Cannabis - June - 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

July

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 the month of June, Standard dose secured the first position by sending 20 emails. Notably, Beam followed in the second position with 17 emails.

Shifting our focus to advertising endeavors, The Good Patch was again the leader, creating 85 new ads. Remarkably, they also utilized the highest number of ad copies (31) among all the brands of the benchmark. Beam followed with 61 new ads created.

Considering the ad strategy employed by both The Good Patch and Beam, they both demonstrated a shared emphasis on videos. The Good Patch incorporated 47 videos alongside 37 images to captivate their audience, while Beam utilized 43 videos and 18 images in their advertising campaigns.

Emails sent on average

10.7

Ads published on average

19

Average Spam Score

1.9

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 10.73 59.98%
House Plant
10

⚠️ Fair

43.5%

❌ Poor

Recess
10

⚠️ Fair

60.2%

⚠️ Fair

Standard Dose
20

✅ Good

60.2%

⚠️ Fair

Proper
11

⚠️ Fair

55.73%

⚠️ Fair

The Honey Pot Company
9

❌ Poor

42.44%

❌ Poor

FAB CBD
8

❌ Poor

62.5%

⚠️ Fair

Sandland Sleep
4

❌ Poor

52.25%

❌ Poor

beam
17

✅ Good

58.47%

⚠️ Fair

Plant People
13

✅ Good

70.54%

✅ Good

Highline Wellness
11

⚠️ Fair

54.27%

⚠️ Fair

Not Pot
4

❌ Poor

58.25%

⚠️ Fair

Feals
12

✅ Good

80.83%

✅ Good

The Good Patch
15

✅ Good

65.4%

⚠️ Fair

Foria
9

❌ Poor

62.33%

⚠️ Fair

Trip
8

❌ Poor

57.38%

⚠️ 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 -1.86 2,335.45 kb
House Plant
✅ -0.72

❌ Poor

7,807.48 kb

❌ Poor

Recess
✅ -2.62

✅ Good

2,240.05 kb

⚠️ Fair

Standard Dose
✅ -2.53

✅ Good

2,707.12 kb

❌ Poor

Proper
✅ -0.88

❌ Poor

872.26 kb

✅ Good

The Honey Pot Company
✅ -0.33

❌ Poor

3,000.12 kb

❌ Poor

FAB CBD
✅ -1.98

⚠️ Fair

737.09 kb

✅ Good

Sandland Sleep
✅ -1.1

❌ Poor

3,236.27 kb

❌ Poor

beam
✅ -1.02

❌ Poor

1,340.17 kb

✅ Good

Plant People
✅ -3.31

✅ Good

1,367.22 kb

✅ Good

Highline Wellness
✅ -1.83

⚠️ Fair

2,049.49 kb

✅ Good

Not Pot
✅ -1.05

❌ Poor

6,032.38 kb

❌ Poor

Feals
✅ -2.05

⚠️ Fair

670.34 kb

✅ Good

The Good Patch
✅ -2.25

✅ Good

1,729.0 kb

✅ Good

Foria
✅ -1.56

❌ Poor

1,633.22 kb

✅ Good

Trip
✅ -2.76

✅ Good

3,755.43 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 18.73 8.87
House Plant
19

⚠️ Fair

2

✅ Good

Recess
0

✅ Good

-
Standard Dose
0

✅ Good

-
Proper
0

✅ Good

-
The Honey Pot Company
20

⚠️ Fair

5

✅ Good

FAB CBD
13

✅ Good

13

❌ Poor

Sandland Sleep
12

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

beam
61

❌ Poor

19

❌ Poor

Plant People
3

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Highline Wellness
0

✅ Good

-
Not Pot
0

✅ Good

-
Feals
15

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

The Good Patch
85

❌ Poor

14

❌ Poor

Foria
25

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

Trip
28

❌ Poor

14

❌ 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 133 139 49.47%
House Plant
7

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

63.16%
Recess
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Standard Dose
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Proper
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
The Honey Pot Company
10

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

15.0%
FAB CBD
8

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

30.77%
Sandland Sleep
0

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

100.0%
beam
18

✅ Good

43

✅ Good

70.49%
Plant People
3

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Highline Wellness
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Not Pot
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Feals
15

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
The Good Patch
37

✅ Good

47

✅ Good

55.29%
Foria
18

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

28.0%
Trip
17

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

39.29%

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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