Advertising media comparative services of others, namely, providing a computerized side by side comparative view used in advertising broadcast verification which displays a captured video advertising spot adjacent to an unaired version of the same spot so that each spot may be played side-by-side for the purpose of examining and/or verifying the quality of the advertising spot broadcast and identify any variance between the aired spot and its original source, including but not limited to run-time, video quality issues such as hue, saturation, dropped frames, artifacts, and execution issues such as truncation or dropped piggyback