Cannabis - May - 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

June

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 May, Beam led with 19 emails, closely trailed by The Good Patch with 15 emails. The Good Patch dominated the ads landscape with 96 new ads, followed by Feals with 62 new ads and the highest number of ad copies (48). The Good Patch adopted a balanced approach between images and videos, while Feals emphasized images over videos. The Good Patch used 48 images vs. 47 videos an Feals used 43 images vs. 19 videos.

Emails sent on average

11.0

Ads published on average

24

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 11.0 60.32%
House Plant
11

⚠️ Fair

39.73%

❌ Poor

Recess
14

✅ Good

58.07%

⚠️ Fair

Standard Dose
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Proper
11

⚠️ Fair

56.91%

⚠️ Fair

The Honey Pot Company
10

⚠️ Fair

40.4%

❌ Poor

FAB CBD
11

⚠️ Fair

61.18%

⚠️ Fair

Sandland Sleep
3

❌ Poor

68.33%

✅ Good

beam
19

✅ Good

68.0%

✅ Good

Plant People
5

❌ Poor

62.4%

⚠️ Fair

Highline Wellness
14

✅ Good

57.07%

⚠️ Fair

Not Pot
13

✅ Good

64.77%

⚠️ Fair

Feals
15

✅ Good

75.93%

✅ Good

The Good Patch
15

✅ Good

71.2%

✅ Good

Foria
11

⚠️ Fair

57.82%

⚠️ Fair

Trip
13

✅ Good

54.31%

⚠️ 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 -1.85 2,511.75 kb
House Plant
🟧 0.87

❌ Poor

12,651.24 kb

❌ Poor

Recess
✅ -1.36

❌ Poor

2,041.85 kb

✅ Good

Standard Dose
- -
Proper
✅ -3.17

✅ Good

902.02 kb

✅ Good

The Honey Pot Company
🟧 0.29

❌ Poor

2,692.51 kb

⚠️ Fair

FAB CBD
✅ -2.05

✅ Good

1,180.09 kb

✅ Good

Sandland Sleep
✅ -2.43

✅ Good

688.29 kb

✅ Good

beam
✅ -2.19

✅ Good

613.76 kb

✅ Good

Plant People
✅ -1.36

❌ Poor

1,419.62 kb

✅ Good

Highline Wellness
✅ -1.52

❌ Poor

1,618.18 kb

✅ Good

Not Pot
✅ -2.77

✅ Good

4,337.59 kb

❌ Poor

Feals
✅ -1.74

⚠️ Fair

806.35 kb

✅ Good

The Good Patch
✅ -2.52

✅ Good

957.57 kb

✅ Good

Foria
✅ -2.05

✅ Good

1,883.26 kb

✅ Good

Trip
✅ -2.59

✅ Good

3,832.28 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 23.87 11.6
House Plant
5

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Recess
0

✅ Good

-
Standard Dose
0

✅ Good

-
Proper
0

✅ Good

-
The Honey Pot Company
41

❌ Poor

7

✅ Good

FAB CBD
0

✅ Good

-
Sandland Sleep
18

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

beam
58

❌ Poor

8

✅ Good

Plant People
17

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

Highline Wellness
11

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Not Pot
0

✅ Good

-
Feals
62

❌ Poor

43

❌ Poor

The Good Patch
96

❌ Poor

8

✅ Good

Foria
21

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Trip
29

❌ Poor

8

✅ 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 174 177 49.44%
House Plant
0

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

20.0%
Recess
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Standard Dose
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Proper
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
The Honey Pot Company
11

✅ Good

30

✅ Good

73.17%
FAB CBD
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Sandland Sleep
2

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

88.89%
beam
33

✅ Good

23

✅ Good

39.66%
Plant People
9

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

47.06%
Highline Wellness
9

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

18.18%
Not Pot
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Feals
43

✅ Good

19

✅ Good

30.65%
The Good Patch
48

✅ Good

47

✅ Good

48.96%
Foria
4

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

80.95%
Trip
15

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

48.28%

Ads detected over time

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