Cannabis - December - 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

February

2024

. 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 Overview: Recess leads the email marketing domain with 18 emails, showcasing good performance (57.67%) and a balanced promotion approach (22%). House Plant closely follows with 14 emails, exhibiting good performance but needing enhancement in promotions. Foria, FAB CBD, and Trip demonstrate potential but require improvements in both performance and promotions to optimize their email marketing strategies. Not Pot, Plant People, Sandland Sleep, The Honey Pot Company, Proper, beam, Feals, and Highline Wellness lag behind in both performance and promotions, needing significant adjustments for competitive advantage.

Email Deliverability Insights: House Plant shines in email deliverability with a positive spam score (-1.44) but faces challenges in email size. Recess, Proper, The Honey Pot Company, and beam exhibit good deliverability with positive spam scores but need improvements in email size. FAB CBD, Foria, and Trip showcase promising deliverability with positive spam scores but require enhancements in email size. Not Pot, Sandland Sleep, and Feals demonstrate a balanced performance in both spam scores and email size. Not Pot, Sandland Sleep, and Feals require strategic adjustments to compete effectively in the Cannabis market.

Ads Performance: beam dominates in advertising with 85 impactful ads, showcasing both volume and diversity. Trip closely follows with 32 impactful ads, emphasizing volume and a variety of unique copy. FAB CBD, Foria, and The Honey Pot Company exhibit a commendable mix of volume and unique copy in advertising. Recess, Feals, House Plant, Not Pot, and Sandland Sleep need strategic adjustments in both volume and diversity to optimize their advertising impact. Proper, Plant People, and Highline Wellness face challenges in both advertising volume and diversity, needing significant improvements.

Emails sent on average

7.9

Ads published on average

16

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 7.85 57.81%
House Plant
14

✅ Good

53.21%

⚠️ Fair

Recess
18

✅ Good

57.67%

⚠️ Fair

Proper
6

❌ Poor

54.17%

⚠️ Fair

The Honey Pot Company
6

❌ Poor

56.0%

⚠️ Fair

FAB CBD
12

✅ Good

49.17%

❌ Poor

Sandland Sleep
6

❌ Poor

60.67%

⚠️ Fair

beam
4

❌ Poor

63.0%

⚠️ Fair

Plant People
6

❌ Poor

75.67%

✅ Good

Highline Wellness
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Not Pot
6

❌ Poor

58.33%

⚠️ Fair

Feals
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Foria
13

✅ Good

54.85%

⚠️ Fair

Trip
11

✅ Good

66.36%

✅ 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 -2.12 2,970.51 kb
House Plant
✅ -1.44

❌ Poor

7,768.03 kb

❌ Poor

Recess
✅ -2.42

✅ Good

2,742.14 kb

⚠️ Fair

Proper
✅ -2.6

✅ Good

786.38 kb

✅ Good

The Honey Pot Company
✅ -1.13

❌ Poor

1,277.49 kb

✅ Good

FAB CBD
✅ -2.56

✅ Good

3,632.63 kb

❌ Poor

Sandland Sleep
✅ -0.48

❌ Poor

588.35 kb

✅ Good

beam
✅ -2.5

✅ Good

1,100.33 kb

✅ Good

Plant People
✅ -3.87

✅ Good

921.51 kb

✅ Good

Highline Wellness
- -
Not Pot
- 3,881.6 kb

❌ Poor

Feals
- -
Foria
✅ -1.62

❌ Poor

2,520.28 kb

✅ Good

Trip
✅ -2.83

✅ Good

1,763.0 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 16.46 8.15
House Plant
8

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Recess
12

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Proper
0

✅ Good

-
The Honey Pot Company
15

⚠️ Fair

1

✅ Good

FAB CBD
28

❌ Poor

11

❌ Poor

Sandland Sleep
0

✅ Good

-
beam
85

❌ Poor

21

❌ Poor

Plant People
0

✅ Good

-
Highline Wellness
0

✅ Good

-
Not Pot
4

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Feals
11

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Foria
19

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

Trip
32

❌ Poor

17

❌ 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 115 99 46.26%
House Plant
8

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Recess
3

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

75.0%
Proper
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
The Honey Pot Company
1

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

93.33%
FAB CBD
10

✅ Good

18

✅ Good

64.29%
Sandland Sleep
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
beam
44

✅ Good

41

✅ Good

48.24%
Plant People
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Highline Wellness
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Not Pot
2

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

50.0%
Feals
11

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Foria
16

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

15.79%
Trip
20

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

37.5%

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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