Cats - July - 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

July

2023

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

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Highlights & Summary

In July, Meowingtons and PrettyLitter maintained their positions as leaders in emails, with Meowingtons sending 39 emails and PrettyLitter following with 22 emails.

In terms of advertising, PrettyLitter takes the lead with 119 new ads created, boasting the highest number of ad copies (42). Cat Person secures the second position with 69 new ads.

Regarding their ad strategy, both PrettyLitter and Cat Person favored videos over images. PrettyLitter utilized 101 videos compared to 18 images, while Cat Person opted for 56 videos and 13 images.

Emails sent on average

8.3

Ads published on average

25

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 8.33 53.37%
Caats
3

❌ Poor

44.33%

❌ Poor

Ziggy
6

❌ Poor

39.67%

❌ Poor

Tuft & Paw
7

❌ Poor

55.71%

⚠️ Fair

Smalls
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Made by Nacho
9

⚠️ Fair

61.33%

✅ Good

Republic of Cats
6

❌ Poor

57.33%

⚠️ Fair

Pusheen Box
2

❌ Poor

53.0%

⚠️ Fair

Travel Cat
19

✅ Good

49.84%

⚠️ Fair

Meow Mix
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

9Lives
1

❌ Poor

66.0%

✅ Good

Happy & Polly
7

❌ Poor

44.0%

❌ Poor

Cat Person
1

❌ Poor

78.0%

✅ Good

Meowingtons
39

✅ Good

61.0%

✅ Good

Catalyst
3

❌ Poor

69.0%

✅ Good

PrettyLitter
22

✅ Good

41.95%

❌ 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 0.16 2,517.5 kb
Caats
🟧 0.7

❌ Poor

1,128.84 kb

✅ Good

Ziggy
🟧 1.02

❌ Poor

2,811.47 kb

❌ Poor

Tuft & Paw
🟧 0.29

❌ Poor

3,454.9 kb

❌ Poor

Smalls
- -
Made by Nacho
✅ -1.53

✅ Good

1,092.72 kb

✅ Good

Republic of Cats
✅ -3.43

✅ Good

879.54 kb

✅ Good

Pusheen Box
✅ -5.0

✅ Good

5,956.3 kb

❌ Poor

Travel Cat
✅ -1.97

✅ Good

1,784.32 kb

✅ Good

Meow Mix
- -
9Lives
✅ -0.1

✅ Good

375.42 kb

✅ Good

Happy & Polly
🟧 0.39

❌ Poor

3,847.12 kb

❌ Poor

Cat Person
✅ -3.9

✅ Good

258.16 kb

✅ Good

Meowingtons
✅ -2.34

✅ Good

3,588.3 kb

❌ Poor

Catalyst
- 1,330.0 kb

✅ Good

PrettyLitter
⚠️ 8.32

❌ Poor

1,719.28 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 25.4 9.93
Caats
36

❌ Poor

16

❌ Poor

Ziggy
40

❌ Poor

10

⚠️ Fair

Tuft & Paw
0

✅ Good

-
Smalls
22

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Made by Nacho
0

✅ Good

-
Republic of Cats
5

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Pusheen Box
2

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Travel Cat
42

❌ Poor

16

❌ Poor

Meow Mix
0

✅ Good

-
9Lives
0

✅ Good

-
Happy & Polly
27

⚠️ Fair

17

❌ Poor

Cat Person
69

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Meowingtons
0

✅ Good

-
Catalyst
19

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

PrettyLitter
119

❌ Poor

24

❌ 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 83 275 72.18%
Caats
5

✅ Good

25

✅ Good

69.44%
Ziggy
14

✅ Good

24

✅ Good

60.0%
Tuft & Paw
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Smalls
7

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

68.18%
Made by Nacho
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Republic of Cats
5

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Pusheen Box
2

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Travel Cat
15

✅ Good

27

✅ Good

64.29%
Meow Mix
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
9Lives
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Happy & Polly
2

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

37.04%
Cat Person
13

✅ Good

56

✅ Good

81.16%
Meowingtons
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Catalyst
2

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

89.47%
PrettyLitter
18

✅ Good

101

✅ Good

84.87%

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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