2025 Health & Beauty Advertising Benchmarks Report
As one of the fastest-growing ecommerce industries, Health & Beauty is expected to generate over $677 billion worldwide in 2025. But with rising costs, increased competition, and shifting consumer preferences, standing out in this industry requires more than just great products.

How are Health & Beauty brands responding? They’re adapting to challenges in ad spend, putting more energy into retaining existing customers, employing unique methods for driving up average order value, and using ad platforms for their specific strengths.

In this report, we’ll unpack how over 3,000 Health & Beauty brands spent over $2.42 billion on ads, how those ads performed on multiple major platforms, our key insights from ad performance in 2024, and what it means for brands in 2025.

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Key Insights
High cost + competition is driving up ad spend while efficiency is going down
Retention is a large focus for Health & Beauty brands over new customer acquisition
Brands are very effective at driving up cart value
Ad platforms are utilized effectively for their respective strengths
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What’s inside this free report:
Ad performance breakdown for Health & Beauty brands in 2024, including benchmarks for CPA, CPM, CVR, CTR, MER, and ROAS
Revenue breakdown between new and returning customers, and how brands can prioritize high-value retention
How and why average order value continues to rise for Health & Beauty brands
A breakdown of how individual ad platforms offer distinct engagement tactics for different stages of the customer journey
A closer look at the first couple months of 2025, what it might mean for the rest of the year, and how Health & Beauty brands are adapting to a new and exciting advertising opportunity with AppLovin
The Cross-Platform Marketing Strategy Health & Beauty brands can use in 2025 and beyond
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About the report
Methodology
The data included in this report comprises over 3,000 active accounts from Triple Whale Health & Beauty brands across the following ad platforms:
  • Amazon
  • Meta (Facebook & Instagram inclusive)
  • Google Ads
  • TikTok
  • Pinterest
‍Ad channels were only included if they had a valid currency conversion to USD, had more than $100 in daily ad spend, and ROAS was less than 50.
Using the data
We encourage you to explore Triple Whale’s 2025 Health & Beauty Advertising Benchmarks Report, and to share, reference, and publish the findings with attribution to “Triple Whale” and a link to this page.

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About Triple Whale
Triple Whale is the agent-powered intelligence platform built for faster, more confident decisions across your entire brand. Powered by AI agents that sit on top of a fully managed data warehouse, proprietary identity resolution technology that uncovers rich customer behaviors other platforms miss, and powerful tools for customer acquisition, conversion and retention, Triple Whale turns complex data into clear guidance for profitable growth.