Cats - August - 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

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 August, Meowingtons and PrettyLitter continued to maintain their prominent email presence, while PrettyLitter and Cat Person held their ground in ads.

In the realm of emails, Meowingtons sent a total of 38 emails, while PrettyLitter followed with 24 emails, of which 45% were promotional.

Shifting our focus to advertising, PrettyLitter stood out by creating 100 new ads, achieving the highest count of ad copies at 38. In contrast, Cat Person generated 80 new ads.

Exploring their ad media approach for the month, both PrettyLitter and Cat Person remained steadfast in prioritizing videos over images. Specifically, PrettyLitter showcased 89 videos and a mere 8 images, while Cat Person featured 59 videos and 21 images.

Emails sent on average

8.7

Ads published on average

30

Average Spam Score

0.2

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 8.67 54.89%
Caats
6

❌ Poor

64.83%

✅ Good

Ziggy
5

❌ Poor

41.0%

❌ Poor

Tuft & Paw
9

⚠️ Fair

64.11%

✅ Good

Smalls
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Made by Nacho
14

✅ Good

67.0%

✅ Good

Republic of Cats
4

❌ Poor

48.5%

❌ Poor

Pusheen Box
2

❌ Poor

55.0%

⚠️ Fair

Travel Cat
16

✅ Good

51.81%

⚠️ Fair

Meow Mix
2

❌ Poor

49.5%

⚠️ Fair

9Lives
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Happy & Polly
4

❌ Poor

42.5%

❌ Poor

Cat Person
2

❌ Poor

48.5%

❌ Poor

Meowingtons
38

✅ Good

59.84%

⚠️ Fair

Catalyst
4

❌ Poor

51.75%

⚠️ Fair

PrettyLitter
24

✅ Good

43.63%

❌ 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 0.15 2,814.63 kb
Caats
✅ -2.38

✅ Good

805.22 kb

✅ Good

Ziggy
🟧 0.4

❌ Poor

2,566.09 kb

⚠️ Fair

Tuft & Paw
✅ -1.99

✅ Good

3,767.29 kb

❌ Poor

Smalls
- -
Made by Nacho
✅ -2.5

✅ Good

2,420.42 kb

✅ Good

Republic of Cats
✅ -1.35

✅ Good

1,293.68 kb

✅ Good

Pusheen Box
✅ 0.0

✅ Good

1,875.64 kb

✅ Good

Travel Cat
✅ -1.87

✅ Good

2,468.38 kb

✅ Good

Meow Mix
✅ -5.1

✅ Good

1,985.73 kb

✅ Good

9Lives
- -
Happy & Polly
🟧 1.0

❌ Poor

1,017.67 kb

✅ Good

Cat Person
✅ -0.1

✅ Good

1,677.89 kb

✅ Good

Meowingtons
✅ -2.18

✅ Good

3,552.81 kb

❌ Poor

Catalyst
✅ -5.1

✅ Good

2,371.49 kb

✅ Good

PrettyLitter
⚠️ 8.68

❌ Poor

3,172.4 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 29.87 11.27
Caats
36

❌ Poor

17

❌ Poor

Ziggy
15

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Tuft & Paw
43

❌ Poor

4

✅ Good

Smalls
13

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Made by Nacho
22

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Republic of Cats
3

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Pusheen Box
12

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Travel Cat
39

❌ Poor

25

❌ Poor

Meow Mix
13

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

9Lives
0

✅ Good

-
Happy & Polly
41

❌ Poor

21

❌ Poor

Cat Person
101

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

Meowingtons
0

✅ Good

-
Catalyst
10

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

PrettyLitter
100

❌ Poor

25

❌ 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 110 309 68.97%
Caats
3

✅ Good

31

✅ Good

86.11%
Ziggy
4

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

66.67%
Tuft & Paw
1

✅ Good

42

✅ Good

97.67%
Smalls
8

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

38.46%
Made by Nacho
18

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

18.18%
Republic of Cats
2

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

33.33%
Pusheen Box
12

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Travel Cat
22

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

43.59%
Meow Mix
0

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

92.31%
9Lives
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Happy & Polly
6

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

31.71%
Cat Person
26

✅ Good

75

✅ Good

74.26%
Meowingtons
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Catalyst
0

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

100.0%
PrettyLitter
8

✅ Good

89

✅ Good

89.0%

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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