What works for your competitors on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube

Give your own brand and what you sell. The Actor finds your competitor brands on the platforms themselves and reports their best posts, formats and hooks over the last 60 days, with 5 content ideas built on real posts.

Analyse your competitors on the Apify Store · Version 1.1.1, updated 2026-10-31

Who it is for

Marketing leads and agency strategists preparing a monthly content plan.

What you get

Competitors found for you

Candidates from the profiles Instagram lists as related to yours and from profile searches on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. Only company and product brands are kept, each with why it was picked.

Cross-platform comparison

Followers, posting cadence, median views and median engagement rate per account, counted the same way everywhere: likes plus comments per follower.

What worked

Each brand's best posts with links and how much better they did than that account's typical post, plus the best format, opening-line types, recurring openers and hashtags.

Five content ideas

Each with a platform, format, hook line and outline, citing the numbered posts it builds on. An idea that cites no real post is rejected before you see it.

How it works

Run check_accounts to check the accounts you have in mind.
Run find_competitors with your_brand and keywords for what you sell.
Run competitor_report for up to three brands, named by you or found for you, over days (default 60).

Also runs from AI assistants through Apify's MCP server.

Use cases

Preparing next month's content plan from what already works in your market.
A competitor review for a new client at an agency.
Finding the brands you compete with on social when you only know your own.

Pricing

Brand analyzed One brand with at least 3 recent posts analysed across its accounts. Failed calls are free.	$0.94
Competitor short-video content report One successful competitor_report call. Failed calls are free.	$0.71
Competitors found for a report A competitor_report that found the competitors itself (charged once per report). Failed calls are free.	$1.06
Competitor search One successful find_competitors call: competitor brands found and checked across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. Failed calls are free.	$1.06

You pay per event listed above; there is no monthly fee.

Inputs

`tool` required	What to do `check_accounts` · `find_competitors` · `competitor_report` default: `check_accounts`
`brands`	Brands
`your_brand`	Your brand
`keywords`	Keywords
`about_you`	About you default:
`max_results`	Max results default: `5`
`days`	Days default: `60`

Output fields

tool accounts brands max_posts_per_account billed_brands_max as_of you keywords searched candidates_seen left_out competitors notes sample_data window_days top_posts themes ideas billable_brands discovered

Limits

Brand accounts only, 1 to 3 brands per report; accounts below 2,000 followers are skipped.
Hooks come from the first line of the caption or title; spoken audio is not analysed.

Questions

What does it cost?

$1.06 to find competitors and $0.71 per competitor report plus $0.94 per brand analysed.

Do I need to know my competitors?

No. Brands you name are kept and the rest is found for you.

Are the content ideas made up?

Every idea must cite real, numbered posts from the report; one that cites no real post is rejected.

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