Baby & Kids - 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.

Baby & Kids

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

Baby & Kids

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: Tubby Todd dominates the baby & kids industry in email marketing with consistently good performance in both email scoring and promotions. Burt's Bees Baby and buybuy BABY follow closely, displaying good scores but with variations in their promotion strategies. Oobi and Happiest Baby show potential but need to address poor scoring and promotional aspects. Mockingbird, Ezpz, Yumble, Little Spoon, and Doona face significant challenges and require substantial improvements in both scoring and promotions. Baby Bunting, Bambi Baby, Albee Baby, and Mamamade lag behind and need a comprehensive overhaul in their email marketing strategies.

Email Deliverability Summary: Tubby Todd secures its position as a leader not only in email marketing but also in deliverability, with an exceptional spam score and optimal email size. Burt's Bees Baby, buybuy BABY, and Baby Jogger maintain a fair deliverability status, while brands like Oobi, Happiest Baby, and Little Spoon need improvements in both spam scores and email sizes. Ezpz, Bambi Baby, and Mockingbird face challenges and should focus on enhancing both spam scores and email sizes for better deliverability. Mamamade, Albee Baby, Baby Bunting, and Doona need substantial improvements in both spam scores and email sizes to compete effectively.

Ads Performance Summary: Tubby Todd leads in ads performance with a high velocity and a diverse range of unique copies, setting a benchmark for others. Little Spoon and Doona also exhibit strong ad strategies with a good mix of copies. Baby Bunting, Mockingbird, Happiest Baby, and Ezpz maintain a fair ad performance but need improvements. Burt's Bees Baby, Oobi, Bambi Baby, and Albee Baby lag behind and should focus on enhancing their ad strategies for better overall performance. Yumble, buybuy BABY, Baby Jogger, and Mamamade are at the lower end and require a comprehensive overhaul in their ads strategies for better competitiveness.

Emails sent on average

7.2

Ads published on average

27

Average Spam Score

2.8

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 7.2 58.64%
Mamamade
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Tubby Todd
25

✅ Good

67.04%

✅ Good

Ezpz
5

❌ Poor

61.2%

⚠️ Fair

Baby Jogger
8

✅ Good

71.25%

✅ Good

buybuy BABY
11

✅ Good

65.18%

✅ Good

Albee Baby
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Baby Bunting
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Bambi Baby
7

⚠️ Fair

38.0%

❌ Poor

Burt's Bees Baby
19

✅ Good

64.32%

⚠️ Fair

Oobi
13

✅ Good

47.54%

❌ Poor

Doona
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Happiest Baby
11

✅ Good

45.0%

❌ Poor

Little Spoon
1

❌ Poor

65.0%

✅ Good

Mockingbird
6

❌ Poor

46.33%

❌ Poor

Yumble
2

❌ Poor

60.0%

⚠️ Fair

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 -2.78 2,076.18 kb
Mamamade
- -
Tubby Todd
✅ -3.3

✅ Good

1,996.37 kb

⚠️ Fair

Ezpz
✅ -1.98

❌ Poor

2,483.84 kb

❌ Poor

Baby Jogger
✅ -7.6

✅ Good

1,244.19 kb

✅ Good

buybuy BABY
✅ -1.7

❌ Poor

2,307.29 kb

❌ Poor

Albee Baby
- -
Baby Bunting
- -
Bambi Baby
✅ -1.33

❌ Poor

2,899.61 kb

❌ Poor

Burt's Bees Baby
✅ -3.16

✅ Good

886.68 kb

✅ Good

Oobi
✅ -4.12

✅ Good

3,048.37 kb

❌ Poor

Doona
- -
Happiest Baby
✅ -0.94

❌ Poor

1,856.46 kb

✅ Good

Little Spoon
✅ -1.3

❌ Poor

516.6 kb

✅ Good

Mockingbird
✅ -1.1

❌ Poor

4,531.75 kb

❌ Poor

Yumble
- 832.11 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 27.0 13.93
Mamamade
0

✅ Good

-
Tubby Todd
91

❌ Poor

8

✅ Good

Ezpz
29

⚠️ Fair

10

✅ Good

Baby Jogger
0

✅ Good

-
buybuy BABY
0

✅ Good

-
Albee Baby
3

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Baby Bunting
31

❌ Poor

16

❌ Poor

Bambi Baby
3

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Burt's Bees Baby
16

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Oobi
4

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Doona
69

❌ Poor

17

❌ Poor

Happiest Baby
29

⚠️ Fair

15

⚠️ Fair

Little Spoon
84

❌ Poor

39

❌ Poor

Mockingbird
46

❌ Poor

7

✅ Good

Yumble
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 97 299 73.83%
Mamamade
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Tubby Todd
27

✅ Good

64

✅ Good

70.33%
Ezpz
15

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

48.28%
Baby Jogger
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
buybuy BABY
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Albee Baby
0

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

66.67%
Baby Bunting
2

✅ Good

29

✅ Good

93.55%
Bambi Baby
0

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

100.0%
Burt's Bees Baby
10

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

37.5%
Oobi
3

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Doona
6

✅ Good

63

✅ Good

91.3%
Happiest Baby
4

✅ Good

25

✅ Good

86.21%
Little Spoon
22

✅ Good

55

✅ Good

65.48%
Mockingbird
8

✅ Good

38

✅ Good

82.61%
Yumble
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-

Ads detected over time

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