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September 2025 - August 2026
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The clearest story here is one of steady underpricing and a dramatic late collapse: Arts cost-per-clicks (CPC) across All countries averaged well below the global benchmark for the 13-month window, with a summer 2025 high, a winter trough, a spring rebound and a severe drop in July 2026. This analysis is based on $3B worth of advertising data from our dataset, which provides strong directional benchmarks. This analysis explores ad performance trends for Arts in All countries available compared to the global benchmark.
Arts CPC began at $0.61 in July 2025, peaked at about $0.65 in August 2025, and finished the series at $0.11 in July 2026 — an 81% decline year-over-year from start to finish. Over the full period the Arts median CPC averaged roughly $0.46; the global baseline averaged about $1.05. In relative terms, Arts CPCs ran about 56% below the global benchmark on average.
Month-to-month movement shows meaningful swings: the largest single-month fall was June→July 2026 (≈ -$0.30, roughly -73%), while notable mid-period moves include the Aug→Sep 2025 slide (~ -$0.25) and the Dec→Jan trough into January 2026 (~ -$0.11). High and low points: highest Arts CPC was ~$0.65 (Aug 2025); lowest was ~$0.11 (Jul 2026). For context, the global baseline peaked at ~$1.29 (Nov 2025) and troughed at ~$0.77 (Jul 2026).
Volatility measured two ways: average absolute monthly change was about $0.11, and the monthly standard deviation was roughly $0.13 for Arts CPCs versus ~ $0.11 for the global benchmark — indicating Arts was modestly more volatile in this window.
Seasonal rhythm is visible but not textbook. Summer 2025 showed a modest uplift into August, then a fall into September. The global benchmark displayed a clear November spike (likely Q4 competition), but Arts did not mirror that lift—Arts held flat-to-down across Q4 and moved into a January trough. A spring recovery ran from February through May 2026, with CPCs edging back toward the mid-$0.40–$0.52 range, before the abrupt collapse in July 2026. Overall, early Q1 softness and a spring rebound are present, while the Q4 peak in the baseline is a distinctive contrast.
Across months Arts CPCs were consistently below market. The gap ranged from roughly 41% below the global benchmark at its narrowest (August 2025) to about 85% below in July 2026 when Arts fell to ~$0.11 while the baseline sat near $0.77. The global trend showed a pronounced Q4 bump (+~20% into November) that Arts did not share; instead Arts exhibited choppier moves and a sharper terminal drop. In short: Arts CPCs were persistently below average and slightly more volatile than the overall market.
Understanding Facebook Ads benchmarks for COST_PER_CLICK in the Arts industry across All countries available provides a compact view of CPC trends, CPC volatility, and how industry ad performance can diverge from broader CPM analysis and CTR performance patterns in country-specific ad costs reporting.
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