Cannabis - October - 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

November

2023

. 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 Summary: Recess emerges as the leader in the Cannabis industry for email marketing, maintaining a balanced strategy with good email scores and a moderate promotion percentage. Foria closely follows, excelling in email performance despite a slightly higher promotion percentage. House Plant and Trip demonstrate strong performances, yet they need to address a higher promotion focus. Highline Wellness, Proper, and Standard Dose lag in email marketing, having sent no emails during the observed period.

Email Deliverability Summary: House Plant secures the top spot in email deliverability, boasting the best spam score and optimized email size. Recess follows with good deliverability, although it faces challenges with email size. Brands like The Honey Pot Company, FAB CBD, and Foria need to enhance their deliverability, addressing issues with spam scores and email size.

Ads Performance Summary: beam leads in advertising, publishing the highest number of ads with a diverse range of unique copies. Foria and Feals also exhibit strong advertising efforts. On the flip side, brands like Standard Dose and Proper need to improve their advertising presence, having shown no activity during the observed period.

Social Ads Diversity Summary: Sandland Sleep excels in social ads diversity, utilizing a mix of images and videos effectively. Recess and beam also showcase good diversity in their social ads. However, brands like The Honey Pot Company and FAB CBD need to enhance their diversity by incorporating more images and videos to stay competitive in this aspect.

Emails sent on average

8.1

Ads published on average

16

Average Spam Score

1.5

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 8.14 57.24%
House Plant
13

✅ Good

51.77%

⚠️ Fair

Recess
17

✅ Good

61.82%

⚠️ Fair

Standard Dose
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Proper
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

The Honey Pot Company
2

❌ Poor

39.5%

❌ Poor

FAB CBD
8

⚠️ Fair

45.75%

❌ Poor

Sandland Sleep
6

❌ Poor

70.17%

✅ Good

beam
12

✅ Good

48.08%

❌ Poor

Plant People
12

✅ Good

62.25%

⚠️ Fair

Highline Wellness
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Not Pot
9

✅ Good

59.67%

⚠️ Fair

Feals
10

✅ Good

76.2%

✅ Good

Foria
13

✅ Good

45.15%

❌ Poor

Trip
12

✅ Good

60.42%

⚠️ 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 -1.53 3,011.39 kb
House Plant
✅ -2.6

✅ Good

4,189.67 kb

❌ Poor

Recess
✅ -2.42

✅ Good

3,162.0 kb

⚠️ Fair

Standard Dose
- -
Proper
- -
The Honey Pot Company
🟧 0.65

❌ Poor

867.77 kb

✅ Good

FAB CBD
✅ -1.75

✅ Good

6,417.86 kb

❌ Poor

Sandland Sleep
✅ -0.55

❌ Poor

517.59 kb

✅ Good

beam
✅ -0.04

❌ Poor

4,585.69 kb

❌ Poor

Plant People
✅ -1.67

⚠️ Fair

1,527.22 kb

✅ Good

Highline Wellness
- -
Not Pot
- 4,002.72 kb

❌ Poor

Feals
✅ -1.47

⚠️ Fair

773.67 kb

✅ Good

Foria
✅ -0.28

❌ Poor

2,764.71 kb

⚠️ Fair

Trip
✅ -2.6

✅ Good

2,153.12 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 16.0 6.43
House Plant
26

❌ Poor

4

✅ Good

Recess
6

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Standard Dose
0

✅ Good

-
Proper
0

✅ Good

-
The Honey Pot Company
8

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

FAB CBD
5

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Sandland Sleep
21

❌ Poor

0

✅ Good

beam
49

❌ Poor

11

❌ Poor

Plant People
15

⚠️ Fair

9

❌ Poor

Highline Wellness
0

✅ Good

-
Not Pot
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Feals
32

❌ Poor

0

✅ Good

Foria
40

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

Trip
21

❌ 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 151 73 32.59%
House Plant
17

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

34.62%
Recess
1

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

83.33%
Standard Dose
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Proper
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
The Honey Pot Company
8

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
FAB CBD
4

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

20.0%
Sandland Sleep
0

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

100.0%
beam
40

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

18.37%
Plant People
3

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

80.0%
Highline Wellness
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Not Pot
0

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

100.0%
Feals
27

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

15.63%
Foria
35

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

12.5%
Trip
16

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

23.81%

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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