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Benchmarks

What the corpus says, not what a survey said.

Counted from 5.4M creatives and 12,000+ priced products. Nobody was asked to fill anything in, and the sample size is printed on every figure.

Creatives

5.4M

Median run

20d

Past 90 days

18%

Median band

Creative

How long an ad actually lasts.

20 days

Median run length

Across 5,467 distinct creatives in the index.

18%

Survive past ninety days

963 of 5,467. The rest were switched off sooner.

4%

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 Kingdom33%
Everywhere else17%
Italy12%
France9%
Spain7%
Germany6%

Who it reaches

Age brackets, reach-weighted across the index.

18-2410%
25-3425%
35-4423%
45-5418%
55-6413%
65+10%

By tier

What each category looks like.

TierProductsMedian est.Combined 30d spendStill liveMedian band
Consumer subscriptions384$11.7K$607,337258/3846×
AI media95$4K$185,22060/956×
Growth & marketing61$11.3K$53,08737/618×
Agents & assistants50$13.8K$91,62140/508×
Sales & billing32$18.7K$24,76626/328×
CPQ for installers1$379.6K$3,5991/18×
AI tutoring1$299K$25,9331/14×
Text-to-audio AI1$129.4K$5,3911/17×
Reputation automation1$104.4K$9901/18×
AI sales chat1$99.9K$9481/18×
Marketplace SEO1$85K$8061/18×
Dental practice ops1$66.7K$6331/18×
AI estimating1$59.2K$5621/18×
Local trade marketplace1$28.9K$2,2371/15×

Sample sizes here are small — several tiers hold fewer than five products. They are printed rather than hidden, because a median of three is a fact about three companies.

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.

12,000+ products, priced from their own advertising, all of them under $500K a month — the range a small team can actually enter.