Beverages - March - 2024


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

October

2024

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

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Highlights & Summary

Athletic Brewing Co. leads the competition with an impressive growth score of 68.93%, email performance at 81.18%, and perfect ad metrics at 100%. This brand's strong presence in email and ad strategies places it at the top of the leaderboard. Javy Coffee also shows strong ad performance, reaching 100% in this area, while its overall success score of 52.92% highlights its balanced strategy across both email and ads. Health-Ade is another top performer, with a 51.27% growth score and solid results in email (79.72%) and ads (73.28%).

Brands like Magic Mind and Grind are performing well but slightly trail the leaders. Magic Mind has a growth score of 36.37% and decent email and ad performance, pushing its success score to 48.12%. Meanwhile, Grind, with a strong growth score of 61.33%, excels in email at 92.08% and has a solid 78.18% ad score, positioning it as a contender just behind the top brands. Olipop and Nuun are maintaining stability but show potential with moderate scores across the board, keeping them in the race.

On the lower end, brands like Caleno Drinks and Good Mylk are struggling, with low success scores of 16.18% and 10.3%, respectively. They show minimal ad activity and email engagement, indicating weaker digital strategies. MatchaBar is also lagging, with only a 10.21% success score. These brands need significant improvements in their digital marketing efforts to compete with the top-performing leaders.

Emails sent on average

5.9

Ads published on average

36

Average Spam Score

0.2

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 5.93 59.12%
Grind
5

❌ Poor

59.2%

⚠️ Fair

Nuun
11

✅ Good

69.36%

✅ Good

Cure
3

❌ Poor

54.0%

⚠️ Fair

Good Mylk
1

❌ Poor

90.0%

✅ Good

Caleno Drinks
2

❌ Poor

54.0%

⚠️ Fair

Athletic Brewing Co.
12

✅ Good

54.25%

⚠️ Fair

JUST Water
5

❌ Poor

39.6%

❌ Poor

MatchaBar
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Magic Mind
7

✅ Good

61.29%

⚠️ Fair

Olipop
5

❌ Poor

47.8%

❌ Poor

Aarke
4

❌ Poor

53.0%

❌ Poor

Javy Coffee
9

✅ Good

57.89%

⚠️ Fair

Health-Ade
13

✅ Good

64.46%

⚠️ Fair

Drink Prime
6

⚠️ Fair

58.0%

⚠️ Fair

Better Booch
6

⚠️ Fair

67.83%

✅ 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 0.22 3,017.13 kb
Grind
✅ -0.32

✅ Good

2,042.87 kb

✅ Good

Nuun
✅ -1.31

✅ Good

886.9 kb

✅ Good

Cure
🟧 0.27

❌ Poor

5,765.8 kb

❌ Poor

Good Mylk
✅ -0.1

✅ Good

15.03 kb

✅ Good

Caleno Drinks
✅ -0.2

✅ Good

2,879.74 kb

⚠️ Fair

Athletic Brewing Co.
✅ -0.7

✅ Good

4,495.09 kb

❌ Poor

JUST Water
🟧 2.38

❌ Poor

7,931.9 kb

❌ Poor

MatchaBar
- -
Magic Mind
✅ -0.11

✅ Good

1,674.04 kb

✅ Good

Olipop
🟧 2.02

❌ Poor

4,323.98 kb

❌ Poor

Aarke
✅ 0.0

✅ Good

1,587.62 kb

✅ Good

Javy Coffee
🟧 1.72

❌ Poor

1,295.62 kb

✅ Good

Health-Ade
🟧 0.78

❌ Poor

4,333.7 kb

❌ Poor

Drink Prime
🟧 0.62

❌ Poor

2,057.16 kb

✅ Good

Better Booch
✅ -1.17

✅ Good

1,975.25 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 36.13 9.73
Grind
59

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

Nuun
31

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Cure
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Good Mylk
0

✅ Good

-
Caleno Drinks
0

✅ Good

-
Athletic Brewing Co.
40

❌ Poor

11

❌ Poor

JUST Water
5

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

MatchaBar
0

✅ Good

-
Magic Mind
30

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Olipop
27

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Aarke
120

❌ Poor

8

✅ Good

Javy Coffee
185

❌ Poor

10

⚠️ Fair

Health-Ade
42

❌ Poor

10

⚠️ Fair

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 226 316 58.3%
Grind
33

✅ Good

26

✅ Good

44.07%
Nuun
22

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

29.03%
Cure
0

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

100.0%
Good Mylk
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Caleno Drinks
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Athletic Brewing Co.
24

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

40.0%
JUST Water
2

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

60.0%
MatchaBar
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Magic Mind
7

✅ Good

23

✅ Good

76.67%
Olipop
0

✅ Good

27

✅ Good

100.0%
Aarke
100

✅ Good

20

✅ Good

16.67%
Javy Coffee
28

✅ Good

157

✅ Good

84.86%
Health-Ade
10

✅ Good

32

✅ Good

76.19%
Drink Prime
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Better Booch
0

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

100.0%

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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