Activewear - July - 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 July, NO BULL and SET Active maintained their positions as the top brands in emails, sending 35 and 18 emails, respectively.

In terms of advertising, Born Primitive takes the lead this month with 150 new ads created, while P.E Nation follows in the second position with 105 new ads.

Regarding ad strategy, both Born Primitive and P.E Nation prioritized images this month. Born Primitive used 88 images compared to 57 videos, and P.E Nation also used 88 images but only 16 videos.

Emails sent on average

11.3

Ads published on average

61

Average Spam Score

1.8

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 11.33 51.45%
Recess Activewear
6

❌ Poor

64.17%

✅ Good

Tracksmith
8

❌ Poor

63.13%

✅ Good

Born Living Yoga
8

❌ Poor

54.13%

⚠️ Fair

Billabong
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Lorna Jane Active
13

✅ Good

52.77%

⚠️ Fair

Fabletics
2

❌ Poor

79.0%

✅ Good

POPFLEX Active
13

✅ Good

42.62%

❌ Poor

P.E Nation
15

✅ Good

62.87%

✅ Good

WAA Ultra
13

✅ Good

59.08%

✅ Good

Senita Athletics
17

✅ Good

31.18%

❌ Poor

SET Active
18

✅ Good

39.44%

❌ Poor

Ryderwear
3

❌ Poor

47.67%

⚠️ Fair

NO BULL
35

✅ Good

55.57%

⚠️ Fair

PollyPark
5

❌ Poor

36.0%

❌ Poor

Born Primitive
14

✅ Good

57.64%

✅ 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 -1.8 4,024.34 kb
Recess Activewear
✅ -1.57

❌ Poor

5,051.08 kb

❌ Poor

Tracksmith
✅ -2.35

✅ Good

2,138.39 kb

✅ Good

Born Living Yoga
✅ -1.67

⚠️ Fair

2,701.88 kb

✅ Good

Billabong
- -
Lorna Jane Active
✅ -2.79

✅ Good

4,188.74 kb

⚠️ Fair

Fabletics
✅ -5.1

✅ Good

336.6 kb

✅ Good

POPFLEX Active
✅ -1.42

❌ Poor

3,062.24 kb

✅ Good

P.E Nation
✅ -0.41

❌ Poor

1,375.74 kb

✅ Good

WAA Ultra
✅ -3.28

✅ Good

5,826.21 kb

❌ Poor

Senita Athletics
🟧 0.49

❌ Poor

7,005.32 kb

❌ Poor

SET Active
✅ -1.19

❌ Poor

6,324.62 kb

❌ Poor

Ryderwear
✅ -2.6

✅ Good

4,251.19 kb

⚠️ Fair

NO BULL
✅ -3.0

✅ Good

3,817.03 kb

⚠️ Fair

PollyPark
✅ -1.17

❌ Poor

3,223.94 kb

✅ Good

Born Primitive
✅ -1.26

❌ Poor

2,028.15 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 61.47 25.67
Recess Activewear
29

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Tracksmith
28

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Born Living Yoga
74

❌ Poor

13

✅ Good

Billabong
58

⚠️ Fair

25

⚠️ Fair

Lorna Jane Active
50

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

Fabletics
64

⚠️ Fair

11

✅ Good

POPFLEX Active
25

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

P.E Nation
105

❌ Poor

12

✅ Good

WAA Ultra
71

❌ Poor

9

✅ Good

Senita Athletics
56

⚠️ Fair

18

✅ Good

SET Active
24

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Ryderwear
94

❌ Poor

49

❌ Poor

NO BULL
77

❌ Poor

22

✅ Good

PollyPark
17

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Born Primitive
150

❌ Poor

15

✅ 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 627 263 28.52%
Recess Activewear
19

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

34.48%
Tracksmith
10

✅ Good

18

✅ Good

64.29%
Born Living Yoga
58

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

21.62%
Billabong
41

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

29.31%
Lorna Jane Active
17

✅ Good

31

✅ Good

62.0%
Fabletics
44

✅ Good

20

✅ Good

31.25%
POPFLEX Active
16

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

32.0%
P.E Nation
88

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

15.24%
WAA Ultra
63

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

11.27%
Senita Athletics
25

✅ Good

27

✅ Good

48.21%
SET Active
21

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

12.5%
Ryderwear
63

✅ Good

18

✅ Good

19.15%
NO BULL
68

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

11.69%
PollyPark
6

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

29.41%
Born Primitive
88

✅ Good

57

✅ Good

38.0%

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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