Based on 48,015 small-business ads running now from 8,976 businesses (3,181 fully tracked). US and Canada, Meta and Google.
Data as of · refreshed every few days
3,181 fully tracked
of ads running now
25% running 90+ days
Platform data Exact, straight from Meta and Google AI-read Our AI checked each ad, spot-checked before we publish AI judgment · ranked Shown as an order, never a %
Of 48,015 small-business ads running on Oct 14, 2026
22% of small-business ads send people to an instant form.
Other: links to their Facebook or Instagram 4%, no button 4%, marketplace listing 1%. Every Google ad links to a website.
Of 3,181 small-business businesses we fully track
28%
of small-business businesses we fully track use an instant form in at least one running ad
894 of 3,181 businesses · one business, one vote
By ads: 22% of small-business ads running on Oct 14, 2026
Of 48,015 small-business ads running on Oct 14, 2026
Platform
Format
Of 48,015 small-business ads on Meta, running on Oct 14, 2026
One ad usually runs in several places, so these add up to more than 100%.
17% test several versions of the ad
Of 48,015 small-business ads on Meta, running on Oct 14, 2026
Of 48,015 small-business ads running on Oct 14, 2026
Half of small-business ads running now have been up for 15 days or more.
15 days median time running so far
25% running 90 days or more
Of 3,181 small-business businesses we fully track
By Facebook page likes (their largest page), a rough sign of size.
Of 53,226 distinct small-business ad designs our AI has read, running on Oct 14, 2026
30% of small-business ad designs show a price.
Bars: share of distinct ad designs (“names a city or service area” counts ads). Beside each: share of fully tracked businesses with at least one.
AI-read: our AI checked every ad for this. We publish a label only once 50 random answers per industry are at least 90% right.
Most common first, among small-business ad designs our AI has read
Most common opening in small-business ads: bold claim.
Ranked by how many ads our AI judged this way. Judgments like style are less exact than a yes/no read, so we show the order, not percentages.
These numbers describe what the ad library tracks: 48,015 running ads from businesses found by industry searches. They aren’t a share of every ad in the industry.
Ads running on the date shown, from US and Canadian businesses we found by industry searches, on Meta and Google. Each ad counts under its own industry, so a plumbing company’s AC ad counts as HVAC. Business numbers count only businesses whose ads we’ve all read in the last 30 days, one vote each. Ad numbers need 100 running ads; business numbers need 30 such businesses.
Platform data comes from Meta and Google as-is: where ads send people, platform, format, placements, buttons and run time. AI-read numbers come from our AI checking each ad design for a price, an offer or a guarantee, published once spot-checks are 90% right. AI judgments like style or tone are shown as rankings only.
These are shares of ads, not of spend. Meta and Google don’t publish spend, reach, impressions, clicks, leads or audience age and gender for US and Canadian ads, and ads don’t say which city they target.
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SmallForce Ad Library Stats, “All industries”, data as of Oct 14, 2026. https://dev.smallforcehq.com/ad-library/stats
Behind the numbers
Every number here comes from ads in the free library. Search them by industry, button or offer, and when one fits, Priya, your AI ads manager, makes your version. Nothing runs until you approve it.
