Cats - February - 2024


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

2024

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

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Highlights & Summary

Email Marketing Performance: Dope Dog leads the industry in email marketing performance, exhibiting strong engagement with 10 emails sent, a good email scoring, and a noteworthy percentage of promotions, indicating effective communication and promotional strategies. Native Pet closely follows with 15 emails sent, boasting a good email scoring and a high percentage of promotions, showcasing consistent engagement and promotional activities. Front Of The Pack demonstrates commendable email marketing performance with 15 emails sent, coupled with a good email scoring, albeit with a relatively high percentage of promotions, suggesting potential areas for optimization in promotional strategies.

Email Deliverability and Spam Scores: Dope Dog showcases exceptional email deliverability with a good spam score and email size performance, indicating efficient content optimization and inbox placement. Jinx demonstrates mixed results in email deliverability, displaying a fair spam score and poor email size, suggesting potential challenges in content optimization and management practices. Good Trouble Pets exhibits limited data on email deliverability, necessitating further assessment to understand its performance in content optimization and inbox placement.

Advertising Impact and Diversity: Dog is Human stands out in advertising impact and diversity, with 89 impactful ads demonstrating both volume and variety in content, highlighting its robust market presence in the cats brands industry. Furbo Dog Camera closely follows with 72 impactful ads, showcasing a strong advertising presence and engagement diversity, effectively positioning itself in the competitive market. The Farmer's Dog maintains a solid advertising impact with 63 impactful ads, although with limited diversity in unique copy, suggesting potential areas for content variation and innovation.

Emails sent on average

8.4

Ads published on average

24

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 8.4 57.27%
Caats
10

✅ Good

63.0%
Ziggy
8

⚠️ Fair

53.88%

⚠️ Fair

Tuft & Paw
8

⚠️ Fair

61.0%

⚠️ Fair

Smalls
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Made by Nacho
4

❌ Poor

58.5%

⚠️ Fair

Republic of Cats
3

❌ Poor

47.67%

❌ Poor

Pusheen Box
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Travel Cat
15

✅ Good

40.93%

❌ Poor

Meow Mix
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

9Lives
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Happy & Polly
9

⚠️ Fair

56.22%

⚠️ Fair

Cat Person
2

❌ Poor

66.5%

✅ Good

Meowingtons
40

✅ Good

59.5%

⚠️ Fair

Catalyst
1

❌ Poor

29.0%

❌ Poor

PrettyLitter
26

✅ Good

62.62%

⚠️ 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 -1.5 2,349.83 kb
Caats
✅ -0.79

❌ Poor

689.81 kb

✅ Good

Ziggy
✅ -1.03

❌ Poor

2,231.8 kb

⚠️ Fair

Tuft & Paw
✅ -0.25

❌ Poor

2,430.67 kb

⚠️ Fair

Smalls
- -
Made by Nacho
✅ -1.25

❌ Poor

5,807.11 kb

❌ Poor

Republic of Cats
✅ -3.43

✅ Good

2,030.18 kb

✅ Good

Pusheen Box
- -
Travel Cat
✅ -0.9

❌ Poor

3,874.21 kb

❌ Poor

Meow Mix
- -
9Lives
- -
Happy & Polly
✅ -0.61

❌ Poor

1,485.35 kb

✅ Good

Cat Person
🟧 0.55

❌ Poor

557.76 kb

✅ Good

Meowingtons
✅ -2.42

✅ Good

3,139.71 kb

❌ Poor

Catalyst
- 4,246.08 kb

❌ Poor

PrettyLitter
- 774.27 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 24.2 8.4
Caats
25

⚠️ Fair

15

❌ Poor

Ziggy
20

✅ Good

13

❌ Poor

Tuft & Paw
48

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

Smalls
33

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

Made by Nacho
0

✅ Good

-
Republic of Cats
5

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Pusheen Box
3

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Travel Cat
17

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Meow Mix
4

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

9Lives
0

✅ Good

-
Happy & Polly
25

⚠️ Fair

3

✅ Good

Cat Person
106

❌ Poor

5

✅ Good

Meowingtons
0

✅ Good

-
Catalyst
18

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

PrettyLitter
59

❌ Poor

16

❌ 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 84 279 76.86%
Caats
3

✅ Good

22

✅ Good

88.0%
Ziggy
11

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

45.0%
Tuft & Paw
1

✅ Good

47

✅ Good

97.92%
Smalls
1

✅ Good

32

✅ Good

96.97%
Made by Nacho
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Republic of Cats
4

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

20.0%
Pusheen Box
3

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Travel Cat
17

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Meow Mix
0

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

100.0%
9Lives
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Happy & Polly
20

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

20.0%
Cat Person
9

✅ Good

97

✅ Good

91.51%
Meowingtons
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Catalyst
11

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

38.89%
PrettyLitter
4

✅ Good

55

✅ Good

93.22%

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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