The Wilow Ad Index

Meta ads benchmarks,
by industry.

This research report aggregates data from 234 Meta advertisers across 6 industries. We measured six areas: launch rate, landing pages, video versus image, creator partnerships, how many creators each brand works with, and ads that survive past 90 days.

Across 234 brands in 6 industries · Updated weekly · Last updated 27 August 2026

How often do brands launch new ads?

4.2
new ads per week
  • Meta’s own advice is to stop refining one winner and build a set of genuinely different ads, one for each kind of customer. It calls this creative diversification.
  • Making that many no longer needs a designer for each one. Wilow’s Ad Studio turns an ad you are already running into a new image ad, and the free plan comes with credits to try it.

How many landing pages do brands use?

6
different pages
  • Send every ad to the homepage and Meta has one destination to work with. Switch on Optimize website destination and Meta decides which page of your site each person is most likely to convert on.
  • That only helps if there is more than one page to choose between. A page per product or offer also gives the visitor the thing they clicked for.

How much of their advertising is video, and how much is image?

47%
of live ads are video
  • Meta asks for a broad portfolio of assets across text, image and video rather than one format done well, so a concept worth running is usually worth running both ways.
  • Its system groups ads that look and feel alike and treats them as one creative, so a mix that is only nominally varied buys you nothing.

How many brands work with creators?

21%
of brands run paid creator partnerships
  • Meta’s own example of a properly varied account has a creator ad in it alongside the rest.
  • It runs as a partnership ad: the creator’s account appears in the ad header next to yours, and the ad draws on signals from both accounts.

How many creators does a brand work with?

2
different creators, across the 48 brands here that use any
  • If you do not already know who to work with, Meta runs its own Creator Marketplace.
  • Brands use it to find creators, agree a partnership, and run the result as an ad.

How many brands have an ad that has lasted past 90 days?

58%
of brands have an ad still running after 90 days
  • An ad Meta is still spending on after three months has earned its place.
  • Search any brand in the free Wilow Ad Library and its long-runners are collected under a “Live for 90+ days” heading. A brand with none has no such row, which is its own answer.

How the industries compare

Pick a number. Every published industry, ranked. Click an industry to open its page.

How often do brands launch new ads?
new ads per week
Fashion & ApparelFashion & Apparel: 5.35.3Beauty & SkincareBeauty & Skincare: 5.35.3Health & SupplementsHealth & Supplements: 4.64.6Pet CarePet Care: 4.24.2Food & BeverageFood & Beverage: 3.33.3Home & LifestyleHome & Lifestyle: 2.12.1

Find your industry

Not enough brands yet. Each one publishes at 25.

B2B Software15 of 25Fintech9 of 25Fitness & Wellness5 of 25Education5 of 25Consumer Products5 of 25Consumer Apps3 of 25

How we know this

Every number here is read straight from live Meta ads, through the free Wilow Ad Library. A brand joins the panel when someone looks it up in the tool, so the panel is real advertisers, not a hand-picked list, and it grows on its own. An industry only gets a page once it has 25 brands behind it.

What the data cannot tell you: Meta shows when an ad started, never when it stopped, so we can say a brand has nothing old still running, never that its ads died. It cannot show spend, clicks or sales. And the launch rate only counts ads that are still live, so it is a floor.

Written by Kole Ogundipe, founder of Wilow. Original research methodology.

Republish any figure on this page with credit to Wilow and a link back to it. Cite it as: The Wilow Ad Index, Wilow, 27 August 2026, trywilow.com/ad-index

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