Cats - April - 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.

Cats

This report is free to read and takes into consideration between 15 and 20 brands we compare month after month in the

Cats

industry, for the month of

April

2023

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

Table of content

Highlights & Summary

Comparing to March's results, Meowingtons and Travel Cat maintained their lead in email marketing, with Meowingtons sending 38 emails and Travel Cat sending 26 emails in April. When it comes to new ads, Cat Person took the lead with 57 new ads launched. PrettyLitter closely followed with 49 new ads, but with the highest number of ad copies used in this period, with a total of 34 ad copies. In terms of advertising strategy, Travel Cat prioritized images in its new ads with 25 new images compared to only 2 new videos. Meanwhile, PrettyLitter was focused on videos, with 39 new videos compared to 10 new images.

Emails sent on average

8.6

Ads published on average

20

Average Spam Score

0.4

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 8.6 51.64%
Caats
1

❌ Poor

49.0%

⚠️ Fair

Ziggy
5

❌ Poor

52.0%

⚠️ Fair

Tuft & Paw
7

❌ Poor

49.43%

⚠️ Fair

Smalls
1

❌ Poor

22.0%

❌ Poor

Made by Nacho
15

✅ Good

62.53%

✅ Good

Republic of Cats
5

❌ Poor

49.8%

⚠️ Fair

Pusheen Box
1

❌ Poor

70.0%

✅ Good

Travel Cat
26

✅ Good

46.92%

⚠️ Fair

Meow Mix
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

9Lives
1

❌ Poor

73.0%

✅ Good

Happy & Polly
5

❌ Poor

43.8%

❌ Poor

Cat Person
2

❌ Poor

57.5%

✅ Good

Meowingtons
38

✅ Good

55.18%

⚠️ Fair

Catalyst
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

PrettyLitter
22

✅ Good

45.59%

❌ Poor

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 0.36 2,788.33 kb
Caats
- 622.79 kb

✅ Good

Ziggy
✅ -0.42

✅ Good

1,367.93 kb

✅ Good

Tuft & Paw
🟧 0.69

❌ Poor

4,122.93 kb

❌ Poor

Smalls
🟧 1.0

❌ Poor

3,223.68 kb

❌ Poor

Made by Nacho
✅ -1.8

✅ Good

4,865.24 kb

❌ Poor

Republic of Cats
✅ -3.1

✅ Good

1,526.55 kb

✅ Good

Pusheen Box
✅ -5.0

✅ Good

851.95 kb

✅ Good

Travel Cat
✅ -1.42

✅ Good

2,712.09 kb

⚠️ Fair

Meow Mix
- -
9Lives
✅ -5.1

✅ Good

1,004.03 kb

✅ Good

Happy & Polly
🟧 0.6

❌ Poor

1,336.58 kb

✅ Good

Cat Person
✅ -0.1

✅ Good

1,441.98 kb

✅ Good

Meowingtons
✅ -1.66

✅ Good

3,432.99 kb

❌ Poor

Catalyst
- -
PrettyLitter
⚠️ 8.73

❌ Poor

1,233.9 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 20.33 9.53
Caats
40

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

Ziggy
44

❌ Poor

7

✅ Good

Tuft & Paw
5

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Smalls
25

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

Made by Nacho
0

✅ Good

-
Republic of Cats
0

✅ Good

-
Pusheen Box
0

✅ Good

-
Travel Cat
28

❌ Poor

26

❌ Poor

Meow Mix
8

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

9Lives
0

✅ Good

-
Happy & Polly
39

❌ Poor

11

❌ Poor

Cat Person
57

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

Meowingtons
0

✅ Good

-
Catalyst
10

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

PrettyLitter
49

❌ Poor

22

❌ 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 115 166 54.43%
Caats
12

✅ Good

26

✅ Good

65.0%
Ziggy
22

✅ Good

22

✅ Good

50.0%
Tuft & Paw
1

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

80.0%
Smalls
16

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

36.0%
Made by Nacho
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Republic of Cats
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Pusheen Box
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Travel Cat
25

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Meow Mix
0

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

100.0%
9Lives
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Happy & Polly
8

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

30.77%
Cat Person
20

✅ Good

37

✅ Good

64.91%
Meowingtons
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Catalyst
1

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

90.0%
PrettyLitter
10

✅ Good

39

✅ Good

79.59%

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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