Activewear - April- 2023


The result? A comparative analysis that highlight the best performers of any ecommerce DTC niche, for any given month.

This benchmark analyze the behaviour of 15 Direct-To-Consumers (DTC) brands in the Supplement industry. Our goal is to compare their marketing velocity (how active they are in their digital marketing strategy) and how to they perform vs. each other.

Activewear

This report is free to read and takes into consideration between 15 and 20 brands we compare month after month in the

Activewear

industry, for the month of

April

2023

. We review data over their email marketing and advertising practices. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive exclusive reports.

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Highlights & Summary

In April, NO BULL maintained its lead with 31 emails, followed by Billabong with 28 emails. Meanwhile, P.E Nation remained the top brand in terms of new ads created, but Fabletics also created 60 new ads during the same period, tying with P.E Nation. Ryderwear followed with 54 new ads created. Most of these top brands are focused on using images in their ad campaigns. Ryderwear used 45 new images and 8 new videos, P.E Nation used 39 new images and 20 new videos, and Fabletics used 35 new images and 24 new videos.

Emails sent on average

12.3

Ads published on average

30

Average Spam Score

2.2

Email Marketing Benchmark Breakdown

Email Marketing Performances

In this table, we benchmark how many emails brands have send and their average email scores, which we calculate using over 50 datapoints that measure how much best practices are ensured (spam score, email authenticiation & certificates, email size, subject line lenght, word & links count etc.)

Brand # Emails Sent Performance Email Scoring Performance
Average 12.27 51.91%
Recess Activewear
8

❌ Poor

52.75%

⚠️ Fair

Tracksmith
10

❌ Poor

52.7%

⚠️ Fair

Born Living Yoga
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Billabong
28

✅ Good

52.54%

⚠️ Fair

Lorna Jane Active
12

⚠️ Fair

52.5%

⚠️ Fair

Fabletics
5

❌ Poor

67.4%

✅ Good

POPFLEX Active
10

❌ Poor

47.7%

⚠️ Fair

P.E Nation
12

⚠️ Fair

48.75%

⚠️ Fair

WAA Ultra
7

❌ Poor

50.86%

⚠️ Fair

Senita Athletics
15

✅ Good

38.6%

❌ Poor

SET Active
13

⚠️ Fair

48.62%

⚠️ Fair

Ryderwear
12

⚠️ Fair

49.92%

⚠️ Fair

NO BULL
31

✅ Good

59.65%

✅ Good

PollyPark
3

❌ Poor

44.67%

❌ Poor

Born Primitive
18

✅ Good

52.94%

⚠️ Fair

Email Deliverability Performances

In this table, we benchmark how much the emails are optimized for delivery ie. if they're likely to pass spam filters and not land in the Promotions tab.

Brand Average Spam Score Performance Email Size Performance
Average -2.17 4,068.22 kb
Recess Activewear
✅ -3.1

✅ Good

7,745.44 kb

❌ Poor

Tracksmith
✅ -2.09

⚠️ Fair

4,162.7 kb

⚠️ Fair

Born Living Yoga
- -
Billabong
✅ -2.11

⚠️ Fair

4,779.84 kb

❌ Poor

Lorna Jane Active
✅ -2.14

⚠️ Fair

3,275.61 kb

✅ Good

Fabletics
✅ -2.0

⚠️ Fair

679.27 kb

✅ Good

POPFLEX Active
✅ -1.96

⚠️ Fair

2,292.8 kb

✅ Good

P.E Nation
✅ -0.88

❌ Poor

2,524.12 kb

✅ Good

WAA Ultra
✅ -4.93

✅ Good

5,566.78 kb

❌ Poor

Senita Athletics
✅ -1.17

❌ Poor

3,899.22 kb

⚠️ Fair

SET Active
✅ -1.72

❌ Poor

4,211.29 kb

⚠️ Fair

Ryderwear
✅ -2.37

⚠️ Fair

4,339.78 kb

⚠️ Fair

NO BULL
✅ -3.06

✅ Good

4,677.2 kb

❌ Poor

PollyPark
✅ -5.0

✅ Good

4,497.97 kb

❌ Poor

Born Primitive
✅ -0.99

❌ Poor

2,913.21 kb

✅ Good

Email sent over time

Advertising performances and activity

Ad Velocity

In this table, we benchmark the brands velocity and performances - how much ads they've been publishing, and how many different copy has been used.

Brand New Ads Detected Performance Unique Copy Performance
Average 29.53 13.0
Recess Activewear
13

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Tracksmith
17

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Born Living Yoga
8

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Billabong
30

⚠️ Fair

15

❌ Poor

Lorna Jane Active
52

❌ Poor

13

⚠️ Fair

Fabletics
60

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

POPFLEX Active
3

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

P.E Nation
60

❌ Poor

10

✅ Good

WAA Ultra
16

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Senita Athletics
29

⚠️ Fair

8

✅ Good

SET Active
8

✅ Good

-
Ryderwear
54

❌ Poor

19

❌ Poor

NO BULL
29

⚠️ Fair

21

❌ Poor

PollyPark
14

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Born Primitive
50

❌ Poor

5

✅ Good

Ad Diversity (Images vs. Videos ratio)

In this table, we benchmark the brands diversity of assets when it comes to Social Ads - especially the images vs. videos ratio.

Brand New Images Performance New Videos Performance Video Proportion
Average 269 165 37.25%
Recess Activewear
13

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Tracksmith
8

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

52.94%
Born Living Yoga
7

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

12.5%
Billabong
22

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

26.67%
Lorna Jane Active
10

✅ Good

40

✅ Good

76.92%
Fabletics
35

✅ Good

24

✅ Good

40.0%
POPFLEX Active
3

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
P.E Nation
39

✅ Good

20

✅ Good

33.33%
WAA Ultra
16

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Senita Athletics
9

✅ Good

20

✅ Good

68.97%
SET Active
8

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Ryderwear
45

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

14.81%
NO BULL
21

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

24.14%
PollyPark
14

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Born Primitive
19

✅ Good

28

✅ Good

56.0%

Ads detected over time

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Some of the assets (emails, ads) used in this benchmark to measure performance

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