Apparel - April - 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.

Apparel

This report is free to read and takes into consideration between 15 and 20 brands we compare month after month in the

Apparel

industry, for the month of

April

2023

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

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Highlights & Summary

In April, Everlane took the lead by sending 32 emails, while AYR followed closely behind with 29 emails sent during the same period, both maintaining their leading position compared to March.

In terms of ad creation, Cuyana created 79 new ads, and Cotopaxi created 60 new ads, with the highest number of ad copies at 35 in its new ads during April.

Cuyana utilized images and videos equally with 40 new images and 39 new videos in their new ads, whereas Cotopaxi leaned more towards images with 37 new images and 16 new videos.

Emails sent on average

14.7

Ads published on average

23

Average Spam Score

2.5

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 14.67 57.67%
Baggu
5

❌ Poor

43.6%

❌ Poor

Bombas
20

✅ Good

58.1%

⚠️ Fair

AYR
29

✅ Good

55.28%

⚠️ Fair

Alo Yoga
27

✅ Good

66.26%

✅ Good

Cuyana
15

⚠️ Fair

60.53%

⚠️ Fair

Calzedonia
4

❌ Poor

55.25%

⚠️ Fair

Cotopaxi
18

✅ Good

42.94%

❌ Poor

Kith
17

✅ Good

48.88%

❌ Poor

Everlane
32

✅ Good

67.72%

✅ Good

Pangaia
15

⚠️ Fair

48.93%

❌ Poor

AMI PARIS
6

❌ Poor

48.67%

❌ Poor

Buck Mason
15

⚠️ Fair

74.4%

✅ Good

Golf Le Fleur
5

❌ Poor

54.2%

⚠️ Fair

Aime Leon Dore
12

❌ Poor

50.25%

❌ Poor

Alife
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

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 -2.53 2,874.64 kb
Baggu
🟧 1.16

❌ Poor

11,506.17 kb

❌ Poor

Bombas
✅ -2.35

⚠️ Fair

2,238.29 kb

✅ Good

AYR
✅ -1.17

❌ Poor

2,971.01 kb

⚠️ Fair

Alo Yoga
✅ -7.13

✅ Good

1,415.45 kb

✅ Good

Cuyana
✅ -2.07

❌ Poor

876.62 kb

✅ Good

Calzedonia
✅ -3.43

✅ Good

868.78 kb

✅ Good

Cotopaxi
- 3,549.57 kb

❌ Poor

Kith
✅ -2.34

⚠️ Fair

5,966.55 kb

❌ Poor

Everlane
✅ -1.94

❌ Poor

1,847.47 kb

✅ Good

Pangaia
✅ -2.63

⚠️ Fair

6,013.19 kb

❌ Poor

AMI PARIS
✅ -0.97

❌ Poor

2,114.21 kb

✅ Good

Buck Mason
✅ -2.43

⚠️ Fair

529.51 kb

✅ Good

Golf Le Fleur
🟧 0.3

❌ Poor

3,063.34 kb

⚠️ Fair

Aime Leon Dore
✅ -1.34

❌ Poor

3,211.58 kb

❌ Poor

Alife
- -

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 22.73 12.07
Baggu
5

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Bombas
5

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

AYR
42

❌ Poor

12

⚠️ Fair

Alo Yoga
0

✅ Good

-
Cuyana
79

❌ Poor

10

✅ Good

Calzedonia
30

❌ Poor

9

✅ Good

Cotopaxi
60

❌ Poor

27

❌ Poor

Kith
0

✅ Good

-
Everlane
48

❌ Poor

11

⚠️ Fair

Pangaia
42

❌ Poor

9

✅ Good

AMI PARIS
0

✅ Good

-
Buck Mason
30

❌ Poor

20

❌ Poor

Golf Le Fleur
0

✅ Good

-
Aime Leon Dore
0

✅ Good

-
Alife
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 206 120 35.19%
Baggu
1

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

40.0%
Bombas
0

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

100.0%
AYR
36

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

14.29%
Alo Yoga
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Cuyana
40

✅ Good

39

✅ Good

49.37%
Calzedonia
15

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

33.33%
Cotopaxi
37

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

26.67%
Kith
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Everlane
21

✅ Good

27

✅ Good

56.25%
Pangaia
27

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

35.71%
AMI PARIS
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Buck Mason
29

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Golf Le Fleur
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Aime Leon Dore
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Alife
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-

Ads detected over time

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