Cats - June - 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

June

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

During June, Meowingtons takes the lead again in emails with 37 emails sent, followed by PrettyLitter with 23 emails.

Shifting to new ads, Cat Person created 109 new ads, securing the first position. PrettyLitter comes in second with 108 new ads and boasts the highest number of ad copies with a total of 42 unique copies.

Regarding ad strategy, both Cat Person and PrettyLitter prioritize videos in their ad media for the month of June. Cat Person utilized 88 videos and 19 images, while PrettyLitter relied on 85 videos and 23 images.

Emails sent on average

8.9

Ads published on average

32

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 8.87 53.86%
Caats
2

❌ Poor

74.5%

✅ Good

Ziggy
4

❌ Poor

54.75%

⚠️ Fair

Tuft & Paw
11

✅ Good

56.36%

⚠️ Fair

Smalls
4

❌ Poor

58.0%

⚠️ Fair

Made by Nacho
12

✅ Good

59.67%

✅ Good

Republic of Cats
5

❌ Poor

52.2%

⚠️ Fair

Pusheen Box
2

❌ Poor

71.0%

✅ Good

Travel Cat
22

✅ Good

48.59%

⚠️ Fair

Meow Mix
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

9Lives
1

❌ Poor

76.0%

✅ Good

Happy & Polly
5

❌ Poor

38.2%

❌ Poor

Cat Person
5

❌ Poor

57.4%

⚠️ Fair

Meowingtons
37

✅ Good

57.73%

⚠️ Fair

Catalyst
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

PrettyLitter
23

✅ Good

46.3%

❌ 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 0.22 2,742.4 kb
Caats
✅ -2.6

✅ Good

123.48 kb

✅ Good

Ziggy
🟧 1.15

❌ Poor

1,057.53 kb

✅ Good

Tuft & Paw
✅ -0.74

✅ Good

3,802.01 kb

❌ Poor

Smalls
🟧 1.0

❌ Poor

153.22 kb

✅ Good

Made by Nacho
✅ -1.88

✅ Good

4,880.88 kb

❌ Poor

Republic of Cats
✅ -3.08

✅ Good

1,541.69 kb

✅ Good

Pusheen Box
✅ -5.0

✅ Good

865.83 kb

✅ Good

Travel Cat
✅ -0.89

✅ Good

2,163.97 kb

✅ Good

Meow Mix
- -
9Lives
✅ -5.1

✅ Good

164.82 kb

✅ Good

Happy & Polly
✅ -0.38

✅ Good

4,121.26 kb

❌ Poor

Cat Person
✅ 0.0

✅ Good

1,117.44 kb

✅ Good

Meowingtons
✅ -2.14

✅ Good

4,151.69 kb

❌ Poor

Catalyst
- -
PrettyLitter
⚠️ 8.17

❌ Poor

966.9 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 32.27 12.13
Caats
37

❌ Poor

9

✅ Good

Ziggy
20

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

Tuft & Paw
30

⚠️ Fair

3

✅ Good

Smalls
24

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Made by Nacho
0

✅ Good

-
Republic of Cats
9

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Pusheen Box
18

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Travel Cat
58

❌ Poor

24

❌ Poor

Meow Mix
0

✅ Good

-
9Lives
0

✅ Good

-
Happy & Polly
50

❌ Poor

15

❌ Poor

Cat Person
109

❌ Poor

5

✅ Good

Meowingtons
0

✅ Good

-
Catalyst
21

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

PrettyLitter
108

❌ Poor

23

❌ 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 124 318 65.7%
Caats
1

✅ Good

34

✅ Good

91.89%
Ziggy
7

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

55.0%
Tuft & Paw
1

✅ Good

29

✅ Good

96.67%
Smalls
12

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

50.0%
Made by Nacho
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Republic of Cats
9

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Pusheen Box
16

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Travel Cat
26

✅ Good

32

✅ Good

55.17%
Meow Mix
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
9Lives
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Happy & Polly
5

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

22.0%
Cat Person
19

✅ Good

88

✅ Good

80.73%
Meowingtons
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Catalyst
5

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

76.19%
PrettyLitter
23

✅ Good

85

✅ Good

78.7%

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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