SWAPD April 2026 Digest - What sells on SWAPD?

SWAPD April 2026 Digest

April was a heavy month: 519 completed sales (and just as many refunds!), $861,364.03 total volume, with an average deal size of $1,659.66 and a median of $850.

The market was dominated by three things: PR and media placements, Google deindexing, and social account or username assets. Apparently the internet remains a machine for deleting things, reviving things, and pretending usernames are real estate. Charming.

Monthly total

April 2026: 519 sales, $861,364.03

Top category totals

Category Sales Volume Avg deal
PR publishing / media placements 45 $172,933.96 $3,842.98
Google deindexing / SERP cleanup 92 $136,540.50 $1,484.14
Instagram accounts / pages 39 $70,141.74 $1,798.51
YouTube channels / services 26 $68,224.00 $2,624.00
Instagram username claims / transfers 26 $67,810.00 $2,608.08
Reddit / forum assets & marketing 23 $34,502.15 $1,500.09
Influencer / paid promotion / invites 7 $32,530.00 $4,647.14
X / Twitter accounts & trends 33 $31,250.60 $946.99
Facebook / Meta pages, ads & verification 36 $29,737.25 $826.03
Review removals / reputation cleanup 25 $25,858.00 $1,034.32
TikTok accounts / campaigns 16 $22,484.86 $1,405.30
Knowledge panels / profiles 25 $16,670.00 $666.80
Websites / tools / business assets 25 $15,097.97 $603.92
TikTok copyright / compliance removals 7 $14,054.79 $2,007.83
Instagram recovery / copyright / access 12 $12,525.00 $1,043.75
Instagram visibility / reach fixes 4 $10,500.00 $2,625.00
Facebook monetization pages / CMT 18 $8,336.00 $463.11
Other / unclear 31 $50,055.30 $1,614.69

Top 2 sellers in each major category

Category Number 1 seller Number 2 seller
PR publishing / media placements @Lunar: 20 sales, $34,765 @leaflix: 13 sales, $10,333
Google deindexing / SERP cleanup @porcupine: 71 sales, $107,174 @zxprmedia: 6 sales, $11,803.50
Instagram accounts / pages @instabay: 8 sales, $2,990 @Hooper: 5 sales, $13,175
YouTube channels / services @thecfx: 3 sales, $5,000 @zxprmedia: 2 sales, $3,696
Instagram username claims / transfers @mae: 14 sales, $43,000 @win: 3 sales, $8,250
Reddit / forum assets & marketing @porcupine: 8 sales, $11,651 @humaira: 3 sales, $3,200
Influencer / paid promotion / invites @suraj555: 4 sales, $5,500 @Goodness11: 1 sale, $26,400
X / Twitter accounts & trends @Mrx1: 5 sales, $6,110 @enver: 4 sales, $3,979
Facebook / Meta pages, ads & verification @thecfx: 5 sales, $10,100 @RnvDigital: 5 sales, $2,320
Review removals / reputation cleanup @Ryan: 13 sales, $8,570 @Digitalworld: 3 sales, $3,350
TikTok accounts / campaigns @Ayesha: 8 sales, $3,110 @SXI: 2 sales, $13,800
Knowledge panels / profiles @ferhatsaskin: 11 sales, $3,230 @Memo: 3 sales, $7,280
Websites / tools / business assets @Rayman: 8 sales, $2,673 @Julien: 5 sales, $3,284.08
TikTok copyright / compliance removals @TikTok: 2 sales, $3,550 @911: 2 sales, $2,300
Instagram recovery / copyright / access @Lukess: 5 sales, $3,750 @Parker: 3 sales, $2,885
Instagram visibility / reach fixes @Abstract: 2 sales, $7,500 @google1: 1 sale, $1,500
Facebook monetization pages / CMT @ACE Marketer: 7 sales, $2,650 @Cash.illuminator: 6 sales, $4,058

Overall seller leaderboard

  1. @porcupine: 81 sales, $140,137
    Mainly Google deindexing and Reddit related work.

  2. @Lunar: 22 sales, $36,115
    Strongest in PR and media placements.

  3. @mae: 15 sales, $48,000
    Dominated Instagram username claims and support transfers.

Buyer stats

Top buyers by number of purchases:

  1. @gigan: 49 purchases, $45,940
    Almost entirely Google deindexing. This buyer basically treated deindexing like a subscription box.

  2. @Liquid: 10 purchases, $23,747
    Mostly Google deindexing, with some Facebook / Meta work.

  3. @ricardogarcia: 9 purchases, $5,511.91
    Heavy on messaging channels and mixed social account work.

Top buyers by spend:

  1. @Sohaib49bk: $55,556 across 2 purchases
  2. @apple: $50,000 across 1 purchase
  3. @gigan: $45,940 across 49 purchases
  4. @R70: $31,378 across 4 purchases
  5. @REDACTED: $31,000 across 1 purchase

Fun stats

The top 10 deals alone produced $273,894, which is about 31.8 percent of all April volume. So yes, the whales mattered. Shocking that money concentrates at the top. Humanity discovered capitalism again.

The biggest category by volume was PR publishing / media placements, pulling in $172,933.96, or about 20.1 percent of total monthly volume.

The biggest category by number of sales was Google deindexing / SERP cleanup, with 92 sales. That is the real repeatable machine this month.

@gigan was the most active buyer by a ridiculous margin, completing 49 purchases. For context, the second most active buyer had 10 purchases, meaning @gigan bought nearly five times more often than the next buyer. Calm, normal marketplace behavior.

April’s SWAPD marketplace data shows a clear pattern: buyers are spending heavily on visibility, reputation control, and social media assets. Across 519 completed sales, the marketplace generated $861,364.03 in total volume, led by PR placements, Google deindexing, Instagram assets, YouTube channels, and username claim services.

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In general, the first quarter of 2026 has been on the weaker side, but it’s not just us. We’ve received reports that this whole industry is on a slight decline this year. The good news is that SWAPD suffered the smallest drop out of most of our competitors :) We know, because we use the same payment processors, and they share this data with us. FameSwap for example, suffered a 70% drop in activity compared to 1st Q of 2025.

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Damn, not bad. I like my cogs, a lot. 7th year of being here and finally swapd makes decent money off of me.

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Outdated stats, make it 50!

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coming for you @mae

Make it $14,000 boss :joy:

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I should be here

Even though I am written here

All my tickets were of UnAppealed Unbans.

Hmm, i think AI sorted that data wrong, or it misunderstood your tickets. It only goes by what’s written in the comments. It doesn’t review the whole ticket. So, if you start vague tickets with very little written in the comments, this is the result.

Seeing my name on the list made me very happy. I close successful tickets every day. :slightly_smiling_face:

I am the best and top-selling Google Knowledge Panel seller on the site.

The success rate, 195 positive reviews on my profile, and the number of transactions say it all :point_down:

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If you or someone you know, an Personal or a Company, needs a knowledge panel, don’t hesitate to contact me! :fire:

The fact IG recoveries is so low is very worrying. Means nobody can do it anymore.

Could probably bring someone $50k in month one who could reliably do that.

My industry is getting absolutely slammed by Zuck’s AI

Where my privacy bro :smiling_face_with_tear:

Very happy to be a part of this lovely society..

especially thanks to @FaadixD My Mentor who introduced me to swapd. :heart::folded_hands:

If you want, we can exclude you from these (from now on).

No don’t. Please. This helps me a lot

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