Activewear - August - 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

August

2023

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

Table of content

Highlights & Summary

In August, NO BULL maintained its leadership in emails, sending a total of 34. Born Primitive secured the second position with 24 emails.

Shifting to advertising, Born Primitive once again took the lead by creating 150 new ads. Fabletics followed with 90 new ads introduced this month.

In terms of ad strategy, both Born Primitive and Fabletics favored images in their approach this month. Born Primitive utilized 128 images and 22 videos, while Fabletics opted for 56 images and 34 videos.

Emails sent on average

12.7

Ads published on average

48

Average Spam Score

2.1

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 12.67 54.79%
Recess Activewear
7

❌ Poor

75.86%

✅ Good

Tracksmith
9

❌ Poor

58.11%

⚠️ Fair

Born Living Yoga
8

❌ Poor

54.5%

⚠️ Fair

Billabong
21

✅ Good

50.38%

⚠️ Fair

Lorna Jane Active
10

❌ Poor

53.7%

⚠️ Fair

Fabletics
1

❌ Poor

78.0%

✅ Good

POPFLEX Active
13

⚠️ Fair

43.46%

❌ Poor

P.E Nation
15

✅ Good

62.6%

✅ Good

WAA Ultra
10

❌ Poor

58.7%

⚠️ Fair

Senita Athletics
17

✅ Good

51.18%

⚠️ Fair

SET Active
14

✅ Good

41.14%

❌ Poor

Ryderwear
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

NO BULL
34

✅ Good

54.65%

⚠️ Fair

PollyPark
7

❌ Poor

37.14%

❌ Poor

Born Primitive
24

✅ Good

66.38%

✅ Good

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 -2.12 3,267.62 kb
Recess Activewear
✅ -2.77

✅ Good

2,807.81 kb

✅ Good

Tracksmith
✅ -2.22

⚠️ Fair

3,962.29 kb

❌ Poor

Born Living Yoga
✅ -2.86

✅ Good

2,748.54 kb

✅ Good

Billabong
- 3,153.85 kb

⚠️ Fair

Lorna Jane Active
✅ -2.6

✅ Good

3,889.17 kb

❌ Poor

Fabletics
✅ -5.1

✅ Good

628.5 kb

✅ Good

POPFLEX Active
✅ -1.24

❌ Poor

4,084.41 kb

❌ Poor

P.E Nation
🟧 0.05

❌ Poor

1,646.72 kb

✅ Good

WAA Ultra
✅ -3.34

✅ Good

2,626.37 kb

✅ Good

Senita Athletics
✅ -2.06

⚠️ Fair

3,465.53 kb

⚠️ Fair

SET Active
✅ -0.69

❌ Poor

5,186.36 kb

❌ Poor

Ryderwear
- -
NO BULL
✅ -2.5

✅ Good

4,041.14 kb

❌ Poor

PollyPark
✅ 0.0

❌ Poor

3,472.59 kb

⚠️ Fair

Born Primitive
✅ -3.12

✅ Good

1,687.57 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 48.2 21.27
Recess Activewear
18

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

Tracksmith
25

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Born Living Yoga
40

✅ Good

23

⚠️ Fair

Billabong
75

❌ Poor

38

❌ Poor

Lorna Jane Active
60

❌ Poor

11

✅ Good

Fabletics
90

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

POPFLEX Active
12

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

P.E Nation
73

❌ Poor

17

✅ Good

WAA Ultra
29

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Senita Athletics
32

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

SET Active
0

✅ Good

-
Ryderwear
64

❌ Poor

42

❌ Poor

NO BULL
37

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

PollyPark
18

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Born Primitive
150

❌ Poor

4

✅ 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 453 249 34.44%
Recess Activewear
10

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

44.44%
Tracksmith
13

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

48.0%
Born Living Yoga
18

✅ Good

22

✅ Good

55.0%
Billabong
41

✅ Good

32

✅ Good

42.67%
Lorna Jane Active
11

✅ Good

46

✅ Good

76.67%
Fabletics
56

✅ Good

34

✅ Good

37.78%
POPFLEX Active
6

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

41.67%
P.E Nation
55

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

21.92%
WAA Ultra
16

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

44.83%
Senita Athletics
19

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

40.63%
SET Active
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Ryderwear
41

✅ Good

18

✅ Good

28.13%
NO BULL
35

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

5.41%
PollyPark
4

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

33.33%
Born Primitive
128

✅ Good

22

✅ Good

14.67%

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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