Cats - March - 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

During the month of March, Meowingtons took the lead in sending the highest number of emails with 39 emails, followed by Travel Cat with 28 emails. In terms of new ads launched, Ziggy created 73 ads, followed by Travel Cat with 51 ads, having the highest number of ad copies with 49 ad copies used in its new ads.

Travel Cat's new ads primarily used images instead of videos, with 44 new images compared to only 4 new videos during March. On the other hand, Ziggy used almost an equal number of images and videos, with a slight preference for images with 36 images and 34 videos used in their ads.

Emails sent on average

8.7

Ads published on average

19

Average Spam Score

0.1

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 52.62%
Caats
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Ziggy
10

✅ Good

53.7%

⚠️ Fair

Tuft & Paw
7

❌ Poor

50.29%

⚠️ Fair

Smalls
2

❌ Poor

37.5%

❌ Poor

Made by Nacho
12

✅ Good

63.42%

✅ Good

Republic of Cats
5

❌ Poor

44.2%

❌ Poor

Pusheen Box
1

❌ Poor

70.0%

✅ Good

Travel Cat
28

✅ Good

51.71%

⚠️ Fair

Meow Mix
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

9Lives
1

❌ Poor

73.0%

✅ Good

Happy & Polly
3

❌ Poor

55.67%

⚠️ Fair

Cat Person
1

❌ Poor

55.0%

⚠️ Fair

Meowingtons
39

✅ Good

55.49%

⚠️ Fair

Catalyst
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

PrettyLitter
21

✅ Good

43.67%

❌ 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 0.06 3,082.54 kb
Caats
- -
Ziggy
🟧 0.26

❌ Poor

1,114.41 kb

✅ Good

Tuft & Paw
🟧 0.66

❌ Poor

6,771.93 kb

❌ Poor

Smalls
✅ -1.5

✅ Good

2,500.34 kb

✅ Good

Made by Nacho
✅ -2.5

✅ Good

4,997.3 kb

❌ Poor

Republic of Cats
✅ -3.1

✅ Good

2,046.22 kb

✅ Good

Pusheen Box
✅ -5.0

✅ Good

851.95 kb

✅ Good

Travel Cat
✅ -2.06

✅ Good

2,814.94 kb

⚠️ Fair

Meow Mix
- -
9Lives
✅ -5.1

✅ Good

1,004.03 kb

✅ Good

Happy & Polly
✅ -1.07

✅ Good

489.76 kb

✅ Good

Cat Person
✅ -0.1

✅ Good

1,395.33 kb

✅ Good

Meowingtons
✅ -1.44

✅ Good

3,854.55 kb

❌ Poor

Catalyst
- -
PrettyLitter
⚠️ 8.39

❌ Poor

1,577.01 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 19.27 10.4
Caats
24

❌ Poor

9

✅ Good

Ziggy
73

❌ Poor

17

❌ Poor

Tuft & Paw
13

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Smalls
16

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Made by Nacho
0

✅ Good

-
Republic of Cats
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Pusheen Box
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Travel Cat
51

❌ Poor

47

❌ Poor

Meow Mix
8

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

9Lives
0

✅ Good

-
Happy & Polly
24

❌ Poor

14

❌ Poor

Cat Person
48

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

Meowingtons
0

✅ Good

-
Catalyst
0

✅ Good

-
PrettyLitter
30

❌ Poor

17

❌ 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 137 135 46.71%
Caats
9

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

58.33%
Ziggy
39

✅ Good

34

✅ Good

46.58%
Tuft & Paw
1

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

92.31%
Smalls
12

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

25.0%
Made by Nacho
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Republic of Cats
1

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Pusheen Box
1

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Travel Cat
44

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

7.84%
Meow Mix
0

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

100.0%
9Lives
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Happy & Polly
4

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

29.17%
Cat Person
19

✅ Good

29

✅ Good

60.42%
Meowingtons
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Catalyst
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
PrettyLitter
7

✅ Good

23

✅ Good

76.67%

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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