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Category (Telegram Ads Spy taxonomy)
The coarse-grained taxonomy layer in Telegram Ads Spy — six super-groups: Finance, Gambling, Tech, Content, Commerce, Lifestyle. Each category aggregates 3–8 niches (e.g. Finance = crypto + trading + finance + prop-firm). Useful when a researcher wants the whole vertical without enumerating niches. Available as a filter on /api/v1/ads?category=<group>, time-series via /api/v1/trends?dim=category, or as standalone pages at /categories and /categories/<group>. The mapping niche → category is canonical (NICHE_THEME in lib/niche-meta.ts) and stable across releases.
Related terms
- Niche (Telegram Ads Spy taxonomy)The granular taxonomy layer in tgadsspy. Each indexed creative is classified into one of ~30 niche slugs by a keyword + regex clas
- Niche classifierThe keyword + regex pipeline that assigns a niche to each newly-ingested creative. Implemented in lib/niche.ts as priority-weighte
- Sponsored MessageA Telegram ad format served at the bottom of qualifying public channels. A sponsored message is a short text (up to 160 characters
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Telegram Ads Spy (2026). "Category (Telegram Ads Spy taxonomy)" in Telegram Ads glossary. https://tgadsspy.com/info/category
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