Activewear - December - 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

January

2024

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

Table of content

Highlights & Summary

Email Marketing Overview: Billabong leads in email marketing, sending 27 emails with a good performance score of 52.19%. Born Primitive and SET Active closely follow with competitive email volumes and good performance. NO BULL and P.E Nation maintain strong positions with both effective email volumes and well-performing content. Senita Athletics exhibits potential but requires content optimization for a more competitive edge. Struggling with lower performance, Recess Activewear, Tracksmith, and Born Living Yoga need immediate strategy adjustments to enhance their email marketing effectiveness.

Email Deliverability Insights: Recess Activewear faces challenges in email deliverability, showcasing a decreased spam score and larger email sizes. Born Living Yoga demonstrates good deliverability but with larger email sizes, indicating room for improvement. Billabong, Tracksmith, and P.E Nation maintain good deliverability with varied spam scores and email sizes. Brands like Fabletics and POPFLEX Active struggle with both spam scores and larger email sizes, requiring strategic adjustments for competitive marketing.

Ads Performance: Fabletics emerges as a leader in advertising, demonstrating 113 impactful ads and a diverse range of 15 unique copies. P.E Nation, Born Primitive, and Lorna Jane Active maintain strong advertising strategies, combining substantial ad volumes with engaging content. NO BULL and Senita Athletics show competitive advertising impact. Struggling with both volume and content diversity, Recess Activewear, WAA Ultra, and Ryderwear need strategic adjustments for competitive advertising. PollyPark and SET Active, with no detected ads, should focus on developing effective advertising strategies.

Emails sent on average

11.7

Ads published on average

37

Average Spam Score

1.7

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 11.67 54.42%
Recess Activewear
8

❌ Poor

58.38%

⚠️ Fair

Tracksmith
8

❌ Poor

65.5%

✅ Good

Born Living Yoga
9

❌ Poor

52.44%

⚠️ Fair

Billabong
27

✅ Good

52.19%

⚠️ Fair

Lorna Jane Active
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Fabletics
2

❌ Poor

56.5%

⚠️ Fair

POPFLEX Active
15

✅ Good

44.53%

❌ Poor

P.E Nation
16

✅ Good

55.38%

⚠️ Fair

WAA Ultra
7

❌ Poor

53.43%

⚠️ Fair

Senita Athletics
11

⚠️ Fair

61.64%

✅ Good

SET Active
19

✅ Good

51.0%

⚠️ Fair

Ryderwear
15

✅ Good

51.2%

⚠️ Fair

NO BULL
17

✅ Good

58.06%

⚠️ Fair

PollyPark
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Born Primitive
21

✅ Good

57.57%

⚠️ 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 -1.71 2,590.46 kb
Recess Activewear
✅ -1.22

❌ Poor

4,171.73 kb

❌ Poor

Tracksmith
✅ -1.88

⚠️ Fair

1,624.99 kb

✅ Good

Born Living Yoga
✅ -3.75

✅ Good

5,097.37 kb

❌ Poor

Billabong
- 1,582.95 kb

✅ Good

Lorna Jane Active
- -
Fabletics
- 672.58 kb

✅ Good

POPFLEX Active
✅ -1.02

❌ Poor

2,879.95 kb

❌ Poor

P.E Nation
🟧 0.87

❌ Poor

2,104.88 kb

✅ Good

WAA Ultra
✅ -3.3

✅ Good

3,056.99 kb

❌ Poor

Senita Athletics
✅ -2.1

✅ Good

2,427.23 kb

⚠️ Fair

SET Active
✅ -1.77

⚠️ Fair

5,141.09 kb

❌ Poor

Ryderwear
✅ -2.92

✅ Good

2,315.99 kb

✅ Good

NO BULL
✅ -2.03

✅ Good

1,694.53 kb

✅ Good

PollyPark
- -
Born Primitive
✅ -1.69

⚠️ Fair

1,466.3 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 37.27 11.93
Recess Activewear
23

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Tracksmith
0

✅ Good

-
Born Living Yoga
50

❌ Poor

12

⚠️ Fair

Billabong
38

⚠️ Fair

9

✅ Good

Lorna Jane Active
49

❌ Poor

8

✅ Good

Fabletics
113

❌ Poor

4

✅ Good

POPFLEX Active
7

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

P.E Nation
88

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

WAA Ultra
15

✅ Good

11

⚠️ Fair

Senita Athletics
41

⚠️ Fair

8

✅ Good

SET Active
0

✅ Good

-
Ryderwear
12

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

NO BULL
43

❌ Poor

4

✅ Good

PollyPark
0

✅ Good

-
Born Primitive
80

❌ Poor

1

✅ 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 347 212 37.92%
Recess Activewear
19

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

17.39%
Tracksmith
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Born Living Yoga
31

✅ Good

19

✅ Good

38.0%
Billabong
36

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

5.26%
Lorna Jane Active
28

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

42.86%
Fabletics
38

✅ Good

75

✅ Good

66.37%
POPFLEX Active
1

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

85.71%
P.E Nation
72

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

18.18%
WAA Ultra
15

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Senita Athletics
26

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

36.59%
SET Active
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Ryderwear
6

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

50.0%
NO BULL
31

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

27.91%
PollyPark
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Born Primitive
44

✅ Good

36

✅ Good

45.0%

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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