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The 2025 Global Music Advertising Report

The 2025 Global Music Advertising Report

The 2025 Global Music Advertising Report

Benchmarks from our 2025 campaigns, covering 10M+ streams: cost per click by market, results by genre, and timing.

Benchmarks from our 2025 campaigns, covering 10M+ streams: cost per click by market, results by genre, and timing.

10M+

10M+

streams

20+

20+

markets

4

4

genres

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What’s inside the report?

What’s inside the report?

Performance Benchmarks

Cost per click and cost per result across 10M+ streams.

45%

Benchmarks

CPC and CPI

45%

Genre Deep Dives

Efficiency matrices for Rap, Rock, Lofi, and EDM.

35%

Genre Dives

Rap, Rock, Lofi, and EDM

35%

Timing & Methodology

When to launch for the lowest cost per click, and where attribution misses streams.

20%

Timing & Methodology

Launch timing and attribution

20%

FAQ

What is this report?

We split performance data from our 2025 campaigns by market tier and genre to show what worked.

How is this report different?

It reports true CPC to Spotify, split by market tier and genre, instead of views and link clicks.

Where does the data in this report come from?

All data comes from campaigns we managed in 2025, covering 10M+ streams. We grouped results by market tier and by our 4 main genres.

Other questions?

What is this report?

We split performance data from our 2025 campaigns by market tier and genre to show what worked.

How is this report different?

It reports true CPC to Spotify, split by market tier and genre, instead of views and link clicks.

Where does the data in this report come from?

All data comes from campaigns we managed in 2025, covering 10M+ streams. We grouped results by market tier and by our 4 main genres.

Other questions?

9+

Years of experience

in music marketing & advertising

Music marketer reviewing Spotify ad benchmarks on a laptop

20

+

Global Market Benchmarks

cost-per-click data for every major territory in 2025.

Launching a release, growing a catalog or running ads across a whole roster? Tell us the goal and we’ll map the campaign.

Launching a release, growing a catalog or running ads across a whole roster? Tell us the goal and we’ll map the campaign.

Launching a release, growing a catalog or running ads across a whole roster? Tell us the goal and we’ll map the campaign.

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