Painting advertising statistics

Based on 1,436 painting ads running now from 364 businesses (147 fully tracked). US and Canada, Meta and Google.

Data as of · refreshed every few days

Ads running now
1,436
Businesses advertising
364

147 fully tracked

Ads with a call button
2%

of ads running now

Median time running
14 days

27% 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 %

Where ads send people

Platform data
Link

Of 1,436 painting ads running on Oct 14, 2026

45% of painting ads send people to an instant form.

Other: links to their Facebook or Instagram 4%, no button 3%. Every Google ad links to a website.

Businesses, not ads

Platform data
Link

Of 147 painting businesses we fully track

41%

of painting businesses we fully track use an instant form in at least one running ad

60 of 147 businesses · one business, one vote

By ads: 45% of painting ads running on Oct 14, 2026

  • Instant form 41% · 60 businesses
  • Call button 10% · 14 businesses
  • Message button 19% · 28 businesses

Platform and format

Platform data
Link

Of 1,436 painting ads running on Oct 14, 2026

Platform

Format

Where Meta ads run

Platform data
Link

Of 1,436 painting ads on Meta, running on Oct 14, 2026

  • Facebook 98%
  • Instagram 97%
  • Audience Network (other apps) 56%
  • Messenger 21%
  • Threads 20%
  • WhatsApp 10%

One ad usually runs in several places, so these add up to more than 100%.

9% test several versions of the ad

Buttons on Meta ads

Platform data
Link

Of 1,436 painting ads on Meta, running on Oct 14, 2026

  • Get quote 51%
  • Learn more 18%
  • Message page 9%
  • See details 5%
  • View instagram profile 3%
  • Book travel 3%

How long ads run

Platform data
Link

Of 1,436 painting ads running on Oct 14, 2026

Half of painting ads running now have been up for 14 days or more.

14 days median time running so far

27% running 90 days or more

Business size

Platform data
Link

Of 147 painting businesses we fully track

  • Under 1,000 page likes 67% · 99 businesses
  • 1,000–10,000 31% · 45 businesses
  • 10,000–100,000 1% · 2 businesses
  • Over 100,000 1% · 1 businesses

By Facebook page likes (their largest page), a rough sign of size.

What’s in the ad

AI-read
Link

Of 1,473 distinct painting ad designs our AI has read, running on Oct 14, 2026

15% of painting ad designs show a price.

  • Names a city or service area 76% · 79% of businesses
  • Free quote or estimate 68% · 77% of businesses
  • Burned-in captions 35% · 48% of businesses
  • Someone talks to camera 34% · 44% of businesses
  • Uses social proof (reviews, testimonials, customer counts) 29% · 49% of businesses
  • Guarantee or warranty 24% · 37% of businesses
  • Deadline or limited time 19% · 37% of businesses
  • Shows a price 15% · 25% of businesses
  • Percentage off 14% · 23% of businesses
  • Money off ($) 5% · 12% of businesses
  • Financing 1% · 5% of businesses

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.

How they’re made

AI judgment · ranked
Link

Most common first, among painting ad designs our AI has read

Most common opening in painting ads: bold claim.

Style

  1. 1Product shot
  2. 2Founder or expert
  3. 3Before and after

Opening

  1. 1Bold claim
  2. 2Question
  3. 3Visual only

Tone

  1. 1Urgent
  2. 2Calm
  3. 3Educational

Main benefit

  1. 1Results
  2. 2Quality
  3. 3Price

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.

See the ads behind the numbers

Link

These numbers describe what the ad library tracks: 1,436 running ads from businesses found by industry searches. They aren’t a share of every ad in the industry.

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How we count, and what we can’t see

What we count

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.

Three kinds of numbers

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.

What we can’t see

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, “Painting”, data as of Oct 14, 2026. https://dev.smallforcehq.com/ad-library/stats/painting

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