Activewear - October - 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

October

2023

. 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 Summary: In the Activewear industry, email marketing is generally strong but with room for improvement. Born Primitive leads with a good volume of emails sent and high email scoring, minimizing promotions. NO BULL follows closely with good email practices but needs to reduce promotions further. Billabong maintains a robust presence with good email practices but lacks email scoring. P.E Nation demonstrates good email practices but should work on improving email scoring and promotions. SET Active, Senita Athletics, POPFLEX Active, and Recess Activewear exhibit potential, while Ryderwear and Lorna Jane Active have a substantial email volume but should improve email scoring and promotions. Tracksmith, Born Living Yoga, WAA Ultra, PollyPark, and Fabletics need to enhance their email marketing strategies.

Email Deliverability Summary: Recess Activewear stands out with good email deliverability, exhibiting an excellent spam score and reasonable email size. Tracksmith follows with excellent spam scores and email sizes. Born Living Yoga maintains a robust presence in email deliverability, with a good spam score but should reduce email size. Billabong demonstrates potential in email deliverability. Lorna Jane Active, WAA Ultra, and Senita Athletics exhibit room for improvement but maintain reasonable email sizes. Fabletics, POPFLEX Active, P.E Nation, and SET Active need to work on both spam scores and email sizes. Ryderwear and NO BULL lag in email deliverability.

Ads Performance Summary: Fabletics leads in advertising performance with the highest number of new ads detected and a wide variety of unique copies. Billabong follows closely with strong advertising performance, including numerous new ads and unique copies. Born Living Yoga also excels in both new ads and unique copies. NO BULL demonstrates good advertising performance. Senita Athletics and WAA Ultra show potential in this category. P.E Nation, Lorna Jane Active, POPFLEX Active, and Recess Activewear need to enhance their advertising strategies. Born Primitive, Ryderwear, SET Active, and Tracksmith lag behind in advertising performance.

Emails sent on average

11.5

Ads published on average

44

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 11.53 55.55%
Recess Activewear
11

⚠️ Fair

64.27%

✅ Good

Tracksmith
8

❌ Poor

64.5%

✅ Good

Born Living Yoga
6

❌ Poor

45.67%

❌ Poor

Billabong
23

✅ Good

46.7%

❌ Poor

Lorna Jane Active
8

❌ Poor

64.0%

✅ Good

Fabletics
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

POPFLEX Active
12

⚠️ Fair

46.83%

❌ Poor

P.E Nation
16

✅ Good

55.63%

⚠️ Fair

WAA Ultra
4

❌ Poor

65.75%

✅ Good

Senita Athletics
12

⚠️ Fair

56.5%

⚠️ Fair

SET Active
13

✅ Good

49.31%

❌ Poor

Ryderwear
9

❌ Poor

60.11%

⚠️ Fair

NO BULL
24

✅ Good

48.46%

❌ Poor

PollyPark
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Born Primitive
27

✅ Good

66.26%

✅ 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 -2.19 3,548.02 kb
Recess Activewear
✅ -1.46

❌ Poor

4,117.52 kb

❌ Poor

Tracksmith
✅ -3.26

✅ Good

2,476.36 kb

✅ Good

Born Living Yoga
✅ -1.75

❌ Poor

7,509.39 kb

❌ Poor

Billabong
- 5,347.69 kb

❌ Poor

Lorna Jane Active
✅ -3.22

✅ Good

2,330.58 kb

✅ Good

Fabletics
- -
POPFLEX Active
✅ -1.82

❌ Poor

3,751.12 kb

⚠️ Fair

P.E Nation
🟧 0.19

❌ Poor

2,609.26 kb

✅ Good

WAA Ultra
✅ -4.05

✅ Good

3,431.12 kb

⚠️ Fair

Senita Athletics
✅ -3.43

✅ Good

5,446.76 kb

❌ Poor

SET Active
✅ -1.42

❌ Poor

4,434.97 kb

❌ Poor

Ryderwear
✅ -4.38

✅ Good

2,435.15 kb

✅ Good

NO BULL
✅ -1.65

❌ Poor

2,744.89 kb

✅ Good

PollyPark
- -
Born Primitive
✅ -2.83

✅ Good

1,878.15 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 44.4 17.67
Recess Activewear
32

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

Tracksmith
23

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Born Living Yoga
73

❌ Poor

18

⚠️ Fair

Billabong
84

❌ Poor

20

❌ Poor

Lorna Jane Active
42

⚠️ Fair

10

✅ Good

Fabletics
90

❌ Poor

8

✅ Good

POPFLEX Active
36

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

P.E Nation
46

⚠️ Fair

7

✅ Good

WAA Ultra
44

⚠️ Fair

7

✅ Good

Senita Athletics
54

❌ Poor

29

❌ Poor

SET Active
27

✅ Good

-
Ryderwear
28

✅ Good

18

⚠️ Fair

NO BULL
57

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

PollyPark
0

✅ Good

-
Born Primitive
30

✅ Good

0

✅ 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 429 220 33.03%
Recess Activewear
23

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

28.13%
Tracksmith
16

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

30.43%
Born Living Yoga
41

✅ Good

28

✅ Good

38.36%
Billabong
70

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

16.67%
Lorna Jane Active
33

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

21.43%
Fabletics
44

✅ Good

46

✅ Good

51.11%
POPFLEX Active
17

✅ Good

19

✅ Good

52.78%
P.E Nation
28

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

34.78%
WAA Ultra
25

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

22.73%
Senita Athletics
19

✅ Good

35

✅ Good

64.81%
SET Active
27

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Ryderwear
16

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

42.86%
NO BULL
51

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

7.02%
PollyPark
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Born Primitive
19

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

36.67%

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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