string with its own session label for every city and device pair, so each check runs from one address from impression to landing.

Open and record

Open the page through the proxy, take a screenshot of the ad and follow your own link to the landing page. Record the city, device, IP and final address.

Setup

How to set up ad verification

City, device and session in one string

The dashboard builds the string, and the settings live in the login: country sets the country, city the city, os the device type, session the check label, lifetime its term in minutes. One check needs 10 to 30 minutes: enough to go from the impression to the landing page on one address.

Keep a separate session label for every city and device pair, so screenshots from different cities never get mixed up.

Search, banners and video

Check search ads right in the results with the language and region parameters of the search engine. Check banners and video on the sites where they should run, through a browser with a proxy in the right city: you see the ad itself and what content surrounds it.

For bulk crawling of links and redirects with no city tie an unlimited package costs less, and city impressions stay on Resi Prime.

A report for the client

For every check save the date and time, city, device type, proxy IP, a screenshot of the ad and the final landing address. After a week this log shows where the campaign runs as planned and where the platform sends impressions elsewhere.

Before a series of checks confirm the proxy address and country on the My IP page.

Four rules for checks

Check from the campaign city, not the regional capital: bids and creatives are often set per city.
Keep one session per check: the impression, the click and the landing page should come from one IP.
Save the screenshot, time, IP and final address: without them you cannot win a dispute with the platform.
Record other advertisers’ ads with a screenshot only: clicking them spends their budget.

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FAQ

Questions about this task

Why can I not check ads without a proxy?

The platform picks ads by your IP and history: from the office you see the campaigns of your own city, not the one where the ad runs. A home IP in the right city solves that.

Do unlimited packages work?

For country checks and bulk link crawling they do. For cities and device types you need Resi Prime: packages stop at the country.

How do I check mobile ads?

Take Resi Prime with os-android or os-ios in the login and open the page in the browser mobile mode. The request leaves from the IP of a mobile device in the right city, and the platform shows its mobile ads.

How do I check where a link leads?

Follow the redirect chain through a proxy in the right city: some networks send users from different regions to different landing pages. Record every step and the final address.

How much traffic do checks use?

A page with the ad plus the landing page weighs a few megabytes, so 1 GB covers hundreds of checks. Purchased traffic lasts three months.

Plans for this task

What to take for ad verification

Check city and device impressions through Resi Prime and country checks through Resi Core, while bulk link crawling costs less on an unlimited package.

Resi Prime

Cities and devicesBest fit

30M+ IPs · 220 countries · no thread limit

City, ISP and device type in the string, with one address per session from impression to landing while the device is online.

from $1.39 per GB1 GB for $2.29

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Resi Core

Country checks

2M+ IPs · 200+ countries · no thread limit

A home IP in any of 200+ countries for less than Prime. It suits campaigns that target a whole country.

from $0.49 per GB1 GB for $0.85

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Unlimited proxies

Bulk link crawling

Package #3 · World MIX · 20,000 IP · 2,000 threads

Thousands of link clicks an hour with no traffic meter. It suits redirect checks where the city does not matter.

$700 per monthor $2.70 per hour

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Other per-GB plans

Mobile Proxy70+ countries 4G and 5G cellular networksfrom $2.15 per GBSocial media and ads ISP ProxyUSA provider addressesfrom $0.95 per GBProtected sites DC IPv4USA datacenter IPv4from $0.65 per GBCheap volume DC IPv6USA datacenter IPv6from $0.17 per GBIPv6 sites

Check impressions in every campaign city

Take 1 GB of Resi Prime, create strings for cities and devices, and build your first report.

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