Cannabis - January - 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.

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

March

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 Performance: Proper emerges as a leader in email marketing, sending 22 emails with high email scoring and a balanced promotion ratio. Recess follows closely with 14 emails, exhibiting excellent email scoring and minimal promotional content. FAB CBD demonstrates strong email marketing strategies, sending 13 emails with moderate email scoring, although it tends to lean towards a higher promotion ratio.

Email Deliverability and Spam Scores: House Plant showcases robust email deliverability with a positive spam score and efficient email size management, indicating a strong presence in the cannabis market. Recess exhibits solid email deliverability with a positive spam score, coupled with effective email size management, reflecting its significant impact in the industry. Proper stands out in email deliverability, boasting a significant positive spam score and efficient email size management, indicating a strong foothold in the market.

Advertising Impact and Diversity: Feals excels in advertising impact with 58 impactful ads, emphasizing both volume and diversity in ad content, reflecting its strong market presence in the cannabis industry. beam closely follows with 39 impactful ads, showcasing a variety of unique copies and a balanced proportion of video content. Foria demonstrates solid advertising strategies with 24 impactful ads, focusing on volume and a diverse range of ad content.

Emails sent on average

9.9

Ads published on average

15

Average Spam Score

1.6

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 9.85 57.28%
House Plant
13

✅ Good

46.23%

❌ Poor

Recess
14

✅ Good

64.29%

✅ Good

Proper
22

✅ Good

52.27%

⚠️ Fair

The Honey Pot Company
9

⚠️ Fair

48.67%

❌ Poor

FAB CBD
13

✅ Good

54.54%

⚠️ Fair

Sandland Sleep
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

beam
12

✅ Good

57.92%

⚠️ Fair

Plant People
9

⚠️ Fair

65.56%

✅ Good

Highline Wellness
5

❌ Poor

59.4%

⚠️ Fair

Not Pot
4

❌ Poor

59.25%

⚠️ Fair

Feals
7

❌ Poor

67.86%

✅ Good

Foria
11

✅ Good

59.55%

⚠️ Fair

Trip
9

⚠️ Fair

65.0%

✅ 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 -1.61 2,727.32 kb
House Plant
✅ -0.48

❌ Poor

12,304.89 kb

❌ Poor

Recess
✅ -1.16

❌ Poor

1,198.42 kb

✅ Good

Proper
✅ -2.59

✅ Good

1,102.34 kb

✅ Good

The Honey Pot Company
✅ -0.33

❌ Poor

904.53 kb

✅ Good

FAB CBD
✅ -1.64

⚠️ Fair

3,729.87 kb

❌ Poor

Sandland Sleep
- -
beam
✅ -3.44

✅ Good

1,780.21 kb

✅ Good

Plant People
✅ -2.47

✅ Good

1,269.57 kb

✅ Good

Highline Wellness
🟧 0.12

❌ Poor

895.43 kb

✅ Good

Not Pot
- 4,738.84 kb

❌ Poor

Feals
✅ -1.36

❌ Poor

859.96 kb

✅ Good

Foria
✅ -1.61

⚠️ Fair

1,541.73 kb

✅ Good

Trip
✅ -1.91

✅ Good

1,363.83 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 15.38 7.62
House Plant
9

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Recess
9

✅ Good

9

❌ Poor

Proper
0

✅ Good

-
The Honey Pot Company
15

⚠️ Fair

5

✅ Good

FAB CBD
20

❌ Poor

7

⚠️ Fair

Sandland Sleep
0

✅ Good

-
beam
39

❌ Poor

17

❌ Poor

Plant People
13

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Highline Wellness
0

✅ Good

-
Not Pot
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Feals
58

❌ Poor

10

❌ Poor

Foria
24

❌ Poor

5

✅ Good

Trip
12

✅ 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 122 78 39.0%
House Plant
2

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

77.78%
Recess
6

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

33.33%
Proper
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
The Honey Pot Company
7

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

53.33%
FAB CBD
13

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

35.0%
Sandland Sleep
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
beam
23

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

41.03%
Plant People
9

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

30.77%
Highline Wellness
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Not Pot
0

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

100.0%
Feals
40

✅ Good

18

✅ Good

31.03%
Foria
12

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

50.0%
Trip
10

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

16.67%

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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