# Search paid-ad advertisers

Find advertisers before candidate discovery.

## Contract status

Preview contract: these routes and tools are implemented in the shared contract, but the public host, customer API access and OAuth flow have not been deployment verified.

## Endpoint: GET /v1/admin/paid-ads/advertisers

- Method: `GET`
- Path: `/v1/admin/paid-ads/advertisers`
- Authentication: Bearer API credential or OAuth access token
- Required scope: `content:write`
- MCP tool: `admin_search_paid_ad_advertisers`

## Parameters

| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `query` | query | string | yes | Advertiser name. |

## Known errors

- 400 invalid_request for an invalid filter, identity or limit.
- 401 authentication_required for a missing or invalid credential.
- 402 subscription_required when access is not entitled.
- 403 authorization_required for a missing scope or unavailable preview access.
- 404 not_found when the record is outside the accessible catalogue.
- 429 rate_limited; honor Retry-After when present.
- 409 conflict when the write would duplicate an exclusive row.

## Request

Available only to the persisted paid-ad operator roster. `query` is 2–100 characters; `limit` is optional and bounded to 1–20 (default 10). This GET intentionally requires `content:write` and uses the 10-per-minute write budget.

```
curl --get 'https://api.peekpanda.com/v1/admin/paid-ads/advertisers?query=Example%20Labs' \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $PEEKPANDA_TOKEN" \
  --header 'x-genviral-tenancy: personal'
```

## Response

Excerpt of bounded advertiser candidates.

```
{
  "items": [
    {
      "pageId": "123",
      "label": "Example Labs"
    }
  ]
}

```

## Source

Provider observations retain advertiser, lifecycle, creative and original public-ad-library URL as provenance.

## Refresh

Candidate discovery is bounded and cached for review. Import status is durable run state; polling it never starts provider work.