Advertising

7 Things Paid Teams Can Learn From Competitor Ads

See which competitor ads make money, by how long they survive.

· Editorial

Nobody keeps paying for an ad that loses money. The paid view ranks your competitors' ads by survival, then shows the hooks, formats and landing pages behind the ones that last.

Here are the seven things a Kvasano report does for Paid advertising teams, each with a real example from our public benchmarks: earplugs (Loop vs Hears) and software (monday.com vs Asana and ClickUp). Measured 25 October 2026.

1. Which ads are worth copying?

Median lifespan, the longest runner and the share still live after 90 days. Longevity is the only honest scoreboard.

In a real report: monday.com's median ad has run 153 days. Asana's has run 7.

Median ad lifespan
monday.com153 days
Asana7 days

2. What do they keep saying?

Every analysed ad grouped into message ideas, with the share the top five cover. The creative testing matrix shows which angles they keep paying for and which died.

In a real report: Loop runs 19 distinct ideas. "Noise pollution got you down?" sits in 11 of 50 ads.

11 of 50 ads use one hook

3. Where do the clicks land?

Product page, collection or a page built for the ad. The landing page says more about the funnel than the ad does.

In a real report: Hears sends 46% of its analysed ads to a dedicated landing page.

of Hears' ads land on a dedicated page

4. Which formats last longest?

Median days live for video, image and catalogue ads, side by side.

In a real report: Loop: catalogue ads 122 days, video 118, image 109.

Loop, median days live
Catalogue122 days
Video118 days
Image109 days

5. How much are they spending?

A labelled estimate from live ads and a CPM band, anchored in real EU reach where the DSA data exists. Never a precise figure we cannot know.

In a real report: Loop: an estimated $3.3m on Meta to date.

~$3.3mLoop on Meta to date, labelled estimate

6. Do they discount in ads or elsewhere?

The share of ads that carry an offer, next to the share of emails that do. It shows where they protect their price.

In a real report: 22% of Loop's ads carry an offer. 100% of its emails do.

Loop, share carrying an offer
Emails100%
Ads22%

7. How much of their traffic is bought?

Paid share of search, social and display traffic, so you see how dependent each competitor is on its ad budget.

In a real report: 81.9% of Loop's social visits are paid.

of Loop's social visits are paid

All seven, every 14 days

Every competitor on your plan is measured every 14 days, and so is your own brand, with the same sources on both sides. Every number links to where it came from.

See it for yourself in the Paid advertising view of a real report, or start with one competitor. The first benchmark is free: one domain, measured against you, no card and no call. Start here.

Pick one competitor. See what we find.

Your first benchmark is free. One domain, measured against you, no card and no call.

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