Cannabis - July - 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

August

2023

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

Table of content

Highlights & Summary

In July, Standard Dose and The Good Patch maintained their leadership in emails and ads, respectively.

In terms of emails, Standard Dose sent 20 emails, while Foria secured the second position with 17 emails.

Regarding advertising, The Good Patch created 70 new ads. Beam came in the second position with 44 new ads and the highest number of ad copies (23).

Concerning ad strategy, The Good Patch focused more on images, while Beam leaned towards videos. The Good Patch employed 36 images compared to 34 videos, while Beam used 31 videos versus 13 images.

Emails sent on average

9.9

Ads published on average

16

Average Spam Score

2.2

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 9.93 61.83%
House Plant
12

✅ Good

60.17%

⚠️ Fair

Recess
14

✅ Good

60.79%

⚠️ Fair

Standard Dose
20

✅ Good

63.3%

⚠️ Fair

Proper
4

❌ Poor

59.25%

⚠️ Fair

The Honey Pot Company
7

❌ Poor

55.86%

⚠️ Fair

FAB CBD
8

❌ Poor

59.0%

⚠️ Fair

Sandland Sleep
6

❌ Poor

59.67%

⚠️ Fair

beam
12

✅ Good

59.42%

⚠️ Fair

Plant People
8

❌ Poor

70.25%

✅ Good

Highline Wellness
8

❌ Poor

55.75%

⚠️ Fair

Not Pot
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Feals
13

✅ Good

75.85%

✅ Good

The Good Patch
11

✅ Good

62.73%

⚠️ Fair

Foria
17

✅ Good

57.88%

⚠️ Fair

Trip
9

⚠️ Fair

59.44%

⚠️ 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 -2.16 1,934.16 kb
House Plant
✅ -3.02

✅ Good

1,782.28 kb

⚠️ Fair

Recess
✅ -2.06

⚠️ Fair

1,714.59 kb

✅ Good

Standard Dose
✅ -2.53

✅ Good

3,015.31 kb

❌ Poor

Proper
✅ -0.98

❌ Poor

616.93 kb

✅ Good

The Honey Pot Company
✅ -2.71

✅ Good

2,705.81 kb

❌ Poor

FAB CBD
✅ -1.33

❌ Poor

1,028.79 kb

✅ Good

Sandland Sleep
✅ -0.75

❌ Poor

946.04 kb

✅ Good

beam
✅ -1.19

❌ Poor

922.14 kb

✅ Good

Plant People
✅ -1.81

❌ Poor

1,305.45 kb

✅ Good

Highline Wellness
✅ -2.85

✅ Good

2,384.22 kb

❌ Poor

Not Pot
- -
Feals
✅ -0.93

❌ Poor

822.1 kb

✅ Good

The Good Patch
✅ -3.64

✅ Good

2,479.21 kb

❌ Poor

Foria
✅ -1.81

❌ Poor

2,325.5 kb

❌ Poor

Trip
✅ -3.71

✅ Good

3,233.53 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 16.33 7.73
House Plant
5

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Recess
0

✅ Good

-
Standard Dose
0

✅ Good

-
Proper
0

✅ Good

-
The Honey Pot Company
31

❌ Poor

8

⚠️ Fair

FAB CBD
13

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Sandland Sleep
17

⚠️ Fair

0

✅ Good

beam
44

❌ Poor

13

❌ Poor

Plant People
8

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Highline Wellness
0

✅ Good

-
Not Pot
2

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Feals
9

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

The Good Patch
70

❌ Poor

10

❌ Poor

Foria
17

⚠️ Fair

4

✅ Good

Trip
29

❌ Poor

12

❌ 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 106 137 55.92%
House Plant
3

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

40.0%
Recess
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Standard Dose
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Proper
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
The Honey Pot Company
6

✅ Good

24

✅ Good

77.42%
FAB CBD
10

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

15.38%
Sandland Sleep
0

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

100.0%
beam
13

✅ Good

31

✅ Good

70.45%
Plant People
0

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

100.0%
Highline Wellness
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Not Pot
0

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

100.0%
Feals
9

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
The Good Patch
36

✅ Good

34

✅ Good

48.57%
Foria
16

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

5.88%
Trip
13

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

55.17%

Ads detected over time

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