Bikes & Bicycles - 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.

Bikes & Bicycles

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

Bikes & Bicycles

industry, for the month of

November

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: In the Bikes & Bicycles industry, Aventon shines as a leader in email marketing, sending a significant number of emails with good email scoring. Trek Bikes and Rad Power Bikes also perform well, although their email scoring needs improvement. On the other hand, brands like VanMoof, Solé Bicycles, and The Pro's Closet lag behind, with minimal or no emails sent and poor email performance.

Email Deliverability Summary: Ampler Bikes stands out in email deliverability, maintaining a good average spam score and email size optimization. Conversely, The Pro's Closet struggles with a high spam score and poor email size optimization.

Ads Performance Summary: Ride1UP leads in advertising performance, with the highest number of new ads detected and a variety of unique ad copies. Ampler Bikes and Magicycle Bike also perform well in advertising. In contrast, brands like Priority Bicycles, The Pro's Closet, and VanMoof need to enhance their advertising efforts.

Social Ads Diversity Summary: Propella Electric Bikes excels in social ad diversity, particularly in incorporating video assets. Rad Power Bikes and Canyon perform well in social ad diversity. Brands like Trek Bikes and The Pro's Closet have limited social ad diversity and should consider using more video assets in their ads.

Emails sent on average

8.7

Ads published on average

28

Average Spam Score

2.1

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 8.73 53.24%
Ampler Bikes
2

❌ Poor

44.5%

❌ Poor

Rad Power Bikes
15

✅ Good

55.0%

⚠️ Fair

The Pro's Closet
13

✅ Good

40.15%

❌ Poor

Canyon
8

⚠️ Fair

40.63%

❌ Poor

Trek Bikes
16

✅ Good

52.19%

⚠️ Fair

Priority Bicycles
8

⚠️ Fair

59.5%

✅ Good

Magicycle Bike
12

✅ Good

42.0%

❌ Poor

Aventon
18

✅ Good

52.67%

⚠️ Fair

Propella Electric Bikes
3

❌ Poor

83.33%

✅ Good

Solé Bicycles
7

❌ Poor

64.0%

✅ Good

Jetson
2

❌ Poor

66.0%

✅ Good

VanMoof
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Ride1UP
7

❌ Poor

55.29%

⚠️ Fair

Lectric eBikes
12

✅ Good

64.17%

✅ Good

Ribble Cycles
8

⚠️ Fair

57.88%

⚠️ 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 -2.06 2,471.67 kb
Ampler Bikes
✅ -0.6

❌ Poor

3,927.14 kb

❌ Poor

Rad Power Bikes
✅ -2.09

⚠️ Fair

1,386.6 kb

✅ Good

The Pro's Closet
🟧 1.32

❌ Poor

3,375.42 kb

❌ Poor

Canyon
✅ -2.79

✅ Good

2,306.95 kb

⚠️ Fair

Trek Bikes
✅ -3.31

✅ Good

2,708.93 kb

⚠️ Fair

Priority Bicycles
✅ -2.18

⚠️ Fair

1,004.65 kb

✅ Good

Magicycle Bike
✅ -0.78

❌ Poor

3,661.52 kb

❌ Poor

Aventon
✅ -2.28

✅ Good

3,185.37 kb

❌ Poor

Propella Electric Bikes
✅ -3.43

✅ Good

486.09 kb

✅ Good

Solé Bicycles
✅ -3.03

✅ Good

3,603.38 kb

❌ Poor

Jetson
✅ -2.5

✅ Good

397.69 kb

✅ Good

VanMoof
- -
Ride1UP
✅ -2.5

✅ Good

1,690.86 kb

✅ Good

Lectric eBikes
✅ -2.16

⚠️ Fair

1,345.94 kb

✅ Good

Ribble Cycles
✅ -3.85

✅ Good

3,084.96 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 28.47 14.67
Ampler Bikes
51

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Rad Power Bikes
40

❌ Poor

13

✅ Good

The Pro's Closet
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Canyon
39

❌ Poor

11

✅ Good

Trek Bikes
13

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

Priority Bicycles
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Magicycle Bike
49

❌ Poor

28

❌ Poor

Aventon
45

❌ Poor

8

✅ Good

Propella Electric Bikes
18

✅ Good

15

⚠️ Fair

Solé Bicycles
20

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Jetson
13

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

VanMoof
0

✅ Good

-
Ride1UP
64

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

Lectric eBikes
43

❌ Poor

27

❌ Poor

Ribble Cycles
30

⚠️ Fair

4

✅ 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 84 19.67%
Ampler Bikes
42

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

15.69%
Rad Power Bikes
37

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

2.5%
The Pro's Closet
0

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

100.0%
Canyon
32

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

17.95%
Trek Bikes
10

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

23.08%
Priority Bicycles
1

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Magicycle Bike
44

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

10.2%
Aventon
32

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

28.89%
Propella Electric Bikes
5

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

61.11%
Solé Bicycles
10

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

50.0%
Jetson
10

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
VanMoof
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Ride1UP
50

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

17.19%
Lectric eBikes
34

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

20.93%
Ribble Cycles
23

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

16.67%

Ads detected over time

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