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Benchmarks

What the corpus says, not what a survey said.

Counted from the creative history of the 51 companies published on this site - not from a survey. Nobody was asked to fill anything in. The full index behind these figures is 1,400+ products.

Creatives

287K

Median run

36d

Past 90 days

29%

Median band

8×

Creative

How long an ad actually lasts.

36 days

Median run length

Across 563 distinct creatives in the index.

29%

Survive past ninety days

165 of 563. The rest were switched off sooner.

7%

Median still-serving share

Of everything an advertiser has ever run. Most creative is tested and retired.

Where small software buys

Reach-weighted across every priced product.

United Kingdom30%
Italy17%
Everywhere else14%
France11%
Spain10%
Denmark4%

Who it reaches

Age brackets, reach-weighted across the index.

18-247%
25-3422%
35-4422%
45-5419%
55-6417%
65+14%

Cost of reach

What a thousand impressions costs, by market.

CH

$14.20

GB

$11.80

LU

$10.87

IE

$10.50

NO

$10.10

DE

$10.05

DK

$9.80

NL

$9.40

AT

$9.20

SE

$9.10

FI

$8.90

FR

$8.40

BE

$8.10

IT

$7.20

ES

$6.80

Switzerland costs 3.7× what Romania does. Pricing a European advertiser at one blended rate is the most common way an estimate goes wrong.

Find something worth building.

1,400+ products, priced from their own advertising, and the $500K a month line marked on each one - so you can see at a glance what is still enterable.