Bikes & Bicycles - 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.

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

October

2023

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

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Highlights & Summary

Email Marketing Summary: Rad Power Bikes and Aventon emerge as leaders in the Bikes & Bicycles industry, executing effective email marketing. Both brands maintain a good balance, sending a moderate number of emails with strong overall performance. However, Magicycle Bike faces challenges with a high percentage of promotions and an average email scoring, indicating room for improvement. Trek Bikes showcases a significant promotional focus but maintains a good email scoring.

Email Deliverability Summary: Rad Power Bikes exhibits superior email deliverability, optimizing email size and achieving a low spam score. In contrast, The Pro's Closet struggles, with a high spam score and poor email size optimization. Priority Bicycles performs well, ensuring good email deliverability. Ampler Bikes, despite a low spam score, faces issues in optimizing email size, impacting its deliverability.

Ads Performance Summary:Rad Power Bikes and Aventon lead in advertising, with a high number of ads published and strong unique copy performance. Canyon also performs well in ad velocity and copy diversity. Ride1UP, while active in ad creation, faces challenges in unique copy performance. Brands like Solé Bicycles and VanMoof lag in ad velocity, impacting their visibility.

In conclusion, Rad Power Bikes and Aventon dominate in email marketing and advertising for Bikes & Bicycles. The Pro's Closet struggles in both email marketing and deliverability. Brands like Priority Bicycles and Canyon show promise but need to refine their strategies.

Emails sent on average

8.7

Ads published on average

19

Average Spam Score

1.5

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 48.69%
Ampler Bikes
4

❌ Poor

48.0%

⚠️ Fair

Rad Power Bikes
15

✅ Good

54.33%

✅ Good

The Pro's Closet
16

✅ Good

35.81%

❌ Poor

Canyon
13

✅ Good

41.0%

❌ Poor

Trek Bikes
15

✅ Good

46.87%

⚠️ Fair

Priority Bicycles
4

❌ Poor

64.0%

✅ Good

Magicycle Bike
13

✅ Good

38.31%

❌ Poor

Aventon
16

✅ Good

50.81%

⚠️ Fair

Propella Electric Bikes
4

❌ Poor

75.0%

✅ Good

Solé Bicycles
10

✅ Good

56.1%

✅ Good

Jetson
2

❌ Poor

58.0%

✅ Good

VanMoof
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Ride1UP
4

❌ Poor

66.5%

✅ Good

Lectric eBikes
10

✅ Good

49.0%

⚠️ Fair

Ribble Cycles
5

❌ Poor

52.4%

⚠️ 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 -1.45 2,992.28 kb
Ampler Bikes
✅ -0.6

❌ Poor

1,938.19 kb

✅ Good

Rad Power Bikes
✅ -2.79

✅ Good

2,860.17 kb

⚠️ Fair

The Pro's Closet
🟧 1.01

❌ Poor

3,816.46 kb

❌ Poor

Canyon
✅ -1.91

✅ Good

2,443.14 kb

✅ Good

Trek Bikes
✅ -2.6

✅ Good

3,316.14 kb

❌ Poor

Priority Bicycles
✅ -5.3

✅ Good

1,646.18 kb

✅ Good

Magicycle Bike
✅ -0.59

❌ Poor

5,595.08 kb

❌ Poor

Aventon
✅ -1.62

✅ Good

3,245.22 kb

⚠️ Fair

Propella Electric Bikes
✅ -2.6

✅ Good

1,927.2 kb

✅ Good

Solé Bicycles
✅ -0.21

❌ Poor

1,853.34 kb

✅ Good

Jetson
✅ -2.5

✅ Good

2,175.87 kb

✅ Good

VanMoof
- -
Ride1UP
✅ -2.5

✅ Good

1,571.87 kb

✅ Good

Lectric eBikes
✅ -0.46

❌ Poor

1,989.55 kb

✅ Good

Ribble Cycles
✅ -2.1

✅ Good

2,149.24 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 19.2 11.87
Ampler Bikes
12

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Rad Power Bikes
56

❌ Poor

10

✅ Good

The Pro's Closet
10

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

Canyon
38

❌ Poor

19

❌ Poor

Trek Bikes
22

❌ Poor

22

❌ Poor

Priority Bicycles
5

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Magicycle Bike
11

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Aventon
38

❌ Poor

7

✅ Good

Propella Electric Bikes
22

❌ Poor

12

⚠️ Fair

Solé Bicycles
2

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Jetson
16

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

VanMoof
0

✅ Good

-
Ride1UP
23

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

Lectric eBikes
23

❌ Poor

23

❌ Poor

Ribble Cycles
10

✅ Good

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 175 99 34.38%
Ampler Bikes
7

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

41.67%
Rad Power Bikes
37

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

30.36%
The Pro's Closet
0

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

100.0%
Canyon
36

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

5.26%
Trek Bikes
3

✅ Good

19

✅ Good

86.36%
Priority Bicycles
3

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

20.0%
Magicycle Bike
7

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

36.36%
Aventon
25

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

26.32%
Propella Electric Bikes
4

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

72.73%
Solé Bicycles
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

50.0%
Jetson
15

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

6.25%
VanMoof
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Ride1UP
16

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

21.74%
Lectric eBikes
17

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

21.74%
Ribble Cycles
4

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

30.0%

Ads detected over time

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