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Key takeaways
- 81% of Zid store ads run in Saudi Arabia and only 10% in the UAE: Zid is Saudi first.
- Fashion (194 ads), hair care (191) and perfumes (182) are Zid's most advertised niches, then food (148) and watches (148).
- You can tell a store runs on Zid from the page source or an extension such as Wappalyzer or BuiltWith, or directly with the "store type" filter in GccFY.
- The Domains screen filtered by Zid gives each store with its ads per country and its landing pages; sales and orders are private and no tool shows them.
Why look for Zid stores, and what is fair to see
People look for one platform's stores for three common reasons: to know the competitors who sell like them on Zid, to find a product that sells in the Saudi market, or to build a list of stores for a service they offer (photography, marketing, shipping). In every case we are talking about public information only: store pages open to everyone, published ads, and what the page source shows. No hacking, no fake orders to read stock, no copying designs or texts word for word.
And be clear from the start about what nobody sees: a store's sales, revenue, number of orders, conversion rate and profit are private, and no tool reveals them. What you see instead are honest signals: ads running for weeks, many new ads, a store expanding to more countries, a product appearing in many stores' ads.
How to tell a store runs on Zid
- The page source: open the store, choose "view page source" in the browser and look for the platform's name in the links and files.
- Browser extensions: Wappalyzer or BuiltWith show a store's platform and tools in one click.
- The sitemap: most stores publish /sitemap.xml with their product URLs, sometimes with dates: a quick way to see the catalogue's size and what was added recently.
- The pixel: the Meta Pixel Helper extension shows the Meta pixel on a page. In our study of tracking tools, 93% of Zid store pages carried the Meta pixel and 88% the TikTok pixel (Tracking pixels in Gulf stores).
These methods tell you about a store you already found. Finding the stores themselves, by niche and country, is what the ads do.
What Zid stores sell: the niches in numbers
| Niche | Zid store ads | Advertiser pages |
|---|---|---|
| Fashion and shoes | 194 | 31 |
| Hair care | 191 | 25 |
| Perfumes and incense | 182 | 37 |
| Food, coffee and dates | 148 | 42 |
| Watches and accessories | 148 | 33 |
| Skincare | 82 | 18 |
| Home and furniture | 77 | 23 |
| Health and supplements | 61 | 20 |
Read the two columns together. Hair care has 191 ads from only 25 pages: few stores advertising heavily, so if you enter this niche you face a handful of players you can map quickly. Food and coffee has 148 ads from 42 pages: a market spread over more stores, each smaller. Perfumes sit in between (37 pages). Makeup is nearly absent from Zid ads (only 5 ads).
Where Zid stores sell
Zid is Saudi in its ads: 1,554 ads shown in Saudi Arabia, from 261 pages. Outside it the numbers are small: the UAE 188 ads from 24 pages, Kuwait 126, Bahrain 125, Qatar 115, Oman 107 (an ad can run in several countries). In the Zid ads shown in the UAE perfumes lead (39 ads), in Kuwait food (17).
Inside Saudi Arabia the order is close to the overall picture: fashion (181) and hair (180), then watches (139) and perfumes (125). To compare Zid with Salla and Shopify in each country, read Salla, Zid and Shopify.
Step by step: a list of Zid stores in your niche with GccFY
- The library: pick "store type: Zid", then the country, and type a word from your niche ("عطر", "شعر", "قهوة"). You see the active ads of Zid stores alone, with the captured store page behind each ad.
- The Domains screen: filter the platform to Zid and sort by most ads. Each row is a store domain; open it to see its ads per country and the landing pages they lead to, and you can also filter by pixel.
- The Advertisers screen: the same platform filter, keeping in mind that its search box searches page names, not ad text.
- Save: put the stores you care about in a saved collection and come back every week (Saving Ad Library ads).
To summarise a whole niche quickly, ask the GccFY AI helper about Zid stores in your country and niche.
How to read the list: the honest signals
- Running time: an ad that has run for weeks was kept because it sells. In our study only 25 Zid ads had been running for 30 days or more, so each of them deserves a look (Ad running time).
- Many new ads: a store launching many ads this week is testing or pushing a season.
- New countries: a Zid store starting to advertise in Kuwait or the UAE is expanding.
- The repeated product: a product appearing in several stores' ads has demand.
For Salla and Zid ads in detail, read Salla and Zid store ads.
