Apparel - 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.

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

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: Everlane leads the apparel industry in email marketing with a good email score and a relatively low promotion percentage. AYR also performs well with a good email score, while Cotopaxi and Bombas have good email scores but need to reduce promotions. Brands like Alo Yoga and Calzedonia need to improve their email marketing.

Email Deliverability Summary: Baggu excels in email deliverability with a very good spam score and optimized email size. Alo Yoga and Cuyana also perform well in email deliverability. Brands like Cotopaxi and Bombas need to enhance their email deliverability.

Ads Performance Summary: Calzedonia takes the lead in advertising with the highest number of new ads detected and a good unique copy performance. Everlane and AYR also perform well in advertising. However, brands like Alo Yoga and Bombas have minimal advertising presence.

In summary, Everlane leads in email marketing, Baggu excels in email deliverability, and Calzedonia dominates in advertising within the apparel industry. However, some brands like Alo Yoga and Bombas need to enhance their marketing efforts.

Emails sent on average

14.1

Ads published on average

33

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 14.07 58.23%
Baggu
4

❌ Poor

61.0%

⚠️ Fair

Bombas
22

✅ Good

56.36%

⚠️ Fair

AYR
40

✅ Good

63.78%

⚠️ Fair

Alo Yoga
5

❌ Poor

64.0%

⚠️ Fair

Cuyana
20

✅ Good

53.9%

⚠️ Fair

Calzedonia
10

❌ Poor

51.8%

❌ Poor

Cotopaxi
22

✅ Good

42.18%

❌ Poor

Kith
16

✅ Good

45.75%

❌ Poor

Everlane
43

✅ Good

68.16%

✅ Good

Pangaia
8

❌ Poor

58.0%

⚠️ Fair

AMI PARIS
4

❌ Poor

50.75%

❌ Poor

Buck Mason
4

❌ Poor

78.0%

✅ Good

Golf Le Fleur
2

❌ Poor

56.5%

⚠️ Fair

Aime Leon Dore
10

❌ Poor

57.1%

⚠️ Fair

Alife
1

❌ Poor

82.0%

✅ 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 -2.43 2,646.65 kb
Baggu
✅ -3.63

✅ Good

6,949.71 kb

❌ Poor

Bombas
✅ -2.6

⚠️ Fair

2,962.52 kb

❌ Poor

AYR
✅ -2.67

⚠️ Fair

2,833.46 kb

⚠️ Fair

Alo Yoga
✅ -7.1

✅ Good

2,025.2 kb

✅ Good

Cuyana
✅ -0.75

❌ Poor

933.8 kb

✅ Good

Calzedonia
✅ -2.97

✅ Good

1,196.94 kb

✅ Good

Cotopaxi
- 3,609.87 kb

❌ Poor

Kith
✅ -1.81

❌ Poor

7,010.22 kb

❌ Poor

Everlane
✅ -2.19

❌ Poor

783.25 kb

✅ Good

Pangaia
✅ -2.95

✅ Good

4,101.56 kb

❌ Poor

AMI PARIS
✅ -1.8

❌ Poor

3,661.72 kb

❌ Poor

Buck Mason
✅ -2.6

⚠️ Fair

450.94 kb

✅ Good

Golf Le Fleur
✅ -2.0

❌ Poor

4,294.19 kb

❌ Poor

Aime Leon Dore
✅ -2.97

✅ Good

2,819.44 kb

⚠️ Fair

Alife
- 52.25 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 32.73 17.07
Baggu
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Bombas
8

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

AYR
77

❌ Poor

23

❌ Poor

Alo Yoga
0

✅ Good

-
Cuyana
52

❌ Poor

13

✅ Good

Calzedonia
112

❌ Poor

37

❌ Poor

Cotopaxi
29

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

Kith
0

✅ Good

-
Everlane
93

❌ Poor

28

❌ Poor

Pangaia
31

⚠️ Fair

16

⚠️ Fair

AMI PARIS
55

❌ Poor

18

⚠️ Fair

Buck Mason
33

⚠️ Fair

14

✅ Good

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 330 138 28.11%
Baggu
0

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

100.0%
Bombas
2

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

75.0%
AYR
75

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

2.6%
Alo Yoga
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Cuyana
21

✅ Good

30

✅ Good

57.69%
Calzedonia
87

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

15.18%
Cotopaxi
12

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

41.38%
Kith
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Everlane
62

✅ Good

26

✅ Good

27.96%
Pangaia
12

✅ Good

19

✅ Good

61.29%
AMI PARIS
34

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

30.91%
Buck Mason
25

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

24.24%
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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