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Originally Held October 15, 2025

Using Digital Ad Libraries to Uncover Influence, Spend, and Strategy

Craig Silverman, Co-Founder of Indicator

 

Digital ad libraries offer a rare window into how organizations, whether political campaigns, companies, or covert networks, communicate, influence, and spend online. In this session, Craig Silverman shares practical methods for using ad transparency tools to surface patterns in ad spend, messaging, and targeting across platforms. Learn how to search ad libraries effectively despite inconsistencies and limitations, investigate the entities funding and placing ads, and pivot from ad content to related accounts, websites, and networks.

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Steve Adams, Product Marketing Manager

Steve Adams is a criminal intelligence specialist and subject matter expert in internet investigations. As the Product Marketing Manager at Skopenow, Steve leverages his background in investigations to promote the value of the company's solutions, showing how they can streamline internet investigations. Leading OSINT training webinars and speaking at conferences in the US and UK, Steve frequently dives deep on how to unlock the power of OSINT to live audiences. He holds a Law & Sociology degree from Warwick University.

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Steve Adams, Product Marketing Manager

Steve Adams is a criminal intelligence specialist and subject matter expert in internet investigations. As the Product Marketing Manager at Skopenow, Steve leverages his background in investigations to promote the value of the company's solutions, showing how they can streamline internet investigations. Leading OSINT training webinars and speaking at conferences in the US and UK, Steve frequently dives deep on how to unlock the power of OSINT to live audiences. He holds a Law & Sociology degree from Warwick University.

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Steve Adams, Product Marketing Manager

Steve Adams is a criminal intelligence specialist and subject matter expert in internet investigations. As the Product Marketing Manager at Skopenow, Steve leverages his background in investigations to promote the value of the company's solutions, showing how they can streamline internet investigations. Leading OSINT training webinars and speaking at conferences in the US and UK, Steve frequently dives deep on how to unlock the power of OSINT to live audiences. He holds a Law & Sociology degree from Warwick University.