Cats - November - 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

November

2023

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

Table of content

Highlights & Summary

Email Marketing Summary: Meowingtons dominates the Cats industry, leading with 8.13 emails on average, scoring well in email practices (54.47%) despite a fair promotion rate. Travel Cat and Tuft & Paw follow suit, exhibiting solid email strategies. Ziggy and Caats perform decently but need improvement. Brands like Catalyst and PrettyLitter trail with lower engagement and scoring.

Email Deliverability Summary: Caats shines in email deliverability with a strong spam score of -1.34 and effective email size management. Ziggy needs improvement in spam scores and email size. PrettyLitter faces challenges with a higher spam score but excels in email size optimization. Travel Cat, Meow Mix, and Happy & Polly show good deliverability but should refine their email size strategies.

Ads Performance Summary: Caats leads in advertising with a high ad velocity, presenting 70 new ads and diverse content. PrettyLitter also excels, with 62 new ads and a variety of copies. Cat Person performs well but needs more diverse ad content. Ziggy and Tuft & Paw show potential but require increased ad velocity. Meow Mix and 9Lives lag in this competitive space with minimal ad presence.

Emails sent on average

8.1

Ads published on average

20

Average Spam Score

1.1

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 8.13 54.47%
Caats
8

⚠️ Fair

59.5%

⚠️ Fair

Ziggy
8

⚠️ Fair

59.13%

⚠️ Fair

Tuft & Paw
13

✅ Good

57.54%

⚠️ Fair

Smalls
2

❌ Poor

52.5%

⚠️ Fair

Made by Nacho
6

❌ Poor

74.17%

✅ Good

Republic of Cats
4

❌ Poor

63.25%

✅ Good

Pusheen Box
3

❌ Poor

60.0%

✅ Good

Travel Cat
22

✅ Good

40.41%

❌ Poor

Meow Mix
2

❌ Poor

51.5%

⚠️ Fair

9Lives
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Happy & Polly
9

✅ Good

55.33%

⚠️ Fair

Cat Person
4

❌ Poor

73.5%

✅ Good

Meowingtons
39

✅ Good

53.79%

⚠️ Fair

Catalyst
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

PrettyLitter
2

❌ Poor

41.5%

❌ 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 -1.11 2,754.12 kb
Caats
✅ -1.34

✅ Good

936.28 kb

✅ Good

Ziggy
✅ -0.81

❌ Poor

1,646.58 kb

✅ Good

Tuft & Paw
✅ -0.16

❌ Poor

3,355.02 kb

❌ Poor

Smalls
- 1,276.4 kb

✅ Good

Made by Nacho
✅ -2.5

✅ Good

940.02 kb

✅ Good

Republic of Cats
✅ -1.35

✅ Good

568.78 kb

✅ Good

Pusheen Box
✅ -3.33

✅ Good

3,606.25 kb

❌ Poor

Travel Cat
🟧 0.65

❌ Poor

3,092.15 kb

❌ Poor

Meow Mix
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

2,803.44 kb

⚠️ Fair

9Lives
- -
Happy & Polly
✅ -1.49

✅ Good

1,667.34 kb

✅ Good

Cat Person
✅ -3.85

✅ Good

766.7 kb

✅ Good

Meowingtons
✅ -1.88

✅ Good

4,013.75 kb

❌ Poor

Catalyst
- -
PrettyLitter
🟧 2.5

❌ Poor

1,096.82 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 20.47 10.13
Caats
70

❌ Poor

61

❌ Poor

Ziggy
10

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

Tuft & Paw
22

⚠️ Fair

4

✅ Good

Smalls
19

⚠️ Fair

0

✅ Good

Made by Nacho
7

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Republic of Cats
6

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Pusheen Box
8

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Travel Cat
19

⚠️ Fair

12

❌ Poor

Meow Mix
0

✅ Good

-
9Lives
0

✅ Good

-
Happy & Polly
32

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

Cat Person
44

❌ Poor

0

✅ Good

Meowingtons
0

✅ Good

-
Catalyst
8

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

PrettyLitter
62

❌ Poor

9

✅ Good

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 101 206 67.1%
Caats
24

✅ Good

46

✅ Good

65.71%
Ziggy
2

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

80.0%
Tuft & Paw
0

✅ Good

22

✅ Good

100.0%
Smalls
4

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

78.95%
Made by Nacho
7

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Republic of Cats
3

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

50.0%
Pusheen Box
8

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Travel Cat
8

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

57.89%
Meow Mix
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
9Lives
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Happy & Polly
25

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

21.88%
Cat Person
14

✅ Good

30

✅ Good

68.18%
Meowingtons
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Catalyst
1

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

87.5%
PrettyLitter
5

✅ Good

57

✅ Good

91.94%

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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