Apparel - March - 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

March

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

AYR and Everlane had similar email campaign numbers, with 27 and 25 emails, respectively. Cuyana, Calzedonia, and Buck Mason produced almost the same number of new ads during the month, with Cuyana creating 60, Calzedonia 58, and Buck Mason 57.

Buck Mason was the clear leader in terms of unique ad copies used, with 41 ad copies, and focusing entirely on image-oriented advertising, with 56 new images in their ads. Calzedonia and Cuyana also preferred images over videos in their ads, but used videos as well. They both had 21 new videos in their ads, with Calzedonia having 34 new images and Cuyana having 39.

Emails sent on average

12.7

Ads published on average

17

Average Spam Score

2.7

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 12.73 58.45%
Baggu
6

❌ Poor

53.5%

⚠️ Fair

Bombas
19

✅ Good

61.32%

⚠️ Fair

AYR
27

✅ Good

59.33%

⚠️ Fair

Alo Yoga
20

✅ Good

66.3%

✅ Good

Cuyana
14 57.43%

⚠️ Fair

Calzedonia
2

❌ Poor

47.0%

❌ Poor

Cotopaxi
17

✅ Good

40.76%

❌ Poor

Kith
17

✅ Good

52.12%

❌ Poor

Everlane
25

✅ Good

68.96%

✅ Good

Pangaia
13

⚠️ Fair

42.46%

❌ Poor

AMI PARIS
3

❌ Poor

50.33%

❌ Poor

Buck Mason
14 77.29%

✅ Good

Golf Le Fleur
6

❌ Poor

59.17%

⚠️ Fair

Aime Leon Dore
7

❌ Poor

47.71%

❌ Poor

Alife
1

❌ Poor

75.0%

✅ 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 -2.74 2,872.35 kb
Baggu
✅ -0.62

❌ Poor

11,969.57 kb

❌ Poor

Bombas
✅ -3.52

✅ Good

1,586.79 kb

✅ Good

AYR
✅ -1.87

❌ Poor

2,915.23 kb

⚠️ Fair

Alo Yoga
✅ -7.35

✅ Good

1,449.04 kb

✅ Good

Cuyana
✅ -1.49

❌ Poor

1,011.82 kb

✅ Good

Calzedonia
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

1,101.62 kb

✅ Good

Cotopaxi
- 3,483.77 kb

❌ Poor

Kith
✅ -2.28

❌ Poor

6,726.18 kb

❌ Poor

Everlane
✅ -2.9

⚠️ Fair

890.51 kb

✅ Good

Pangaia
✅ -1.99

❌ Poor

5,337.29 kb

❌ Poor

AMI PARIS
✅ -2.63

⚠️ Fair

3,297.88 kb

❌ Poor

Buck Mason
✅ -1.89

❌ Poor

547.95 kb

✅ Good

Golf Le Fleur
✅ -1.57

❌ Poor

2,196.63 kb

✅ Good

Aime Leon Dore
✅ -0.69

❌ Poor

3,796.9 kb

❌ Poor

Alife
✅ 0.0

❌ Poor

51.31 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 16.93 9.4
Baggu
5

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Bombas
5

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

AYR
46

❌ Poor

7

✅ Good

Alo Yoga
0

✅ Good

-
Cuyana
60

❌ Poor

8

✅ Good

Calzedonia
58

❌ Poor

28

❌ Poor

Cotopaxi
0

✅ Good

-
Kith
0

✅ Good

-
Everlane
29

❌ Poor

11

❌ Poor

Pangaia
21

❌ Poor

13

❌ Poor

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 167 82 32.28%
Baggu
0

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

100.0%
Bombas
2

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

60.0%
AYR
37

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

19.57%
Alo Yoga
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Cuyana
39

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

35.0%
Calzedonia
34

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

36.21%
Cotopaxi
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Kith
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Everlane
14

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

48.28%
Pangaia
12

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

42.86%
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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Some of the assets (emails, ads) used in this benchmark to measure performance

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