Use Case

Residential Proxies for Agencies & Adtech

Power client SEO, ad verification, competitive intel, and creative research without owning proxy infrastructure. Reseller-friendly billing, sub-account management, and audit-grade logs.

205M+Residential IPs
195+Countries
99.9%Uptime SLA
<500msAvg Response

Trusted by 50,000+ clients worldwide

The Challenge

Why Agencies & Adtech needs residential proxies

Multiple Clients, Multiple Geos

Agencies juggle dozens of clients across different markets. Tracking SEO, ads, and competitive moves for each one in their actual local geography requires a proxy infrastructure that scales horizontally without per-client setup overhead.

Datacenter Detection Kills Reports

Major sites detect datacenter IPs and serve fake or stale data to bots. Agency reports built on contaminated data are worse than no reports — they erode client trust. Residential IPs deliver the same data a human user would see.

Per-Client Audit Trails

Agency engagements often require traffic logs, request volumes, and IP records segmented per client. Standard proxy services don't expose this granularity; agencies have to build their own bookkeeping on top.

Margin Pressure on Tools

Agencies stack tools for SEO, ads, social, and competitive intel. Each one prices their own proxy layer in. Consolidating onto one bandwidth-priced proxy network unlocks margin without sacrificing capability.

Solutions

How Shifter powers Agencies & Adtech

Real-world applications of residential proxies in Agencies & Adtech.

Client SEO & Rank Tracking

Track SERP rankings city-by-city for every client across every keyword. Scrape SERPs directly through residential proxies and parse in your own pipeline. Sub-account management lets you scope traffic to each engagement.

Ad Verification & Audit

Verify that client display, video, and search ads serve correctly to target audiences across geos and devices. Catch placement errors, brand-safety issues, and misrendered creative before clients do.

Competitive Intelligence

Track competitor ad creatives, landing pages, organic content, and pricing for client briefs. Power pitch decks with current market data, not stale third-party reports.

Creative & Content Research

Aggregate creative trends, ad copy, and content patterns across competitors. Build inspiration libraries and benchmark client creative against the broader landscape.

White-Label Reporting

Build branded client dashboards on top of Shifter data without exposing the underlying provider. Consolidate proxy spend across the agency and pass through cleanly to client billing.

Sub-Account Workflow

Carve out sub-accounts per client or per engagement. Scope credentials, monitor usage independently, and produce per-client billing or audit reports without manual reconciliation.

Data Points

What you can collect

Key data points that Agencies & Adtech companies collect with residential proxies.

SEO & Search

  • City-level SERP positions
  • Local pack and Maps results
  • Featured snippets and PAA
  • Mobile vs. desktop SERPs
  • Paid ad copy and slots
  • Competitor ranking history

Ads & Creative

  • Display ad creative
  • Native and video inventory
  • Landing page A/B variants
  • Email and newsletter copy
  • Programmatic placements
  • Brand-safety adjacency

Competitive Signals

  • Pricing and promo strategies
  • Product launches
  • Hiring and headcount signals
  • Partner and affiliate activity
  • Review velocity
  • Social engagement trends
Features

High-performance residential proxies

Enterprise-grade infrastructure built for scale, speed, and reliability.

HTTP(S) & SOCKS5

Full protocol support for any tool, browser, or framework. Switch protocols without changing your proxy endpoint.

Geo-Targeting at Every Level

Target by country, region, city, or ASN across 195+ countries. Get location-accurate data from any market in the world.

Unlimited Connections

No connection caps or hidden limits. Run as many concurrent requests as your infrastructure can handle.

Flexible Proxy Rotation

Rotate IPs using a session ID (sid) or time-to-live (ttl). If neither is set, a new IP is assigned per request by default.

Flexible Authentication

All requests use username/password authentication. Secure access with simple credentials across all integrations.

Real-Time Dashboard

Full-featured dashboard for real-time usage monitoring. Track traffic, connections, and performance with ease.

The first residential proxy provider. Now one of the largest.

Since 2012, Shifter has grown into a global proxy network trusted by over 50,000 clients including Fortune 500 companies. Connect from anywhere, access local data without restrictions, while preserving complete privacy and security.

Since2012
0+Years in Market
0+Clients
0M+Residential IPs
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Integration

Integrate in seconds

A single line of code is all you need. Works with any language or tool.

Drop-in proxy support for every stack

Shifter works with standard proxy configuration. No proprietary SDK, no vendor lock-in. Just point your HTTP client to our endpoint and start collecting data.

  • Single gateway: p.shifter.io:443
  • Username selectors for geo, ASN, and session control
  • Sticky sessions via sid-XXX; rotate with a new sid
  • HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 supported on standard ports
  • No SDK required, works with any HTTP client
curl -x p.shifter.io:443 \
  -U "customer-USERNAME-country-us-sid-123ABC:PASSWORD" \
  https://ipinfo.io/json
Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing

Fixed monthly plans with included bandwidth. No hidden fees. Scale as your usage grows.

Starter40% OFF
$3.50/GB
$2.10/GB
$35$21/month·10 GB

What's included

  • 10 GB bandwidth
  • HTTP(S) + SOCKS5
  • City-level targeting
  • API access
  • Priority support
Basic40% OFF
$3.00/GB
$1.80/GB
$75$45/month·25 GB

What's included

  • 25 GB bandwidth
  • HTTP(S) + SOCKS5
  • City-level targeting
  • API access
  • Priority support
BusinessPopular40% OFF
$2.50/GB
$1.50/GB
$249$149/month·100 GB

What's included

  • 100 GB bandwidth
  • HTTP(S) + SOCKS5
  • City-level targeting
  • API access
  • Priority support
Growth40% OFF
$2.00/GB
$1.20/GB
$499$299/month·250 GB

What's included

  • 250 GB bandwidth
  • HTTP(S) + SOCKS5
  • City-level targeting
  • API access
  • Priority support
Compare

Save up to 60% vs competitors

Same enterprise features, fraction of the cost.

$1.00
Shifter
$2.00
Decodo
$2.50
Bright Data
$2.50
Oxylabs
Cost per GB — lower is better
FAQ

Frequently asked FAQ questions

Common questions about proxies for Agencies & Adtech.

Shifter doesn't expose its brand to your client-facing surfaces. Many agencies build their own SEO, ad verification, and competitive-intel dashboards on top of Shifter and charge clients accordingly. For a formal whitelabel setup, contact sales.

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