Activewear - September - 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

September

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, NO BULL leads in email marketing with a good email score and a low promotion percentage. Born Primitive also performs well with a good email score and promotion balance. Brands like Ryderwear and PollyPark lag behind in email marketing.

Email Deliverability Summary: Recess Activewear excels in email deliverability with a very good spam score and optimized email size. Fabletics and Billabong also perform well in email deliverability. Brands like WAA Ultra and Tracksmith need to improve their email deliverability.

Ads Performance Summary: Ryderwear dominates advertising in the activewear industry with the highest number of new ads detected and good unique copy performance. Fabletics and P.E Nation also perform well in advertising. However, brands like SET Active have minimal advertising presence.

In summary, NO BULL leads in email marketing, Recess Activewear excels in email deliverability, and Ryderwear dominates in advertising within the activewear industry. However, some brands like SET Active and WAA Ultra need to enhance their marketing efforts.

Emails sent on average

12.1

Ads published on average

42

Average Spam Score

2.4

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 12.13 54.16%
Recess Activewear
5

❌ Poor

67.4%

✅ Good

Tracksmith
6

❌ Poor

50.5%

⚠️ Fair

Born Living Yoga
9

❌ Poor

46.67%

❌ Poor

Billabong
17

✅ Good

48.65%

❌ Poor

Lorna Jane Active
14

✅ Good

64.57%

✅ Good

Fabletics
1

❌ Poor

61.0%

✅ Good

POPFLEX Active
14

✅ Good

51.43%

⚠️ Fair

P.E Nation
13

⚠️ Fair

61.31%

✅ Good

WAA Ultra
11

⚠️ Fair

61.18%

✅ Good

Senita Athletics
15

✅ Good

45.47%

❌ Poor

SET Active
15

✅ Good

51.13%

⚠️ Fair

Ryderwear
3

❌ Poor

45.67%

❌ Poor

NO BULL
30

✅ Good

52.1%

⚠️ Fair

PollyPark
5

❌ Poor

34.0%

❌ Poor

Born Primitive
24

✅ Good

62.33%

✅ 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 -2.39 3,518.09 kb
Recess Activewear
✅ -5.1

✅ Good

6,531.79 kb

❌ Poor

Tracksmith
✅ -1.74

❌ Poor

5,363.11 kb

❌ Poor

Born Living Yoga
✅ -1.23

❌ Poor

4,135.6 kb

❌ Poor

Billabong
- 4,023.07 kb

❌ Poor

Lorna Jane Active
✅ -3.67

✅ Good

2,579.85 kb

✅ Good

Fabletics
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

265.46 kb

✅ Good

POPFLEX Active
✅ -2.92

✅ Good

4,148.72 kb

❌ Poor

P.E Nation
✅ -0.58

❌ Poor

2,154.16 kb

✅ Good

WAA Ultra
✅ -3.19

✅ Good

5,031.76 kb

❌ Poor

Senita Athletics
✅ -0.52

❌ Poor

3,793.77 kb

⚠️ Fair

SET Active
✅ -3.25

✅ Good

5,642.25 kb

❌ Poor

Ryderwear
✅ -3.43

✅ Good

2,273.03 kb

✅ Good

NO BULL
✅ -2.5

⚠️ Fair

2,397.17 kb

✅ Good

PollyPark
- 4,004.41 kb

❌ Poor

Born Primitive
✅ -2.2

⚠️ Fair

2,155.29 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 41.93 17.93
Recess Activewear
14

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

Tracksmith
8

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Born Living Yoga
26

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

Billabong
55

❌ Poor

10

✅ Good

Lorna Jane Active
43

⚠️ Fair

8

✅ Good

Fabletics
97

❌ Poor

15

✅ Good

POPFLEX Active
11

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

P.E Nation
78

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

WAA Ultra
18

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Senita Athletics
26

✅ Good

19

⚠️ Fair

SET Active
0

✅ Good

-
Ryderwear
115

❌ Poor

58

❌ Poor

NO BULL
56

❌ Poor

19

⚠️ Fair

PollyPark
7

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Born Primitive
75

❌ 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 394 213 33.86%
Recess Activewear
10

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

28.57%
Tracksmith
4

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

50.0%
Born Living Yoga
5

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

80.77%
Billabong
47

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

14.55%
Lorna Jane Active
19

✅ Good

24

✅ Good

55.81%
Fabletics
58

✅ Good

38

✅ Good

39.18%
POPFLEX Active
7

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

36.36%
P.E Nation
64

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

17.95%
WAA Ultra
12

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Senita Athletics
3

✅ Good

23

✅ Good

88.46%
SET Active
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Ryderwear
63

✅ Good

41

✅ Good

35.65%
NO BULL
45

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

19.64%
PollyPark
0

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

42.86%
Born Primitive
57

✅ Good

18

✅ Good

24.0%

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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