The Athletic has 857 ads in the Meta Ad Library, and 159 were running when we read it on October 2, 2026. Below is a page of creative from The Athletic’s 2026 advertising campaigns, the formats it uses, and how long the ads stay up.
The creative read here is 41 percent carousel, 33 percent single image, 26 percent video. 12 of the 46 ads read here are video: The Athletic’s commercials as they run in the feed. The median ad ran 27 days and the longest was still up at 193. 19 percent of everything The Athletic has published on Meta is still delivering, which is a brand retiring most of what it makes and scaling the survivors.
Every creative, with its copy, format and run length