Cannabis - August - 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.

Cannabis

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

Cannabis

industry, for the month of

September

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: Standard Dose leads in email marketing with the highest number of emails sent, although they have room to improve their email scoring. The Good Patch and beam also perform well in email marketing. Proper and Not Pot need to enhance their email strategies.

Email Deliverability Summary: Proper excels in email deliverability with a very good spam score and small email size. The Honey Pot Company and FAB CBD also perform well. Recess and Feals need to work on their email deliverability.

Ads Performance Summary: Feals leads in advertising with the most new ads and a good variety of unique copies. beam and The Good Patch also excel in ads. Brands like Highline Wellness and Not Pot lag in ad performance.

Social Ads Diversity Summary: Recess stands out in social ad diversity with a high proportion of videos. The Honey Pot Company and beam also perform well in this aspect. Brands like House Plant and Highline Wellness need to diversify their social ads with more videos.

In summary, Standard Dose is the leader in email marketing, while Proper excels in email deliverability and Feals leads in ads performance. Recess stands out in social ad diversity. Brands like Not Pot and Highline Wellness need to improve their email and ad strategies to compete effectively in the Cannabis industry.

Emails sent on average

9.6

Ads published on average

15

Average Spam Score

1.7

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 9.6 61.18%
House Plant
11

✅ Good

53.27%

❌ Poor

Recess
15

✅ Good

57.73%

⚠️ Fair

Standard Dose
20

✅ Good

66.05%

⚠️ Fair

Proper
3

❌ Poor

64.0%

⚠️ Fair

The Honey Pot Company
7

❌ Poor

53.29%

❌ Poor

FAB CBD
2

❌ Poor

60.5%

⚠️ Fair

Sandland Sleep
6

❌ Poor

58.17%

⚠️ Fair

beam
16

✅ Good

65.63%

⚠️ Fair

Plant People
6

❌ Poor

68.0%

✅ Good

Highline Wellness
7

❌ Poor

49.14%

❌ Poor

Not Pot
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Feals
13

✅ Good

72.92%

✅ Good

The Good Patch
17

✅ Good

59.59%

⚠️ Fair

Foria
11

✅ Good

65.64%

⚠️ Fair

Trip
10

⚠️ Fair

51.7%

❌ Poor

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 -1.73 2,093.46 kb
House Plant
✅ -1.91

✅ Good

2,843.18 kb

❌ Poor

Recess
✅ -0.93

❌ Poor

2,195.86 kb

⚠️ Fair

Standard Dose
✅ -1.61

⚠️ Fair

1,898.38 kb

⚠️ Fair

Proper
✅ -3.03

✅ Good

5.51 kb

✅ Good

The Honey Pot Company
✅ -1.93

✅ Good

1,557.78 kb

✅ Good

FAB CBD
✅ -2.6

✅ Good

1,234.32 kb

✅ Good

Sandland Sleep
🟧 0.03

❌ Poor

689.23 kb

✅ Good

beam
✅ -1.55

❌ Poor

866.71 kb

✅ Good

Plant People
✅ -3.05

✅ Good

1,841.54 kb

✅ Good

Highline Wellness
✅ -0.61

❌ Poor

2,225.5 kb

⚠️ Fair

Not Pot
- -
Feals
✅ -1.44

❌ Poor

1,411.18 kb

✅ Good

The Good Patch
✅ -1.26

❌ Poor

2,300.45 kb

⚠️ Fair

Foria
✅ -3.99

✅ Good

2,886.01 kb

❌ Poor

Trip
✅ -2.35

✅ Good

5,205.86 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 14.53 7.13
House Plant
4

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Recess
18

❌ Poor

0

✅ Good

Standard Dose
0

✅ Good

-
Proper
0

✅ Good

-
The Honey Pot Company
19

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

FAB CBD
6

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Sandland Sleep
10

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

beam
48

❌ Poor

14

❌ Poor

Plant People
3

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Highline Wellness
0

✅ Good

-
Not Pot
2

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Feals
51

❌ Poor

12

❌ Poor

The Good Patch
29

❌ Poor

10

❌ Poor

Foria
17

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

Trip
11

✅ Good

8

❌ Poor

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 126 91 41.74%
House Plant
4

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Recess
6

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

66.67%
Standard Dose
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Proper
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
The Honey Pot Company
8

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

57.89%
FAB CBD
5

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

16.67%
Sandland Sleep
4

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

60.0%
beam
23

✅ Good

24

✅ Good

50.0%
Plant People
1

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

66.67%
Highline Wellness
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Not Pot
0

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

100.0%
Feals
51

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
The Good Patch
12

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

58.62%
Foria
12

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

29.41%
Trip
0

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

100.0%

Ads detected over time

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