Search and Retail Media Search KPIs Q2 2026

CPCs and CTRs for Paid Search Advertising

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About This Report
Retail media is reshaping search advertising. Costs are rising unevenly while performance gaps widen, forcing advertisers to rethink where spend delivers real results as traditional search dominance fades.

Retail media is capturing more search budget, eroding Google’s dominance while boosting Amazon. Walmart search ads deliver value for their cost, while Instacart ads drive comparatively high clickthrough rates (CTRs).

This deck covers:

  • A breakdown of our search ad spending forecasts, including total search ad spending, retail media versus nonretail media, and search ad revenues by company
  • An overview of average search cost-per-click (CPC) rates, including breakdowns by search engine, product category on Google, and retail media network (RMN)
  • An overview of CTRs by search engine, and RMN plus Instacart

authors

Blake Droesch

Contributors

Rahul Chadha
Director, Report Editing
Penelope Lin
Director, Data Visualization
Naomi Rebuelta
Copy Editor
Matt Torpey
Senior Data Visualization Editor
Emman Velasco
Data Visualization Editor
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