Slack and email digests

New competitor ads, delivered to the Slack channel or inbox your team already reads.

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What a digest is

A digest is a message listing the new creatives from the brands your Space follows. For each brand it says how many new creatives arrived and shows the top 3 hooks, each with a thumbnail and a link back to the app.

Each Space has its own settings, so every client can get its own channel. Digests are on the Team plan and up. Owners and admins set them up under Settings → Team → Notifications.

Set up Slack (about 5 minutes)

Slack delivers through an incoming webhook (a private web address that lets an app post into one channel).

  1. Go to api.slack.com/apps → Create New App → From scratch. Name it adintel and pick your workspace.
  2. In the app, open Incoming Webhooks and switch Activate Incoming Webhooks on.
  3. Click Add New Webhook to Workspace, choose the channel (for example #competitor-ads) and click Allow.
  4. Copy the webhook URL. Treat it like a password: anyone who has it can post to that channel.
  5. In adintel, open Settings → Team → Notifications, paste it into Slack incoming webhook URL and click Save.

After saving, the page shows only the end of the webhook, not the whole address. To stop Slack delivery, tick Remove the stored webhook and save. If a webhook leaks, delete it in Slack under Incoming Webhooks, make a new one and paste that instead.

Add email recipients

In the same Notifications box, type the addresses into Email recipients, separated by commas, and click Save. You can use Slack, email or both.

Daily or instant

  • Daily (after the crawl): one message after the scheduled refresh of your followed brands.
  • Instant: a message right after new ads are detected.

Send a test

Click Send test. It sends your Space's latest new ads (or a hello if there are none yet) to every channel you set up, and shows the answer from Slack or the mail server on the page. A test does not change what the next real digest contains.

How sending works

  • Each message carries only the creatives detected since the last one. Nothing is sent twice.
  • A new setup starts from now. It does not send the backlog of older ads.
  • If a delivery fails, the same creatives are tried again with the next message. The Notifications box shows the last delivery, its time and any error.
  • Digests only cover brands your Space follows. Follow brands from Brand tracking.