Beverages - 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.

Beverages

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

Beverages

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.

Table of content

Highlights & Summary

In April, Javy Coffee emerged as the leader in email marketing with 27 emails sent, followed by Athletic Brewing Co. with 16 emails. Javy Coffee also took the top spot in terms of new ads launched, with a whopping 56 new ads and the highest number of unique ad copies used, with 42 in total during this period. Aarke followed with 30 new ads. In terms of ad strategy, Javy Coffee placed its focus on videos, having 50 new videos compared to just 6 new images. On the other hand, Aarke used a nearly equal number of images and videos in its new ads, with a preference for images, having 19 new images versus 11 new videos.

Emails sent on average

9.0

Ads published on average

12

Average Spam Score

1.4

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 9.0 60.65%
Grind
11

✅ Good

67.0%

✅ Good

Nuun
1

❌ Poor

69.0%

✅ Good

Cure
6

❌ Poor

40.5%

❌ Poor

Good Mylk
6

❌ Poor

55.0%

⚠️ Fair

Caleno Drinks
5

❌ Poor

48.0%

❌ Poor

Athletic Brewing Co.
16

✅ Good

46.13%

❌ Poor

JUST Water
9

⚠️ Fair

48.44%

❌ Poor

MatchaBar
7

❌ Poor

61.71%

⚠️ Fair

Magic Mind
13

✅ Good

83.54%

✅ Good

Olipop
6

❌ Poor

53.17%

❌ Poor

Aarke
3

❌ Poor

80.33%

✅ Good

Javy Coffee
27

✅ Good

60.56%

⚠️ Fair

Health-Ade
12

✅ Good

73.92%

✅ Good

Drink Prime
1

❌ Poor

63.0%

⚠️ Fair

Better Booch
12

✅ Good

61.0%

⚠️ 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 -1.38 3,091.12 kb
Grind
✅ -1.46

⚠️ Fair

3,221.54 kb

⚠️ Fair

Nuun
✅ -5.1

✅ Good

1,920.1 kb

✅ Good

Cure
✅ -0.18

❌ Poor

2,639.63 kb

✅ Good

Good Mylk
✅ -0.62

❌ Poor

3,130.29 kb

⚠️ Fair

Caleno Drinks
✅ -3.3

✅ Good

3,180.54 kb

⚠️ Fair

Athletic Brewing Co.
✅ -1.43

⚠️ Fair

10,491.04 kb

❌ Poor

JUST Water
✅ -1.62

✅ Good

5,112.09 kb

❌ Poor

MatchaBar
✅ -1.31

⚠️ Fair

1,692.48 kb

✅ Good

Magic Mind
✅ -2.84

✅ Good

437.7 kb

✅ Good

Olipop
✅ -1.1

❌ Poor

2,066.21 kb

✅ Good

Aarke
✅ -3.43

✅ Good

371.36 kb

✅ Good

Javy Coffee
✅ -0.58

❌ Poor

1,206.8 kb

✅ Good

Health-Ade
🟧 0.24

❌ Poor

511.52 kb

✅ Good

Drink Prime
✅ -4.5

✅ Good

4,161.36 kb

❌ Poor

Better Booch
✅ -2.13

✅ Good

3,468.65 kb

❌ Poor

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 11.87 7.8
Grind
9

✅ Good

9

❌ Poor

Nuun
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Cure
5

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Good Mylk
5

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Caleno Drinks
3

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Athletic Brewing Co.
24

❌ Poor

14

❌ Poor

JUST Water
0

✅ Good

-
MatchaBar
0

✅ Good

-
Magic Mind
19

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

Olipop
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Aarke
30

❌ Poor

9

❌ Poor

Javy Coffee
56

❌ Poor

34

❌ Poor

Health-Ade
23

❌ Poor

9

❌ Poor

Drink Prime
0

✅ Good

-
Better Booch
2

✅ Good

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 64 113 63.48%
Grind
2

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

77.78%
Nuun
0

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

100.0%
Cure
0

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

80.0%
Good Mylk
3

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

40.0%
Caleno Drinks
0

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

100.0%
Athletic Brewing Co.
18

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

25.0%
JUST Water
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
MatchaBar
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Magic Mind
1

✅ Good

18

✅ Good

94.74%
Olipop
1

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Aarke
19

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

36.67%
Javy Coffee
6

✅ Good

50

✅ Good

89.29%
Health-Ade
13

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

43.48%
Drink Prime
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Better Booch
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

50.0%

Ads detected over time

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